Long past time, actually, but now...
That's three straight elections where Trump has either lost or watched as his hand-picked candidates have gone down in flames.
Republicans will probably take the House and can steal the Senate if they somehow draw an inside straight on the river, but in the context of a President with a 42% approval rating in a midterm, it was a historically underwhelming performance. And the candidates who got bounced in the House and Senate were generally the most Trumpy ones.
As DeSantis showed, Republicans can do very well in today's environment across many demographics, but the Trump act, especially the elections-fraud BS, is a sash weight around their necks.
I don't know exactly how, but the GOP must find a way to convince Trump to retire or just go away.
09 Nov 22
@sh76 saidLol good luck with that but there's so much rot going back decades. MAGA is the logical endpoint. Probably a better strategy would dissolve the GOP and rebuild it with a libertarian ideology. DeSantis is just a baby trump.
Long past time, actually, but now...
That's three straight elections where Trump has either lost or watched as his hand-picked candidates have gone down in flames.
Republicans will probably take the House and can steal the Senate if they somehow draw an inside straight on the river, but in the context of a President with a 42% approval rating in a midterm, it was a histori ...[text shortened]...
I don't know exactly how, but the GOP must find a way to convince Trump to retire or just go away.
09 Nov 22
Trump runs the GOP even without holding office. His former press secretary is a governor now. Politicians like Ron desantis talk and act like trump, calling his opponents old donkeys instead of offering solutions for immigration, crime, economic issues in his state . Trumps influence permeates the republican party and isn't going anywhere soon.
Meanwhile the GOP has no party platform. They have no agenda. They have lost moral high ground with a focus on trying to fix cultural issues in which government has no place. What will they do with house leadership? Fix immigration? Laughable. Sadly they can't govern.
@sh76 saidAgreed. Trump is a bad messenger and has a bad message. I think the party would do better with someone less corrupt and less abrasive with an alternative to the Democratic party's identity politics and continuous redistribution policies.
Long past time, actually, but now...
That's three straight elections where Trump has either lost or watched as his hand-picked candidates have gone down in flames.
Republicans will probably take the House and can steal the Senate if they somehow draw an inside straight on the river, but in the context of a President with a 42% approval rating in a midterm, it was a histori ...[text shortened]...
I don't know exactly how, but the GOP must find a way to convince Trump to retire or just go away.
09 Nov 22
@sh76 saidWho knows; Kari Lake is already election denying an election she might win.
Long past time, actually, but now...
That's three straight elections where Trump has either lost or watched as his hand-picked candidates have gone down in flames.
Republicans will probably take the House and can steal the Senate if they somehow draw an inside straight on the river, but in the context of a President with a 42% approval rating in a midterm, it was a histori ...[text shortened]...
I don't know exactly how, but the GOP must find a way to convince Trump to retire or just go away.
@sh76 saidYou mean Trump was wrong and it wasn't Melania's fault that Oz Lost?? Now I'm really depressed!! 😏
Long past time, actually, but now...
That's three straight elections where Trump has either lost or watched as his hand-picked candidates have gone down in flames.
Republicans will probably take the House and can steal the Senate if they somehow draw an inside straight on the river, but in the context of a President with a 42% approval rating in a midterm, it was a histori ...[text shortened]...
I don't know exactly how, but the GOP must find a way to convince Trump to retire or just go away.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-furious-over-oz-losing-pennsylvania-blames-wife-melania-endorsement-report
09 Nov 22
@sh76 saidThere are many variables in play as time marches forward including social media, click based news generation, demographic shifts, declining birth rates, etc.
Long past time, actually, but now...
That's three straight elections where Trump has either lost or watched as his hand-picked candidates have gone down in flames.
Republicans will probably take the House and can steal the Senate if they somehow draw an inside straight on the river, but in the context of a President with a 42% approval rating in a midterm, it was a histori ...[text shortened]...
I don't know exactly how, but the GOP must find a way to convince Trump to retire or just go away.
If Trump had never been born we'd still be in a totally different place now compared to 20 years ago.
09 Nov 22
@techsouth saidTrue, but it sure seems like the GOP would be a lot different if a Cruz or Rubio got the nomination in 2016.
There are many variables in play as time marches forward including social media, click based news generation, demographic shifts, declining birth rates, etc.
If Trump had never been born we'd still be in a totally different place now compared to 20 years ago.
Interesting that Rubio is now such an afterthought; he almost won as big as DeSantis yesterday.
@no1marauder saidYes, and they now say that Miami-Dade has flipped Red. Amazing results for those two,
True, but it sure seems like the GOP would be a lot different if a Cruz or Rubio got the nomination in 2016.
Interesting that Rubio is now such an afterthought; he almost won as big as DeSantis yesterday.
considering this is the state where Trump lives, eh? No, Trump did not cause the overall loss.
09 Nov 22
@earl-of-trumps said"DeSantis is the first GOP governor to win Miami-Dade County, a Democratic stronghold, since Jeb Bush's re-election in 2002."
Yes, and they now say that Miami-Dade has flipped Red. Amazing results for those two,
considering this is the state where Trump lives, eh? No, Trump did not cause the overall loss.
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-6dfad198-17ea-440c-8852-4501137c9f0a.html
Didn't exactly turn Jeb into a national electoral steamroller, did it?
09 Nov 22
@mchill saidSo ....
You mean Trump was wrong and it wasn't Melania's fault that Oz Lost?? Now I'm really depressed!! 😏
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-furious-over-oz-losing-pennsylvania-blames-wife-melania-endorsement-report
We know about 2 perfect phone calls.
How many perfect endorsements ? 🤣
10 Nov 22
@sh76 saidI think you are making false assumptions.
Long past time, actually, but now...
That's three straight elections where Trump has either lost or watched as his hand-picked candidates have gone down in flames.
Republicans will probably take the House and can steal the Senate if they somehow draw an inside straight on the river, but in the context of a President with a 42% approval rating in a midterm, it was a histori ...[text shortened]...
I don't know exactly how, but the GOP must find a way to convince Trump to retire or just go away.
The abortion issue compelled democrats to vote more than they usually do, especially since a lot of the republicans that ran did so without making exceptions for abortion. Most people are simply pro choice.
It would not have mattered if god endorsed them. When choosing between the life of the mother or baby most choose the mother and abort the fetus. Abortion is not a black and white issue, it is a gray area. SCOTUS stopped the red wave by alarming the pro choice majority. It had nothing to do with Trump.
10 Nov 22
@metal-brain saidThis must be your other personality that wrote this in the "Red Tsunami" thread tonight:
@sh76
That being said, I hope DeSantis wins the GOP nomination unless Rand Paul runs again. I already dumped Trump. I never voted for him and I never will. Unfortunately a lot of people are fooled by him.
Why do you care? None of this really matters. Nothing will change very much regardless of which party controls congress. Both parties are controlled by billionaires. We really have only one party, the plutocracy. That is the result of extreme wealth inequality.
When will you accept our country is run by a minority and that both political parties are under their control? All of this fuss is just to convince you that you have a choice. You don't.
You are so screwed up in the head I imagine people ask you to take your hat off so they can open their champagne bottles.
10 Nov 22
@wildgrass saidYou think MAGA is the end point?
Lol good luck with that but there's so much rot going back decades. MAGA is the logical endpoint. Probably a better strategy would dissolve the GOP and rebuild it with a libertarian ideology. DeSantis is just a baby trump.
Hahaha
The only end point about it is that it’s where The humor ends and everything turns very nasty, very quick.