Is it REALLY Donald Trump’s party?
What about the young turks?
Middle or stay tribal hard Right?
2022 Mideterms?
2024 Presidential?
Republicans are mulling what direction their party will take from here, now that it is finally crystal clear President Trump will leave the White House in January.
Two big questions dominate. Firstly, what kind of role will Trump himself seek? Secondly, is the more populist and nationalist direction he has pursued the right one for the future?
“I think it is the biggest question in American politics right now. Does the party continue down the path of Trump’s worldview or does it recalibrate as a more traditional conservative party?” said GOP strategist Alex Conant, who worked for Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) 2016 presidential campaign….
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Trump in the end lost by a much more decisive margin than appeared to be the case on election night. President-elect Joe Biden defeated him by about 4 percentage points and 6 million votes nationwide. Biden’s Electoral College win was clear, even if it was decided by somewhat tighter margins.
Trump is now the first incumbent president since George H.W. Bush in 1992 to lose a reelection battle.
On the other hand, Trump received around 74 million votes, the highest-ever total for a GOP president or nominee. He outperformed the predictions of opinion polls.
Trump may be the most divisive president of modern times with the nation at large but he is by far the most popular Republican in the country with the GOP base. In the most recent Economist-YouGov poll, conducted Nov. 15-17, 91 percent of Republican voters viewed him favorably and 88 percent approved of his performance in office….
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“He absolutely has shifted the party, fundamentally, in a good way,” said Brad Blakeman, who served on the senior staff in former President George W. Bush’s White House.
Blakeman acknowledged, however, that Trump’s fiercely aggressive personal demeanor was ultimately a turn-off to many voters. The most likely next step for the party, he argued, would be a broadly Trump-like policy agenda tempered by more palatable presentation.
“The rhetoric is going to be toned way down, although the need to be aggressive in policy is not a bad thing,” Blakeman said. “Plain speaking is not a bad thing.”
Speculation is already swirling around possible 2024 GOP presidential contenders, if Trump does not run….
Everyone else–Cotton, Hawley, Haley, Pence–will be seen as “boring” by the MAGA crowd.
A lot of them will simply tune out politics altogether I think.
Not Cotton or Cruz Scott….
They will command media attention …
Meanwhile Trump contemplates holding a MAGA rally on Inauguration Day.
Cultists aka Republicans will love it.
The MAGA rally thing is just another Trump crutch against losing….
I still do NOT believe he will be a serious 2024 candidate for President…
Well if he runs he will be “serious” per se.
So the real question is ,will he run?
Too early to speculate on that;however, I think it’s safe to say he will not simply “fade away.”
He will still try to generate attention and he will probably be successful.He will certainly be regularly featured on Fox News and the other Right Wing channels.
The really interesting thing will be to see how the putative Republican contenders for 24 react.Do they subtly take him on or do they launch frontal attacks?
There are a host of ambitious would be Presidents out there and in order to move forward they either have to preempt Trump or eliminate him as a factor.
Agreed….
But a LOT of negative media IS gonna be coming his was….
Even is attention IS ATTENTION
At this point, other than Mitt Romney, Republicans CAN’T take Trump on. If they do, they will have to justify their silence for the past four years. The best they can do is complain that Trump is a loser, is now too old, etc. And at this point, even those attacks will not be easily forgotten by the GOP base because they don’t address the biggest reasons to oppose Trump.
Barring unforeseen developments (such as Trump is ill or in jail), Trump will be the clear frontrunner if he decides to run again.
Z?
I just do NOT see the young turks, like Cotton, Cruz and maybe Haley (and maybe even Hogan) just sitting around waiting for a ‘loser’ Trump knocking them out of the box….
I could be wrong…
But I do NOT think so…
No they won’t “sit around.”
As I alluded earlier,they will have to decide how to confront him, subtly or openly.
But confront him they will have to eventually as He will still be around as either a candidate or some kind of would be kingmaker.
Jack?
People have been ‘confronting ‘ Trump for the last several weeks after he lost…
He’s STILL talking crap about 2024….
I do NOT think they confront him at ALL…
They just continue to ‘do their thing’ and advance running and looking for support against a big ‘LOSER’….
Haha,
Name one Republican prominently mentioned as a presidential contender ,(save Larry Hogan who has about as much chance as I have of being the nominee),who has “confronted “ Trump?
Instead all of them have supported or acquiesced in this insane effort to steal the election.
All of them as of right now are nothing but MAGA red hat wearing bootlickers!
Of course you “agreed” with me this morning(see your comment @10:22) .
Once again just you running your mouth and contradicting yourself and oh yes in anticipation of you disputing this…
You’re a damn Liar!
Sure DID agree on the speculation and generate attention part’s…….
Yup!
Ha, ha…
Hilarious scene down in Georgia where Trump cultist RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel was bombarded with comments from a bunch of Trump cultists questioning why they should vote in the runoff since the whole thing is rigged, the voting machines are switching votes etc etc.
Remember Ga. remains a rock solid Republican State ,despite Bidens narrow victory .The Republicans control the entire election machinery, yet somehow the Democrats are “rigging” everything!
Just a bunch of dumbasses so damn full of paranoia and delusions that they will believe any garbage The gangster and his fellow would be thieves mouth off.
Maybe if they work hard enough?
GOPer’s CAN GIVE the Chuck Schumer Mitch McConnell’s majority leader job?
After Trump paid 3 million dollars for are recount in Wisconsin, Biden gained 132 votes in Milwaukee.
What’s that old saying?A fool and his money are soon parted!
Trump used others’ money I’d bet…
Word is the ‘debt king’ only put in $8,000 for the entire campaign….
He’s STILL raising money from more suckers….
The new money I believe can be used for some of his expenses….
He’s gonna keep making money off these fools…
There’s only so long that he can solicit contributions for 2020 campaign or for this Unsteal-the-Election campaign.
At some point, he’d have to at least feint at a 2024 re-run in order to collect the funds that support his whole ego-gratifying carnival show.
And to me it seems inconceivable that he would run in 2022 or 2024 for any other political office than President.
Couldn’t make as much money…..
Trump numbers keep dropping fast….
…Bloomberg reported on Thursday that Trump said he planned to run in 2024 if his attorneys could not overturn the results of the 2020 election, The Daily Beast noted. A possible 2024 bid has some support from GOP voters.
One poll from Seven Letter Insight found that 66 percent of Republican voters would support the president running in 2024. A separate Morning Consult-Politico poll found that 54 percent would vote for the president in a 2024 primary…
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Pleased read this Jack….
What percent agree that Biden WON, irregardless of if the win was right or wrong?
The Rotting of the Republican Mind
David Brooks: “In a recent Monmouth University survey, 77 percent of Trump backers said Joe Biden had won the presidential election because of fraud. Many of these same people think climate change is not real. Many of these same people believe they don’t need to listen to scientific experts on how to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.”
“We live in a country in epistemological crisis, in which much of the Republican Party has become detached from reality.”
Uh James that’s the same piece that I cited on the other thread that you responded to with your usual mumbo jumbo about Trump and blaming it all on me and the media.
Really now,Go read it!
How DAMN DUMB are you?
Good God!