{"id":30004,"date":"2017-10-25T12:53:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30004"},"modified":"2017-10-25T13:18:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:18:30","slug":"jeff-flake-on-the-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/jeff-flake-on-the-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Flake on the Reich!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Flake has been a US Senator for almost five years.\u00a0 Since he’s a conservative Republican, I can count all the times I have agreed with him on the toes of my left foot.\u00a0 (For those who don’t know me, I do not have a left foot).\u00a0 However, I agreed yesterday, when he tore Trump a third butt hole in addition to the normal one and the one under his nose.\u00a0 In the process, he also lambasted the Republican Reich.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1025Flake\"<\/p>\n

Condemning the nastiness of Republican politics in the era of President Donald Trump, Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday announced he will serve out the remainder of his term but will not seek re-election in 2018.<\/p>\n

The bombshell, which Flake, R-Ariz., delivered Tuesday afternoon on the Senate floor, will further roil Republican hopes of keeping the party’s 52-seat Senate majority in the midterm elections of Trump’s first term, when the president’s party historically loses seats in Congress.<\/p>\n

It also likely will upend the race for Flake’s seat. Flake, who is among the Senate’s more prominent critics of Trump, had been struggling in the polls.<\/p>\n

He told The Arizona Republic ahead of his announcement that he had become convinced “there may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here is Jeff Flake’s announcement<\/a> in its entirety.<\/span><\/p>\n