I read this piece yesterday. I agree that most of it can be disregarded, except the points he made that Georgia, Texas, Arizona were much closer than they should be and it is a cause for concern for conservatives.
One of the very top priorities for the Trump Administration is to eliminate early voting and voter fraud. At the very minimum please eliminate early voting as that is fairly easy to justify according to the Constitution.
“I read this piece yesterday. I agree that most of it can be disregarded, except the points he made that Georgia, Texas, Arizona were much closer than they should be and it is a cause for concern for conservatives.
One of the very top priorities for the Trump Administration is to eliminate early voting and voter fraud. At the very minimum please eliminate early voting as that is fairly easy to justify according to the Constitution.”
And I guess we now can take an educated guess as to where refugees and illegals are being resettled.
The first step is simply to enforce the law that makes it illegal for non-citizens to vote.
President Trump:
Please send a special team from the DOJ into each "sanctuary city", go over the voter registrations with a fine tooth comb, find the non-citizens who illegally voted, prosecute each, and deport each. You have the full legal power to do this NOW.
Doing that immediately will go a long way to reducing the illegal invasion you've so accurately described.
The conservatives in those states got lazy, just like the Dems did in Minnasota, and Wisconsion.
Instead of people, like on FR, just going on about “damn Yankees” moving into the state, they need to keep count of themselves, and make damn sure they are all registered.
They also need to tighten up their voting laws, not just sit on their ass for 4 years and then bitch and moan about “soros machines” and make voter ID laws that easily just get struck down a month before the election.
Texas and Georgia have NO EXCUSE for that.
He didn’t campaign in those states as much as the battleground states.
In Georgia the vote for the Democrat was around the same amount as usual - Mid 40 percent mark. The difference is that the Libertarian got twice as much as usual. I have no evidence but I suspect this was protest votes against Trump by establishment Republicans and Christians who could not “force” themselves to vote for him. I knew a lot of the later who argued since he won the Republican nomination but most of them fell into line and voted for him but I suspect a percentage did not.
Election is supposed to happen on a particular DAY, which is set by Congress.
The reason they were closer were a combination of successful propaganda about “misogynist, racist” Trump by the Press, the #Never Trumpers reckless attempts to sabotage Trump and the fact he was running against the 1st major party Female Presidential candidate.
Govern well and Trump can undo most of the damage that well financed propaganda campaign did with the GOP voter base. Lot of people who did not vote for Trump or stayed home will show up for the GOP in 2018 and 2020 if he gets the economy growing again.
I agree about early voting and voter fraud. But I don’t see how early voting can be eliminated. The message from the opposition will be that it disenfranchises voters.
It would be better to focus on the sanctity of voting machines, voter rolls, and voter ID laws.
Also, I live in Georgia. The numbers shocked me a little. I don’t think you can blame it on fraud here. There is a pretty rigorous voter ID process for early and day of voting. If anything, the Georgia process should be the voter ID model. — I’m not sure about the absentee process.
That may be true now but I believe the GOP has a real shot at expanding its influence among these demographics. These are people and they care about themselves and their families first, as they should, not some political party. Economic prosperity is the key.
One of the very top priorities for the Trump Administration is to eliminate early voting and voter fraud. At the very minimum please eliminate early voting as that is fairly easy to justify according to the Constitution.
Unfortunately, as this should be a high priority, but Trump can’t do it. It’ll take the states... meaning WE THE PEOPLE getting involved at the local levels.
Note, the federal government can dictate the date for national elections only - not state and local. If they want to make sure folks can actually get to the polls, move the date to the first Saturday and Sunday in November.
“except the points he made that Georgia, Texas, Arizona were much closer than they should be”
Arizona went Republican 53-45 in 2008. An 8 point lead, with Arizona senator John McCain at the top of the GOP ticket.
It was 53.4-44.5 in 2012, with a Mormon on the top of the GOP ticket and an already proven POS at the top of the Dem’s ticket - a 9 point spread. I’ll point out that Mormons are a huge part of Arizona’s GOP base. There are nearly 400,000 Mormons in Arizona, the 4rd largest at 5% of the total population.
It was 49-45 this year, so it looks like Trump had a 4 point margin. But Trump is not an Arizona senator, and not a Mormon.
And Arizona is not as Republican as some like to think. Janet Napolitano was our Governor before Obama pulled her to DC.
And something folks ought to remember is that Trump is not enthusiastically loved by all who voted for him! Evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Trump...because of Hillary and the Supreme Court. That was, far and away, the most effective argument I had in talking to others. Even so, my sister refused to vote for Trump, saying he’d win Arizona anyways so she was free to refuse to vote for a man she finds repulsive.
We had a prayer service Wednesday in the AZ baptist church I go to. We prayed God would give Trump wisdom and guide him, and thanked God for sparing us from the rabid hatred of Hillary Clinton. I’m certain the huge evangelical vote this year was rooted in fear of Hillary, not devotion to Trump.
I expected Trump to win Arizona by 5-6 points. Without the Mormons united behind him, that was really the best he could hope for. And he won by 4%.
Was that minorities? Or was it people like my sister, who genuinely dislike many of the things Trump has said and done. I did everything I could to GOTV for Trump in Arizona, but a lot of evangelicals, Mormons and women were, shall I say, underwhelmed by Trump. I haven’t forgotten Trump’s praise of Hillary Clinton in 2008 and his enthusiasm for Obama in 2009.
If President Trump fights for a better business climate, fights for good Supreme Court nominees, fights for a stronger military used for America and not the UN - do those three things, and I’ll become a rabid pro-Trump guy.
I supported Ted Cruz. The day he lost the nomination, I switched to Trump. I’ve done my best to get people to vote Trump. I’ll pray for Trump. But the truth is I voted against Hillary. And most of the people I know voted the same way.
Don’t assume AZ’s vote was based in minorities taking over the state. I know a LOT of conservative Mexican-Americans. I have neighbors with a heavy accent who are more pro-Trump than I am. The weak showing by Trump in AZ wasn’t as weak as people think, and I doubt it was driven by minorities. The Mormon Church and folks like my sister probably account for most of it.
And thus the NeverTrumper neo-cons have been transformed into concern trolls.
At a time, no less, when we all should be rejoicing at the expansion of the “big tent” they’ve been prattling on about since Bush 1 got bushwhacked.