I wouldn’t be so sure about what trump believes at this point. If the reports are true about his retweeting qanon stuff then I would be concerned that he is causing himself, and by extension, the republican party problems. There are plenty of people who will be turned off by these allegations, true or not. And at this point this is the last thing the party needs.
I’ve spent the last 3 weekends working with my local precinct in contacting voters and I have heard more than once that trump being in the news all the time is sucking the air out of the the room so to speak. When our local candidates are spending more time answering questions about stolen elections, doj conspiracies, etc. and not being able to articulate their platforms to voters then I would say we have a problem.
“If the reports are true about his retweeting qanon stuff then I would be concerned that he is causing himself, and by extension, the republican party problems. “
If he is doing that (and I don’t read what he posts), then he is acting foolishly.
That is worrisome, what you are hearing, and I don’t doubt it as I have been hearing similar here.
I think part of it is a Dem plan to “suck the air out of the room” with various manufactured soap operas about Trump. The Jan6 hearings, FBI raid, DOJ stuff, for sure. They announced long ago they planned to smear Republicans as “The Party of QAnon” in the midterms*. The stolen election staying forefront is partly Trump’s doing. A good candidate could counter that by redirecting away from that endless subject and stating his commitment to ensuring election integrity and making it part of his platform. From what I’m hearing, a number of voters want to hear more about the now and plans for the future rather than rehashing the past. And hey, without election integrity, all is lost anyway.
How to keep Jan6, FBI, DOJ, and all the circuses surrounding them from sucking the air out of the room is beyond me. The Dems keep churning this stuff out, and who knows what else they’ve got up their sleeves? They know they need to fire up their own voters seeing as how Biden and Dem policies have been such huge disappointments and disasters. Of course it also fires up Trump’s base (justfiably) in his defense and in defense of Rule of Law. Those more toward the center are growing ever more weary of the turmoil and divisiveness.
Of course the Dems have been incredibly divisive all along while accusing Trump of being the divisive one. Many who voted for Biden did so because of his promise to be a unifier. They have been bitterly disappointed after his infamous Nuremberg Speech. The Dems apparently feel the need to ratchet it up to make it look like Trump is the reason for all the divisiveness so many are so sick and tired of.
I agree Trump isn’t helping himself by retruthing Q stuff, whether through carelessness or pandering to them. If the MSM keep beating that drum, it could become a real problem. The leftist media have been carrying on about it for some time now.
*See my earlier post on this thread for link:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4093886/posts?page=19#19
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