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How Trump Became Unstoppable in Iowa
Wall Street Journal ^ | 01/15/2024 | Molly Ball

Posted on 01/15/2024 4:11:50 PM PST by simpson96

INDIANOLA, Iowa—As he stood on the brink of a seemingly unstoppable march to another Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump couldn’t stop thinking about all the ways he had been betrayed. “Do you think this is fun? Actually?” the former president mused. “It’s not fun,” he said, “but we’re getting our point across.”

The hundreds of devoted supporters who had braved subzero temperatures Sunday to cram into a second-floor auditorium at the Simpson College student union, half an hour south of Des Moines, hung on Trump’s every word as he riffed for nearly two hours. The crowd was dotted with white caps bearing the words “TRUMP CAUCUS CAPTAIN” in embroidered gold letters, and the former president wore one himself—a totem of the ruthlessly professional organization that Trump’s campaign has built, a far cry from the slapdash operation that failed to deliver him Iowa in early 2016. “These caucuses,” Trump said gleefully, “are your personal chance to score the ultimate victory over all of the liars, cheaters, thugs, perverts, frauds, crooks, creeps—and other quite nice people.”

If the polls are to be believed, Trump is poised to win Monday night’s caucuses by the largest margin in the contest’s history, potentially putting him in position to quickly wrap up the GOP nomination. It is a result so anticlimactic as to seem inevitable: the front-runner who never lost his lead, the hapless rivals who spent hundreds of millions only to consume each other. Given Trump’s unshakable hold on his core supporters and his stature as a former president, there was never any other plausible outcome, said Rick Wilson, an anti-Trump former Republican operative and founder of the Lincoln Project: “This whole primary has been Kabuki,” he said, because “40% of the Republican base will set themselves on fire for that man.”

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1 posted on 01/15/2024 4:11:50 PM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

The fact that there was no other outcome possible I question everyone of the other candidates judgement.


2 posted on 01/15/2024 4:14:44 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: simpson96

Congratulations, WSJ, by lying about him and the 2020 election, you’ve help make him unstoppable.


3 posted on 01/15/2024 4:15:38 PM PST by nicollo ("This is FR!")
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To: simpson96
It can only be Trump in 2024.

He was cheated out of it in 2020 by a massive fraud.

4 posted on 01/15/2024 4:18:12 PM PST by SamAdams76 (6,508,933 Truth | 87,456,907 Twitter)
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To: simpson96

By doing what he said he was going to do for four straight years.


5 posted on 01/15/2024 4:18:46 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: simpson96
How Trump Became Unstoppable in Iowa

Open borders

Making America an energy slave again

Hyperinflation

Free stuff for everyone coming across the open borders

Persecuting MAGA and J6

Pushing DEI on the world

Trying to start WWIII

And then persecuting the one guy who stands up and opposes all of that.

It's really very simple. He stood for America and Americans when no one else will.

6 posted on 01/15/2024 4:19:48 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: SamAdams76

Yes but he has to pick a VP and he doesn’t have a stellar reputation for any picks he makes


7 posted on 01/15/2024 4:22:43 PM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: AndyJackson

Don’t forget this transgender crap!


8 posted on 01/15/2024 4:22:51 PM PST by mythenjoseph (Islam has NO place in a Christian society.)
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To: nicollo

I do so hope that he wins in November. I’d love telling the bitches that if he hadn’t had 2020 stolen, he’d be leaving office in 1-‘25, the economy would be fine, and the world likely at peace.


9 posted on 01/15/2024 4:23:05 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: simpson96

“Rick Wilson, an anti-Trump former Republican operative and founder of the Lincoln Project: “This whole primary has been Kabuki,” he said, because “40% of the Republican base will set themselves on fire for that man.”

I’d be more than willing to set Rick on fire.

Just saying.

L


10 posted on 01/15/2024 4:26:06 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: SamAdams76

Yup, you are exactly correct.


11 posted on 01/15/2024 4:27:27 PM PST by Cottonhill (Cottonhill)
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To: AndyJackson

Don’t forget the ignominious and completely preventable pullout from Afghanistan (and the undoubted torture, rape and slaughter of our Afghani allies and their families Brandon left to the mercy of the Taliban).


12 posted on 01/15/2024 4:33:05 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: simpson96

The more DC and the people ruining America go after him, the more regular Americans love him. The more the party unjustly prosecutes him illegally. The more corrupt DC shows itself, the more the J6 hostages are abused, the more America realizes, “that could be me”.


13 posted on 01/15/2024 4:34:45 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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Everybody knows Trump is a great candidate, but I cant help but notice that one of the reasons Trump stands out and is gangbusters on the campaign trail is b/c decrepit Biden is such a frickin’ weenie, a sack of nothing.

drJill’s crapola campaigning also significantly enhance Trump’s popularity. Did she really believe
her inconsequential defense of whoring crackhead Hunter would carry weight with voters?


14 posted on 01/15/2024 4:34:52 PM PST by Liz
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To: simpson96

>> Rick Wilson: ... “40% of the Republican base will set themselves on fire for [President Trump]...

I WOULD NOT EITHER set myself on fire for President Trump!!!

(However I would GLADLY set Rick Wilson on fire for him. :-) )


15 posted on 01/15/2024 4:35:53 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: AndyJackson

>> It’s really very simple. He stood for America and Americans when no one else will.

AMEN


16 posted on 01/15/2024 4:36:42 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Lurker

>> I’d be more than willing to set Rick on fire.

You beat me to it! LOL

Okay, line starts behind Lurker.


17 posted on 01/15/2024 4:38:58 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: simpson96
"These caucuses are your personal chance to score the ultimate victory over all of the liars, cheaters, thugs, perverts, frauds, crooks, creeps—and other quite nice people."

LMAO.

18 posted on 01/15/2024 4:39:10 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: simpson96

It has nothing to do with Iowa. The second that Alvin Bragg prosecuted Trump, the primary was over.


19 posted on 01/15/2024 4:46:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: simpson96

A few simple reasons.
* He is one of the very few politicians not owned by the Deep State and China.
* Even though he is a billionaire, he is truly a man of the people who believes in the constitution, freedom, and liberty.
* Unlike the Dems, he is not working to enslave us but to liberate us from the GD overgrown government.
* He works for US.
* He is tireless and absolutely fearless.
* He is fighting the GD Dem lawfare tooth and nail.


20 posted on 01/15/2024 4:52:02 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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