Trump and Pence squared off in the desert. It was one-sided.

It was billed as a split screen proxy war in the desert: Donald Trump versus Mike Pence in a midterm election skirmish that would provide an early indication about the future of the GOP.

It ended up more like a varsity-JV scrimmage.

The Republican Party landscape, in Arizona at least, remains tilted sharply towards Trump. And those who came to watch the former president speak seemed to know it.

They rallied on Friday in a bunting-clad arena wearing “Still my president” T-shirts, offering wild conspiracies about the last election and certainty that Trump would win the next one.

For them, Pence — and every vestige of the old, establishment wing of the GOP — is in the past.

“He was a good guy,” one attendee said.

“I don’t have an opinion on [Pence],” said another, who was eager to persuade Trump to “head up a liquidation of the federal government” if elected.

Leaving the rally with her 11-year-old grandson — and stopping for a T-shirt that was too big for him, but that he said he could tuck in — Georgianna Bruso said she “didn’t even know” Pence was in the state.

Pence was, indeed, there — having come to the state to support Karrin Taylor Robson, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor against the Trump-endorsed Kari Lake, who still insists, falsely, that Trump won the election in 2020.

But even the setting of the stop underscored how tilted this “proxy-battle” would be.

The former vice president appeared with Robson in Maricopa County, where Trump supporters conducted an “audit” of the last election that was derided by honest observers as a farce.

It’s the largest county in Arizona, the state where Ron Watkins, a celebrity in the QAnon conspiracy world suspected of being Q, is running for Congress.

By NC ScoutPublished On: July 26, 2022Categories: Uncategorized4 Comments

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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

4 Comments

Felix July 26, 2022 at 05:37

One measure of character can often be found in the quality of someone’s friends. So, with Pence as a friend…
Mike July 26, 2022 at 13:27

Ok this Trump savior complex bullshit needs to stop. Fucking grow up. Don’t forget trump forced the vaxx bullshit don’t forget he had the majority in house and senate and gave away your rights on 2A for the garbage bump stock.
While economically his was a better economy. It was nothing more than breathing room to prep for the next onslaught. He ruled by executive fiat just like every other shitbag in the oval oriface.
No one is coming to save you. Face it you cannot vote your way out of this.
Prep your mind body and soul for total war. They want you dead. Prep your kids as they are the stay behind force that make life hell of these criminals. Get right with Father Yah and be the remnant.
- NC Scout July 26, 2022 at 13:43
  - boss21 July 26, 2022 at 17:29
    
    Lol.