Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) will not run

[carpro]

Jeff Flake Out, Will Not Seek Re-Election


Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) announced on Tuesday that he will not run for re-election in 2018.

A late August poll showed Flake primary challenger Dr. Kelli Ward, a former Arizona state senator, ahead of Flake by double digits. The poll showed twice as many Arizona Republicans supporting Ward than Flake.

During Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, he is reported to have said he would consider spending $10 million to back a challenger to Flake.

 

[InTheLight]

What was wrong with Flake? He voted to repeal/replace ObamaCare. Isn't he gung ho about the Wall?

 

[carpro]

Immigration.

It got Trump elected. Any republican incumbent, especially in a border state, that takes an open borders amnesty stance is at risk of being defeated.

Flake was going to get paddled. He knows it.

 

[Benjamin]

What was wrong with Flake? He voted to repeal/replace ObamaCare. Isn't he gung ho about the Wall?

You mean other than remaining a faithfully dedicated NeverTrumper with TDS?

Simple truth is his ego would never allow him to be defeated next election if it were said to be at the hand of Trump...

Good Riddance! ...Such an embarrassment for my state between him and McCain...

 

[kyredneck]

Just heard Hannity say Schumer thinks Dems can take the seat. Is this seat now vulnerable?

 

[Benjamin]

Just heard Hannity say Schumer thinks Dems can take the seat. Is this seat now vulnerable?

You lost me @Schumer thinks...

 

[kyredneck]

You lost me @Schumer thinks...

...you know, Chucky Schumer:

Democrats have sights on Flake's seat

 

[Benjamin]

Flake was going to get paddled. He knows it.

Just watched his 17 minute crybaby speech, think he must have already felt the paddle - apparently he got called out for his behavior - looked like he was trying to fight back tears. Not as important as he thought he was... boohoo...

 

[777]

Haha, I don't think Jeff Flake was ever excited about the wall. He's viewed in these parts as the face of the Chamber of Commerce.

Well, before long, you're going to have two new senators there, Benjamin. McCain is freaking out more and more by the day. Downside to this is, Flake will now feel free to vote with McCain and Corker to stop the Trump agenda, nothing to lose.

Victory for Bannon, one Deep-Stater down, gadzillion to go. Who is this Kelli Ward every Trump supporter seems to want? I do Flake's approval ratings were at the point he couldn't have beat her in a primary, or if unchallenged, be in danger of the Democrat winning in a anybody-but-Flake ambiance.

 

[carpro]

Just watched his 17 minute crybaby speech, think he must have already felt the paddle - apparently he got called out for his behavior - looked like he was trying to fight back tears. Not as important as he thought he was... boohoo...

And like any left winger, he wanted to blame someone else because he was going to be stomped in the primary. He just couldn't admit it was because he is out of step with his own constituants.

 

[Revmitchell]

Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya

 

[carpro]

You lost me @Schumer thinks...

Right. Schumer doesn't "think". Like any liberal, he FEEEELS.

 

[Adonia]

This is good, get the RINO's out of office and replace them with real Constitution loving legislators.

 

[rsr]

And like any left winger, he wanted to blame someone else because he was going to be stomped in the primary. .

Only in a Trump alternative reality would Flake be considered a "left winger." SNIP

 

[rsr]

This is good, get the RINO's out of office and replace them with real Constitution loving legislators.

Don't you mean Trump-loving legislators? I have no reason to believe Flake doesn't love the Constitution. Perhaps you could enlighten me.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

I’ll call him a liberal.

From J2 Communications.....


1) Tempting to comment on Flake’s floor speech. Instead, offering context on his view of “governing” by highlighting a few of his votes.


2) Jeff Flake was 1 of 10 Republican senators who voted to confirm Loretta Lynch for Attorney General

3) Flake voted to fund President Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty.

4) Flake voted against Sen. Mike Lee’s 1st Amendment Defense Act

5) Flake voted for Obama’s $1.1 trillion Cromnibus 2015 spending bill

6) Flake voteed to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank

7) Flake voted for S.2114 which increased Russia’s power at the International Monetary Fund

8) Flake voted for a CLEAN debt limit suspension (2014)

9) Flake was 1 of 11 Republican senators who voted to confirm Janet Yellen

10) Flake voted for the Ryan-Murray budget which lifted spending caps & raised fees (taxes) in exchange for promises of future spending cuts

11) Flake voted for the Gang of 8 amnesty bill

12) Flake voted for the post-Newtown gun grab

13) Flake voted AGAINST The Defund Obamacare Act of 2013 (S.1292)

14) Flake voted to increase debt by $900 billion in exchange for the promise of discretionary cuts in the future (2011)

15) Flake preferred John Kasich over Cruz or Trump in the 2016 GOP Primary.

 

[Use of Time]

I’ll call him a liberal.

From J2 Communications.....


1) Tempting to comment on Flake’s floor speech. Instead, offering context on his view of “governing” by highlighting a few of his votes.


2) Jeff Flake was 1 of 10 Republican senators who voted to confirm Loretta Lynch for Attorney General

3) Flake voted to fund President Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty.

4) Flake voted against Sen. Mike Lee’s 1st Amendment Defense Act

5) Flake voted for Obama’s $1.1 trillion Cromnibus 2015 spending bill

6) Flake voteed to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank

7) Flake voted for S.2114 which increased Russia’s power at the International Monetary Fund

8) Flake voted for a CLEAN debt limit suspension (2014)

9) Flake was 1 of 11 Republican senators who voted to confirm Janet Yellen

10) Flake voted for the Ryan-Murray budget which lifted spending caps & raised fees (taxes) in exchange for promises of future spending cuts

11) Flake voted for the Gang of 8 amnesty bill

12) Flake voted for the post-Newtown gun grab

13) Flake voted AGAINST The Defund Obamacare Act of 2013 (S.1292)

14) Flake voted to increase debt by $900 billion in exchange for the promise of discretionary cuts in the future (2011)

15) Flake preferred John Kasich over Cruz or Trump in the 2016 GOP Primary.

Thank you. No word games. Just say what you mean. Refreshing. So tired of the usual quibbling.

 

[kyredneck]

Right. Schumer doesn't "think". Like any liberal, he FEEEELS.

....ooohhhh, now I get it! Dumb me.

 

[InTheLight]

I’ll call him a liberal.

From J2 Communications.....

It appears that Flake was a conservative when he was in the House but when he got in the Senate he started his drift towards the left.

The American Conservative Union ratings for Flake:

House
2002 96
2003 92
2004 96
2005 100
2006 100
2007 100
2008 100
2009 100
2010 96
2011 100
2012 100

Senate
2013 71
2014 92
2015 79
2016 79

Since I searched their database by state of Arizona John McCain was listed next to Flake. McCain was consistently in the mid to upper 70's for his rating.

 

[carpro]

Flake: 'I Didn't Vote for This President Last November' - Breitbart


Wednesday on NBC’s “Today,” Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) revealed he didn’t vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election and said those conservative Republicans that had done so made a “Faustian bargain” by voting for Trump.

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No surprise there.