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Sen. Tammy Baldwin's worst nightmare

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke’s path to the GOP nomination for the United States Senate in Wisconsin just got a whole lot easier, and conservatives across the nation are celebrating.

Popular conservative Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch announced that she will NOT challenge Sheriff Clarke for the GOP nomination next year.

On the heels of Kleefisch’s announcement, millionairess Nicole Schneider also put an end to speculation that she might challenge Sheriff Clarke by leaking the classic line that she wanted “to spend more time with her family.” Schneider was not regarded as a serious candidate beyond the fact that her family’s trucking fortune meant she could have written an eight figure check to self-fund a campaign.

Lt. Gov. Kleefisch went public with her plans two days after Sheriff Clarke declined a Trump appointment to the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, DC. Clarke’s move rocked Wisconsin’s political class, and made his eventual leap into the 2018 Senate race seem all the more likely.

Liberals criticized the Clarke appointment, announced mid-May, saying it was nothing other than a t***sparent attempt by Trump to add Federal government experience to the county Sheriff’s political resume in anticipation of his Senate run.

Bush provided that stepping stone for Mel Martinez, whose short-lived HUD appointment took him from a local county office in Florida to the U.S. Senate. Obama did it for Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren, who spent ten months as a Treasury Department appointee while the “Progressive Change Campaign Committee” PAC launched its successful "Draft Elizabeth Warren for Senate!" campaign to identify tens of thousands of donors and more than a hundred thousand supporters.

Sheriff Clarke stumped tirelessly for candidate Trump in 29 states, and has been the President’s MOST stalwart supporter since the inauguration. Last week’s hysteria over Trump’s tweets is but one of countless examples.

After enduring months of nasty, below-the-belt attacks from MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough & Mika Brzezinski, President Trump utilized Twitter to defend himself and fight fire with fire. Predictably, Speaker Paul Ryan, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Susan Collins, and every other establishment Republican responded by publicly criticizing the President.

But not Clarke. Instead of joining that circular firing squad, the Sheriff circled the wagons. Clarke sent out this glorious tweet admonishing them to “stop” criticizing the President and pointed out that it is MSNBC and CNN that are “evil.”


For President Trump to show a little gratitude (and maybe a little favoritism?) in the coming GOP primary by offering Clarke a temporary appointment in D.C. surprised no one.

The surprise was that Clarke TURNED IT DOWN after telling a local Milwaukee radio host that he intended to take the position.

Upon further reflection, Sheriff Clarke undoubtedly realized that an appointment to any position in the Federal government’s Executive Branch would place him under the “Hatch Act.” That statute would forbid him from doing anything political, including the kinds of things necessary to be most helpful to Trump and test the waters for his own Senate candidacy.

Gone would be his speeches and rallies, his columns, his podcast, his many appearances on Fox News, and his guest hosting of Sean Hannity’s radio show. Gone would be his constant Tweets defending Trump, supporting law enforcement, and decrying the damage America’s liberals have done to the black family. Gone would be his courageous warnings to Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan to stand and fight and not cut deals with the Left.

Gone would be his magnificent rebuttals to the endless stream of liberal lies and f**e news and crazy conspiracy theories about Russians “stealing the e******n” from Hillary Clinton, and all of the rest of the noxious nonsense that regularly spews forth from CNN and MSNBC.

When Trump visited Wisconsin a few weeks ago, he met with Clarke to discuss the Sheriff’s political future. Following that discussion, Clarke announced he was declining an appointment in the federal executive branch because his “sk**ls could be better utilized to promote the President’s agenda in a more aggressive role.”

Hmmmmm.

Clarke’s latest move is therefore widely perceived as the latest sign that he is dead serious about considering the Senate run, and realizes he can build up political capital far easier by supporting President Trump in the public eye, rather than buried in a bureaucratic backwater of the D.C. swamp.

Remember what Sheriff Clarke told us at our PAC’s reception in his honor. Deciding to file for the Senate next year “is a big decision that requires time” to make. Days later he told Fox News that he “would never say never.” He told National Review that “life is full of opportunities,” and said he would pray about running and do as he felt God led him.


Statewide polling by three different pollsters earlier this year (including ours) showed that Sheriff Clarke, Lt. Governor Kleefisch, and Congressman Sean Duffy (WI-7) were the only Wisconsin Republicans with sufficient statewide support and name ID to launch a credible Senate campaign.

Rep. Duffy announced in February that he was running for ree******n to his own House seat, thereby removing his name from contention. The Lt. Governor’s departure narrows the list to one remaining legitimate candidate — and Sheriff Clarke just happens to be looking for a new job that will enable him to support and aggressively promote the President’s agenda! And as he himself recently pointed out, he will technically still be the Sheriff of Milwaukee County until January of 2019 —when he could be taking the oath of office as the next U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.

Kleefisch’s ceding of the nomination to Clarke sets up a dream matchup for the GOP in a seat they badly need to pick up to solidify the VERY slim and very unreliable 2-seat margin in the Senate. Remember, because of unreliable Republican squishes in that 52 seat majority, Vice President Pence has had to journey to the Senate THREE TIMES already to break 50-50 tie v**es. The need to capture the Wisconsin seat is very, very real.

That seat is presently held by liberal extremist Tammy Baldwin, a 20-year Washington insider whose v****g record makes her the worst Senator in the nation. A leader of the Socialist-Progressive Caucus in Congress, Baldwin is rated more liberal than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

She’s way out there on the farthest limb of the crazy tree. As Rudy Giuliani said, Baldwin’s “left wing ideology is so extreme that she’s basically living in some kind of an unreal world.” As Sheriff Clarke said,Baldwin “is an elitist who only cares about g****l w*****g and bathroom issues. Those aren't Wisconsin's values.”


A gun grabber, pro-a******n zealot, and tax-borrow-and-spend liberal, Baldwin supports single-payer socialized medicine and amnesty for criminal i*****l a***ns. A rabid peacenik, Baldwin has repeatedly attacked our military and our allies, v****g against the military budget 13 consecutive years, and siding with Iran against Israel.

An avowed lesbian herself, Baldwin’s supporters describe her as “an L***Q Icon” with “a scarlet L emblazoned on her forehead” because the fringy feminist Baldwin has made something of a name for herself appearing bizarrely at numerous homosexual marches, rallies and events in furtherance of t***ssexualism.

In between dances on stage with characters dressed as the fictional “Wonder Woman,” she finds time to spearhead the “q***r registry” legislation that would force the Census Bureau to interrogate people on their sexual preferences and g****r identities, and sponsor a bill to create yet another Cabinet-level government agency entitled, “The Department of Peace and Non-Violence.”

Yes, you read that right. She’s that bizarre.


Can you see why pundits are saying this will be a dream matchup for the GOP? They are calling it “conservative cop versus liberal lesbian” — in a Trump state with a Republican Governor!...