Sen. Jeff Flake: Trump 'inviting' 2020 primary challenge by how he's governing

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN




By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN
Updated 11:46 AM ET, Thu August 24, 2017

(CNN)Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is inviting a primary challenge in 2020 with his style of governing.

Flake, who is up for re-election in 2018, has been a frequent critic of Trump. The President, without naming him, called Flake weak at a rally in the senator's home state of Arizona on Tuesday. Trump has also tweeted positively about Flake's primary opponent Dr. Kelli Ward and has met privately with two other potential primary challengers.

Asked on Georgia Public Broadcasting's "Political Rewind" Wednesday about whether Trump could face a primary challenge of his own in 2020, Flake said he didn't know.

"I think that certainly depends on him," Flake said. "I think he could govern in a way that he wouldn't. But, I think that the way that -- the direction he's headed right now, just kinda drilling down on the base rather than trying to expand the base -- I think he's inviting one."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/24/politics/kfile-jeff-flake-trump-primary-challenge/index.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Yes! Turning the tables

This ought to make Orange go ballistic!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. And whoever ends up doing it will get trounced because they belong to a party of

psychopaths.

[Julian Englis]

3. That's the least he's inviting. He's asking for impeachment or use of the 25th amendment. n/t

[longship]

4. How did you vote on repealing ACA, you fucking idiot!? nt

[AlexSFCA]

5. flake is mccain wananbe. I bet he regrets that aca vote now

since he got upstaged by mccain

[riversedge]

6. I harding call what trump is going 'governing'!!