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Why are the Republicans winning over the American Public?

Those who follow such matters are asking a question.

Is Donald Trump losing his hold on the Republican Party?

Many think that would be a good thing. They are Republicans. As this thread shows, Trump has already lost grassroots Republicans. Their silence is deafening.

ABC reports, "A former president who famously claimed he would win so much that his followers would be "sick and tired of winning" faces the prospect of something new within normally friendly terrain: a losing streak.

"Starting next month, in states from Georgia and North Carolina to Arizona and Alaska, former President Donald Trump will see his influence tested in a series of high-stakes GOP primaries."

The major problem Trump has is he takes things personal. If a Republican governor, legislator, or staffer in high places (secretary of state) didn't play Trump's game -- "the election was stolen from me" -- then Trump endorses that candidate's rival. The problem for Trump is that Republican may be entrenched within the party and the role he is playing.

A good example of this is Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia. Kemp refused to declare Trump the winner in Georgia's election, and he is up for reelection this year. Trump tapped former US Sen. David Perdue to run against Kemp in the Georgia primary, which many presumed would catapult Purdue ahead of Kemp in the polls. Polling for the past few months has steadily shown Perdue trailing Kemp by about 10 percentage points.

ABC continued, "Trump has placed himself in the middle of a wide range of races in which his chosen candidates have struggled or where he is at sharp odds with other prominent Republican voices -- including former Cabinet members, close aides and potential rivals who hope bad calls by Trump prove a point."

"Trump is trying to insert himself in races all across the country where people he's supporting are crazy," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, told ABC News.

"In one recent sign of how little some Republicans now fear Trump's wrath, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu appeared at Washington's Gridiron Club dinner over the weekend and labeled Trump "f---ing crazy." Sununu, who later called his speech "all in fun" and "all a joke," is up for reelection in a state that delivered Trump his first primary win of 2016.

"Trump is still widely seen as the loudest and most powerful force in Republican politics. Candidates and potential candidates have been parading to Mar-a-Lago virtually since Trump left office in search of what the former president bills as his "complete and total endorsement,'" ABC.
 
I don't disagree that he should not have made either comment. Even though I don't think either comment would persuade swing voters between Biden and Trump, I am confident many candidates on the right will trot out Biden's admitted focus on appointing a black woman to SCOTUS as supposed proof of a political agenda when it comes to the high court.
 
Decypher said:
I could quote a dozen posts I’ve read up here in the last week.
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Good for you. A "dozen" out of thousands out be definitive proof.
Decypher said:
Not sure it would be worth the effort. You’d just make some glib dismissive comment. Try to be a little more honest in your activities here.
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Just covered that. I am honest - try joining me rather than believing twelve posts.
 
VanceMack said:
Massive homeless problem in your shithole state....Trump didnt create that problem...YOU did. In your shithole state you have massive retail theft problems and people literally shitting in your streets...Trump didnt create that problem...YOU did.
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You named almost every major problem our country is having today. Ignoring the fact that these problems have existed for decades and will continue to exist decades into our future, you blame the current Democratic government.

That makes you a Trump Republican with limited awareness.
 
Bullseye said:
Good for you. A "dozen" out of thousands out be definitive proof.

Just covered that. I am honest - try joining me rather than believing twelve posts.
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You claimed that that only crazy people still push the Big Lie narrative. If you want to dismiss many of your fellow conservatives on this site as such, go for it.
 
That’s the way it is. The anti-vote going back seems to have decided most of the recent elections. Voting against a candidate or voting against a party. This midterm, you have a lot of folks who are angry at the Democrats for not tackling inflation, rising prices. They’ll vote against the Democrats, but not necessarily for the Republicans. They know who they dislike or angry at, but that doesn’t mean they support the Republicans. The Republicans are the only viable alternative to the party they’re angry at.

Get mad at the party in power, you vote them out. Then you get made at the party you just voted in power, so you voted them out and return the other party to power. It’s becoming a never-ending cycle. When you think approximately 25% of all those who vote are anti-voters, that a lot. These folks aren’t voting for anything at all, just against a candidate or party. The candidate or party they least want to lose, not win, but least want to lose.
 
Decypher said:
You claimed that that only crazy people still push the Big Lie narrative. If you want to dismiss many of your fellow conservatives on this site as such, go for it.
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]You confuse the idiotic slogan "Big Lie" with having doubts over the legacy of the 2020 election. As I mentioned about Time Magazine ran an article about "how we did it" I private individual donating $400 million to the election organizations in states he was not even a citizen of is slightly suspicious to reasonable and rational people - including some Democrats.
 
If only a judge believed you. Lol
 
Mithrae said:
Biden's open declaration that only black women would be considered for the SC nomination?
Picking sides on the Rittenhouse case?

Political virtue signalling isn't always beneficial, and I'd hazard a guess that those two were ill-considered at best.
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I seriously doubt that merely expressing opinion on those topics are going to actually influence someone's vote, though it probably reinforces whatever perceptions someone already has.

Biden's biggest problems are the same ones the Democrats have collectively, which are:

* rising inflation with no end in sight
* the pandemic and its aftermath
* a surge in violent crime

These are the potential show-stoppers for Biden and his party.
 

You might as well blame the dems for the rain, and then elect Putin to the presidency of the United States to fix it.
 
ataraxia said:
You might as well blame the dems for the rain, and then elect Putin to the presidency of the United States to fix it.
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Actually, now that you mention it, it has been raining a lot lately.
 
Yes...I named every problem the rat party has created in this country. YOU built that. YOUR rat party did that. Trump had literally **** all to do with ANY of it. HIS ONLY 'crime' was stealing your ring of power...and you HATEZ him....HHHHHAAAAAATTTTTEEEEEEEZZZZZ him!!!
 
Control of the media narrative. Even the channels that the right calls "liberal media" often pumps out right wing talking points.
 
Like the rest of the MSM, ABC gets it wrong once again.
 
I followed the Rittenhouse case closely from start to end. I know the details involved and understand Americans reaction to the verdict, as well as Biden’s personal comments better than you.

The majority of Americans understood Biden’s dissatisfaction with the outcome and respected his right to express his personal opinion. Same as when he said he believes Putin is a war criminal.

Feel free to check his approval ratings before and after the Rittenhouse verdict.

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Not only was Biden’s announcement that he would nominate an African American woman not an “unforced error”, it was a boost to his presidential campaign when he first made the announcement.

The fact that his running mate is also an African American woman was/is completely unrelated and therefore, irrelevant.

As for excluding potential candidates, our Constitution is clear regarding the president’s discretion to choose whoever he wants, for whatever reasons he wants. Biden isn’t the first to announce his intentions ahead of time, and he won’t be the last.

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TurtleDude said:
I know liberals throw the race card left and right but gave Biden a pass when he talked about desecration and then far more recently -that if a black doesn't vote a certain way, he's not really black. So I reject your claims
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You reject him because of something Biden said?
Yeah, makes sense to me.
 
You've lost whatever grip you had.
 
Grand Mal said:
You reject him because of something Biden said?
Yeah, makes sense to me.
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I reject complaining about stuff that his own side does and which he says nothing. BTW the word should have been desegregation--too late to edit
 
TurtleDude said:
I reject complaining about stuff that his own side does and which he says nothing. BTW the word should have been desegregation--too late to edit
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Do you feel like you should be responsible for or be judged by everything anyone on the right says or does? Should your credibility be tied to Marjorie Taylor Greene?
 
"The fact that his running mate is also an African American woman was/is completely unrelated and therefore, irrelevant." Was correctly stated as unrelated, however, it is not irrelevant, since his choice was clearly racist, a pandering to a minority in hopes of buying more votes.
 
For the next time you’re about misuse the word;
 
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