I really don’t understand how people didn’t like Trump in the first place.
At worst I figure that people just thought he wouldn’t win. But after the GOP nomination - How was there any problem ?
He’s done everything he said he would do. He ran a great campaign. He funded it himself. This guy is a winner in everything he tries.
What was the problem ?
And where were principles when, at the first debate - At the FIRST QUESTION - he answered that without the GOP nomination he would run independently? He said what we were all thinking. No more RINOs.
When he did that, I about jumped out of my chair applauding the TV. To Trump, from question one, it wasn’t about making people happy with his answers. It was about winning and making us win again.
I never got it.
I figured the POTUS Apprentice Show would be fun for at least two years.
Now I say renew it for another 6 years.
Time to start grooming an actual apprentice.
There wasn’t any reasonable basis for it. Fact is, there’s a gravy train on each side of the aisle and those on the Republican side stood to lose their seat on it. I don’t think there was anything else to it, as evidenced by the fact that the entire #NeverTrump movement has close to zero impact in terms of actual votes.
“I really don’t understand how people didn’t like Trump in the first place.”
Because they love the swamp which Trump had promised to drain. As simple as that.
He outed all the frauds(hillary voters) in the repubikan party. Unfortunately, it’s most of the congressmen and senators in D.C. I’m in the MAGA party now.
easy to understand. The clinton, soros, Obama smear machine kicked in, calling him racist, mysoginistic, tax cheat (where’s your records), ant-immigrant. Some republicans didn’t;t like him because he personally insulted their favorite candidate. he lost the Bushes for instance when he emasculated Jeb on camera. I’m surprised the old man didn’t have his CIA friends whack him. Plenty to understand.
I have always liked Trump. I loved his brashness. When I heard his speech saying he is running I was on board. I was a Cruz supporter before Trump came down the escalator!
There were reasons why some conservatives didn’t like Trump during the primaries. He’s changed his voter registration 6 times. He supports an infrastructure plan bigger than Obama’s. He was on video saying everyone would be covered by healthcare and “the government will pay for it.” There wa the old video of hm with Russert talking about how completely pro-choice he was. (I know he took a pro-life position, but nobody believed Romney had genuinely switched.)
So some conservatives were hesitant about Trump based on his history. However, he campaigned on generally conservative themes (infrastructure excepted), and he has been a good president who has disappointed, if at all, only on a few things (such as signing a massive spending bill after saying he wouldn’t sign another one.)
I can see why conservatives didn’t fully support him during the primaries. I was one. Once he became the nominee, most of the reasons to oppose him went away, especially as the campaign went along. (And especially since he was the Not Hillary candidate.)
As president, he has been much better than the Trump-skeptical conservatives expected. Even a lot of “Never Trump” conservatives are generally pleased with his performance. So there is even less reason to oppose his re-election in 2020.