The story of Trump’s influence on these Republican primary elections is a legitimate one. But it only tells half of the story — or more like 25% of the story, depending on the actual size of Trump’s base. The other and more telling part of this political narrative? The majority of extremist far-right and MAGA-friendly candidates look likely to get smoked by Democrats in the general election in November.
The Political Environment Might Be Improving For Democrats
This coming from a site that is notoriously leftwing. Another is I glanced at the article from 538, but saw polls but nothing about the polling metrics or questions.
That’s my belief. The problem is that Trump and his hardcore supporters are spending more time waging war on “traitors” within the party than they are on beating the Democrats. The Trump wing of the party also throws around “RINO” the way the Democrats throw around “racist”. RINO used to mean a liberal Republican like Romney or McCain; now it means anyone who is not a yes-man for Trump.
They can nominate very conservative people in very conservative states and districts, but they need to stick with center-right in purple areas. That should have been abundantly clear after the GOP won the VA elections last year, but nope.
We have a sketchy Governor’s race coming in AZ. A whacked out left wing kook, Katie Hobbs, won her current position fraudulently on last minute provisional votes which set her up to oversee the election where Trump was screwed on fraud.
Trump’s candidate, Keri Lake, is portrayed in less than good light for openly campaigning on the election fraud. By any reasonable measure, Hobbs, who also lost a battle over unjustly firing a black woman (libs can hate blacks… it’s ok for them to do so), should lose in a landslide against Lake.
But with the fraud machine already in place, it will be interesting to see if these lunatics rob the same train thrice!
The massively interesting thing is that NOT ONE political add for either party in the primaries involved anyone campaigning on anything other than center or right. Liberal bull shit is WILDLY unpopular, yet we’re expected to believe that these lunatics are in contention to win???
At this point I’m not sure it makes any difference. We might as well wedge the throttle wide open, throw it in (D) and watch it sail over a cliff and into the void.
It’ll be interesting, for sure. The dude is a very polarizing character. Some people (Rs included, but pretty much all the Ds) won’t vote for anyone associated with him. Some people (nearly exclusively R) won’t vote for anyone NOT associated with him. Of course, some are in the middle. I don’t know for sure which group is larger, but if I was running as an R, not being endorsed by him might be the safer bet. I would think there is little to be gained, and much to lose. Basically, I suspect that most voters that prefer a Trump-endorsed candidate are going to vote R, with or without the endorsement, so why risk it?
It’s already a big mess, and people can see that Dem policies are crap.
I can tell by the campaign adds. NOT ONE add aimed at any left wing ideas at all. Most of them calling their rivals liberals… or penis head, Mark “Howard Walowitz” Kelly, trying to appear center aisle.
They damned sure know they CAN NOT win on their policies and ideas, so it’s back to vote fraud.
I’m over Trump and his narcissism. I voted for him twice and would hold my nose and vote for him a third time if he won the primary, but I’m NOT voting for him in the primary (I didn’t in 2016, went for Cruz). I will readily admit that he should be POTUS now but for FRAUD by the Democheats, so I’ll give him that…but he’s not so I would like to see DeSantis run.
Anyone on the Right who stays home or votes D just because of DJT again needs their head examined after seeing what that has gotten us the last two years.
I’m over Trump and his narcissism. I voted for him twice and would hold my nose and vote for him a third time if he won the primary, but I’m NOT voting for him in the primary
This is me. I voted for him last time because, despite all the craziness, I still thought he was better than Biden (which I still stand by). But good Lord, the dude is old as hell and the Presidency isn’t owed to him. We have to bring in some younger blood. Definitely hoping for DeSantis this time.
