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The Velveteen Ocelot

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3. I think if he runs in the GOP primary he'll lose.

Reply to dflprincess (Original post)

Wed Mar 7, 2018, 09:31 PM

Mar 2018

There are enough Trumpers in the MN GOP that the party probably won't want Painter after he's been slagging Trump on TV for months, and anyhow if that weasel Pawlenty wants it he'll get it. If Painter runs as an independent I think he'll hurt the GOP worse than the DFL. There are educated, relatively moderate GOPers in the 'burbs (mostly women, I'd guess) who don't like Trump but won't vote DFL, and only voted for Trump because they hated Hillary, and Painter might pick up enough votes from that bunch to hand the election to Smith.

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