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Posted on 07/22/2023 6:58:51 AM PDT by Reno89519
The day he broke up with Trump was one of his toughest, Hossein Khorram says.
“I was heartbroken,” the Clyde Hill man told me. “I felt like I was betraying a friend.”
Khorram, 62, is one of the more gregarious behind-the-scenes players in local Republican politics. As a max donor and the finance chairman of “Trump Victory Washington State,” he helped raise money here for Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign.
Khorram, a Muslim, also made himself widely available to cheerfully parry critiques that Trump is anti-immigrant or racist. Khorram, an Eastside developer, continued to back Trump well past the catastrophe of the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
As recently as February 2022, he donated $5,000 to a support group aimed at resurrecting Trump’s political career, a committee called “Make America Great Again, Again.” (This is the same fund that last week was revealed to have paid Melania Trump $155,000 for consulting on tableware and floral arrangements.)
But after Republicans bombed in the 2022 midterm elections, and especially after the criminal indictments started piling up for the ex-president this spring, Khorram says it hit him.
“Trump’s time has come and gone,” he says he realized.
In late May, Khorram maxed out instead to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, new federal disclosure forms show. He also signed on to be DeSantis’ rainmaker in Washington state.
“I switched horses,” he told me. “In politics, it’s winner take all, loser take none. And the fact is for me: I no longer think Trump can win.”
He got more votes the second time he ran when compared to the first
DeSantis is going to lose the primaries and lose them badly.
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Trump is no Jesus Christ, but he’s way better than any other leader today.
For Biden to win in 2020, registered voter turnout had to be pretty much 100%.
i.e. it was stolen.
(((YAWN))) Not as fast as the liberal journalists are cracking.
So he backed a loser because he thinks Trumps time is over? That’s hilarious
And he lost, even if stolen. What about 2024, can he win if he got the same vote? And how many has he lost? And, importantly, as I’ve asked, is there any proof or suggestion that Trump is adding voters for 2024. No. That is simple fact, maybe inconvenient, but fact.
I kind of think that's what the democrats had in mind when Biden authorized all the indictments of Trump.
Hilarious? First, Trump lost, and for the several midterms, he basically lost--2018, 2022. DeSantis, on the other hand has NEVER lost an election. His last was a 20 point landslide win.
...and since the facts are against Trump. Insults and name calling in 3, 2, 1
My support for Trump grows every day. Every day I run into people who need severe retraining on thinking and behavior. Trump doesn’t bother me at all compared to the people with which I have contact.
In the author’s dreams.
The votes would be the proof and Trump became more popular after his first term . I don’t know what other kind of proof there could be.
escapefromboston wrote: “He got more votes the second time he ran when compared to the first”
The question is will he, can he, get enough votes in the third time?
I’m surprised how he dropped in the polls, I thought he’d do a lot better. He’s kind of boring and I don’t think being “anti woke” is a huge issue for most voters compared to other topics.
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The only thing cracking is you and your personal vendetta against Trump.
Someone’s full of himself
Or, they are going to join forces when it's too late for RATS to attack and divide.
Just thinking out loud?
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