{"id":7001,"date":"2016-08-18T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7001"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:21:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T04:21:27","slug":"maryland-republican-party-ashamed-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7001","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Republican Party Ashamed of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship between Donald Trump and the Maryland Republican Party is the love that dare not speak its name. Donald Trump is all but an unperson on the Maryland Republican Party twitter account, @mdreps.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland GOP would rather pretend their presidential nominee doesn&#8217;t exist. @mdreps hasn&#8217;t mentioned Donald Trump since the Republican Convention. Indeed,\u00a0&#8220;Trump&#8221; has appeared a mere\u00a0five times @mdreps since the Maryland Republican Primary, including the following tweet on primary night:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP3.jpg\" alt=\"MDGOP3\" width=\"586\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP3.jpg 586w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP3-300x83.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next up, from the Republican salad days:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP5.jpg\" alt=\"MDGOP5\" width=\"580\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP5.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP5-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Video\u00a0received from a Trump voter in honor of this tweet:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/72bPUXefB8c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The following is the only tweet in which the Maryland Republican Party expresses direct approval of Trump:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP4.jpg\" alt=\"MDGOP4\" width=\"582\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP4.jpg 582w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP4-300x54.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though Trump gets mentioned in the next tweet only in the cited article description, it&#8217;s worth a mention if only because the Maryland Republican Party&#8217;s own words, &#8220;It&#8217;s about ideas, not race,&#8221; are\u00a0as Orwellian as they come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP2.jpg\" alt=\"MDGOP2\" width=\"581\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP2.jpg 581w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MDGOP2-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next day they retweeted an innocuous shout out to the Republican delegation in Cleveland that\u00a0copied Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In short, you&#8217;d never guess that the a thumping majority of Maryland Republicans support\u00a0Donald Trump. \u00a0There is not one picture. No tweets proudly touting his\u00a0latest utterance.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine some Republicans will claim\u00a0they&#8217;re just too focused on state issues to mention Trump. Except that you may&#8217;ve noticed that their logo is a &#8220;Stop Hillary&#8221; sign. Maryland Republicans also have no problem using @mdreps to attack Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of Trump mentions is really a good sign. Shame is the right emotion if Donald Trump is your party&#8217;s nominee. Let&#8217;s hope the second stage of grief for the party entails repudiation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship between Donald Trump and the Maryland Republican Party is the love that dare not speak its name. Donald Trump is all but an unperson on the Maryland Republican Party twitter account, @mdreps. The Maryland GOP would rather pretend their presidential nominee doesn&#8217;t exist. @mdreps hasn&#8217;t mentioned Donald Trump since the Republican Convention. Indeed,\u00a0&#8220;Trump&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maryland Republican Party Ashamed of Trump<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1442,36],"tags":[1861,1862,1477],"class_list":["post-7001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-presidential-election","category-republicans","tag-mdreps","tag-maryland-republicans","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1OV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7001"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7013,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions\/7013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}