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What's Freepers opinion on blaming Trump for the midterm elections?

Posted on 11/10/2022 2:57:06 PM PST by Words Matter

With Conservatives point finger at Trump after GOP’s underwhelming election results: 'He's never been weaker'
Many conservatives say Tuesday's election results show it's 'time to move on' from Trump. (Fox News'', November 9, 2022), as well as the Wall Street Journal - what do Freepers think?


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To: Words Matter

Trump or REVOLUTION !


101 posted on 11/10/2022 3:12:33 PM PST by libh8er
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To: PatriotarchyQ

Thank you Ann Coulter


102 posted on 11/10/2022 3:12:45 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: Words Matter
I think the other billionaires got their moneys worth out of the media and establishment attacking Trump. Time will tell if it was a kill shot. If not, God help those billionaires if Trump returns. He holds a grudge.

I have not been moved by the obvious blatant push poll like attacking. If enough people are dumb enough to raise their rumps for the smoke to be blown up em, well... time will tell.

103 posted on 11/10/2022 3:12:48 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: Words Matter

I don’t blame him, but overall, it didn’t help.

He is not quite the force big fans think he is.

In some cases, it hurt. In others, it helped.

Helped with primaries, but many generals were hurt.


104 posted on 11/10/2022 3:12:53 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: NWFree

Yeah he’s the scapegoat but the cheating is the real culprit. Abortion put all these races within the cheat range.


105 posted on 11/10/2022 3:13:16 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Words Matter

Trump may have been a minor factor…especially since he did it just before the elections, which might have reminded some people that he existed and why they didn’t like him. And that he was threatening to run again. This possibly depressed Republican turnout in some places, since the press naturally made sure it was spread all over the place immediately.

But it wasn’t just that, and it wasn’t the abortion non-issue either, since the Dodds decision did nothing to limit abortion but merely left it up to the states (some of which now have even more liberal laws).

And as for our candidates…we may have had some not so great ones, but look at what the Dems were offering…and Dems voted for them anyway.

I noticed that all of the worst of the COvidian politicians - those imposing lockdowns, demanding masking and vaccine passports, etc. - won or were re-elected. I think what we are seeing is that the Dems like being locked down and controlled, and like having the state in their life at every moment and like making sure the rest of us do, too, because they love the state and it makes them feel safe.

And they love the feeling of power they get from making us submit.

I saw a few of them chirping away on Twitter that now their governor (Hochul, I think) could make sure that the children wore masks in school all day and that parents couldn’t refuse the vaccine…because it made them feel “safe” now.

We assume everybody wants freedom, but guess what - they don’t. It scares many people and what they voted for was mommy state to come and kiss their boo-boos and make them feel better.


106 posted on 11/10/2022 3:13:21 PM PST by livius
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To: Words Matter

Trump is absolutely not ‘at fault’ for any of this.

I wish he’d shut his yap more, though.


107 posted on 11/10/2022 3:13:22 PM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Words Matter

It is spin.

Beijing Mitch sabotoged the election in NH and AZ and AK, and probably others.

If we do not take the Senate, it is because of Mitch, and he is getting a free pass.


108 posted on 11/10/2022 3:13:45 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Words Matter

Neither Faux News nor the open-borders WSJ are citing conservatives. Phony premise.


109 posted on 11/10/2022 3:14:07 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: hinckley buzzard

not what graham proposed at all


110 posted on 11/10/2022 3:14:15 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: DenntOR

Truthfully, it was the GOP’s message about how they would deal with inflation and all the other crisis going on. A plan.

It’s not enough to tell the American people we have a problem.

Americans are like little children. You need to tell them how we got here and what you will do to fix it and describe how much better life will improve in just a year after having been elected to fix the problems.

Nothing from the GOP. No specific plan.

Maybe they were too busy fighting each other to see the incoming from the DNC


111 posted on 11/10/2022 3:14:29 PM PST by tsowellfan
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To: Words Matter
I'd like to see the data on the full list of endorsements vs election wins before making any judgement. Trump is just a person and a proxy for the rest of us. Have his positions changed? I don't think so, so he is still viable to me. I stopped caring about the echoes in the press decades ago.
112 posted on 11/10/2022 3:14:33 PM PST by fruser1
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To: Drew68

So Trump lost 2022 even though he holds no office, the GOP is going to win back the House and has a good shot at the Senate?


113 posted on 11/10/2022 3:14:42 PM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: Words Matter

It was the Taj Mahal of midterms


114 posted on 11/10/2022 3:15:04 PM PST by PatriotarchyQ
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To: Tea Drinker

Abortion the democrats literally spent over 800 million dollars on abortion


115 posted on 11/10/2022 3:15:05 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Maybe, but the next GOP candidate is going to get the same treatment as Trump. Unless he is a wimp. In that case, it will even be worse.


116 posted on 11/10/2022 3:15:05 PM PST by dforest
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To: fruser1

Great analysis.


117 posted on 11/10/2022 3:15:06 PM PST by Words Matter
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To: Lod881019

That is wrong about Ohio. Only Steve Chabot, republican lost in the Cincinnati district. All other races the incumbent held, regardless of party. The five rats are all from urban districts that are pretty blue, which includes the rat who beat Chabot. AFAIK Trump was a factor only in the Senate race.


118 posted on 11/10/2022 3:15:17 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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To: Words Matter
I saw part of the debate between Oz and Lurch.

If Oz had spoken calmly and clearly, I believe he would have won. The contrast between him and Lurch would have been too much to overcome.

However, instead he spoke rapidly in a high pitched voice trying to get out all of his talking points and sounded like a gerbil on crack.

So what could have been a decisive moment was a meh.

119 posted on 11/10/2022 3:15:31 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Words Matter

I will support Trump in 2024. We owe him bigtime. But looking forward he’d best stop attacking DeSantis.

That kiss my ring shtick is getting old. Show some humility, fer cryin out loud. He’s got half the country locked up - its time for him to try to get a few of the others on board.


120 posted on 11/10/2022 3:15:46 PM PST by skeeter
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