Dems exploited COVID emergency to change voting laws. Trump let that happen on his watch.
Trump is absolutely responsible for listening to Fauci and Birx as well as for the pisspoor quality of his legal team. He had laughable Rudy Giulani and Jenna Ellis as main figures in his legal team
They were unprepared to use lawfare effectively to prevent the mass mail in balloting schemes in swing states.
This is why 15 days to slow the spread is single handedly the worst mistake of Trump's career.
DeSantis is able to admit he made a mistake initially with COVID and he became a bulwark for fighting against COVID authoritarianism. Meanwhile the Orange Man is praising Cuomo and keeps saying he saved million of lives with the lockdowns and his shitty Operation Warpspeed. Only one guy refuses to admit he made a mistake with COVID and that is dumbass Trump.
Also both AnOmaly and Thomas Massie saw what was coming from day 1.
Why are they not on your list? Oh right I know why, they are strongly against Trump 2024 unlike the three Trump cheerleaders you listed.
Besides the J6 baggage, both Mastriano and Majewski were endorsed by Trump, were hardline pro-lifers and often talked about 2020 election being stolen.
Candidates that were hardcore pro-life struggled in the rust belt of WI, PA and MI so Mastriano was certainly hurt a bit by aspect stance on abortion running in PA.
Hardcore pro-lifers generally did well in Ohio so Majewski was probably not hurt by his stance on abortion.
Consider the fact that every GOP secretary of state candidate in a swing state who said the 2020 election was stole lost their race. The AZ, NV, MI and WI GOP SOS candidates all lost. Suburban voters don't like "Stop the Steal" rhetoric.
Constantly saying 2020 was stolen as a candidate and being connected to J6 is clearly not beneficial seeing as GOP candidates who did either or both of these two things in swing states clearly lost.
Suburban voters unfortunately still care about it since in the 2022 midterms candidates affiliated or connected with J6 underperformed other candidates by a significant margin in suburban areas.
For evidence of this, look at both J.R. Majewski and Doug Mastriano's underperformance in even right leaning suburbs. Mastriano chartered buses for Trump supporters in PA to attend J6 in D.C. He got clobbered in the suburbs especially since his opponent Josh Shapiro made ads about Mastriano's involvement in J6. J.R. Majewski attended J6 and his opponent Marcy Kaptur nailed him with ads. He lost by a sizable margin in a seat that was supposed to be a red trending seat.
I agree that the Dems won't even need any ballot shenanigans this time around with how dumb current Trump is behaving.
2024 Trump is a mentally broken man.
Yes it still really matters who the GOP nominee is.
Trump losing 2020 doesn't mean that anyone we nominate will automatically lose in 2024.
"Muh insurmountable election fraud" is one of the most annoying things I see from some of our guys on the right. It is a defeatist ideology. The goal is to win despite the obstacles, not resign yourself to losing.
Nominating someone like DeSantis who doesn't repulse educated right of center voters in places like Pheonix, AZ, DFW, Texas, Atlanta, GA or Waukesha, WI would help us greatly in winning past any margin of fraud in key states.
Trump performs absolutely terribly in even traditionally Republican suburbs in swing states.
Dems probably won't even need any mail in ballot shenanigans if Trump is the nominee again in 2024. Trump has also accrued so much more baggage since 2020. "Stop the steal" and J6 has only made many more voters hate him.
Nominating Trump again has the risk of Dems getting a tri-fecta and being able to abolish the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, make DC and Puerto Rico into states and anything else they want.
We must strive to hold at least one branch of government, with DeSantis as the nominee, no fucking way Dems can hope to get a tri-fecta in 2024.
If most of the GOP primary electorate actually starts believing that Cuomo did better than DeSantis with regards to COVID, then this country cannot be saved. It would mean the right is just as retarded as the left.
What's the fucking point of having an election if a cult of personality around fucking Donald Trump decided that the only opposition we can put up against the left is Trump again.
Same overall trend is happening to American college educated youth with regards to unemployment.
Another four more years of Biden and the U.S. will resemble Maoist China.
I pray our GOP primary voters realize the importance of winning 2024 and they actually nominate our most electable candidate which is definitely not Donald Trump.
Trump would be serving his second term now if he just didn't go full "fifteen days to stop the spread" in March of 2020.
That day was the day he sealed his fate in the 2020 election.
The Dems exploited and utilized the COVID emergency rules to change the mail in ballot rules and flooded the swing states with mail in ballots. The Trump legal team was full of unprepared amateurs like Rudy Guiliani and Jenna Ellis who did nothing to stop these disastrous changes from going into effect.
Trump's Presidency was destroyed by his choice to capitulate to COVID alarmists: Fauci and Birx.
Trump needs to learn from these key mistakes.
The worst part is he probably doesn't even think what he did was a mistake since his 2024 campaign is boot licking sycophants like Susie Wiles, Alex Bruesewitz, Jack Posobeic, Raheem Kassam, Karoline Leavitt, Roger Stone, Sebastian Gorka and Laura Loomer.
These grifters will only affirm Trump and never challenge him when he makes disastrous mistakes.
Jordan Schachtel was consistently excellent on reporting since 2020 on ALL of the failures of covid authoritarianism.
Excellent journalism.
Greg Steube has always been a complete swampster.
Swampsters like Lindsey Graham and Greg Steube have found the cheat code to thriving in plain sight. Just continue to suck off Trump and you can freely push RINO policies because Trump will stupidly endorse you during primary season and the MAGAs will save you in the primary.
You are talking about that weasel swampster Greg Steube right?
He is still butthurt that DeSantis didn't call him when he fell off a ladder.
He went on Donald Trump Jr.'s Podcast to bash DeSantis.
At this point I am just sad that Steube's fall wasn't fatal.
Hypocrite congressman sucking Trump off daily.
Trump has a record as U.S. President. Why not run on his achievements? Instead he is running on vile falsehoods like Cuomo handled COVID better than DeSantis.
Supporting COVID authoritarianism to this day is disqualifying for a GOP frontrunner.
If the WEF pushes another pandemic, the sad truth is that Trump would lockdown again and push Operation WarpSpeed again. He has not learned from his mistakes. He hopefully will be forced to apologize and understand never to do this again by being subjected to a grueling and brutal primary.
You are the biggest retard on this forum.
Drink some bleach clown.
Texas Senate in 2024 would be a slam dunk if we had a good candidate like Beth Van Duyne running for Cruz's Senate seat.
She was mayor of Irving and is a very good House rep. It also helps that she is photogenic and well-spoken.
Instead conservatives in Texas have to struggle like 2018 to get Cruz over the finish lane.
We must flip the Senate in 2024 so that means we absolutely need Cruz to win.
Cruz needs to shut up and stop angering the rural base.
Why is Cruz doing this shit?
He is up for re-election in 2024 and he faces a tough race against Colin Alred.
The DFW suburbs despise Cruz and he cannot afford to risk a 2018 when he almost lost to Beto Rourke. Cruz thinks shilling for gays will help him. What I am afraid of is that this might just harm his rural evangelical support while not helping him.
I despise the Trump cultists like this clown as much as I hate the left.
This guy is just as deranged and stupid as the average leftist.
The left irrationally hates Trump while the Trump cultist irrationally loves Trump unconditionally.
Neither is a healthy mentality for politics.
Trump endorsed Kevin McCarthy you moron.
Donald says Cuomo handled COVID better than DeSantis
The Donald authorized Operation WarpSpeed, handed the country over to Fauci and refused to fire Fauci.
I rather take Ron DeSantis over the Donald any day of the week.
Yeah I just found out today and was sad to see this.
There are a few characters I really enjoy watching in anime who fit this description of underhanded bastards.
Ayanokoji from Classroom of the Elite. He is a master tactician who is utterly cold blooded when it comes to winning by any means necessary as his emotions were trained to be repressed in childhood. He is cold and callous and just doesn't give a fuck when it comes to going too far.
Oberstein from Legend of the Galactic Heross. This man is pure pragmatism personified. He will do what is best for the majority of his people at any cost. He will go to any extreme measures to do so.
Aizen from Bleach. This magnificent bastard is the definition of master troll and master tactician. He plans everything down to the last detail, destroys almost all of his enemies and he revels in tormenting them while doing it.
I really enjoyed his performance as Titus Pullo in HBO's Rome.
Him dying at 58 seems pretty odd.
I do wonder if this death has anything to with the COVID vax.
Well we will see in January of next year who has a shot or not.
Polls have always been a tool to influence public opinion not to measure public opinion.
The left wants to face off against Trump so they would want to show Trump constantly gaining in the primaries.
Look at how leftwing pollsters Morning Consult, Emerson and Harvard Harris polling always show extremely high numbers for Trump in the primaries compared to other polls.
Meanwhile there are some Trump affiliated pollsters on the right who want to keep their gravy training rolling and without Trump as the nominee, their grift ends example: pollsters Rasmussen and Richard Baris' Big Data Polling so they have different incentives to pump up Trump.
Fuck all of the polls. I don't trust any of them even if they have my preferred candidates up high.
Every pollster has an ulterior motive.
I don't think Vivek is a serious candidate but he is not lying when he says he was censored by Linkedin. I don't even support him.
Doesn't matter if you are a glowie trying to entrap or a dumb accelerationist, what you are trying to push is not happening.
The masses let COVID tyranny happen without a peep. They won't be rising up to do anything more than choose the least worst option between the choices available.
He is defending Cuomo's murderous COVID policies in an attempt to "own" Ron DeSantis.
Trump is a undisciplined clown.
He deserves to be kicked in the teeth for this stupid shit.