Donald Trump will be passe’ as President less than 75 days ….
But for those in the party?……
They ain’t waiting…
Likely Republican candidates are about to descend on Georgia to campaign in a pair of Senate runoffs that will determine control of the chamber. They’re taking to Fox News to defend Trump’s refusal to concede. The Republican National Committee is bracing for a possible fight over its chairmanship. And Donald Trump Jr. is aggressively staking out a role as a future GOP powerbroker.
Party officials, meanwhile, are grappling with how to keep intact the massive political infrastructure that Trump helped assemble with him on his way out of the White House.
While Trump has been defeated, he has not been vanquished. After receiving the second-highest popular vote total in history, and enjoying a core of supporters numbering tens of millions strong, he is positioned to wield outsized power over where the GOP goes from here. Anyone who wants to run in 2024 will have a hard time winning the nomination against his opposition.
“Trump is leaving office but he has changed the political DNA of the party for the foreseeable future,” said GOP strategist Ken Spain, a former top National Republican Congressional Committee official. “Presidential candidates and congressional leaders will continue to ally themselves with the ascendant blue-collar wing of the GOP.”
Yet Trump’s loss also means the party will need to find a way to distinguish itself from a president who turned off a majority of voters.
The Georgia races give 2024 GOP aspirants an immediate platform to showcase what they can do for the party. Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton is expected to make multiple trips to the state, where Georgia Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are facing Jan. 5 runoffs. If both lose, Democrats would assume control of the Senate….
Lyin Ted Cruz was on Hannity the other night claiming that Republican election observers were thrown out of precincts.
It was a bald faced lie .Even Fox News said it wasn’t true but the two bit Liar said it anyway.
Is that what you’re talking about by “moving forward?”
Ted Cruz should remember that Trump accused him of fraud when he won the 2016 Iowa Caucus and demanded a new election.
He also said Cruz’s dad was involved in killing JFK.
CG, I thought these Republicans were going to distance themselves from Trump after his loss?
I never said “all.”
The “average Republican voter” seems to have accepted the results. Cultists take some time to deprogram.
I am sure Susan Collins, who has congratulated Biden will have a nice Thanksgiving. She is likely to have gained much in influence in her next term.
U are talking about the regular loud mouthed wingnuts of the right….
Most of the others ARE keeping quiet…
We have seen zero evidence of any sort of civil unrest among Trumpists. No widescale demonstrations of any kind There are even videos of guys taking down their Trump flags and saying, “I am sorry he lost but I respect the process and the country,” Remember the adage about how Republicans “fall in line”
If we reach the point where Trump Tweets and asks people to take to the streets, we will have to see what happens, but I think it would be pretty much a dud.
The supporters I know are all saying it was rigged. They are still in denial.
So, I take it some interesting discussions amongst your family over the Holidays…
Not in my immediate family. Who is all I’m going to see this year. In fact I think I pulled a couple over to my side.
Since Missouri seems to be redder than ever, are you any more tempted to move to Illinois?
You can become a Sox fan and reunite with Tony LaRussa.
Trump’s margin shrank by 5 points in Missouri from 2016.
However Parson won by the largest margin of a Republican gubernatorial candidate in 32 years so yeah, it’s pretty red.
But I’m happy in my blue bubble. As are my friends in Nashville, New Orleans, amd to a lesser degree Austin. As Texas is slowly getting ready to flip as Georgia and Arizona did this year
CG?
All this stuff about the vote is just to entertain Donald J Trump….
EVERYBODY KNOWS he lost….
The Emperor has no clothes?
Of course theoretically he has the right to his “day in court” but nobody with a brain in their head is expecting anything to change… in multiple places.
The craziest lingerers think the state legislatures in places like Wisconsin and Michigan are going to send their own Electors.
At least I have not heard anyone call for the UN to get involved or overturn it as was said right after the 2004 election by some.
Again CG?
This IS Trump trying to bend reality…
IT DID NOT WORK….
On Jan 20th Joe Biden will assume the Presidency….
The nightmare will be over
U know CG?
Trump is actually a sore losing crybaby…
The guy can’t ‘man up’….
He says he might have to leave the country cause he lost?
Will he get all this people to question ‘his’ votes in certain states while accepting ‘his’ votes in other states?
Really?
This is who Trump is….
A fake….