Donald Trump is probably going to announce he’s running for President soon…
this after his endorsement’s kinda fell flat in areas that where not Solid Republican…
Trump has also let it be known that Republicans that don’t do what he wants ARE his enemies…
all this has helped Democrats since 2020….
the blowouts the GOPer’s , media and pundits expect ed did NOT show up…
Trump is now gonna press forward with finishing the job of ripping the ass out of the party he co-opef for his own wallet and ego….
Democrat’s can only watch him go about way and reap the benefits….
Before the votes are even fully counted in the 2022 midterm election, Republicans are starting to face a decision: Do they stick with Donald J. Trump into 2024 or leave him behind?
For seven years, in office and out, before and after his supporters overran the Capitol, Mr. Trump has exerted a gravitational pull on the party’s base, and through it, the country’s politics, no matter how hard lawmakers, strategists, officials and even his own vice president tried to escape his orbit.
Now, after a string of midterm losses by candidates Mr. Trump supported, there are signs of another Republican effort to inch the party away from the former president ahead of his expected announcement on Tuesday of another run for the White House — even as his allies on Capitol Hill demand new acts of fealty to him.
It has not escaped Republicans that this week represented the third consecutive political cycle in which Democrats ran with considerable success against the polarizing former president. While they rarely spoke his name, Mr. Trump formed the background music to their attacks asserting that the Republican Party had grown too extreme.
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There has been no sign yet that Mr. Trump, who spent the days after Tuesday’s election posting on his social media site and issuing statements about his stature in the party, has lost his grip on Republican primary voters — a necessary element in any effort to depose him as the party’s leader.
Democrats say that’s good news — at least in the short term…
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Democratic strategists and leaders are looking well beyond December and can’t hide their giddiness at the prospect of another election with Mr. Trump at the center….
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…Privately, several House Republicans have complained about Trump’s influence on some of their races, which they say contributed to what will probably be a tiny and hard-to-manage House majority if enough races are called for GOP control. Trump supported extreme House candidates, including Bo Hines in North Carolina and Karoline Leavitt in New Hampshire, whose fixation with his false 2020 election claims and other positions probably turned off general election voters….
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“We lost the House, the Senate and the White House in two years when Trump was on the ballot, or in office,” Ryan told a Wisconsin news outlet. “I think we just have some Trump hangover. I think he’s a drag on our office, on our races.”
Even some in the alt-right took the knives out for him this week. “Losing always sucks but at least no one has to suck up to Trump anymore. He’s going to feel the vibe shift real quick,” wrote Mike Cernovich, a far-right commentator who helped spread the baseless Pizzagate conspiracy theory against Democrats….
Republicans Pay for Being the Party of Trump
Dan Balz: “Whatever the final numbers show, 2022 will be remembered as an election that produced an incremental earthquake, an election of small shifts that added up to big surprises, an election in which the party that hopes to recapture the House emerges disappointed and more divided. Election 2022 was a dual referendum: on President Biden and the Democrats but also on former president Donald Trump and the Republicans.”
“Trump has changed politics in many ways, and Republicans paid a price for it Tuesday. His presence has created an energized electorate. Since he was elected, huge voter turnouts have become the norm: a midterm record in 2018, a presidential-year record in 2020 and a near record again this year. Midterm elections usually mean complacency among voters whose party just won the White House. In the age of Trump, every election is consequential, and both sides come highly motivated.”
image…Foreign Policy