Posted on 07/19/2023 9:56:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Trump has a quasi-incumbency advantage for the Republican nomination, but there is much chatter about how he can officially seal the deal on his third primary victory.
However, one thing he does not have to do is “unite” the party, at least not in the way some believe.
During the 2008 Democrat primaries, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were locked into a vicious campaign that saw Obama squeak out a slim delegate victory. In theory, a party can’t be more “divided” than having two candidates essentially tied. Eight years later, the Republican primary saw Trump spar with 16 candidates en route to winning a smaller percentage of delegates than any Republican nominee since 1968.
Both primaries produced battle-tested nominees by the time the general election cycle began. And while during the process it seemed there was immense internal division, voters of Obama in 2008 and Trump in 2016 evidently were not fazed by in-party hostilities by the time the general election arrived. In fact, those vicious primaries mobilized voters because Obama and Trump proved that they could withstand the storm, and voters rewarded them greatly for it. This was proven by Obama setting the then-popular vote record in 2008 and furthered by Trump setting the then-Republican candidate record for general election votes in 2016.
The alternative to this is having a nominee who faces very little opposition, which is not as beneficial as it sounds. The primary may appear more united, but keeping the all-important momentum going is the key to winning for any candidate. Recent history proves when it is assumed a primary is a “lock,” voters are more likely to stay complacent during the general compared to the party that experienced a tight race throughout the entire process.
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The fake republicans will kiss up to President Retard anyway makes no difference
None of this matters if the Dems are going to steal the election again. What is anyone in politics or law enforcement doing about this?
Republicans should, at the very least, be screaming into every microphone they see that anyone caught engaging in election fraud will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Your lives will be DESTROYED. But, crickets. You’re free to cheat again democrats!
That’s the Republican message.
He and a lot of other people need to expose the fraud and cheating and get people arrested and indicted. Otherwise it’s business as usual in 2024.
All Trump needs to do is stop turning off half of the electorate with his attitude and stupid comments. It’s all he ever had to do. Sadly he can’t and it’s probably too late anyway. The man is near perfect policy wise, that’s why he is so frustrating.
He doesn’t do that.
Implied fraud denial noted.
Gary from Dayton,
If Trump said nothing at all, the legacy media would still find something to accuse him of saying, be it true or not.
How many blue states will pass laws blocking indicted candidates from appearing on their ballots?
Hillary Clinton got the job she wanted from Obama, so the Democrats were united in 2008.
The problem is that those swing voters people think will vote for Trump usually don’t. They didn’t show up in 2020 or 2022, so Trump will need all the Republican votes he can get.
That was the last time an establishment GOP candidate has ever led a presidential primary poll. That was eight years ago.
Since that day, every GOP primary poll has been led by either Donald Trump or (for brief periods in late 2015) Ben Carson.
It’s not just voters in general who despise the Republican Party nowadays … it’s REPUBLICAN voters.
Absurd.
The Clinton-Obama race was between two candidates who agreed about every fundamental issue.
The GOP problem is that 20% of GOP voters will not vote for a
Trump under any circumstances, so he has to make up the difference with Democrats.
"Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders by 12 percent in 2016, but Hillary already had the vast majority of the superdelegates pledged to her candidacy prior to the election, making that primary a foregone conclusion. Likewise, McCain and Romney were granted their long-assumed turns as the Republican nominee without much resistance in 2008 and 2012, respectively. All three nominees endured a noticeable lack of voter enthusiasm before their significant electoral college defeats, despite the party elites all strongly backing them.What this shows is the party is the voters, not the long-entrenched figures associated with it. Trump has already united voters, which is why he doesn’t need the establishment seal of approval."
A very good article.
no the people need to grow up, be responsible for their part in this country.
If they were grown up they would realize just like children do, you aren’t gonna like everyone in authority but best to have a person of truth, and for the people and country, and abiding by laws, in authority then the backstabbing selfish greedy liars and thieves we have at times in power.
We the people hold the biggest power, if enough of us would just accept that and take action based on it in our local areas.
We the people hold the biggest power, if enough of us would just accept that and take action based on it in our local areas.
It’s not just voters in general who despise the Republican Party nowadays … it’s REPUBLICAN voters.
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True statement.
I’m lazy so I’m not changing my voter registration, but if the GOP ever gives me another Romney, Bush, McCain type as a nominee. I’ll vote 3rd party or write in a candidate faster than you can say “Donald Trump.”
Trump is doing no such thing. You are simply repeating the establishment lie.
First of all, please dispense with theological implications of what I am about to say. There are none. I’m not making any one-to-one correlations. I’m about to make what amounts to literary, storyline, plot development parallels:
King David was king even before he was king. King Saul saw him with a jaundiced eye. He began trying to cut David off at the knees even before the inevitable transition was made.
After Saul was dead, his relatives began a sustained plot against King David. There were life-and-death episodes against David and his supporters. David’s entourage included some noble and some roguish outsiders, to be sure; but they were tough as leather.
Also as king, David faced life-and-death opposition from within his own ranks, including his own family members who undermined him.
But David was still the obvious king, despite all the pretenders to the throne. He stands out in the history of Israel and the world.
Trump is a similar sort of historic figure, on the whole, so clean no one has been able to make a single charge stick, even though there have been dozens of “charges” (more properly named “canards”) and millions of dollars worth of man-hours in pursuit of something to dethrone him.
I am on the side of Trump because I see him as the legitimate heir to the office. Obviously, there are those who vehemently disagree with me on this; but I am unmovable.
Here’s the bad news: w/o Trump, we get WW III; with Trump, we get Civil War II. I can’t help but prefer the latter.
The Black, Hispanic and women voters need to remember that under Trump they all made historic progress on wealth and yet a lot of them voted for Biden.
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