Things ain’t going too good for him right now….
And more he talks?
The worst it gets ….
He’s gonna talk a LOT next week….
And try to be positive?
The Virus?…
The Economy?…
Racism.?…
His circle of arrested friends?…
The Post Office?
Hmmmm?
“The big contrast you’ll see between the Democrats’ doom-and-gloom, Donald Trump-obsessed convention will be a convention focused on real people, their stories, how the policies of the Trump administration have lifted their lives, and then an aspirational vision toward the next four years,” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in an interview Saturday.
Yet the inclusion of some speakers who gained notoriety by inflaming culture wars — coupled with Trump’s preoccupation with personal grievances, escalating warnings of a “rigged election,” demonization of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and predilection for dark imagery — threatens to inspire a jarringly contrary message.
“A convention is a bit of a Rorschach test of where the party is at any given moment. America will see, this is how the Republican Party wants to present itself,” said Russ Schriefer, a Republican strategist who orchestrated the party’s 2012 convention nominating Mitt Romney for president.
The party intends to present itself entirely in Trump’s own image, and the stakes for him could hardly be higher.
“I think we’re going to see something that is going to be very uplifting and positive, that’s what I’d like it to be,” Trump said Saturday on Fox News’s “Next Revolution.”….
A new CBS poll shows that only 35% of Americans think the country is better off than it was 4 years ago 75% of Republicans do.
The shrinking GOP is more out of touch than ever.
Scott?
The big guy has NOT made America Better?????🙄
That same poll also shows that 93% of Republicans Intend to vote for Trump.
In other words, despite the constant claims that continue to be made here?
Republican support for Trump remains pretty much where it’s been the past four years.l
And Trump will brag on Twitter likeky about the 83% support he has among Republicans. And Trump is either ignorant or willfully ignorant of the fact that fewer Americans are iden6ltifying as Republicans. Especially in the suburbs.
But Trump’s concern is how he is doing among Republicans. Because despite what we heard om here from CG and continue to hear from james–Trump is the ultimate Republican.
93% support should say
He IS the party right now….
I agree with that….
Even if things are fraying around the edges…
Getting what the want is more important to Republicans than ethics, fairness, morality and honesty combined. That is who they are.
This morning, both John Dickerson of CBS and Scott Walker, the former Republican governor of Wisconsin, made the same point — that the great bulk of Republicans love Trump, regardless of his personal qualities, because he has achieved or advanced almost all of their most cherished objectives: for example, stacking the Federal courts with pro-life conservatives, cutting taxes for the more prosperous, slashing regulations and reducing immigration.
Not every Republican likes every Tweet, quirk, tantrum or vendetta that comes from the President, but they sure like what he’s done so far and what they expect him to do in a second term.
What John Dickerson said on CBS Sunday Morning today [basically what Jack has been saying for a while]
Donald Trump was not always a Republican. Even when he was a candidate for the party’s nomination in 2016 he threatened to leave the party. But this week as he glides into his re-nomination, he has remade the GOP as thoroughly as if it were a high-rise building with his name on it.
It’s a remarkable ascendancy for a man who had never run for office or held public office, but whose experience in the cut-and-thrust of the New York real estate business gave him an instinct for wielding power.
Those who have opposed him in his party are no longer in office. Those who might offer an astringent word take care to leaven it with a bouquet of compliments. Senators Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, once primary campaign rivals, are now vocal defenders. [As Graham said on “Face the Nation” last September, “I’m not fine with this president being impeached based on hearsay.”]
Bill Clinton once said Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line. But Republican conventions were not always placid. In 1952 even war hero Dwight Eisenhower had to shoulder his way into the party in a brutal convention fight with Senator Robert Taft.
In 1976, Ronald Reagan almost took the nomination away from sitting President Gerald Ford. When Reagan spoke at Ford’s convention, a delegate was heard to sigh, “We’ve nominated the wrong man.”
The reason Donald Trump has such a lock on things is that he has delivered for the Republican Party on every important issue its members care about. He has cut taxes. He has slashed regulations. He has increased defense spending. He has been a vocal supporter of limiting abortion rights, and promoted the maximalist interpretation of the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms. He has elevated two Supreme Court Justices and hundreds of conservative lower court judges who will remake the judiciary for more than a generation.
Where the Republican Party has different views from Donald Trump – on trade, fiscal restraint and comprehensive immigration reform – he has reversed party orthodoxy to his way of thinking. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said, “I’m not sure he’s a conservative, but he’s the most effective anti-liberal in my lifetime.”….
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rnc-2020-unconventional-wisdom-regarding-an-unconventional-president/
And, in the same vein, what ex-Gov. Scott Walker said this morning on Meet the Press:
CHUCK TODD:
You know, one thing I don’t know if we’re going to have this week that I think in a convention that had been in person we would have, which is a debate about where’s the Republican Party headed. And I say this in part because of your book, Jerry Seib, and in part because I have you on here, Scott Walker. I want to remind folks what you said, Scott Walker, when you dropped out of the presidential race four years ago. And I want to butt it with something Jerry Seib wrote about it in his book. I think they’re connected. Take a listen.
[BEGIN TAPE]
SCOTT WALKER:
Today, I believe that I’m being called to lead by helping to clear the field in this race so that a positive conservative message can rise to the top of the field. I encourage other Republican presidential candidates to consider doing the same so that the voters can focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive conservative alternative to the current frontrunner.
[END TAPE]
CHUCK TODD:
And, Scott Walker, this is what Jerry Seib writes: “By 2016, conservatives were united more by what they were against — progressives and liberals — than what they were for. The door to a populist uprising had been swung open, and Donald Trump walked through it.” I’m curious if you agree with Jerry Seib’s analysis there, one; and, two, how you have evolved from being essentially anti-Trump to supportive of Trump.
SCOTT WALKER:
Well, five years ago, I didn’t know if Donald Trump would actually govern as a conservative. I think the record’s pretty clear. This president and his team put through one of the largest tax cuts in American history. They’re clearly the most pro-life administration ever. They’ve put forward excellent picks, excellent nominees for the federal judiciary. And their regulatory reforms that help small businesses and other employers have actually brought about unprecedented economic growth, to the point where we before the pandemic had the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years. I look at that, and I say: You know what? Washington is filled with politicians who say all the right things and don’t get squat done. This president may not always talk and tweet the way that I do, but in the end, he actually gets things done. And I think here in the Midwest, we want to have people who we don’t just talk but do. I’ll take a doer over a talker any day of the week.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-august-23-2020-n1237798
Dave,
I know you answered this before, but I forgot your answer. If I recall correctly, you have not registered to vote. Was it because you are not an American citizen? If not, why not become one so you can vote?
Now is not the time to fill out long questionnaires for Donald Trump’s, Steve Miller’s and Chad Wolf’s Immigration system that seeks any possible excuse to deny or deport.
I’m waiting for a return to normal.
Anyway, my vote would make little difference to Rhode Island’s four electoral votes.
So the GOP’s voting suppression efforts were Essentially effective in suppressing your vote?
Come Nov 3rd we’ll ALL be there for Joe Biden and the Democrats…
That’s irrelevant. You need to be counted. There was ample time, years, to become a citizen.