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BumRushDaShow

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14. "doesn't change the fact his handlers are focused, smart, ruthless, and playing for the long haul."
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:59 PM
Mar 27

His so-called "smart handlers" pulled people out of the already short-handed GOP-controlled House, including dangling the carrot at Gaetz and having him RESIGN before he was even considered for confirmation, leaving his seat as a vacancy when his nomination was the first to be torpedoed.

And there was Waltz, another pulled from the House and now on the hot-seat and potentially a target for being the "fall guy" for Signalgate.

Pulling Stefanik (as a "reward for loyalty" ) would have been that proverbial straw... They were even looking at pulling others until someone told them "the math" (especially since Democrats actually had a net GAIN in the House in 2024, despite some of our seats being flipped since WE also flipped some of THEIR seats).

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