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Senate Jeff Flake of Arizona will not seek reelection in 2018. He is speaking now and includes immigration in his remarks.
He says the GOP has given up on core principles. Flake was a target of Steve Bannon and others wanting to drain the swamp and to stop amnesty attempts.
"I will not be complicit."
Senator McCain follows in praising Senator Flake.
Senator Schumer was caught off guard as reporters asked if Democrats could win Arizona. A smile crossed his face.
Good Riddance!! He said in his talk that he is pro-free trade and pro-immigration. Too bad he just didn't resign. If he really believed what he spewed, he would have resigned today and allowed the Governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey to appoint a replacement who supports protecting our trade and stopping illegal immigration. God knows the people of Arizona support the America First agenda, hell, they passed SB 1070 and elected Jan Brewer Governor and for many years gave us Sheriff Joe!! Arizona has tried everything to stop illegal immigration into their state, all blocked by the evil federal government, owing mostly to their poor choices in selecting US Senators.
Arizona GOP Sen. Flake to retire, had tangled with Trump
By ERICA WERNER and ANDREW TAYLOR
26 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman says GOP Sen. Jeff Flake will not run for re-election in 2018.
Flake, who has criticized the path that the Republican Party has taken under President Donald Trump, also told The Arizona Republic in advance of a Tuesday announcement, that “there may not be a place for a Republican like me” in the current GOP.
Flake’s poll numbers had fallen after tangling with Trump. He had a tea party primary challenger in Kelli Ward, whom Trump has praised.
https://apnews.com/8285e0cdcd27460cb...led-with-Trump
Senator Flake is talking with CNN. He did not vote for Donald Trump for President. He is also asked about possible presidential run in the future.
He wants to work with president on DACA. He sets bad example for children he says.
Flake is a disgrace and should resign immediately.
Jeff Flake Mourns: ‘Traditional Conservative’ That Values Immigration, Free Trade Can’t Win
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by CHARLIE SPIERING24 Oct 2017
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) announced his decision to retire from the Senate rather than seek re-election in 2018, citing the new tone and political values that President Donald Trump brought to Washington, DC, as the reason.
“When the next generation asks us, ‘Why didn’t you do something? Why didn’t you speak up?’ What are we going to say?” Flake said sorrowfully as he stood up in the Senate for his announcement. “Mr. President, I rise today to say, enough.”
Flake said that he no longer could serve as a conservative in a party that no longer valued free trade or immigration.
“It is clear at this moment that a traditional conservative, who believes in limited government and free markets, devoted to free trade, pro-immigration, has a narrower and narrower path to nomination in the Republican party,” Flake said, his voice trembling with emotion.
He added that under Trump, American world leadership is endangered and the long-standing principles of Democracy have been shattered.
“I rise today with no small measure of regret,” he said. “Regret because of the state of our disunion, regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics.”
Flake spoke repeatedly about his principles, complaining that they did not align with Trump’s agenda. But his biggest complaint was that Trump had coarsened the political dialogue.
“It is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end,” he said, criticizing the phrase “the new normal” to describe Trump’s behavior in Washington, DC.
He said that the ongoing destruction of established norms in the Senate was “appalling.”
“If we simply become inured to this condition, thinking that this is just politics as usual, then heaven help us,” he said.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...rade-cant-win/
Last polls I saw he was going to lose to Dr. Kelli Ward anyway. Yes, too bad he just doesn't want to resign. Bye bye....
SURPRISE: Jeff Flake calls it quits
Posted October 24, 2017 03:18 PM by Chris Pandolfo
Senator Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. announced Tuesday that he will not seek reelection to the U.S. Senate in 2018.
Citing “nastiness” in politics as a reason for his retirement, Flake told the Arizona Republic that "there may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party."
Flake cited support for President Trump’s agenda among Republican primary voters as a reason he is leaving.
"Here's the bottom line: The path that I would have to travel to get the Republican nomination is a path I'm not willing to take, and that I can't in good conscience take," Flake said. "It would require me to believe in positions I don't hold on such issues as trade and immigration and it would require me to condone behavior that I cannot condone."
Though, the real reason Flake is leaving probably has something to do with histanking poll numbers in Arizona. If he stayed in the race, he likely would lose to primary challenger Dr. Kelli Ward.
Ward is now running unopposed for the GOP nomination for Senate in Arizona. But Ward comes with baggage that might convince other conservatives to jump in the race.
Recently, two of Ward’s top campaign aides quit the campaign, calling their efforts to legitimize Ward’s candidacy a “mistake,” and suggesting that Ward is cozying up to figures from the D.C. swamp to become a senator.
“After running her campaign, we’ve realized that our successful efforts to legitimize her campaign was a mistake,” said former Ward press secretary Jennifer Lawrence last week.
“Her campaign was such a disaster that we saw an opportunity to prove how much we can help struggling campaigns and we did just that,” said Dustin Stockton, a former Breitbart News writer and Ward’s former Chief Strategist. “Unfortunately, she showed that she isn’t up to the task of standing up to the pressure that causes so many candidates to betray voters when they get to Washington.”
On Twitter, Stockton suggested that Ward has sold out for her own ambition.
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Former @kelliwardaz chief strategist @DustinStockton says "She will set anything aside in order to pursue her own ambition.”#AZSen
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12:16 AM - Oct 20, 2017
With Flake’s exit however, the race for the GOP Senate nomination in Arizona is Ward’s to lose.
Article: https://www.conservativereview.com/a...calls-it-quits
Adios El Flako!
No more pro-free trade treason members of Congress like Flake. Give them all the boot. DRAIN THE SWAMP!
No more pro-immigration traitor members of Congress like Flake. Give them all the boot. DRAIN THE SWAMP!
These stupid globalists like Corker, Flake and McCain are SWAMP CREATURES, sore losers unfit to be in the US Senate, let alone on Republican ballots. They are the ones who have opened our borders, pushed this free trade treason crap down our throats, and put tens of millions of Americans in the poor house and in the soup lines, flooded our nation with tens of millions of illegal aliens signing up for welfare, stealing our jobs, and robbing our coffers running our debt up to over $20 trillion while shuffling 70,000 manufacturing operations offshore under the false banner of "free trade" treason.
These people suck and are truly evil for what they have done to our country with their treasonous platforms of pro-free trade and pro-immigration policies.
They are disgusting low-life pond scum and that's putting it politely.
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 12m12 minutes ago
So nice being with Republican Senators today. Multiple standing ovations! Most are great people who want big Tax Cuts and success for U.S.
Corker and Flake need to review some YouTube videos of the primary debates and realize they've stepped into their own mess. There is no way of beating this President. He's smarter than you are, he's tougher than you are, he's more loyal to the people than you are, he's more accomplished than you are, and yes, he's a far better person than you are. LOSERS!!!! Bing! Bing! Bing!
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Not one critical word by Flake of the Dems' obstructionism, biased press. Speech could have been delivered by Obama or Pelosi.
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There is no constituency for open borders, endless wars, and lopsided trade deals. @JeffFlake shd spare us the next 14mo's.
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Flake was for the disastrous Trans Pacific Partnership, NAFTA, open immig, blanket amnesty--and had Hillary won, he'd be happy today.
Both Flake and Corker should do the right thing and resign, allowing for an appointment by their Republican Governors. Their voices are worse than listening to nails scratching on the black board. They deplete the energy one needs to watch the news. They create a phony divide, and lie to the press. While they're both claiming out in the halls or in an empty Senate Chamber that President Trump is either unfit or debasing the nation, the rest of the Republican Senators are giving him standing ovations at the Senate Republican Caucus Luncheon.
They're obstructionists, DemoQuack Globalists who ran on the Republican ballot to win in a Red State. They deceived the voters into believing they were something they weren't.
Paul Ryan ‘Saddened’ by ‘Friend’ Jeff Flake’s Decision Not to Seek Re-Election
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by BEN KEW24 Oct 2017
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan mourned Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) decision not to seek re-election, describing his retirement as a loss for “the greater cause of conservatism.”
“I’m saddened Congress is losing my friend Jeff Flake. Throughout his career in public service, Jeff has been a champion of constitutional, limited government and a trailblazer for fiscal restraint,” Ryan said in a statement.
“He as much as anyone helped to end a corrosive earmarking process that enabled runaway spending. Jeff’s retirement is a loss to the Senate and the greater cause of conservatism. I wish him well as he continues to advocate for our principles outside of government.”
Ryan and Flake were natural allies in Congress, both championing the causes of unrestrained free trade and presiding over unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, as well as critics of the Trump agenda.
Flake said in announcing his retirement:
Flake was part of the “Gang of Eight” that proposed the 2013 immigration bill seeking to provide amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, alongside the likes of Sens. Marco Rubio, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham.
It is clear at this moment that a traditional conservative, who believes in limited government and free markets, devoted to free trade, pro-immigration, has a narrower and narrower path to nomination in the Republican party. I rise today with no small measure of regret. Regret because of the state of our disunion, regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics.”
“It’s very hard for me to add to the eloquence of my dear friend from Arizona,” McCain said after the decision was announced. “But I do want to say that it has been one of the great honors of my life to serve with a man of integrity, honor, decency, and commitment to not only Arizona but to the United States of America.”
http://www.breitbart.com/2018-electi...k-re-election/
These two men have contributed to the sadness of millions of Americans in their social justice stances on illegal immigration. They have preferred and sought to represent foreign citizens over Anerican citizens they were elected to represent.
Oh PUKE on Paul Ryan, they're both pro-immigration and pro-free trade traitors. Yeah, I bet Ryan will miss Flake. The Congress is getting lonely for people like Paul Ryan and it's going to get even lonelier in 2018.
Ingraham: If Flake Departure Bothers GOP, It Should Pass Bills People Like
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 09:18 PM
By: Greg Richter
Conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham has little sympathy for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other mainstream Republicans who are lamenting the loss of Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake.
Appearing Tuesday on Newsmax TV's "The Howie Carr Show," Ingraham said that if Flake's announcement that he won't seek re-election gives Republicans fear they'll lose the seat to a Democrat, it's their own fault.
"Maybe they should've thought of that before they advocated for open borders and the Trans-Pacific Partnership," she said. "Maybe they should start thinking about passing legislation and pushing policies that are actually popular with the people and then they won't run into this trouble."
Ingraham told Carr she has no doubt Flake would have lost anyway had he stood for re-election.
"He was already down double digits," she said, adding that she attended a rally last week for Kelli Ward, who intended to challenge Flake in the GOP primary.
"It was packed out, maxed out," Ingraham said. "There was so much excitement."
Ward will face a challenge in the general election and will have to "up her game," Ingraham said, but added it isn't written anywhere that incumbents can stay as long as they want.
"It's like the people want change. They want something different," she said. "Mitch McConnell can moan all the wants, but look in the mirror, Mitch. Look in the mirror. What did you do for the people of the last how many years?"
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/l.../24/id/821861/
Heard someone say today that he was probably told to do this partly because he would not the financial backing to run again. Thought that made sense.