Trump, lets move on

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(07-21-2022, 11:12 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: I agree

I just wish Trump and all the Trump talk would go away. Maybe we can start up a petition to invest in the lets buy Trump an Island in the middle of the Pacific and he can go there for free and leave us and politics behind him.

It's ok to dream, right ?

If you recall, this was the immediate reaction to the 1/6 thing.  Establishment republicans like Lindsey Graham and the talking heads on fox news (mostly via texts the peasants weren't supposed to see) were going on about how enough is enough and Trump was ruining his legacy and needed to condemn things and the party needed to move on.  Eventually, they realized that 1/6 and Trump's election lies weren't going to sway enough people to make a difference so they started with not saying the election was rigged but that we needed to look into election security, and that 1/6 was no big deal or not Trump's fault or caused by ANTIFA and blah blah blah.

It was clear that the reaction to the whole 1/6 thing caught the GOP off guard, because they assumed that was the end of him...not so..

(07-21-2022, 11:15 AM)Stewy Wrote: I disagree 100% about him having the GOP by the balls.  The repub's DO NOT need to court his fanclub because his fanclub will never vote anything but Republican.  If you're blind enough to follow Trump, then you are a straight ticket Republican.  Can you imagine Trumpettes crossing lines and voting Democrat if Trump is not the candidate?  That is entirely laughable.  I could see some of them not voting at all because of his destruction of trust in the system, but they aren;t going to be votes for a Democrat, that's for damn sure.

 
I can imagine Trump convincing them that he rightfully won the GOP primary and that if he runs as a 3rd party or if they write in his name enough people will vote for him that he will win.  Remember, these people believe Trump won 2016 and 2020 in a landslide winning both the popular vote and electoral college both times.  Some of these people think Trump 2016 and 2020 was like Reagan v Mondale twice over, so if he says everyone will vote for him, why would they vote for DeSantis?

Keep in mind NOT voting for Trump is tantamount to treason for these people too....and well....I've thrown my votes away on hopeless 3rd party candidates, so I know how making a statement can seem more appealing to winning to idiots like myself.

Still, I KNOW Trump can convince his die hards that he's the only one who can win in 2024 whether he is on the ballot or not.

EDIT - I can see it playing out as DeSantis wining the primary and Trump saying that democrats rigged the vote so that DeSantis, a weak candidate who can't win because no one but Trump can win, would get the nomination.