The man can’t get his head around ‘losing’….
An Op-Ed by Jeff Greenfield in Politico posses a question after DeSantis beats Trump in a New Hampshire 2024 poll…
How would Donald Trump react to being pushed aside by a Ron DeSantis ‘win’ for the 2024 Republican Presidential nomination?….
It’s not exactly a thunderous roar, more like a stage whisper, running through the ranks of what we used to think of as mainstream Republicans: “Maybe he doesn’t have to be our nominee in 2024.”
They grasp, if not at straws, then at green shoots springing up in one place after another. In Georgia, virtually all of Donald Trump’s favorites lost their nomination fights. A new poll out of New Hampshire shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis running a couple of points ahead of Trump among GOP voters; last October, by comparison, Trump had a 25-point margin. The revelations from the Jan. 6 Committee, while apparently changing few Republican minds, has painted a picture of presidential misconduct so blatant that nearly six in 10 Americans believe he should be charged with criminal conduct. (Pro Tip: A presidential candidate under criminal indictment is in a suboptimal situation). More and more Republicans, while not confronting Trump directly, speak in Aesopian terms about not fighting past battles, about looking to the future, about nominating someone with vaguely humanoid hair (OK, not that last one just yet).
But if Republicans are thinking optimistically about a 2024 campaign without Trump as their nominee, they are also in the grip of an illusion — one which demonstrates a striking lack of understanding about who Trump is.
But if Republicans are thinking optimistically about a 2024 campaign without Trump as their nominee, they are also in the grip of an illusion — one which demonstrates a striking lack of understanding about who Trump is….
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Most important, a Trump who is denied the nomination — which, by his account, must have been the product of horrible, disgusting cheating the likes of which nobody has ever seen — is a Trump with the inclination and the resources to run an independent campaign for president. And he’ll have enough true believers to doom whoever the GOP nominee is….
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A few months ago,I posted a similiar view.Maybe Greenfield is one of the “hundreds” who”lurk” here?
Anyone who believes that a defeated candidate Trump will go quietly into that good night ,if denied the Republican nomination , needs a major reality check.
I agree…….
I have said here thst I do NOT think Trump is a lock for the nomination…..
I continue to believe that more and MORE every day……
The Big Guy just has WTF too much excess baggage and the hearing’s are destroying the idea of helping him from up close,….
Still, he will continue to have support from basically stupid people……
Bit he seems to be compiling too much flack,…
DeSantis may NOT be the nominee either
Too strident?
No you don’t agree with me,nor do you understand my point.
You’re so obsessed over Trump that you can’t think straight.
You care only about him not being the Republican nominee.
My point is that him being the nominee is no longer particularly relevant.The issue is does he run?If he does and wins?Then that only proves that Trump indeed does own the Republican Party.
If he runs and loses?To whomever?Then Trump will not accept that.He will make all sorts of crazy claims,will claim the process was rigged etc.
Then he will likely create a new party,hold a rump convention and become its nominee.He can easily in my view ,He will mercilessly attack the Republican nominee ,whoever it is ,and
the Republican Party will fracture,likely assuring a Democratic victory.
Republicans main goal at this time is assuring he doesn’t run because if he does?They have major major problems .And who the nominee is?Makes no difference.
Yo Jack?
You are parroting Greenfield who we ALL agree makes a good point….
You are also parroting me here in my constant view that Trump HATES losing and has been a one man show from the jump…
Being the nominee IS RELEVANT…..
It’s the reason these knuckleheads thought they’d get a second chance up at bat….
As it fades with each hearing and court case?
The Republicans I have mentioned all along, and you have scoffed at?
Are doing what I have said….
DRIFFTING away minute by minute, day by day, month by month….
No difference?
As I have indicated here?
Watch the carwling to DeSantis and throw up….
Let me see, where to begin…
I posted about my earlier post which was similar to Greenfields.You had no adverse remark then Indeed,you said” I agree.”
Now?Im “parroting “ Greenfield?”
And when I published pretty much the same thing yesterday? Well you “agreed “ then.
Of course as we all know, you “agreeing” with something is meaningless.A day ,or even an hour later ,you will totally contradict yourself or ,as here ,present as a reply something that has nothing to do with anything I said .We have seen this hundreds of time here.
Now please and I know this is difficult for you ,due to your lack of reading comprehension, Try to understand my point….
If Trump runs and is defeated in his nomination bid , then he will not willingly leave the stage , may very well run as a Third party candidate and likely cause the defeat of the Republican nominee, And no it doesn’t matter who that person is (your mancrush on DeSantis notwithstanding.) The rest of this post of yours has Nothing to do with my point and is instead one of your daily Trump tirades. Apparently, as you have for the past six years now , you are once again predicting the demise of Trump. Ironically, and once again you do not understand this, my post is actually laying out a scenario whereby Trump IS defeated, yet you blithely ignore that and proceed to self congratulate yourself on “predicting Trumps soon to be demise.
Like a monkey at a keyboard, you keep repeating the same thing over and over for six years. Maybe some day it will come true and then we will get one of your unctuous “Told Ya So.”
Just more clownfoolery!
I most certainly WILL say ‘I TOLD ya so’…..
Like a monkey on a keyboard?
You keep claiming Trump IS the party….
He isn’t…..