As he leaves the Presidency Donald J. Trump has the Republicans on different level’s at each other’s throats ….
Ex-President’s see their approval numbers climb….
Trump will probably be no exception…
But the interesting part with ‘The Donald’ will be his political ‘juice’….
Being a ‘star’ to earn money and attention is where I think Donald Trump wants to be…..
Not back on the political treadmill of the Presidency ….
And it appears that to get his way ?
Trump will keep up with his ridiculous rants of a stolen election win as long as the GOP voting majority will listen to him….and the media can make ratings off of it….
Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the presidential election have met with defeat in every swing state and in nearly every court where his cases have been heard. But Trump’s campaign to pressure GOP elected officials to support his baseless claims of a rigged election — and his success in convincing a majority of the party that widespread voter fraud occurred — is already showing signs ofhaving far-reaching effects that will reshape the Republican Party for years to come.
State party chairs are tearing into their governors. Elected officials are knifing one another in the back. Failed candidates are seizing on Trump’s rhetoric to claim they were also victims of voter fraud in at least a half dozen states.
As his presidency comes to a close, Trump has not only imprinted his smash-mouth style on the GOP, he has wrenched open the schism between the activist class and the elected class, according to interviews with more than a dozen Republican Party officials and strategists in the states.
“This is Hatfield and McCoy stuff, but it’s McCoy on McCoy, or Hatfield on Hatfield,” said Michael Brodkorb, a former deputy chair of the Minnesota Republican Party. “To see activists across the country really just with pitchforks and torches at the capitols … it’s just bonkers.”
In the short term, the forces unleashed by Trump threaten the party’s prospects in the Jan. 5 Georgia Senate runoff. But the infighting also stands to reshape the party for the long haul, with implications for the midterm elections and the presidential nominating contest in 2024….
image….Axios
Marco Rubio says that if Trump runs again he will be the Republican nominee in 2034.
Texas AG Ken Paxton is asking the Supreme Court to not allow the counting of the electoral votes in certain Biden won states.
Arizona’s Republican Party is running suggestions that people be willing to give up their life for Trump.
And finally Republican Congressional Leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy still refuse to recognize Biden as President Elect for the Inauguration.
Yep them Republicans just can’t wait for Trump to go!
Well Jack it’s clearly because us 4 or 5 libruls on this site just wish Trump would stay head of the GOP.
Otherwise, he’d be gone and it woykd be Larry Hogan and Mitt Romney’s party
The Texas case asks that several states votes be thrown out?
This IS a joke?
Rubio needs to stop with this….
Trump only has a month and a half …
The recognition thing is immaterial ….
“Rubio needs to stop with this?”
Yeah why don’t you go and slap his hand.
He’s being a bad boy?He doesn’t mean it,right?
Who cares if it’s “immaterial “ or is a”joke.”
The fact is that the Republican Party remains a bunch of MAGA red hat wearing bootlickers!
When exactly do Republicans quit licking this gangsters boots James.
Come on, give us a date.
When they grow some ‘balls’…..
Exactly!
So why offer all these excuses ?
It doesn’t matter if they “mean” it?Its the pure fact that they are “doing” it that is important.
Any there’s NOT a fucking thing that can be done to change their ‘no balls’….
The good thing IS they WILL vote to do a stop-gap spending bill and they WILL pass a Defenxe Bill And it looks like stimulus/virus money WILL somehow get done….
Like i said?
I don’t care what they don’t say
Just make it work….
I’m tired of Trump screwing things up…
While there is no question some GOP politicians are afraid of Trump, I think that there are a lot of Republican politicians who support Trump these days not because they are afraid of him, but because they agree with him.
Many of those who disagree with him were not renominated, either through internal pressure or by losing Republican primaries.
However, the defense appropriation bill, without the items Trump wanted on pain of veto (renaming forts and amending the Communications Decency Act) won 140 Republican votes in the House versus 40 against and 16 not voting. (See Bipartisanship thread.)
140 REPUBLICAN VOTES FOR the Defense bill without Trump’s wants ‼️
And SOME people here said something like THIS could NOT conceivably happen?
VETO PROOF????
We’ll first have to learn what will happen in the Senate (although Mitch McConnell is both the chosen GOP Senate leader and a major negotiator).
Will there be more than 20 Republican Senators willing to put the nation’s defence over the tantrums of a man who is gradually (and very unhappily) losing power?
Will there be more than 33 who won’t be willing?
That’s fine Z….
But Trump will be in the rear window in a month and half….
Still carrying on….
But NOT the President….
James, For a person who continuously makes posts in which you say nothing meaningful, you sure have gotten critical lately of others for making posts that you don’t see as relevant.
I’ll try to be less critical….
Try..
Bonus Quote of the Day
“Madness. This is madness. We have a process. Recounts are appropriate. Going to the court is appropriate. Pursuing every legal avenue is appropriate. But trying to get electors not to do what the people voted to do is madness.”
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Trump Says He’s Backing Texas Case
President Trump tweeted that his legal team will be joining the election case that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is attempting to bring to the U.S. Supreme Court against the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Said Trump: “This is the big one.”
— Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), quoted by The Hill, on Republican efforts to challenge the electoral vote.
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27 GOP Lawmakers Seek Special Counsel to Probe Election
Twenty-seven GOP representatives are urging President Trump to direct Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to investigate election irregularities, The Hill reports.
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Top Nevada Court Affirms Biden’s Win
“The Supreme Court of Nevada rejected an appeal late Tuesday from President Donald Trump’s campaign to overturn the election results in the state, affirming President-elect Joe Biden’s win in one of the battleground states that gave him overall victory,” Reuters reports.
Jeremy Roebuck
BREAKING: Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court rejects last-minute suit from Republican state House Reps led by Daryl Metcalfe to roll back certification of the vote. This leaves the Texas challenge before SCOTUS as the only active court challenge to the state’s results.
Please don’t stop being critical of me.
When I have any doubt as to my position and I receive criticism from you?
It serves to reassure me that I am indeed right!
This IS what we do….
Jack…..
It’s fine with me also…
‘Hail Mary’ Effort?
…The president has been calling Republicans, imploring them to keep fighting and more loudly proclaim the election was stolen while pressing them on what they plan to do. He spoke to Arizona GOP Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), head of the conservative Republican Study Committee, on Wednesday, and is expected to meet Thursday at the White House with several state attorneys general. Meanwhile, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer and point man in the legal fight, has been making similar calls from the hospital, where he is being treated for covid-19….
More…
Supreme’s ain’t gonna help ya Donald…
The Supreme Court turned down a request by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) to block Pennsylvania from certifying results of presidential election, according to Amy Howe….
Politicalwire
This IS one of the reasons Joe Biden was against the cry to ‘pack the court’…
He’ll lose some….
But so far the Supreme’s even with Barrett has MOT been off the hook….
What number ‘turn down’ is this for Trump & Co in the courts?????🙄
Breaking….
President-elect Joe Biden has selected Rep. Marcia Fudge to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development
(Clyburn wanted this one)
Breaking….,
Jennifer Epstein
Biden has chosen Tom Vilsack to be his agriculture secretary, reprising a role he spent all 8 years of the Obama admin in. And Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge is his pick for housing & urban development sec. They’ll both be introduced later this week in Del.
Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
Is the President aware that he cannot fire the three Supreme Court Justices he appointed?
Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
Really hope Trump has not been calling up the three Supreme Court Justices he appointed in order to goad them to pay off what he considers to be their political debt to him and reverse the 2020 election.
Correction to 2024