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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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To: ProtectOurFreedom

>> Even though [President Trump] is a billionaire, he is truly a man of the people

On that subject, he is one of the few Presidents to have suffered a DECREASE in his net worth as a direct consequence of spending his own wealth to serve and fight for US.


21 posted on 01/15/2024 4:56:27 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Lurker

Bwahahahahaha...


22 posted on 01/15/2024 5:02:03 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Well written. Kudos.

2020 - The Great Experiment - Joseph Blanchard (2 separate pieces) The Stolen Election
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/politics/video/2020-The-Grand-Experiment-Joseph-Blanchard-V04.htm

Trump 2020 Election Memes - I Will Hold My Ground - Darryl Worley
https://youtu.be/ol34qf8kaPQ

Trump Impeachment Memes - Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
https://youtu.be/eQG6liOA4wM

Trump Memes - I Won’t Back Down (Stand My Ground) - Tom Petty
https://youtu.be/YfFrzMOMkR8

Trump - Nessun Dorma, from Puccini’s Turandot - Luciano Pavarotti
https://youtu.be/MigUKGKr-nQ


23 posted on 01/15/2024 5:04:45 PM PST by mairdie (https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/politics/video/2020-The-Grand-Experiment-Joseph-Blanchard-V04.htm)
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To: simpson96

Now they say he is unstoppable. If it’s so obvious, why didn’t they say it a year ago?


24 posted on 01/15/2024 5:05:58 PM PST by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: simpson96

I was talking to a lib about this. I told them “trump gives out those pizzas, hangs out with the people there, and it doesn’t look like a chore, like it does with most politicians and elites. That’s why they don’t understand his popularity. He’s done that for decades with his workers. He asks them about their families, slips them a $100 tip, and shakes their hand.

Normal politicians just make speeches, maybe shake a few hands, then leave.


25 posted on 01/15/2024 5:12:42 PM PST by struggle
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To: simpson96

LET’S GO!!!

TRUMP24


26 posted on 01/15/2024 5:14:21 PM PST by karnage
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To: for-q-clinton

God created the weather for this one, so you know that He has something in mind. I suspect that we will get a true message in this primary as to where we are going. I don’t honestly know that, but all things indicate that it will be a turning point. One prayer I have everyday is that ALL of them are exposed to who they really are. All deception to be exposed.


27 posted on 01/15/2024 5:14:45 PM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: nicollo

excellent post


28 posted on 01/15/2024 5:15:14 PM PST by CottonBall (How cute that people think there are still elections. )
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To: AndyJackson

Well said.


29 posted on 01/15/2024 5:15:21 PM PST by karnage
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To: AppyPappy

Judas Pence was forced upon him. He was still having to play with the RNC for his cabinet pics. This time around he knows they are all enemies


30 posted on 01/15/2024 5:16:29 PM PST by CottonBall (How cute that people think there are still elections. )
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To: Liz

Yes, Biden is senile and corrupt cadaver.

But Trump is also incredibly dynamic and fearless. There has never been anyone quite like him.


31 posted on 01/15/2024 5:17:01 PM PST by karnage
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To: struggle
I was talking to a lib about this. I told them

Them? Was it more than one?

32 posted on 01/15/2024 5:19:06 PM PST by nwrep
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To: karnage

Amen.


33 posted on 01/15/2024 5:19:09 PM PST by Liz
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To: simpson96

Trump should have this wrapped up by S Carolina, maybe a couple hang on until after New Hampshire but the focus should now be on Biden and Dems, do not be lulled by low poll numbers, hell Obama was at something like 43 or 44% and with MSM he won easy


34 posted on 01/15/2024 5:19:11 PM PST by TECTopcat
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To: TECTopcat
hell Obama was at something like 43 or 44% and with MSM he won easy

Obama was popular with his base (or at least in '12.)

Biden is not popular with his base. So he will have to convince the female voters to vote for him due to the abortion issue.

Others, they'll vote against Trump.

35 posted on 01/15/2024 5:22:04 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: for-q-clinton

Trump projected winner

Landslide

Race is for second


36 posted on 01/15/2024 5:32:53 PM PST by forYourChildrenVote4Bush
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To: nwrep

Naw, you know how libs are. You can’t tell the sex so you just speak generally.


38 posted on 01/15/2024 5:49:57 PM PST by struggle
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To: simpson96

On his way to complete and total victory!!
He is unstoppable.


39 posted on 01/15/2024 5:55:06 PM PST by George J. Jetso
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To: simpson96

Of course, because he ALREADY WON in 2020. The voters already decided this. Why any Republican fan against him I’ll never understand.


40 posted on 01/15/2024 6:25:15 PM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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