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Let’s take the state of Maine as one example.
Susan Collins, whom you might call an establishment Republican, ran for reelection to the US Senate.
Collins beat her Democrat opponent with 385,459 votes to 325,277, or 51 percent to 43 percent.
Trump lost to Biden in Maine with 341,949 votes to 420,357, or 43 percent to 53 percent.
But there are other examples of a divergence between the local Republican candidates and Trump. In Pennsylvania, the Republican candidates for US House of Representatives beat the Democrat candidates for US House, even as Trump lost to Biden in Pennsylvania by 74,000 votes.
Trump appears to have motivated a record number of voters to vote against him, in the person of Joe Biden, despite the fact that Joe Biden was barely breathing.
I just heard a report on the hourly news that 60% of those who voted for Trump want him to run again. If he does, the Usual Suspects will join forces and contribute to another Republican loss. They will be blaming those nasty Trump supporters again.
Amen!
Any supporter this avid about The Lincoln Project has, in my humble opinion, forfeited any right to call himself a Republican. They are a despicable and tawdry disgrace to the Nation, and were apparently heavily involved in the intimidation of the law firms of Jones Day (cowards) and Porter Wright (cowards) which drove them to withdraw as counsel for the President. How any member of the Bar can so loudly proclaim his or her admiration for such a bunch of thugs is simply beyond me.
Well said, Bryan.
Sincerely, Jim
But, this behavior is clearly fine for Gary Which is rich, because Gary calls posting his public donations “doxxing”.
Imagine a contest between Tom Cotton and Donald Trump. Epic.
May the best man win. Fairly. If Nevers could say that, there wouldn’t be such a divide in the GOP.
BTW, I’ve read some columns by leftists who claim Cotton is worse than Trump because he is Trump’s policies without Trump’s baggage.
@henryracette, thank you for this paragraph!
That too, Bryan. It wouldn’t surprise me at all. But those other things I mentioned were all big enough to be determinative, I think, whereas I don’t have a sense of how significant an impact the more churlish Republicans had on Trump’s prospects. Same goes for the so-called never-Trumpers: they were insufferable fools, in my opinion, but I don’t have a sense of how big an impact they had.
Every American owes Trump debt of gratitude for exposing the rot. It is in the open and if “we” ignore it, we deserve what we get.
The judge in Pennsylvania just asked Giuliani and other Trump lawyers “you are asking me to throw out” many thousands of votes, “can you tell me how this result can even possibly be justified?” After a long pause, Giuliani…does not answer the question. Just repeats his fraud allegations.
Sounds to me like the judge is an idiot. If the votes are fraudulent, that IS the justification. Of course, if Giuliani can’t offer proof, why is he there wasting the judge’s time?
Since I see Trump as an existential threat to the Republic and the Republican Party, I felt that I had no choice but to vote for a Democrat for President for the first time since McGovern in 1972.
Bryan, can we just agree to disagree and stop the tit for tat? I am guessing that our fellow Ricochetti know very well your antipathy to NT, and my responses.
Nope. I am now watching what happens with Sidney Powell and Lin Wood. They both have serious reputations. Rush Limbaugh this morning made the very good point that they are unlikely to risk that. It is amusing to see self described Republicans adopting the left’s cries for an early concession.
Not true. I supported the Republicans keeping control of the Senate. https://ricochet.com/779702/who-i-support-in-the-senate-elections/
Has Trump hired competent attorneys to make his case in court?
It is just amazing to have these people who can tell the future among us. We should feel honored.
Another future teller.
It’s not a prediction. As a lifelong Republican, I hope the GOP nominates a better candidate in 2024.
Trump might claim a “moral victory” in his defeat at the hands of Joe Biden. But it would be better if we simply selected a candidate who’s brain is connected to his mouth.
I am putting you on notice that I can’t ever see myself voting for Trump or his children. Nominate him or them at your peril.
But consider this. Trump has a gauntlet of six tough lawsuits to deal with, two of them being criminal, and four being civil. See the CNN piece: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/politics/donald-trump-lawsuits/index.html.
Trump has a bunch of debts that he has guaranteed. He has a world of hurt that being President had protected him from. That protection is ending on January 20, 2021, which is 64 days from now.
You focus on minutia like your Scarborough story. You obviously know very little about elections.
You obviously know even less.
Nope. Watch what Sidney Powell and Lin Wood have coming.
Do you even know why she withdrew?
During the election, I was treated to a great deal of information on Ricochet complaining about “The Lincoln Project” (“TLP”) some of it on point, some of it not. I made a public decision to switch my contributions from TLP to “Republican Voters Against Trump” or “RVAT.” So I don’t take criticism of TLP personally, nor am I responsible for whatever they do. Regardless of everything else, TLP put out devastating ads during the 2020 cycle.
Yes and they were Democrats filling out bogus ballots.
Bryan, if you have been divorced, there is a public record of that. If you have declared bankruptcy, there is a public record of that. If you have had criminal charges, there is a public record of that. If you have had an Order of Protection filed against you, there is a public record of that.
In 2008, many people made “public donations” to Proposition 8 in California which prohibited same sex marriage. Now those people are being hunted down and many of them have lost their jobs.
I assert that posting someone’s “public donations” is a form of doxxing, just as posting their divorce record, their bankruptcies, their convictions and Orders of Protection.
Gary
Over at Althouse, we have been making fun of another “Life Long Republican” who hates Trump. LLRs we call them, just like the LLRs that used to call Limbaugh and then recite a seminar DNC memo.
Like telling the future, you also seem to be a mind reader. Middle school retorts do not impress me.
I could live with Tom Cotton, while I can’t and won’t live with Trump. Tom Cotton has a law degree from Harvard. He served our country in the armed forces. I disagree with his proposed restrictions on legal immigration but he is so much better than Trump.
Senator Lindsey Graham just gave Kamala Harris a fist bump on the senate floor.