Former Navy SEAL Scott Taylor Defeats Pro-Obamatrade RINO in Virginia Primary

Former Navy SEAL Scott Taylor defeated pro-TPP RINO Randy Forbes in Virginia this week.
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Former US Navy SEAL and Virginia state Del. Scott Taylor won the 2nd Congressional District Republican primary Tuesday with a feisty grassroots campaign after being outspent almost 10-to-1 by U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes, a eight-term legislator who was trying to move from his home district to a supposedly friendlier one nearby.

His support for Obamatrade cost Rep. Forbes his seat in the US House.

World Net Daily reported:

The populist uprising against phony “free trade” and Republicans who love it has taken its first scalp.

Rep. Randy Forbes, GOP establishment stalwart and longtime Obamatrade supporter from Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, will soon be unemployed. Voters rejected him in favor of his primary opponent Scott Taylor, who stridently opposed Obamatrade.

Taylor blasted Forbes for voting to give President Obama fast track authority to ram through Congress the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping 12-nation international regulatory pact that would merge our economy with some of the poorest and most repressive on earth.

This move was especially hypocritical for Forbes, chairman of the House Prayer Caucus. Obamatrade would give special economic privileges to countries that persecute Christians, including Vietnam, Malaysia and the Shariah-law regime of Brunei.

After his disastrous vote for fast track, Forbes tried to tap dance around the Constitution-shredding, religious-liberty-trampling Obamatrade agreement.

In a letter to constituents, Forbes recycled the party establishment’s globalist talking points, saying free trade is “crucial to our economy” and to “our future as a country.”

Then Forbes said he would support Obamatrade if it were amended, glossing over the fact that his vote for fast track surrendered Congress’ power to amend the agreement.

While Forbes played cute, former Navy SEAL Scott Taylor issued a clarion call against the misbegotten pact.

In an interview on the John Fredericks radio show, Taylor stated, “I would vote against it,” saying Obamatrade “puts downward pressure on wages and exacerbates America’s income gap.” He praised Donald Trump for bringing trade issues to the forefront.

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