Well….
Well…..
With all the recent media reports about DeSantis & Co. going to Iowa ….
And drop off of money flowing to the Donald Trump coffers?
What would you expect?
The leader of the band see’s his audience splinting ….
And he DOES MISS the attention….
He’s gonna try just about ANYTHING to get attention back on him….
And freeze people out…
One could see this simply not working for the extent the ex-President who is gonna be subjected to a LOT of political and legal turbulence ….
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told The Undercurrent in Iowa that Donald Trump will announce he’s running for President in 2024 “any day now.”
Maggie Haberman reports Trump “could always not pull the trigger but this is what he’s now told several people — sooner rather than later.”
Jonathan Bernstein: “Early candidacy announcements are usually a sign of weakness. Longshots announce early, and begin campaigning early, because they need a lot of time to build enough attention and support to persuade party actors and news organizations to take them seriously.”
“But Trump’s situation is different. It’s at least possible that by jumping in definitively at this early stage, he could convince everyone else to stay out. The longer uncertainty persists, the more other politicians will be doing candidate-like things, which in turn could make one or more of them more likely to stay in and run a serious campaign. Even if Trump would be the likely winner, he’d rather have the nomination given to him than to have to fight for it, and an early announcement might do the trick.”
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Longtime Trump adviser Jason Miller told Cheddar he thinks Donald Trump is “definitely” running for president again in 2024.
When asked to give odds, Miller responded: “I would say somewhere between 99 and 100 percent. I think he is definitely running in 2024. I had a good conversation with him last night. I’m going to go see him in another couple days here.”
He added: “He has not said the magical words to me, but if you talk to him for a few minutes it’s pretty clear that he’s running.”
Philip Bump: Prepare for the longest presidential campaign in history.
Meanwhile Trump has dumped on former S.C. Governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley,
Haley attacked Trump after the Republican insurrection of Jan.6 ,assuming that Republicans would wash their hands of him,Instead the vast majority of Republicans became even more fervent for Trump and sought to downplay their fellow party members act of domestic terrorism.
In a recent interview Trump mocked Haley for her vacillating behavior toward him.
Haley hastened to try to mend fences with Trump but he wouldn’t even talk to her.In a recent interview Trump mocked her,”Well every time she criticizes me about fifteen minutes later….”he laughed.
S.C. political analysts are increasingly declaring her national ambitions moribund, noting that even if Trump himself doesn’t run ,any future nominee will need his support and Nikki isn’t getting it.
A common consensus is that Haley’s core problem is that she has no guiding principle outside her own ambition and while that is certainly true of lots of politicians,Nikki is absolutely terrible at hiding it .
I saw her speak at a Rubio rally at the Intercontinental Hotel in Buckhead, GA, on Leap Day 2016. She gave a good speech, but then I admittedly had a better view of her way back when I thought she had principles.
This was around the time she took the Confederate flags down after the Charleston Church massacre, and was riding high and trying to use her political capital to shape the direction of the party. She semi-recently tried to walk her stances on the flag back in an interview with universally discredited radio host/internet podcaster Glenn Beck. In retrospect, she was just being a crass, posturing careerist. Most people in politics are, but as you said aren’t anywhere as blatant about it.
And never underestimate how much the base hates her. To them, she is as good as a Democrat, what with her flag apostasy.
I fully expect Trump to run again. His supporters won’t care what charges out of NY are made against him. They will claim it is just political.
Even if he eventually doesn’t run, no one will be nominated that he opposes.
Agreed
I see this as i wrote it
To try manly to counter DeSantis and on a less way to try to stop others from pushing him aside in the party snd media….
My view is that he will NOT ne the GOP 2024 nominee for President….
If he is?
He will lose WORST then last November
Of course he’s running and he freezes the field, no matter what some people wish to the contrary.
The Great White Hope announced he won’t be getting a booster shot (even though I suspect he will in secret) because he just has to continue to feed his uneducated unvaccinated base.
Speaking of unvaccinated, is our host vaccinated?
Yeah remember a few weeks ago, at one of his hatefests ,Trump briefly mentioned that it was a good idea to get vaccinated and was greeted with boos.
I doubt you’ll hear any of that again.He plays to his audience and it is overwhelmingly composed of anti vaxxers and assorted other kooks.
I agree he will get a booster( if he hasn’t already)
As to our host ?His silence as to your question speaks volumes.
Yes Jack, what could James be afraid of?
Science?
James knows that all of us (Including the prognosticator) have a low opinion on of the unvaccinated. Which explains why he refuses to answer the question. Interesting, he isn’t afraid to ask us personal questions. He once asked me who I was donating my money to.
Sen. Ron Johnson’s evolution from Tea Party insurgent to conspiracy theory promoter
By Sara Murray and Jeff Simon, CNN
Updated 8:59 AM ET, Sat September 4, 2021
As Sen. Ron Johnson grapples with whether to run for a third term, it seems there’s no controversy the Wisconsin Republican is unwilling to wade into.
“The science tells us that vaccines are 95 percent effective. So if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care if your neighbor has one or not?” Johnson told conservative radio host Vicki McKenna in April. “So why is this big push to make sure everybody gets a vaccine?”
At a GOP gathering in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, in early June, Johnson dismissed climate change. “I don’t know about you guys, but I think climate change is — as Lord Monckton said — bullsh*t,” Johnson said, mouthing the expletive and referencing British conservative climate change denier Lord Christopher Monckton. “By the way, it is.”
And the senator recently suggested — without any evidence — that the FBI had more inside knowledge than it let on about Capitol insurrection. “I don’t say this publicly,” Johnson told constituents in late July. “So you think that the FBI had fully infiltrated the militias in Michigan and they didn’t know squat about what’s was happening on January 6 and what’s was happening with these groups?”
Johnson’s outspoken takes have run the gamut from vaccine skepticism to climate change denialism to downplaying the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. His evolution from a conservative businessman to two-term senator apparently willing to deny facts and spread conspiracies has left some in the state wondering: What happened to Ron Johnson?
Johnson declined an interview for this story. In response to questions from CNN, his spokeswoman Alexa Henning said the senator is pro-vaccine, but believes researchers should also look at therapeutics like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, even though they have not proven effective in treating Covid-19 and can have dangerous side effects. Johnson has insisted he’s not a climate change denier, although he has a long track record of questioning humans’ role in climate change, which runs counter to the scientific consensus. And when it comes to the FBI’s knowledge of January 6, “The senator is simply asking questions that many don’t want to hear or answer,” Henning said, a common explanation from the senator when he is wading into views that run counter to expert consensus. “The senator continues to call on the FBI and DOJ to be transparent. To date, they have not been.”
Mark Becker, the former head of the Brown County Republican Party, is one of a handful of Republicans in the state who have not only turned against former President Donald Trump but also against Johnson.
“He was our guy,” Becker said of Johnson in an interview. “He was hyper-focused on the national debt, and he was the budget guy. He came to our events, and he was so well-liked. And he, it seemed, had a pretty good grasp on reality, and then Trump happened.”…
continued into a fairly long but informative background piece and election review at:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/04/politics/ron-johnson-evolution/index.html
My Call With Ron Johnson: He Knows Biden Won But Won’t Admit It
¶ The Wisconsin senator says it would be “political suicide.”
by MARK BECKER,
(former Brown County, Wis., Republican County Chair)
on The Bulwark
DECEMBER 2, 2020 5:30 AM
https://www.thebulwark.com/my-call-with-ron-johnson-he-knows-biden-won-but-wont-admit-it/
To be an officeholder for the GOP in 2021 in most states, you have to be a liar, cheater, thief and autocrat. Otherwise, you won’t be nominated and you will be sanctioned.
The only way this will change is if there are negative political consequences of being a liar, thief, cheater and autocrat. But I don’t see that happening in the near future.
Larry Elder the leading Republican candidate to replace Newsom believes slave owners deserve reparations. Think about it.
Elder seems to be self destructing…..
I had not heard that Keith. Should nazi businesses that money off of slave labor also get reparations?
They did during the Marshall Plan Zreebs. Lots of German companies that used slave labor thrived in post war Germany. But Larry is going way back
Is there a whataboutism for this one?
Or Z?
You CAN have the balls to speak the truth and live with urself like some still do……
You just have to suffer for it……
The truth?!
The balls?!
The balls to get vaccinated?
Are you vaccinated James?
Tell the truth.
Keith?
Ball’s to speak against the Trump lies and efforts to kneecap democracy…..
In your case it obviously takes balls to be vaccinated, are you?
Are you vaccinated James?
If you aren’t, you are part of the problem.