Posted on 07/15/2023 7:22:04 PM PDT by bitt
Allan Lichtman – famous for correctly predicting the outcome of every U.S. presidential election since 1984 (barring 2000) – says Donald Trump is now the mainstream in the Republican Party, and no other GOP presidential hopeful stands a chance of winning the party’s nomination.
The American University professor, himself a fierce critic of Trump, said ex-MAGA rival Ron DeSantis was an “abysmal candidate” who lacks Trump’s appeal and personal charm.
Lichtman was clear that other candidates, sometimes described as standard-bearers of the “Republican mainstream”, had no chance – and were no longer the mainstream. “Here’s another mistake that all the commentators make… They pose Donald Trump against the so-called ‘Republican mainstream’,” he explained.
“[S]upposedly Chris Christie is a ‘mainstream Republican’, right? Wrong! Donald Trump is the mainstream,” he continued, adding that Trump “is the new mainstream.”
The historian’s assessment echoes Trump’s own comments that the GOP is “never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush.”
Lichtman said “the only way a DeSantis or a [Mike] Pence or a Tim Scott could possibly become the Republican nominee” is if the Republican National Committee (RNC) somehow strips Trump of the nomination, possibly following federal convictions. He noted that there is no legal bar to Trump running for the presidency however, even from behind bars.
“DeSantis ... doesn’t want us involved in Ukraine.”
So today that’s his stance? He seems to flip-flop in that issue. First he didn’t want that. The next day he changed his mind, because his handlers told him he couldn’t agree with Trump. Now, again, he doesn’t?
Trump is the greatest leader of our age.
There is no GOP. There’s Trump and the Uniparty.
If Trump is convicted and sent to prison I will still vote for him.
I can’t see the Republican party ever going back to ‘5% smaller government than Democrats want’... What a silly position that turned into...
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