Fox News Admits That Many Conservatives Are Now Supporting Democrats

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https://www.politicususa.com/2018/07/06/fox-news-admits-many-conservatives-are-now-supporting-democrats.html

Posted on Fri, Jul 6th, 2018 by Leo Vidal
Fox News Admits That Many Conservatives Are Now Supporting Democrats


According to Fox News, the list of conservative Republicans who now say they will be voting for Democrats in this year’s midterm elections is getting longer, but they are clueless as to why this is happening.

In an article called “Divorcing Trump: Why some conservatives are now pushing Democrats (!)“ Howard Kurtz explores this puzzling phenomenon in depth as he attempts to come up with explanations.

Well, it’s actually not puzzling to most Americans, but it is certainly something that is not understood by the viewers of Fox News.

Kurtz does a good job of listing the very prominent (former) conservative Republicans who have become so disgusted by Donald Trump and his cult-like followers that they have now proclaimed their support of Democratic candidates.

The list includes:

Max Boot,
George Will,
Jennifer Rubin,
Steve Schmidt,
Nicole Wallace, and
Joe Scarborough.

All of these people are not only very prominent but also very visible in the media, denouncing Trump and his policies.

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The “record-high support among Republicans” that Kurtz refers to doesn’t include the millions of people who no longer consider themselves Republicans. The only people left in the Republican Party are Trump supporters, and this simple fact is enough to spell doom for the Grand Old Party as it lurches toward extinction.

[muntrv]

1. I will believe it when I see it at the polls.

[Demsrule86]

2. Check out special elections and you will see it t the polls.

[OnDoutside]

3. You are right but I think the poster reflects the fears of a nobbled mid term.

[Hortensis]

9. Exactly! It IS seen again and again.

Republicans are in trouble across the nation. As I mentioned below, two Republicans in blood-red Kansas, a state the Kochs are supposed to have a stranglehold on, are now in danger of losing to Democratic challengers. Unheard of!

[Demsrule86]

33. It is pretty amazing! I so want a big...win.

[EricJohnson]

4. Do we want those assholes in our tent? In my state a number of

Republicans switched to run as Democrats. They didn't change their ideologies just their names.

[stevenleser]

6. You ask that as if there is an option for us. There isn't. We can't control who registers or runs as

a Democrat.

[EricJohnson]

18. In our state we have a state senator that runs and wins as a Democrat

but caucuses and votes with the Republicans. I am working on the campaign of a life long Democrat that has an opponent that recently switched parties and is running as a Democrat. While canvassing I spoke with one man that assured me he always voted Democratic and I had to explain that both candidates are running as Democrats.

[zentrum]

23. Shades of Joe Lieberman.

[sandensea]

22. Exactly.

A big tent is always better than being caught in the rain.

[EricJohnson]

25. Maybe it's just me but I don't want to be in a tent with Joe Scars or George Will.

They aren't here to help us.

[BBG]

28. Maybe not to help dems

But to help their country. Almost makes my fingers rebel to type that.

Count me not in the Joe/George fan camp.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. That's what primaries are for.

[Hortensis]

10. We want them voting Democrat on November 6.

Or not voting at all. Neither requires them to register Democrat. A lot are no doubt going right-leaning independent.

COUNTDOWN TO GETTING CONTROL OF CONGRESS, AND TRUMP: 122 days

[NewJeffCT]

13. We need as many people in our tent as possible

every vote counts in defeating Trump and his enabling Republicans. Not only were Wisconsin, Michigan and PA extremely close, but North Carolina and Florida were also decided for Trump by less than 1% of the vote.

Rick Wilson, Max Boot, Jennifer Rubin and others know full well that Democrats are almost all pro choice, pro Obamacare, and support Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid and are still supporting Democrats because they think Trump is bad for America, the Republican Party and the world.

Getting their support doesn't mean we're adopting their positions.

[Bradshaw3]

29. Spot on!

[saidsimplesimon]

26. Late to the game, Eric?

Fighting fire with fire is a dangerous game, on this we agree.

[True Blue American]

27. They will call themselves,Blue Dog Democrats

Same thing, Conservaties masquerading as Democrats

[Demsrule86]

34. yes we do want those 'assholes' because we need warm bodies to flip the house.

[exboyfil]

5. Will only know for sure

after the election results. I think the Democrats have failed to nationalize the election. They still have time and a lot of material, but they have to get through a firewall.

[Hortensis]

11. The midterms are all state and local,

and that's where the battles are on.

[Hortensis]

8. Thanks. Here's Kurtz's Fox News spin, but that

it's being admitted means Republican defections are being too noticed to ignore, have to spin them away. He focuses on pretending this is just a few public faces, but the big question, of course, is what's happening among the electorate.

Divorcing Trump: Why some conservatives are now pushing Democrats (!)

The conservative commentators who absolutely despise President Trump are in a box. During the campaign, many loudly proclaimed that they could never vote for Trump. But they said they didn't want Hillary Clinton to win either. So some opted for fringe candidates or third-party candidates or write-in candidates or told people to make up their own minds.
This was something of a charade. Either Trump or Clinton was going to be the next president. So by refusing to back Trump, they were increasing the chances that Hillary would win.

Now, with the midterms approaching, some of those on the right are taking the step that they refused to take in 2016: They are openly rooting for the Democrats. This is how topsy-turvy our politics have become.

Here's the debate: Are these onetime Republicans so blinded by what I call Trump Trauma that they're running into the arms of the opposition party? Or is this a one-off, a temporary defection to restrain a president they think is damaging the country?

These people deserve to be taken seriously. But it doesn't invalidate their arguments to say that there are certain rewards in the media culture for conservatives who break with their side. Favorable publicity. MSNBC contracts. New respect from the left for their independence. (Flip the script for a moment and think about how the few Democratic pundits who broke with Barack Obama were denigrated or dismissed.)

Some big-name, anti-Trump conservatives, such as Bill Kristol, argue that it's better to stay and fight for a better GOP, which they define as veering away from the president's most controversial policies. But for others, the Democrats that they've spent their lives battling suddenly look like they're worth dating, if not marrying. ...

Even as these pundits argue that Trumpism is ruining the GOP, the president is enjoying record-high support among Republicans. Bottom line: They aren't bringing many voters along with them.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/06/divorcing-trump-why-some-conservatives-are-now-pushing-democrats.html

You hope, Kurtz, but no one believes. The question is how many? Btw, two (!) Republican congressmen in red-redoubt Kansas are in danger of losing to Democrats on November 6.

[NewJeffCT]

14. wow

two in Kansas are in danger of losing? Is that the state legislature there, or do you mean the US House?

[Hortensis]

15. U.S. house. :)

In Republican Bastion Kansas, 2 Congressional Seats in Play
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/07/02/in_republican_bastion_kansas_2_congressional_seats_in_play_137415.html

[NewJeffCT]

16. nice

If Democrats win both, it could herald not just a blue wave, but a blue tsunami.

[EricMaundry]

12. Sounds like a "walk away"

[lpbk2713]

17. The GOP will have to work harder to steal elections now.

Which is why they sent a team to Moscow to plot strategy with Vlad.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Fox is trying to motivate their base

[LakeArenal]

20. Faux never "admits" anything so

Saying it out loud must mean it’s serious.
🤞🏼

[Moral Compass]

21. I will be comforted when...

we can pry their cold dead hands off all the levers of power.

This won’t be over until the good people in our nation can amass enough power to be able to go through our compromised judiciary and root out all of the right wing fascist judicial activists dispensing injustice.

Flipping seats is just a small beginning. These barbarians need to be exiled to the farthest political reaches and never be allowed back in to govern.

[pecosbob]

24. Oooops...

Looks like #walkaway just became #walkawayfromgop

[bluecollar2]

30. BULLSHIT!!!

This is classic disinformation.

Moscow's puppet and his media surrogates are trying to suppress Democratic party voter turnout.

Also, Trump is a Republican wet-dream. No way are they leaving him.

[True Blue American]

31. Problem there is, I do not trust Fox.

[RandomAccess]

32. David Frum, Rick Wilson

tho, in truth, I'm not 100% Wilson suggests everyone go vote Democratic.

Ana Navaro is another big time Trump critic, tho again, not sure that means she says vote Dem.