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intentionally pick terrible candidates based purely on their loyalty to me and not their ability to win
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they all lose in the same election Florida republicans get a blowout red wave, and the margins on the losses closely align with my loss in 2020
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numerous easily winnable races go down in flames because the majority of voters just don't like me, and therefore I'm a drag on candidates
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red wave is completely blunted, entirely my fault, just like the losses in the GA special senate elections were entirely my fault, and what do I do in response?
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I tweet a brag post about how republican Joe O'Dea lost to a democrat, taking credit for sabotaging him and ensuring a Democrat got elected instead.
I don't care if you Trumpers downvote me. Donald Trump is at this point a clear enemy of the Republican Party. He is a loser who got lucky in 1 squeaker election in 2016 and then has been ballot box poison ever since. He lies about voter fraud when the truth all along is that he's just a loser and a bad politician. He is at this point a total liability for the Republican Party and needs to be shunned until he learns to behave as a team player. He is an electoral dead end. This election should have been a total red blowout and orange man ruined it. Elections are won by convincing the middle to vote for you, and the middle in the US hates Trump with a burning passion. They'll never switch their votes to voting for him. They wouldn't vote for him even when overrun with trannies, joggers, groomers, and inflation.
Meanwhile Ron DeSantis is the only success story of tonight, and his great campaign and political acumen resulted in a big red wave in Florida. He clearly proved that he is the future if the Right actually wants to win. DeSantis totally closed the gap among hispanic voters and took more than 50% of the hispanic vote, a historic first for a statewide republican.
Trump is at this point the best thing that ever happened to the Democrat Party. He's a proven loser who has accomplished nothing except to ensure Democrat win after Democrat win. And what's worse, is he brags about it and gloats about it because he doesn't give a slightest shit about the Right, he only cares about petty little ego shit.
Trump won 2016 because he said fuck you to the establishment, he opened the way for others, he exposed the corrupt media to a lot of people and a lot of normies woke up to how much marxism has infiltrated institutions. Making leftists go berserk do to TDS was also fun to watch, not to mention he was a great troll.
That being said I'm not sure how helpful he will be going forward. His best move should have been backing DeSantis and Abbot and making fun of Biden and Kamala.
100% agree, but I believe Trump decided to attack DeSantis tonight, unfortunately.
DeSantis and Florida were the 1 bright spot in an otherwise disappointing night of under-performance.
Honestly, I am coming around to that stance too. Once is something that can be speculated on. But a twice loser is a trend, and it pales to the absolute smackdown DeSantis committed (My man really flipped Miami-Dade?!) and his picks that were not in safe areas did poorly even if they won. I think the only one of his picks that did well was Vance, and there was a certain someone missing when Vance was saying his thank you's.
The random petty attacks on others who share his ideology is also something that is starting to turn me off. I liked his disrespect toward Dems and the Media, but he has been turning those guns rightward for strange reasons way too often now. And he is now officially at the point of tactics getting in the way of strategy, and I will not stand for it.
My one fear is that now, the McConnell types are going to use this to try and push for a "We need to go back to the before-Trump times", even though that is not something that would work either, and would be a great way to screw themselves over.
Although I must say: Last nights results back up my "Trump as Nixon, Biden as Carter, DeSantis as Reagan" theory.
McConnell literally sabotaged several races by cutting/refusing funding from the GOP superpac
Don’t get it twisted. I am not letting McConnell off the hook either. Just that Trump deserves a not-insignificant amount of the blame as well, and perhaps it is time to move onto DeSantis. Since he is effectively “Trump with a filter”, as well as having shown an ability to wield executive power to actually enforce his will
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Honestly, I dont get all of the dooming happening in here. The results, while mediocre, are nowhere near as bad as a lot of the goons on here say it is.
As for Trump: I wanted him to run again in 2024. But I have long been an advocate of not letting the Perfect be the enemy of Good when it comes to politics, so I will advocate for a RINO over a Dem in almost all cases (outside of extreme cases like Cheney or Murkowski, where an alternative can be found). But now, Trump himself if allowing that very issue to happen, as he demands those who are loyal to him rather than those who can do work.
Therefore, its time to thank him for his absolutely brazen kamikaze run to kill the political legacies of numerous different dynasties, as well as expose who we are up against. But now we need someone who can take that information and run with it. And it data is increasingly showing that is DeSantis.
I am just getting sick of the blackpilled among us. Maybe its because I diversified my news feed and info intake, but all of the data I see across the board is moving in our direction. It will just take more time.
Your raytheon check is the mail.
This reads like the lowest effort Correct the Record shill post from 2016. "But seriously guys, we can't let him have access to nuclear codes".
Also please forget cocaine turtle Mitch fucking with funding. He dindu nuffin, he a gud boy
Trump was not on the ballot. I have no idea why this happened, but abortion seems the likely culprit. Interestingly, Trump had the right instincts about that.
How come Trump - supposedly - dragged people down in Wisconsin but not Florida? It makes little sense.
Democrats ran against Trump
The biggest losers were hand-picked by Trump in primaries, and won because he personally endorsed them over better candidates, and these same candidates swore allegiance to Trump quite openly.
Democrats even threw millions of dollars of their own money to Trumper candidates in the hopes of having them win R primaries, knowing that they'd be weak and easy to beat in the general.
"Election denial" became a Trumper litmus test, and the Democrats made attacking claims the 2020 election was stolen their "closing argument" this past week.
Nope, if it was, we would not have seen the red surge in polling in Sept/Oct. We also know what issues mattered from polling, and abortion, while it spiked briefly in the summer, fell off dramatically by October, and went way down the list of voter priorities. Only about 30% of people cared about abortion, and that only represents the "always blue" Democrat faithful. Among swing voters, inflation and crime were their top issues.
Because everyone knows DeSantis is Trump's rival, and Trump stayed far away from the Florida races.
Trump had no impact in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin was down to incumbent effect. The interesting takeaways from the state was that Kenosha county and adjacent Racine county flipped from safe blue to mild red, while turnout in the Madison metro was very high.
The difference between the performance in Governor vs Senate was in the rural counties, where there's a general sense that the Evers is doing okay (better than Michigan anyway).
Johnson almost lost to a Defund the Police crazy (and the race still has not been called for him), even though he was a 2-term incumbent.
Could it be GOP complacency?
According to Cruz Republicans cut funding to several winnable races for absolutely no reason
The establishment GOP also has TDS.
Johnson outperformed Michels by something like 70k votes.
I've been looking over the historical numbers. The dynamics in Wisconsin were that Madison area had high turnout for an off year (almost certainly abortion effect) but that it still wasn't enough to outvote the rest of the state being red. But in the Governor race, it was that Michels simply ran behind Johnson in about every county. A few hundred here, a few hundred there, and it adds up.
Yeah, sure, but you can't explain dismal Republican performance by citing incumbency.
That makes sense.
I think that happened in a lot of places. Here in my state of Kansas, Republicans did extremely well in the State House, Moran absolutely skated to reelection in the Senate(over 60% of the vote), and the Republicans won every Executive office up for election, save perhaps Governor. Hell, Kobach managed to win AG, which was a real surprise for me. But if Kelly remains governor, I am not going to be totally surprised.
She managed to not do anything aggressively Left-Wing and avoided making many of the mistakes other Dem governors did during Covid (whether because she knew it wouldnt fly or because she actually didnt want to is unclear), and there was no real enthusiasm for Schmidt. So combine that and you get her squeaking out a win. in a damn near 50/50 heat, with the current chance she may still lose, barely. And once again will be kept in check by the overwhelming R majority in the State and the Executive.
Officially, he was not on the ballot. That said, virtually every D candidate ran ads saying "Oh no! Trumpers are coming to destroy everything!" and that's all the media would talk about. They did everything in their power to put Trump on the ballot. Though, I will agree abortion probably played a role too.
Question is if it had an effect. I don't think so. Trump purposefully kept himself in the background. And just looking at the exit polls, I see that those who hate both Trump and Biden voted GOP.
Abortion was a big issue and I guess the "democracy is on the ballot" motivated the democrats. Every election is the most important, every election "democracy is on the ballot" but it seems to still be working.
CNN was bemoaning that "democracy" (i.e., CNN telling you what to do and believe) was not a top 5 issue for voters.
It makes little sense, but the least unlikely scenario is that it was abortion (followed by fraud, and I'm not a 'MASSIVE FRAUD!!!!' kinda guy).
I hope that the democracy is on the line was not an issue but it kind of ties in to the republicans are evil narrative, it is getting tiresome.
The left controlling the media means it is always going to be an uphill battle.
Didn't you just attack me for saying this?
No, I attack you for your insane rants about women.
But abortion voters and women are a circle in the Venn Diagram. The overlap is 100%.
Nobody who is not female votes according to their views on abortion.
Are you saying I cannot produce one person who voted on abortion who was not female?
Hmm, are you going to use "trans men" as a technicality?
Nope, they are women and female.
But there are many men who strongly support abortion, as I do (though you were close to figuring out my real gender a while back).
Why? Because they don't want to be on the hook for some stupid kid. That said, obviously after 15 weeks it needs to be restricted.
You are being honest. I thought the same thing and just learned he was happy about Republican loss in CO. A local talk show guy where I live said that the left will crawl over broken glass to vote against Trump. He has had his day in the sun but I hope he doesn’t run again. Time to move on. If he is the nominee I’ll have to vote for him but I hope he isn’t
O ye of little faith.
2016 Trump was the way for Republicans to go. Unfortunately, Trump himself went away from that. He deserves to stall. Also unfortunately, Republicans are going to probably move even further into a neoliberal direction while blaming Trump's failures on the 2016 version instead of the 2018-present version of him.