2024 GOP Presidential Race (1 Viewer)

[SteveSBrickNJ]

Many of Trump's endorsed candidates did not do well on Nov. 8th.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis DID do well.
He won convincingly.
Yet in this OP's opinion, Donald Trump is an egomaniac who is seemingly incapable of putting "Party over Self"
Trump has ZERO chance of being elected our next president.
In my opinion, if Trump would just shut up and go away (fat chance of that)...but "if" Trump did that, Gov. Ron DeSantis would have a CHANCE to be a formidable candidate for President in 2024.
Here is an interesting article on this topic...

Donald Trump warns Ron DeSantis against 2024 presidential bid as Republican rising star wins big

Donald Trump has warned Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis against running for president in 2024, saying doing so would harm the Republican Party.

www.scotsman.com

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What do any of you think re. Trump vs DeSantis?

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[RobF]

Apparently the Trump NFT cards sold out. I sort of wished I bought one just as a $99 lottery ticket to have dinner with him.

... did he buy them all himself?

 

[bird]

omg - how broke is this guy?

I especially liked the one hour of golf. Flocking guy couldn’t give a round of golf? People are suckers.

 

[zztop]

 

[SaulGoodmanEsq]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Many Republicans think Donald Trump is unelectable now.

They have solid evidence: Only about a third of Americans view the former president favorably. Voters and journalists now treat him as old news. And his acolytes ran five percentage points behind more traditional Republicans in the 2022 midterms.

Even likely Republican primary voters are leaving him: A new Wall Street Journal poll shows him trailing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by 14 points in a head-to-head primary matchup.


But Trump has an ace up his sleeve if an “electability” debate emerges in the GOP primaries: the electoral college.

Trump has proven that he can win 270 electoral votes even when Democrats win the popular vote. If Republicans choose DeSantis or some other Trump alternative, that edge might shrink — or even disappear.

Trump’s electoral college advantage comes through most clearly when we compare the “tipping point” or “pivotal” state to the national popular vote.

In 2016, Wisconsin was the tipping point state: That is, if every state was lined up from Trump’s best to his worst, Wisconsin was the state that got him past the 270 electoral votes and into the White House.


Trump took Wisconsin by one percentage point while losing the national popular vote by two percentage points — adding up to an electoral college advantage of about three points.


In 2020, Trump again had a three point advantage: He lost the popular vote to Joe Biden by 4.5 points while losing Pennsylvania (that year’s pivotal state) by only about one point.

In historical terms, that’s a strong advantage.



In most elections, the electoral college bias doesn’t matter: The results in the key state only slightly differ from the national popular vote margin, and the popular vote winner takes the White House. But Trump’s electoral college edge let him stay competitive even as he lost the popular vote by millions.


Moreover, Trump’s advantage might be durable.


Unlike George W. Bush — the last president to win the presidency and lose the popular vote — Trump held onto his advantage across two elections. He’s universally known.

And his voters have been loyal to him: Many of his 2016 supporters were new GOP converts who didn’t turn out for the GOP in 2018, and a chunk of his 2020 supporters hadn’t recently turned out for any other politician.


If Trump were to maintain his electoral college edge, he could stay competitive in 2024 even if his opponent pulled ahead by millions in the national vote. That’s a powerful advantage.


When Trump is off the ballot, the GOP loses its electoral college edge……..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/15/trump-electoral-college-advantage-2024-campaign/

 

[Optimus Prime]

A former host for the right-wing One America News Network, famous for its sycophantic coverage of former President Donald Trump, has joined his team in a role that has her primarily serving as Mr Trump’s personal ego booster.

That’s the newest revelation from The Washington Post’s coverage of Mr Trump’s post-presidential life at Mar-a-Lago, where FBI agents in September conducted a raid for illegally retained presidential records including classified materials.

According to the Post, former OANN host Natalie Harp now frequently follows Mr Trump around his Florida golf courses and other locations, often riding along in the ex-president’s golf cart as she continues her work of showering him with every poll, positive news story and any other shred of confidence-inducing information that she has on hand..........

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[bird]

A former host for the right-wing One America News Network, famous for its sycophantic coverage of former President Donald Trump, has joined his team in a role that has her primarily serving as Mr Trump’s personal ego booster.

That’s the newest revelation from The Washington Post’s coverage of Mr Trump’s post-presidential life at Mar-a-Lago, where FBI agents in September conducted a raid for illegally retained presidential records including classified materials.

According to the Post, former OANN host Natalie Harp now frequently follows Mr Trump around his Florida golf courses and other locations, often riding along in the ex-president’s golf cart as she continues her work of showering him with every poll, positive news story and any other shred of confidence-inducing information that she has on hand..........

MSN

www.msn.com

“Everything she has on hand…” Sorry, my mind is a sewer. Just what the country needs, people competing to be Trump’s Goebbels.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Just what the country needs, people competing to be Trump’s Goebbels.

seems more like a Flavor Flav style hype man

 

[superchuck500]

seems more like a Flavor Flav style hype man

It’s far more pathetic than that.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[superchuck500]

 

[SaulGoodmanEsq]

I don't know why this guy thinks he can get more than 5% of the vote. And that's being generous.

 

[MT15]

He completely lacks any political acumen? Just spit-balling here, lol.

 

[superchuck500]

I don't know why this guy thinks he can get more than 5% of the vote. And that's being generous.

I think he has delusions of his own appeal to everyone else - like he sees himself as this devout Republican boy scout who presents an alternative to the slimy authoritarian demagoguery of DeSantis and Trump. And if it sets up right and Republicans come to the belief that Trump is damaged beyond repair and DeSantis just isn’t up to the task, Pence can present an alternative whose primary baggage is Trump - who he will happily throw under the bus when the time is right.

But of course in reality the Trump cultists and deniers think he failed the cause - and everyone else isn’t willing to forgive a campaign, an impeachment, and a full term (to literally the last hours) of riding shotgun in the Trump administration. So good luck with that.

Bless his heart.

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

An Early Trump Backer's Message to the Republican Party: Dump Him

The greatest threat to Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party has always come from the ranks of his own supporters, rather than those who disliked him all along. So it’s significant that one of his earliest backers is coming out swinging against him. In February 2016, when Rep. Tom Marino...

www.yahoo.com

 

[MT15]

In my deep red state recently the R party took a poll of R voters. Guess who was their preferred candidate for POTUS in 2024? Yep, one Donald J. Trump. And not by a little either.

 

[SFIDC3]

In my deep red state recently the R party took a poll of R voters. Guess who was their preferred candidate for POTUS in 2024? Yep, one Donald J. Trump. And not by a little either.

Here is to hoping he burns the party to the ground, they so deserve it.....