Posted on 11/03/2021 7:48:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Trump was never going to win Virginia. He is absolutely toxic to NoVa suburban voters.
Oh he can win VA.
Sieg Heil
Trump is right. That rural massive turnout. Was all MAGA.. he held on to them and Trumps urging to flood the system made sure they showed up
It’s not all about Trump but he’s not lying
You thing rural can didn’t turn out huge because of Trump? You think his urging to “flood the system” didn’t affect turnout?
Yes the candidate played it well, but without MAGA turnout and enthusiasm he would have lost
Great response from a low information thumb-sucking jellyfish.
The only person evoking Trump..."Most evocative....
Read Bonhoefer and see the dangers of putting all your faith in a demagogue!
Really good point.
I think some of these statements by President Trump are schtick and an act to maintain his relevance in the culture. I don’t know that he has any empirical data that shows that Youngkin would have lost by 15 points - it’s just the way he talks.
He has a role to play in American politics. I do think he learned a valuable lesson about how best to help some candidates during an election - such as he does not need to campaign on the ground to get his point across.
btw, if anyone knew Youngkin, why do we need to be introduced to his VP candidate — after the election?
Meet Virginia Lt. Governor-Elect Winsome Sears: She’s Crashing Through Glass Ceilings and Demolishing Stereotypes
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4009481/posts
Frankly, Youngkin should have given her a far higher profile during the campaign. He won on Trump’s coattails, not his own. He is to be applauded for not effing it up, but it wasn’t his own doing.
Trump is right to take credit for this win.
Reminds me of a joke I just heard in my local talk radio station. The host said they had hundreds of thousands of preprinted McCauliffe Virginia ballots from China, but unfortunately for them they are stuck on one of those anchored freighters off the coast waiting to get unloaded due to supply chain issues LMAO!
That is hopeful. Since Terry Mc seemed to run against Trump, he was wise not inject himself too far into Youngkin’s campaign. Youngkin ran on Trump’s policies which is so Important
Those numbers are a percentage of total vote and not absolute numbers, and there’s no comparison between national and off-year elections (which, btw, are designed to entrench the dominant party).
Meaningless, especially given the steal. Try again.
Wrong...the extra votes for Biden don't effect the demographics of Virginia Trump voters.
Actually the MSM couldn't wait to tie Trump to Youngkin in victory, because of their fear the GOP has found a winning argument.
Ask yourself why some fat Frank F@g Bruni at the NYT has this right, and you have it wrong:
"In no sane world and by no sound reading did Youngkin run without or away from Trump, though that’s one of the spins being applied to his election in a state that President Biden won by roughly 10 percentage points just a year ago. Youngkin simply chose Trump in spirit over Trump in the flesh, a Trump Lite tack sure to be mimicked by Republican candidates in the 2022 midterms and beyond.Political observers who say that Youngkin was a Never Trumper — proving the viability of that movement — are deluding themselves. He was a Stealth Trumper and Sorta Trumper who took pains not to offend or alienate Forever Trumpers.
I promise you that Ron DeSantis took note of how Youngkin used it. I promise you that every Republican governor, senator and House member who is up for re-election next year in a purple state or district paid heed.
They are testing the same proposition, which is that you needn’t choose between Trump sycophancy and Trump apostasy. There’s a halfway posture, a middle ground, and it can look to voters not like moral cowardice but like political prudence.
Trump allowed it. The former president was uncharacteristically even-tempered and restrained. Instead of taking offense at the distance that Youngkin kept from him, instead of taking the bait when journalists pointed that out, he professed to be unbothered. He claimed amity and mutual respect between the two of them.
Don’t interpret Trump’s absence from Republicans’ campaigns with an absence from their calculations. Don’t overlook the homage to Trump in DeSantis’s flamboyant us-versus-them, own-the-libs theatrics: offering cash bonuses to unvaccinated police officers who relocate to Florida from blue cities or states, challenging cruise lines’ insistence that passengers be vaccinated. Trump has educated Republicans, and one of the lessons is to be more like him."
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