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I agree that Trump himself is not the future. He is a transitional candidate. Your Republican Congressional leaders are Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy. McConnell is a good, old-style backroom politician. These are your Republican leaders now. Kim Klacik will not be joining them in Congress.
McConnell is an excellent leader where everyone more or less plays by the rules. He’s great at navigating those rules. Unfortunately, Democrats and the MSM stopped playing by the rules years ago. They play to win, any way they can, the ends justifying the means. The great advantage of Trump was that he understood this. He understood that there is no point in playing by the media’s rules, because the game is rigged against him from the start. You have to go around them. McConnell, et. al., still haven’t figured this out. They play a game they can’t win.
A perfect case is this election. Trump knew going in the Dems would try to steal it. He’s fighting back. Establishment Republicans, like always, are content to roll over.
Still with the Charlottesville lie. Lockdown Joe based his campaign on that lie too, but it’s a lie.
Uh . . . he won in 2016. That’s a pretty good indicator that he was welcomed.
The poster child for giving someone a job based on identity is Kamala Harris. What an empty brain she turned out to be. Besides sleeping with the right people, she rose to the top purely based on identity.
I don’t know. Probably not. Leftists always lie.
So lets get it over with and call the states:
Whats the hold up? 97% of the vote is counted, and your still not sure who the winner is?
You really don’t know me do you? I oppose violence, whether it is by Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Bernie Bros, or Trump Train Thugs.
I supported The Federalist Society before there ever was a Federalist Society. I was a very lonely voice against Roe v. Wade in law school in 1973-76.
I oppose so-called critical race theory and the 1619 Project.
When I joined the Republican Party during the Reagan Administration, we stood for the Constitution, the Rule of Law, limited government, a cogent national defense, and free trade. I still believe in those things; Trump doesn’t.
I loved Andrew Breitbart. I think that he would turn over in his grave to see how Brietbart News was taken over by Trumpists.
PA allows mail-in votes to be counted that don’t have a postmark. So the counting will continue until enough votes are manufactured for Biden to carry the state. We all know it’s happening.
We are at the Stalin end game: It doesn’t matter who votes, it matter who counts the votes.
No, we didn’t. See, this is how math works: there were a lot of NeverTrumpers in 2016 who feared that the President would operate as a Democrat and yank the nation leftward. Instead, he governed as a conservative, bringing us lower taxes, excellent judges, rollback of constricting regulations, high employment, and peace across the middle east. (Also the first President in 40 years not to get us into a new war.) They stopped being NeverTrumpers and became Trump supporters.
Nobody went the other direction. Nobody.
So . . . this is how math works. We didn’t need NeverTrumpers in 2016. And given that there are even fewer of them in 2020, we didn’t need them this year either.
The math checks out.
You and the other NeverTrumpers flatter yourselves into believing that you’re important and necessary. But if the Republican citizen class hates Democrats, it holds NeverTrumpers in utter contempt. And if you think that Republican citizens will welcome you back and declare that you’re so bright and clever and why didn’t we ever listen to you, you are completely delusional.
There is no place for NeverTrumpers in the new Republican Party.
And you still can’t explain what that actually means. Constitutionality? Limited government?
You are an enemy and an egomaniac.
There are two aspects to Charlottesville. The “both sides” meme by Democrats is inaccurate. But the Trump “hostage video” on Day Two rings hollow. Any other Republican would have denounced the Tiki Torchers fully and completely; Trump did so haltingly and ineffectively. That’s what I mean by Charlottesville, not the Democrats “both sides” meme.
And Trump apparently was rejected in 2020. He is no longer welcomed.
Let’s finish counting the votes.
Obviously he’s not welcomed by Democrats. That’s a big 10-4, good buddy!
So the Never Trumpers didn’t lose this election. Why the hostility towards them?
Every vote or every legally cast vote? There is a difference and you know it.
By the way, the exit polls won’t tell you damn thing about anything this election. Unless you assert that the pollsters were hanging out at the post box or that there really isn’t a secret ballot. You’ll never know exactly how many registered Republicans defected. It’s all going to be speculation.
You can extrapolate Trump’s appeal to minorities just by results and census data.
Twitter is already censoring Trump. This is the future we have to look forward to.
Yes, especially the ones with no postmark. 60 million “mail-in” ballots sent to outdated voter rolls with no check of ID or valid addresses.
Fixed it for you.
The math checks out there, too.
95% of Republicans support the President.
“The President is not welcomed by the Republican Party!”
That’s Biden-level delusional.
Just another thought. Trump is perfectly poised to pull a Grover Cleveland.
The “I told you so ticket” is available to him.
Trump is unique in that, if memory serves, he is the first Republican nominee to only have a plurality and not a majority of primary votes in the primary era. This is due to our crazy “Plurality wins all delegates” rules. (In South Carolina, Trump won 33% of the vote, while Rubio and Cruz each won 22%. However, Trump won all 50 delegates.)
Gary,
At Charlottesville, Antifa outnumbered the “other protestors 4 to 1”. Whatever the other protestors were they actually had a permit to march. Antifa had no permit and never has a permit. Their attitude is that they will judge who has the right to be in the street and then take violent action accordingly. Antifa waited and ambushed the marchers. Antifa comes ready to riot with helmets and pads and weapons. One of the marchers who had been mauled by the Antifa thugs went nuts. He got into his car and drove it into the Antifa mob.
What Trump said was actually completely correct. What the media did, actually promoting the reputation of Antifa, a vicious gang of leftwing thugs, was unconscionable. Go to Andy Ngo’s Twitter page. You will see just this week’s Antifa atrocities. Antifa is evil and dangerous. They are avowedly Marxist, Revolutionary, and some of the most foul-mouthed creatures on the internet.
Stop blaming Trump for what is wrong with the world. I too have had it with you. You waste everyone’s time with your false accusations of Trump and your appeasement of the very dangerous left.
Regards,
Jim
In North Carolina, with 100% of the precincts reporting, the count is:
Trump 2,732,084
Biden 2,655,383
https://er.ncsbe.gov/?election_dt=11/03/2020&county_id=0&office=FED&contest=0
There is no reason for NC to not have been called yet.
We aren’t a parliamentary system in our state. Also, we don’t have Presidents determined by direct election by the people. Finally, we don’t need our EC votes nullified before they ever leave the state.
They helped foment the lies about Trump.
They certainly did.