CA GOP CHAIR election More party switches possible if Travis Allen is elected.

[lfromnj]

https://twitter.com/bryanranderson/status/1099024289305509888?s=21

[smoltchanov]

Allen is Trumpist in addition to being right-wing extremist... Such candidate as party chairman? Especially - in very Blue state, where Republicans endured heavy losses just few month ago??? Strange logic, IMHO....

[Torrain]

Allen is Trumpist in addition to being right-wing extremist... Such candidate as party chairman? Especially - in very Blue state, where Republicans endured heavy losses just few month ago??? Strange logic, IMHO....

Yeah, seems like a bad idea. The best strategy imo would be to go full Charlie Baker.

[Nyvin]

Republicans must really want to go down to 4 congressional seats in California.

[lfromnj]

Republicans must really want to go down to 4 congressional seats in California.

The 3 party switches almost certainly refer to  assembly/state senate.

[smoltchanov]

Republicans must really want to go down to 4 congressional seats in California.

The 3 party switches almost certainly refer to  assembly/state senate.

Probably. And if Baker would win (and she almost did in very hostile for modern Republican party district) - there would be more...

[Oryxslayer]

Yeah, the three are probably state legislators sitting in Clinton seats who just saw 2018...and possibly SD mayor Kevin Faulconer.

[Duke of York]

Its also like they deliberately trying to lose elections

[Nyvin]

Republicans must really want to go down to 4 congressional seats in California.

The 3 party switches almost certainly refer to  assembly/state senate.

oh yeah, I knew that,  just saying if they go down the Trumpian path I don't think it'll end well for them.

[Tintrlvr]

Allen is Trumpist in addition to being right-wing extremist... Such candidate as party chairman? Especially - in very Blue state, where Republicans endured heavy losses just few month ago??? Strange logic, IMHO....

Yeah, seems like a bad idea. The best strategy imo would be to go full Charlie Baker.

Charlie Baker is on the back of decades of the Massachusetts Republican Party being completely irrelevant in the state: the Democrats have controlled both chambers of the state legislature since 1959, and the Republicans were being reduced to less than a third of both chambers for much of that time, including the entirety of the past two decades. It will take a long time for the California Republican Party to get there.

[smoltchanov]

Allen is Trumpist in addition to being right-wing extremist... Such candidate as party chairman? Especially - in very Blue state, where Republicans endured heavy losses just few month ago??? Strange logic, IMHO....

Yeah, seems like a bad idea. The best strategy imo would be to go full Charlie Baker.

Charlie Baker is on the back of decades of the Massachusetts Republican Party being completely irrelevant in the state: the Democrats have controlled both chambers of the state legislature since 1959, and the Republicans were being reduced to less than a third of both chambers for much of that time, including the entirety of the past two decades. It will take a long time for the California Republican Party to get there.

As it goes - not so long: Republicans control less then 14% of US House seats from California now, 27.5% of state Senate seats, and less then 24% of state House seats. And this is hardly a bottom))))

[DrScholl]

California has already had very conservative Republicans. A lot of hardcore right-wing rhetoric (socially and economically) came out of Orange County and other parts of Southern California setting the standard conservatives nationwide. They did used to have leaders who put a better face on the party while not putting off the extremely conservative wing.

[Tintrlvr]

Allen is Trumpist in addition to being right-wing extremist... Such candidate as party chairman? Especially - in very Blue state, where Republicans endured heavy losses just few month ago??? Strange logic, IMHO....

Yeah, seems like a bad idea. The best strategy imo would be to go full Charlie Baker.

Charlie Baker is on the back of decades of the Massachusetts Republican Party being completely irrelevant in the state: the Democrats have controlled both chambers of the state legislature since 1959, and the Republicans were being reduced to less than a third of both chambers for much of that time, including the entirety of the past two decades. It will take a long time for the California Republican Party to get there.

As it goes - not so long: Republicans control less then 14% of US House seats from California now, 27.5% of state Senate seats, and less then 24% of state House seats. And this is hardly a bottom))))

It's not just the percentage of seats but the period of time over which the party is marginalized. The first couple of decades of irrelevance is the period when a party becomes extremely radicalized by speaking only to its base. Only after that period is over and the party truly accepts its irrelevance can the party start to moderate again.

[Yellowhammer]

California politics is going to Hell. News @11

I have no interest in these cretins remaining in the GOP. The fact that they are willing to join an ultra  radical fifth-column party because a mildly right-leaning person might be elected CAGOP chair tells me all I need to know. These people do not belong in the Republican Party, and their departure will be welcomed.

[Badger]

California politics is going to Hell. News @11

I have no interest in these cretins remaining in the GOP. The fact that they are willing to join an ultra  radical fifth-column party because a mildly right-leaning person might be elected CAGOP chair tells me all I need to know. These people do not belong in the Republican Party, and their departure will be welcomed.

( points and laughs) tee hee

[lfromnj]

California politics is going to Hell. News @11

I have no interest in these cretins remaining in the GOP. The fact that they are willing to join an ultra  radical fifth-column party because a mildly right-leaning person might be elected CAGOP chair tells me all I need to know. These people do not belong in the Republican Party, and their departure will be welcomed.

Well, I guess when Roy Moore is more liberal than you it’s understandable why you’d feel that way

[Bidenworth2020]

California politics is going to Hell. News @11

I have no interest in these cretins remaining in the GOP. The fact that they are willing to join an ultra  radical fifth-column party because a mildly right-leaning person might be elected CAGOP chair tells me all I need to know. These people do not belong in the Republican Party, and their departure will be welcomed.

wtf is a normal republican than?

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

A natural consequence of your nearly your entire party bowing down to Trump is that a) you face defections at the margins and b) after the defections (and incumbents who lose reelection which CAGOP had in spades) the people remaining are just Trump toadies. This is the logical consequence and it's going to happen in a lot more states than California.

[smoltchanov]

California politics is going to Hell. News @11

I have no interest in these cretins remaining in the GOP. The fact that they are willing to join an ultra  radical fifth-column party because a mildly right-leaning person might be elected CAGOP chair tells me all I need to know. These people do not belong in the Republican Party, and their departure will be welcomed.

wtf is a normal republican than?

It seems, that for author it's an extremely right wing trumpist only....

[lfromnj]

CA GOP staves bleeding for one more cycle

https://twitter.com/cmaiduc/status/1099751853204488192?s=21

Travis Allen loses
LMAO how do you lose as the trumpiest candidate in today's GOP?

[Politician]

CA GOP staves bleeding for one more cycle

https://twitter.com/cmaiduc/status/1099751853204488192?s=21

Travis Allen loses
LMAO how do you lose as the trumpiest candidate in today's GOP?

Because maybe, just maybe, for once the California GOP places surviving over ideological purity tests?

[Yellowhammer]

California politics is going to Hell. News @11

I have no interest in these cretins remaining in the GOP. The fact that they are willing to join an ultra  radical fifth-column party because a mildly right-leaning person might be elected CAGOP chair tells me all I need to know. These people do not belong in the Republican Party, and their departure will be welcomed.

wtf is a normal republican than?

It seems, that for author it's an extremely right wing trumpist only....

I’m not even a trumpist. Trump is way too moderate for me.

[S019]

I don’t know why people are making a fuss over who the CA GOP chose. They’re gonna be in the same sh**tty position no matter what. The CA GOP is already at less than 30% in both houses of the legislature and down to 7/53 House members with next to no chance of reversing any of that anytime soon. Too little too late.

I think they still have a future. Their goal in 2020 should be to win CA-48 back. In 2022, they should run Kevin Faulconer for a statewide office not named Governor or Lieutenant Governor, maybe Superintendent of Public Instruction, Insurance Commissioner, or Attorney General. If Harris is President, they should go after CA-10 and CA-45.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

California politics is going to Hell. News @11

I have no interest in these cretins remaining in the GOP. The fact that they are willing to join an ultra  radical fifth-column party because a mildly right-leaning person might be elected CAGOP chair tells me all I need to know. These people do not belong in the Republican Party, and their departure will be welcomed.

wtf is a normal republican than?

It seems, that for author it's an extremely right wing trumpist only....

I’m not even a trumpist. Trump is way too moderate for me.

Is it because he doesn’t say Lincoln was a dictator?

[smoltchanov]

CA GOP staves bleeding for one more cycle

https://twitter.com/cmaiduc/status/1099751853204488192?s=21

Travis Allen loses
LMAO how do you lose as the trumpiest candidate in today's GOP?

Probably wise decision on part of California GOP. I almost lost hope in their ability to make one...