Reports of Mr. Trump's Political Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

PJ Media ^ | 01/07/2023 | Rick Moran

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As the Kevin McCarthy drama dragged on, commentators began trumpeting the death of former President Donald Trump’s power and influence in the GOP. Then today, it became known that Trump actually brokered the deal between the GOP rebels and Rep. McCarthy’s allies that make the Californian’s election as speaker possible.

“Trump’s spell over GOP breaks with McCarthy meltdown,” claimed Politico three days ago.

“Trump’s inability to lift Kevin McCarthy in speaker race leaves media asking ‘what power does he really have?'” asked Fox News just two days ago.

“House speaker election: fight over Kevin McCarthy’s leadership has exposed limits of Trump’s power,” chirped the academic site The Conversation.

Trump’s influence has waned in some parts of the country and grown in others. I tire of pointing out this simple fact of politics. Where Trump is well thought of, he still has tremendous influence. Where he’s not as well thought of, he has little influence. To make a blanket statement that the Trump “spell” is broken over the entire party is just ignorant.

Trump has good reasons to back McCarthy, loyalty being one of them.

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From Politico:

The Trump-McCarthy relationship has taken several turns over the years, most often defined by loyalty from the latter toward the former. It was McCarthy who went down to Mar-a-Lago after Jan. 6 to meet with a seemingly exiled Trump and, implicitly, keep him in the fold.

Trump, in turn, has offered his support to McCarthy’s speaker ambitions even as contemporaneous materials surfaced showing the congressman’s frustrations with his presidency. After Republicans took back the House, Trump was in contact with members of the anti-McCarthy wing, publicly expressed his support for McCarthy, and even warned those waging battles against McCarthy that they were setting up a “doomsday scenario” in the House.

Anyone who has watched Trump over the last decade knows that he was going to do everything in his power to get McCarthy over the top and get him his speakership. PJM’s Matt Margolis reported on Trump’s efforts, which began in early December and ended up with the former president convincing the two most vocal McCarthy opponents — Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) — to vote “present” and allow McCarthy to win a plurality of those voting.

[Vaduz]

McCarthy won

The art of the deal

[BuddhaBrown]

Who?

[KierkegaardMAN]

Trump’s goose is cooked

[deport]

Such is life and the earth keeps spinning...
round and round we go

[vmivol00]

Drawing the Swamp by endorsing and supporting the Swamp???

[unclebankster]

Reports of Trump’s political demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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No way(sarcasm)

Duh,

He was the 45th President & has a ‘following’ that thought he got ripped of in 2020.

[vmivol00]

Draining the Swamp by endorsing and supporting the Swamp???

[Kazan]

Or maybe he got the best deal he could to constrain the McCarthy and the swamp.

The reality is no one else stepped up and wanted the job.

[BuddhaBrown]

I don't think President Trump is done by any means.

But his stock goes sharply DOWN with me, being on the wrong side of Freedom - again!

Brave and free leaders gained us much winning. The compromiser-in-chief begged them to not do it.

[roving]

You can go to any number of forums and see thousands giving up on Trump.

The only place you see big support is on Truth only because they are deleting as fast as they can anyone who opposes his pick. Me included

[momincombatboots]

O reasonable debate allowed on a network created by a prez who championed mail in allots, lockdowns, travel restrictions, masking, endless covid cash to do nothing and a bumpstock ban, huh.

[unclebankster]

You can go to any number of forums and see thousands giving up on Trump.

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So what if people are giving up on Trump.

Voters are emotionally driven and very fickle depending on which way the “media wind is blowing.”

We’re a year out from any serious campaigning.

[x]

Voters are emotionally driven and very fickle depending on which way the “media wind is blowing.”

Voters are fickle about what they like, but not so fickle when it comes to things they don't like.

And that media wind, isn't very likely to ever flow in Donald Trump's direction.

[unclebankster]

O reasonable debate allowed on a network created by a prez who championed mail in allots, lockdowns, travel restrictions, masking, endless covid cash to do nothing and a bumpstock ban, huh.

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You’ll get a great opportunity to “stick it” to Trump in the 2024 Republican Primaries.

The 45th President will be opposed by a bunch of pygmies, plus the one viable alternative......DeSantis the current governor of the great state of Florida.

[BuddhaBrown]

"...thought he got ripped of in 2020."

They are correct.

[unclebankster]

And that media wind, isn’t very likely to ever flow in Donald Trump’s direction.
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How about “economic winds” that take out a bunch of Trump’s competitors by the middle of 2024?

Could it happen?

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That could happen. But if it didn’t happen last year will it happen next year?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I would still crawl through broken glass to vote for Trump, but MAGA is bigger than him now.

[unclebankster]

That could happen. But if it didn’t happen last year will it happen next year?

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Nothing major, maybe a soft recession that doesn’t last very long.

At the moment I don’t see a ‘black swan’ economic event on the horizon.

So IMO the status quo doesn’t favor Trump and would favor his opponents.( I’m a Trump guy BTW)