Good grief, Charlie! Somebody as clear-eyed as YOU is on the "Trump's Not that Strong" train, too???
We are "whistling past the graveyard" if we operate on the idea that Trump is not as strong in the GOP as he thinks. He IS that strong.
Chris Cillizza picked up on a point too many of us were missing. The caucus-goers were asked a second question after they were asked who they were supporting. That question was: who would you be voting for if your candidate was not on the ballot?
The answers are what we should be paying attention to: 75% of DeSantis voters said they would vote for Trump if DeSantis wasn't there. 40% of Haley voters said they would vote for Trump if she wasn't on the ballot. In a 1 on 1, with DeSantis out, Trump beats Haley with around 72-74% of the vote. With Haley out, Trump beats DeSantis with 64-65%. Those are "respectable incumbent numbers."
We have to stop this magical thinking that the constitution, or this story or that one, or an editorial in the NYT, is going to save us. What our favorite MSNBC host says is irrelevant (I was really disturbed last night to see Lawrence, who should know better from his own experience, jumping on the Trump Is Weak train).
We all said "He can't possibly win!" in 2016 and what did we get?
There are no magic beans that will kill the monster. WE have to do it by getting off our dead asses and onto our dying feet (to recall my old drill instructor) and each do what we can to push things in the right direction.
Nothing of value has ever come easy, ever.
We have to be clear-eyed about this. He might not be exactly as strong as he was, but that is not the same as saying he is weak. He is strong enough to win, if we let him.
Nobody’s debating that he still has commanding control of the GOP. It’s just highly questionable that he’s going to gather any swing voters, and it seems very unlikely that many swing voters who voted for Biden in 2020 are going to look at multiple civil rape judgments, 91 felony charges, likely multiple convictions by November, and all the nonsense he’s likely to spew in the next ten months, and go, “yeah, I made a mistake in 2020, this should’ve been my guy all along.”
We need to figure out how to make the MSM stop letting the GOP normalize Trump, his crimes, events like J6, calling terrorists and cop killers "hostages", I could go on but this sentence is exhausted.
Good grief, Charlie! Somebody as clear-eyed as YOU is on the "Trump's Not that Strong" train, too???
We are "whistling past the graveyard" if we operate on the idea that Trump is not as strong in the GOP as he thinks. He IS that strong.
Chris Cillizza picked up on a point too many of us were missing. The caucus-goers were asked a second question after they were asked who they were supporting. That question was: who would you be voting for if your candidate was not on the ballot?
The answers are what we should be paying attention to: 75% of DeSantis voters said they would vote for Trump if DeSantis wasn't there. 40% of Haley voters said they would vote for Trump if she wasn't on the ballot. In a 1 on 1, with DeSantis out, Trump beats Haley with around 72-74% of the vote. With Haley out, Trump beats DeSantis with 64-65%. Those are "respectable incumbent numbers."
We have to stop this magical thinking that the constitution, or this story or that one, or an editorial in the NYT, is going to save us. What our favorite MSNBC host says is irrelevant (I was really disturbed last night to see Lawrence, who should know better from his own experience, jumping on the Trump Is Weak train).
We all said "He can't possibly win!" in 2016 and what did we get?
There are no magic beans that will kill the monster. WE have to do it by getting off our dead asses and onto our dying feet (to recall my old drill instructor) and each do what we can to push things in the right direction.
Nothing of value has ever come easy, ever.
We have to be clear-eyed about this. He might not be exactly as strong as he was, but that is not the same as saying he is weak. He is strong enough to win, if we let him.
Nobody’s debating that he still has commanding control of the GOP. It’s just highly questionable that he’s going to gather any swing voters, and it seems very unlikely that many swing voters who voted for Biden in 2020 are going to look at multiple civil rape judgments, 91 felony charges, likely multiple convictions by November, and all the nonsense he’s likely to spew in the next ten months, and go, “yeah, I made a mistake in 2020, this should’ve been my guy all along.”
We need to figure out how to make the MSM stop letting the GOP normalize Trump, his crimes, events like J6, calling terrorists and cop killers "hostages", I could go on but this sentence is exhausted.
I understand.