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Republicans surrendering to Democrats\u2064 is \u200cnot a new \u200bconcept \u2014 and this past week\u2019s border bill \u201cnegotiations\u201d is just another example.<\/p>\n

After scheming in secret<\/a> with Democrats for weeks, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell<\/a>, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Senate GOP leadership unveiled one of \u2014 if not the<\/em> \u2014 worst immigration bill in the modern era. \u200cNot only does the legislation<\/a> include roughly three \u200dtimes<\/a> as \u200dmuch funding for Ukraine than U.S. border security, but it also seeks\u2064 to effectively enshrine<\/a> President Biden\u2019s existing border\u200b crisis<\/a> into law.<\/p>\n

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While enough Republican opposition has seemingly \u200dkilled \u200bthe measure for the time being, \u200cthat hasn\u2019t \u200cstopped Lankford<\/a> or McConnell\u2019s acolytes<\/a> from\u200b lashing out at the bill\u2019s biggest critics. During a recent Senate floor, for \u2062example, Lankford misconstrued comments by commentator Jesse Kelly to push\u200b the left\u2019s phony claim that conservatives aren\u2019t interested in stopping the invasion at the \u200dU.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n
Several weeks ago, Kelly\u2063 vowed to \u201cdestroy\u201d Lankford\u2019s\u2064 \u201centire professional \u200blife\u201d over his surrender on \u2063border negotiations, arguing that\u2063 conservatives must send a message to Republicans that selling out their voters won\u2019t be tolerated. Lankford distorted \u2064these remarks during his Senate speech, claiming a \u201cpopular commentator\u201d told him, \u201cIf you try to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential year, I will do whatever I can to destroy you because I \u200cdo not \u2063want you to solve this during the presidential\u2063 election.\u201d<\/p>\n
Acting as Democrats\u2019 useful suckers isn\u2019t the only commonality shared by McConnell and Lankford, however. Both senators were overwhelmingly supported\u200b by the majority of GOP primary voters in their last reelection bids. In 2020, 82.8\u200c percent<\/a> of Kentucky Republican primary voters cast their ballots to re-nominate McConnell for his seventh term<\/a> in \u2063the Senate. \u2062Meanwhile, Lankford garnered<\/a> 67.8 percent support in his 2022\u2062 primary, with his closest competitor accumulating 26.4 \u2062percent.<\/p>\n
Voters are more than welcome to support whichever candidate they choose. But lackluster performances by Republicans such as McConnell and Lankford raise \u2063the \u200cquestion: Why do GOP primary voters keep reelecting\u2063 the same politicians who consistently \u2064betray them on the issues that \u200bmatter,\u2063 when they matter?<\/p>\n
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A Garden Filled with Weeds<\/h2>\n
McConnell and \u200cLankford are not anomalies within the GOP. As it turns \u200dout, some of the \u2063\u201creddest\u201d states in the country elect the worst Republicans.\u200d <\/p>\n
Take, for example, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst<\/a>. The Hawkeye State\u2019s junior senator\u2064 ran<\/a> virtually unopposed during the 2020 GOP Senate primary and went \u200con to defeat her Democrat \u2064challenger by\u2064 6.5 points in the general election. Roughly 26 percent<\/a> of the voters who \u2063supported Ernst\u200b in the general voted in the Republican Senate primary.<\/p>\n
Since winning reelection, Ernst has sold out her constituents on a myriad of fronts. \u2062In\u2063 June 2022, she sided<\/a> with more than a dozen of \u200cher GOP colleagues in helping Senate Democrats pass gun control \u200clegislation that \u2014 among other things \u2014 incentivized states to\u200c adopt red flags. Several months later, Ernst again<\/em> helped<\/a> Senate Democrats pass\u200b the misnamed \u201cRespect for Marriage\u200b Act,\u201d which opened the door for LGBT activists to use the legal system \u200bas a means of harassing religious Americans who \u200dbelieve in the true meaning \u200cof marriage. The Iowa\u200b senator and several of her GOP\u2064 colleagues more recently sided with Democrats in nuking<\/a> Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville\u2019s protest of the \u2064Pentagon\u2019s radical \u200band unlawful abortion policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Another example of a weak-kneed \u2064Republican \u2064from a \u201cred\u201d \u200dstate \u2062is\u2063 Texas Sen. John Cornyn<\/a>. Cornyn\u2062 secured<\/a> 76 percent of the vote in Texas\u2019 2020 GOP Senate primary. His closest challenger, Dwayne Stovall, came \u200bin a distant second with 11.9 percent support. Only 32.4 percent<\/a> of voters who supported \u2064Cornyn in the general voted in the aforementioned primary. <\/p>\n
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Similar to Ernst, Cornyn has betrayed conservatives on \u2063numerous occasions since winning reelection. In addition\u200c to spearheading the effort to pass \u200cthe previously referenced gun \u2064control bill<\/a>, Cornyn was one of 18 Republican senators to join Senate \u2062Democrats in advancing a pork-filled, $1.7 trillion spending package<\/a><\/a> at the end of \u20632022. The bill\u2019s passage effectively took away any and all \u2062leverage the \u2064House\u2019s then-incoming Republican majority had over spending issues\u2064 for most of 2023.<\/p>\n
Both Ernst<\/a> and Cornyn<\/a> have also supported sending tens of millions of U.S. \u2062taxpayer dollars in aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The Trump Factor<\/h2>\n
It\u2019s\u200b impossible \u2064to discuss GOP \u2064primaries without mentioning former President Donald Trump. As\u2062 the Republican \u2062Party\u2019s\u200b leading figure, the 45th president wields a considerable amount\u200d of influence among large swaths of the conservative electorate.<\/p>\n
While Trump has\u200d often sought to \u200dadvance \u201cAmerica\u2062 First\u201d policies, several of the candidates he\u2019s endorsed oppose his \u2014 and, more importantly, his\u2063 voters\u2019 \u2014 agenda. Case in point: Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, whose political career was all but dead until\u2064 Trump rescued it from the depths of irrelevancy. After reportedly<\/a> considering \u200bthe former Massachusetts governor to be his secretary of state in 2016, Trump threw his support behind<\/a> Romney\u2019s bid to run\u2063 for Utah\u2019s 2018 Senate seat.<\/p>\n
Since taking \u200boffice, Romney\u2019s voting record<\/a> has resembled that \u200dof \u2063a \u2062Massachusetts moderate more than a Utah conservative. In recent years, Utah\u2019s junior senator helped<\/a> \u200d Biden and Democrats pass legislation declaring war<\/a> on the institution of marriage and religious liberty, targeting<\/a> Second\u2062 Amendment rights, and increasing<\/a> federal\u2064 spending. He also partook<\/a> in the Democrats\u2019 attack on Tuberville, supported<\/a> Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s nomination to the\u200d Supreme Court, voted<\/a> to keep mask mandates\u2063 on children, and voted<\/a> to convict Trump \u2062on impeachment charges (twice<\/a>). <\/p>\n
A similarly terrible endorsement came during Pennsylvania\u2019s 2022 Republican Senate\u2064 primary, in\u2064 which Trump backed television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz.\u2062 This endorsement came after<\/a> it was \u200drevealed that Oz promoted<\/a> childhood transgenderism on\u2063 his TV program\u2063 in 2015. The celebrity doctor also previously praised<\/a> communist China\u2019s Covid lockdowns, saying \u2064the best way to \u200cbeat the virus is \u201cto copy what [China] did, take their blueprint, and repeat it here in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n
After winning the GOP nomination, Oz went \u200don \u200cto \u200dlose the general election to\u200c Democrat John Fetterman.<\/p>\n
Republican establishment types have figured out that they don\u2019t need a strong conservative\u2063 track \u200brecord to win Trump\u2019s endorsement. They just have to regurgitate the Republican talking points of the day and praise the former \u200cpresident to acquire his much-coveted support.\u00a0While voters are able to make their own choices, and Trump\u2019s endorsement doesn\u2019t guarantee victory in any given primary (see Alabama\u2019s 2017 GOP Senate contest<\/a>), it certainly doesn\u2019t \u200dhurt\u00a0for a candidate to have the backing \u200cof the party\u2019s leading figure.<\/p>\n
It Doesn\u2019t Have to be This Way<\/h2>\n
Contrary to the current composition \u200dof the GOP, conservatives have shown they can be a powerful influence in kicking establishment \u200cfigures to the curb.<\/p>\n
When reports<\/a> circulated in December\u2064 indicating Trump was allegedly considering Nikki Haley<\/a> to be his running mate, \u200dconservatives (justifiably) became outraged. Trump supporters and conservative influencers implored the former president \u2063to scrap the idea. Roughly a month \u2063later, Trump seemingly poured cold water<\/a> on it.<\/p>\n
Imagine how \u2064different the Republican Party would\u200c look if\u200d conservatives employed this same \u2064type of focus and drive \u200bto oust \u2062establishment candidates in GOP primaries\u200d at every level of \u200cgovernment<\/a>. And consider how instrumental Trump\u2019s endorsements could be if\u2064 his supporters pushed him to back candidates who\u2063 supported the \u201cAmerica First\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n
[RELATED:[RELATED:Thanks To The State Freedom Caucus Network, GOP Legislatures Are Getting More Conservative<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n
Changing the Republican\u2062 Party into \u200ca political body that works for its \u200dvoters is no small feat. It\u2019s an effort that demands conservatives look beyond irrelevant factors like \u2062name \u200bID and re-discover what it means\u200d to be a self-governing citizenry. After all, these politicians work for\u200b the people \u2014 \u2064not the other way around.<\/p>\n
Upcoming<\/a> GOP<\/a> primaries<\/a> provide conservatives with the best opportunity to change the Republican Party for the better. The question is: Will they take it?<\/p>\n
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A Garden Filled with Weeds<\/h2>\nMcConnell and \u200cLankford are not anomalies within the GOP. As it turns \u200dout, some of the \u2063\u201creddest\u201d states in the country elect the worst Republicans.\u200d <\/p>\n