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The Most Powerful Anti-Trump Argument in the GOP Has Evaporated
Politico ^

Posted on 12/14/2023 4:59:58 AM PST by FarCenter

Joe Biden has done Donald Trump the enormous favor of collapsing before our eyes.

As the 2024 GOP presidential race heads into the first contests, Biden’s abysmal run of polling has boosted Trump and undercut his Republican opponents by hanging a neon sign on our politics reading, “TRUMP CAN WIN.”

It may be that Trump, such is his hold on GOP voters, didn’t need any help establishing a dominant position in the fight for the Republican nomination, but two exogenous events have boosted him.

First, the indictments from the Justice Department and Democratic prosecutors created a predictable rally-around-Trump effect that put him on a fundamentally higher trajectory in the race, and second, Biden’s execrable polling has completely eliminated any possibility of making an electability argument against Trump.

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To: FarCenter

Trump didn’t lose in 2020 if only legal votes are counted.


21 posted on 12/14/2023 5:49:35 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Gaffer

You counsel surrender before the fight. Very low T.


22 posted on 12/14/2023 5:55:18 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: FarCenter
That is some strong surrender-monkey bleating.
Impeachment of Biden might rally Democrats around him, but the impeachment inquiry won't. The inquiry gives the committee power to collect evidence and detail the sordid story of the Biden family. There's not enough calendar left to actually impeach, much less convict. And getting 2/3 of the Senate to vote for conviction is not feasible.

The Democrats in the House were able to impeach trump a second time for January 6 protests in only 7 days. President Trul was impeached for the second time on January 13, 2021, one week before his term expired.

You forget your history, there is PLENTY of time.

23 posted on 12/14/2023 6:01:45 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Low T....really? For me it’s priorities. Like stopping wasted giveaway spending, closing our open borders and actual DOJ indictments of people in the Biden Regime.

All of this “full house formal enquiry” votes stuff are just diversions away from more pressing problems, IMO. It’s like “we will hold a vote to think about thinking about actually voting on whether or not to impeach....” There won’t be any actual formal impeachment vote because the GOP doesn’t have enough of a majority to get around those RINOs who want the power and money Democrats give them.


24 posted on 12/14/2023 6:03:34 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

Your reply is low T. Your mangina is showing, for shame.


25 posted on 12/14/2023 6:05:53 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Oh geezus....forget it. But do come back and tell me “I told you so” when he actually gets impeached.


26 posted on 12/14/2023 6:09:27 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: FarCenter

“Biden’s abysmal run of polling has boosted Trump and undercut his Republican opponents by hanging a neon sign on our politics reading, “TRUMP CAN WIN.”” ... Now’s the time for Dems to pull 80+ yo Biden for a younger replacement not name Kamala. Suddenly almost 80 yo Trump will be deemed too old and Rs will lose again.


27 posted on 12/14/2023 6:11:51 AM PST by GAgal
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To: jeffc

“ A deeper look at the article now looks like they’re just trying to rally the Dem troops, which is what I would expect of that Leftist rag...”

Look at who the author is.


28 posted on 12/14/2023 6:14:33 AM PST by stanne
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To: FarCenter

Isn’t Rich Lowry supposed to be a conservative writer?


29 posted on 12/14/2023 6:32:01 AM PST by WomBom ("I read Free Republic for the pictures)
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To: WomBom

30 posted on 12/14/2023 6:35:43 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: stanne

Lowry. What a putz!


31 posted on 12/14/2023 6:37:15 AM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: FarCenter

Spot on. Trump won the last two elections, and he’ll win again next year. The Dims are stuck with Biden and his horrible economy. They also don’t have Covid this go-round (to gin up their mail-in ballot scheme), and they won’t have Twitter/X to run cover for them. The loony Left has just one chance and that’s massive fraud. It’ll be much harder this time since everybody is watching.


32 posted on 12/14/2023 6:44:42 AM PST by Kharis13
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To: Tell It Right

Yep. Take away all the unsigned mail-in ballots, ballots from incorrect addresses, etc. in the swing states and Trump probably wins against Biden.

I’ve always thought there is no way they put Harris at the top of the ticket. Now I’m not so sure. As Biden continues to implode leading into the election, I think they may pull him off late in the game. The media will run a complete staged cover campaign for her to keep the public from seeing what a shrill, dumb-as-rocks, vindictive woman she is.


33 posted on 12/14/2023 6:49:19 AM PST by Señor Presidente (Tyranny deserves insurrection)
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To: Kharis13

The Dems never give up. They will find something they have no limits to their retaliatory tactics. None

They will never allow Trump to win, as I said to my friend when on election night 2020 ‘Trump won, I’m going to bed”

They will never let him win. The suburban women who make up my social base keep looking for joy Behar, joy ried any of the fox people Jake tapper protests in the pulpit, Hollywood, academia, the GOP ‘contenders, the GOP senators, congress, this culture to apologize and recognize that Biden is bad and Trump is good. That is never going to happen.

Never

They don’t get their minds around what this is about. I guess it takes a paradigm shift for them. It’s the constitution, the thing that none of the above care about or consider.

Trump will never give up. That’s what these people don’t get. And the suburban women. They want Trump to give up to end the fighting. Thats not going to happen.


34 posted on 12/14/2023 7:10:49 AM PST by stanne
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To: Secret Agent Man

IF Trump is permitted to run, he will NEVER be permitted to win (China wouldn’t like that). If he wins, he will not be permitted to set foot in the White House. Assassination is—I believe—being planned right now. I hope I am wrong. This time King Richard has not Robin Hood or MerryMen to help him bring down Prince John and restore the kingdom. In Truth, John ruled and was England’s worse King and lost much of the nation. That is our fate—I fear.


35 posted on 12/14/2023 8:12:04 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

The ONLY people whose opinions on impeachment matter are swing state voters. Impeachment is slightly favored in the seven States that actually decide the Presidency.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-now-leads-biden-in-all-seven-swing-states-poll/


36 posted on 12/14/2023 8:47:30 AM PST by Go_Raiders (An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? - Axel Oxenstierna)
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To: Macoozie
They always have this backwards.

as Rush said -"we were there before Trump"

37 posted on 12/14/2023 9:20:42 AM PST by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what’s true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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