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TexasTowelie

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Sat Dec 21, 2019, 10:29 PM Dec 2019

Parson calls impeachment a 'scam.' Galloway says he's trying to distract from his record

By Jason Hancock


Missouri Gov. Mike Parson wants voters to know he stands with President Donald Trump, and is making his support of the embattled chief executive a key piece of his 2020 campaign.

State Auditor Nicole Galloway, Parson’s likely Democratic rival in 2020, wants no part of any debate about the president. She said Parson wants the race to be about Trump only to avoid having to defend his own record.

That dynamic was on full display this week, after the U.S. House voted Wednesday to impeach the president for abuse-of-power and obstruction-of-Congress.

Parson, a Republican, went on Twitter to decry the impeachment process, calling it a “scam” and declaring that Democrats “haven’t moved past Republican’s HISTORIC victory in 2016 and can’t beat our president at the ballot box in 2020.”

Read more: https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article238561658.html
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Parson calls impeachment a 'scam.' Galloway says he's trying to distract from his record (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2019 OP
Is it in the water? Limbaugh, Greitens, Parson... CurtEastPoint Dec 2019 #1
he's selling our government here in Missouri. Its a microcosm of what rethugs ultimately want Kurt V. Dec 2019 #2

Kurt V.

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2. he's selling our government here in Missouri. Its a microcosm of what rethugs ultimately want
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 08:43 PM
Dec 2019
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