Elder has decent conservative credentials and I actually like him.
Still I do think him running for CA governor during the CA recall fucked up the entire recall.
The CA GOP had a shot to atleast give Newsom a scare but once Elder joined the race, for some fucking reason Elder talked about him having the potential of replacing Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat with a conservative and that one statement spooked all of the soft Newsom disapprovers to eventually getting behind Newsom. That statement was a disaster and Elder was too earnest to avoid making that statement. He is sadly too nice.
Newsom ended up winning the recall by the same margin he won his first Gov election by. The recall ended up boosting Newsom's status.
I doubt Elder even makes the Presidential debate stage since from what I heard from local GOP members, the RNC this time will be instituting a polling requirement of something like atleast getting 5 percent to make the main debate stage.
My guess is that the only candidates who will poll well enough to even be on that main stage are Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and maybe Mike Pence if he actually runs.
Larry Elder is not going to make the main debate cutoff if the cutoff is 5 percent. If the cutoff is like the 2016 cutoff of one percent he will get in.
Yep I also would love to see Tim Scott and Nikki Haley both get blasted for their support of BLM.
Nikki Haley was dumb enough to run for President and somehow still not delete her stupid virtue signalling tweet signifying support for Bubba Wallace during the noose hoax.
Tim Scott is cringe and supports BLM but he is nowhere near as malicious or as much of a neocon as Nikki.
Haley needs to be humiliated so much that she starts to regret even running for POTUS in the first place.
My hypothesis is that how DeSantis will respond to this BLM issue will eventually decide Trump's response.
If DeSantis makes a strong argument against BLM ideology, I would not be surprised to see Trump take the opposite position just out of reflexive spite.
For some damn reason, Trump has decided to take the opposite position to DeSantis on various things recently.
Whether it be supporting abortion restrictions, the fight against Disney's influence in Florida, the Budweiser boycott over trans ideology or just admitting COVID lockdowns were a mistake, Trump has decided to take the complete opposite position as a contrast to DeSantis.
I don't think running in the GOP primaries with these positions helps Trump at all.
In 2016 primaries, it was a great move for Trump to take the counter position against GOP orthodoxy with regards to free trade, entitlement cuts and the Iraq War. Trumps positions then appealed both to the GOP base and the general electorate.
This time around Trump is dangerously taking an outright left wing position on fighting woke companies, past COVID response and abortion restrictions.
The GOP base hates woke corporations, hates COVID restrictions and is pro-life.
Trump's current positions on these issues are toxic to the GOP base and they won't help Trump in the general electorate either because we know by now that any position taken by Trump is demonized by the majority of the general electorate thanks to their personal disdain for him.
Still I do think him running for CA governor during the CA recall fucked up the entire recall.
The recall was as stolen as the 2020 presidential election, if not worse because it was concentrated in the one state that has "fortification" down pat more than any other.
I'm talking 1000%+ voter turnout being registered in certain counties, Republican voters being told they had already voted, voting machines breaking down but only in red districts, every stop was pulled out to keep that megalomaniac in power.
Also, even with the above, it was a lot closer than you would think, considering the vengeful and vindictive actions Gruesome Newsome took immediately after avoiding being recalled, because how dare the plebs want to get rid of him.
Source: Used to live there, but by God's grace managed to finally GTFO after living there all my life
Elder has decent conservative credentials and I actually like him.
Still I do think him running for CA governor during the CA recall fucked up the entire recall.
The CA GOP had a shot to atleast give Newsom a scare but once Elder joined the race, for some fucking reason Elder talked about him having the potential of replacing Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat with a conservative and that one statement spooked all of the soft Newsom disapprovers to eventually getting behind Newsom. That statement was a disaster and Elder was too earnest to avoid making that statement. He is sadly too nice.
Newsom ended up winning the recall by the same margin he won his first Gov election by. The recall ended up boosting Newsom's status.
I doubt Elder even makes the Presidential debate stage since from what I heard from local GOP members, the RNC this time will be instituting a polling requirement of something like atleast getting 5 percent to make the main debate stage.
My guess is that the only candidates who will poll well enough to even be on that main stage are Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and maybe Mike Pence if he actually runs.
Larry Elder is not going to make the main debate cutoff if the cutoff is 5 percent. If the cutoff is like the 2016 cutoff of one percent he will get in.
California will never have a non-Democrat gov again, 'cause the party machine will just cheat.
Non-uniparty gov.* Politicians are constantly making backroom deals, so they might put a RINO governor in again just for appearances sake.
I hope Scott and Haley do get on stage and the issue of BLM gets brought up. That will be interesting.
Yep I also would love to see Tim Scott and Nikki Haley both get blasted for their support of BLM.
Nikki Haley was dumb enough to run for President and somehow still not delete her stupid virtue signalling tweet signifying support for Bubba Wallace during the noose hoax.
Tim Scott is cringe and supports BLM but he is nowhere near as malicious or as much of a neocon as Nikki.
Haley needs to be humiliated so much that she starts to regret even running for POTUS in the first place.
Yep, and it will test Trump and DeSantis on the issue as well, to gauge their commitment to opposing it.
I think 2024 primaries will be very interesting.
My hypothesis is that how DeSantis will respond to this BLM issue will eventually decide Trump's response.
If DeSantis makes a strong argument against BLM ideology, I would not be surprised to see Trump take the opposite position just out of reflexive spite.
For some damn reason, Trump has decided to take the opposite position to DeSantis on various things recently.
Whether it be supporting abortion restrictions, the fight against Disney's influence in Florida, the Budweiser boycott over trans ideology or just admitting COVID lockdowns were a mistake, Trump has decided to take the complete opposite position as a contrast to DeSantis.
I don't think running in the GOP primaries with these positions helps Trump at all.
In 2016 primaries, it was a great move for Trump to take the counter position against GOP orthodoxy with regards to free trade, entitlement cuts and the Iraq War. Trumps positions then appealed both to the GOP base and the general electorate.
This time around Trump is dangerously taking an outright left wing position on fighting woke companies, past COVID response and abortion restrictions.
The GOP base hates woke corporations, hates COVID restrictions and is pro-life.
Trump's current positions on these issues are toxic to the GOP base and they won't help Trump in the general electorate either because we know by now that any position taken by Trump is demonized by the majority of the general electorate thanks to their personal disdain for him.
They were pro BLM? I felt they didn’t condemn them enough and tried to straddle the fence
Nikki Haley went full pro BLM during the George Floyd incident and the Bubba Wallace noose hoax.
Tim Scott straddled the fence but he helped push terrible legislation like the First Step Act through the Senate in 2018.
Trump's hiring of Brooke Rollins was just a disaster. Rollins is responsible for that downright woke bill that has increased the general crime rate.
I’m wondering if he is hoping for a cabinet position
Maybe he wants a cabinet position or maybe he just wants to market his work to a larger audience.
Hard to guess what he really wants.
The recall was as stolen as the 2020 presidential election, if not worse because it was concentrated in the one state that has "fortification" down pat more than any other.
I'm talking 1000%+ voter turnout being registered in certain counties, Republican voters being told they had already voted, voting machines breaking down but only in red districts, every stop was pulled out to keep that megalomaniac in power.
Also, even with the above, it was a lot closer than you would think, considering the vengeful and vindictive actions Gruesome Newsome took immediately after avoiding being recalled, because how dare the plebs want to get rid of him.
Source: Used to live there, but by God's grace managed to finally GTFO after living there all my life