TDS is all you guys ever say to anyone who even criticizes Trump.
It is a meaningless slur at this point.
Having a strong preference for DeSantis over Trump 2024 is not cultism.
I am willing to support the GOP nominee in 2024 regardless of who it is.
I don't see the OnlyTrumpers doing that.
Jesse Kelly has the same take as me on Vivek.
Kelly is a neutral observer and hasn't chosen who to back in the 2024 primary.
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1653510295652909064?cxt=HHwWkIC-zc22ufItAAAA
This article is about Vivek Ramaswamy and his past.
It is not about anyone else.
None of this slander towards me changes the fact that Vivek is a grifter who was literally funded by Soros and paid money to remove that info from Wikipedia.
You can't change the facts so you attack and try to slander me.
A Trump cultist calling someone who prefers DeSantis for 2024 a cultist? What a surprise!
Ramaswamy is running a futile campaign just to make some money and run constant support for Trump against DeSantis.
As someone who is DeSantis 2024, I personally detest him and what he is doing.
His candidacy is a grift and the value he adds to the national conversation is very minimal.
I agree that affirmative action needs to be gutted at all levels especially the executive level.
I don't agree with Jack Posobeic on 2024 politics since he is a very zealous Trump acolyte but his nickname for Vivek is very accurate: Martin Luther Cringe.
Ramaswamy is a smarmy liberal who quotes MLK Jr. and thinks he is the smartest guy in the room.
I find him very insufferable.
He is running as a hatchet man for Trump.
He spends most of his time attacking Ron DeSantis.
Vivek laughably claimed he is the first person in politics to suggest auditing the fed.
He seems to be forgetting the legendary Ron Paul.
Overall I am glad to see Soros fellow Vivek Ramaswamy be completely ashamed on the national stage.
Vivek is a shameless grifter who likely won't even make it to the primary debate stage.
You are ignoring how the state has electorally trended from 2016 to 2020 and how the Senate race trended from 2012 to 2018.
The margins have substantially narrowed for Trump and Cruz. The two men have only acquired more baggage since their last election. Trump has J6 and Stop the Steal which hurts him dearly in the suburbs and Cruz has the Cancun Cruz debacle which hurts him in the suburbs.
There are legitimate reasons to be worried about this.
Suburban voters here care about the border somewhat but they absolutely don't like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz as individuals.
People DON'T always vote on policy but sometimes on personal dislike.
Texas is a likely red state for any Republican that is not Trump or Cruz.
Trump and Cruz are the weakest performing Republicans in the last 30+ years.
Having them both on the ballot at the same time in 2024 is just a nightmare waiting to happen.
I have given you my reasons and the election data to support this.
I don't know why you guys try to say only fraud is the reason he lost 2020.
I always acknowledge mail in ballot laws being changed and the elections being flooded with mail in ballots fucked him but nothing has changed on that front for 2024.
The fact remains there are other factors that also fucked him in 2020.
Trump absolutely lost support with a subset of White men from 2016 to 2020: White men with a bachelor's degree.
Two of my friends are this demographic.
We all voted for Trump in 2016 and they didn't vote for anyone for President in 2020 because they didn't like him being weak on the BLM riots and pushing the Platinum Plan. I voted again for Trump in 2020 and tried getting them to vote Trump again in 2020 but no dice.
In 2024, they told me they are not voting at all if the race is Biden vs Trump.
They are not unicorns, a lot of people are sick of choosing between two angry old men.
None of what you said changes the point I am making.
This one poll is nowhere close to the only evidence I am providing to support my argument.
My argument is that Trump 2024 and Cruz for Senate on the ballot at the same time would be the weakest GOP ticket in Texas in the last 40 years.
Look at Trump's margin of victory in 2016 then in 2020.
He won by about 9 points in 2016 and only by 5.5 points in 2020. Trump has only acquired more baggage since 2020.
Look at Cruz's margin in 2018. He barely won by a margin of about 3 points.
Since then the Dems have painted Ted as Cancun Cruz for fleeing Texas during the Winter storm of 2021.
Trump on the topline absolutely will harm Cruz.
We absolutely need to hold Cruz's Senate seat to prevent a Dem tri-fecta.
Trump as the 2024 nominee is playing a dangerous game in Texas.
As someone who lives in a suburban area in Texas, Trump and Cruz together is the most toxic ticket here.
If these two men are on the ballot at the same time and we are lucky enough that they both win Texas in 2024, it will be by the skin of their teeth.
Go look at this pollster's results in 2020 and 2022.
They were the most accurate.
https://twitter.com/GiancarloSopo/status/1653764105646358529
You are trying to look at one element of the cross tabs to try to discredit this. Cross-tabs often have really bizarre findings.
As someone who lives in a right leaning Texas suburb in the DFW area, I have seen with my own eyes that even right leaning suburban voters in Texas just don't like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
If Trump is the nominee, these two men will be on the ballot at the same time!
Texas suburban voters will vote for the Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick types but just not Trump and Cruz.
There is a reason why Trump was the first GOP Presidential nominee to lose Tarrant County in 2020 and Cruz was the first GOP senator to lose Tarrant County in 2018.
Trump and Cruz on the ballot at the same time in Texas is a nightmare waiting to happen.
Giancarlo Sopo worked for Trump's 2020 campaign as his rapid response director for Hispanic outreach.
He was part of the team that made this catchy ad for the Trump 2020 campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZwOfaTMBc
Sopo knows what he is talking about.
The problem is that Trump alienates suburbs and supercharges Dem turnout much more than he brings out the working class vote.
The GOP can potentially win with reduced Dem turnout and reduced working class turnout but they have no fucking chance of winning with Trump on the ballot because he hyper-accelerates suburban voters trending Democrat.
There is no path to the White House when you get annihilated in swing state suburbs.
For every working class voter he brings out, he brings out atleast two otherwise disaffected Democrats to vote against him and also alienates one more suburban voter against him.
Trump will never set foot again in the White House.
Trump is responsible for the successful election of the most Democrats in swing state Gubernatorial, House, Senate seats since fucking Barry Goldwater.
Trump had some good policy ideas but through association with him, he has made even those policies less popular.
The results of the 2018, 2020 and 2022 elections shows us how self-destructive Donald Trump has been with regards to advancing right wing policies.
He is the Democrat's Golden Goose.
You don't think the guy selling NFTs is embarrassing?
I am tired of you guys falsely calling any criticism of Trump as muh establishment.
The reality is that Trump has become the GOP establishment.
He saved Ronna McDaniel from being replaced by Harmeet Dhillon. He is also responsible for Kevin McCarthy becoming Speaker.
Your comments about 2020 are irrelevant because Trump ultimately lost 2020 regardless of how it happened. He was unable to secure the re-election win even as an incumbent. Biden is sitting in the White House right now. Nothing you say changes that cold hard reality.
Now running as a challenger in 2024 Trump has accrued much more baggage since 2020 with J6 and stop the steal.
He has no path to victory in the general election in 2024. It is painfully obvious that he will never set foot in the White House again.
I feel the same way about this horror.
Trump is the Golden Goose for the Dems.
Running against him is a great gift for the Dems.
He allows even far left Dems to make constant gains in the suburbs by being able to run on the simple platform of just not being Donald Trump.
Day by day I am becoming more disappointed in the segments of the GOP base who are deluding themselves and thinking that Trump is popular with the general electorate. There are venereal diseases that are more popular with the general electorate than Donald Trump.
Too many people in the GOP base sadly live in an imaginary world where they think election fraud is the only thing preventing Trump from winning easily.
I have wondered the same thing.
Would a Dem plant do ANYTHING differently than what Trump did?
He has made the Republican brand absolutely toxic in suburbs, he has ensured that Dems have more power than ever before in modern history and he refuses to stop getting involved in the primaries and he has a knack for somehow endorsing the least electable candidate in every fucking state.
Nominating Trump in 2016 was a deal with the devil for all sane conservatives. We won 2016 but at what cost?
We lost the House in 2018, We lost the Presidency, the House and the Senate in 2020 and we lost the Senate again in 2022. We are on track to be destroyed again in 2024 if the base is foolish enough to nominate Trump again.
Colin Allred is announcing his run against Ted Cruz in the next two weeks.
Allred will be a formidable opponent. Cruz will be in the fight of his life if Trump is at the top of the ticket in 2024.
I pray Cruz survives and keeps his seat in 2024 because we cannot afford to lose it.
We can flip WV Senate easily with Gov Jim Justice running against Manchin.
Ohio Senate should be a doable flip as long as clown Bernie Moreno is not the nominee. Steve Daines who is in charge of running the National Republican Senate Conference is working hard to ensure Trump doesn't fuck us and prevent Bernie Moreno being endorsed by Trump.
Montana Senate is winnable as long as Ryan Zinke and Matt Rosendale are not the nominees. Zinke is probably not running and Trump won't be endorsing Rosendale since the Club for Growth is backing Rosendale. Trump is currently majorly pissed of at the Club for Growth.
Our best chances of preventing the Dems from having a tri-fecta in 2024 is winning WV and MT/OH senate and keeping TX senate.
Trump and Cruz on the ballot at the same time would be the worst possible ticket for the Texas suburbs. I pray that Trump can be stopped in the primaries.
They don't need to cheat to crush a third party Trump run.
Have you seen what reaction the word MAGA elicits in the average suburban voter?
Donald Trump has made the word MAGA so toxic that even when suburbanites agree with the Republican policies they don't vote for the Republican because they despise Trump and anyone affiliated with him with a burning passion.
People here are delusional when they say stupid shit like MAGA or bust.
I am a right wing populist who understands we need a rebranding. Saying MAGA automatically turns off so many people. We need a new slogan and a new candidate.
Trump has learned nothing from his mistakes and he has turned into a NFT selling guy who praises Newsom and Cuomo while attacking DeSantis and Youngkin.
The man is a fucking joke.
I don't understand how you Trump 2024 guys don't see that Trump is the biggest embarrassment imaginable these days.
The man is attending CNN townhalls while crying about having a primary debate at the Reagan Center
He is making statements that New York handled COVID better than Florida.
I am ashamed that I even voted for this clown twice.
Trump would get blown the fuck out like Barry Goldwater in a general election if he started his own party of MAGA grifters.
This coming from the Trump 2024 shills like you who cannot criticize DeSantis without calling him a RINO or slandering him with ties to Jeb Bush and Paul Ryan that don't even exist.
I have never seen a criticism of DeSantis that doesn't try this bullshit.
Don and Ron are both huge Zionists and you cannot wish it away.
These scumbags are finally ending these unscientific and worthless mandates.
Meanwhile I have seen you cheerleading Zion Don.
You are going to get philosemitism with either Don or Ron
It is the constant criticism of DeSantis paired with the sheer lack of any criticism of Trump from Vivek Ramaswamy that makes it easy to see who he is a hatchet man for.
Ain't no conspiracy here.
It is blatantly transparent.