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The Cake Is Baked': GOP Senators Believe Trump Is A Lock For 2024 Nomination
HuffPost ^ | 12/8/23 | Igor Bobic

Posted on 12/08/2023 4:06:22 AM PST by cotton1706

Still, some Trump-skeptical Republicans in the Senate continue to hold on to the idea that he can be stopped.

Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said he was “not ready to draw” the conclusion that the primary is basically over. Thune, who had endorsed Scott, told Punchbowl News this week that he has been “impressed” with Haley’s debate performances.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), who had previously expressed interest in DeSantis, said she felt that presidential polls “feel less reliable.”

“To me, it doesn’t feel locked down,” Lummis added of the GOP race. “I do think there could be an Iowa surprise, but I don’t know if it will carry on past Iowa, that’s the thing.”

And Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a Trump critic and a physician, suggested the presidential race could be upended in either major party by a surprise medical issue with Trump or with President Joe Biden.

“If I said that a 78-year-old or an 82-year-old has a stroke tomorrow, would you be surprised?” Cassidy asked HuffPost, referring to how old the two candidates will be next year.

“If I said they either respectively show signs of mental decline or is significantly obese with poor dietary habits, would you think they would be more or less likely to have a stroke?” he said.

“Now, I’m just speaking as a doctor,” Cassidy added. “This is the unknowns that we know, but to channel my inner [former Defense Secretary] Donald Rumsfeld: There are unknowns that are unknown.”

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Senators like Thune and Lummis and Cassidy are holding out hope that they won't be forced by the Republican electorate to choose between Donald Trump and a Democrat.

They liked it much better when their types forced the Republican electorate to choose between their latest hand-picked pantywaist and a Democrat.

The tables have turned, and they don't like it. They don't like it at all!

1 posted on 12/08/2023 4:06:22 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

They can’t tell us what’s so good about themselves. How much better they are than Trump and with the truth to back it up. They can’t. Instead, they have to try and tear down a man who already has a track record with the public as a US President. Career politicians who can’t hold a candle to a rookie who simply served the public.


2 posted on 12/08/2023 4:14:19 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: cotton1706
40% of both parties do not want Trump or Biden. Will turnout be low? Will a third party candidate get those voters? Will Biden pardon Hunter and step down for Gavin? Will Trump be imprisoned? Will Trump pick Vivek as VP to get the youth vote?
3 posted on 12/08/2023 4:15:07 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: cotton1706

Still, some Trump-skeptical Republicans in the Senate continue to hold on to the idea that he can be stopped. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

These treasonous bastids are going to conspire with Democrat killers of the Obama/Clinton/Biden wet works to assassinate President Trump.The ones who assassinated Lt Quarales Harris
and Seth Rich. These dastardly bastids are coordinated by Brennan.

Tucker Carlson has already published about this.

And we need to understand that it may involve a compromised Secret Service as the Trump pace of campaign public appearances increases.

We need to let THEM know that we are on guard against this both media wise and administratively. If they do that to Trump they will have a civil war on their hands. This is something they have to know and be sure of.

Secondly we need another Trump to be ready to take up the banner if he falls, and that means either Donald Jr. or Eric via a preorganized national write in campaign. We have to publish this plan because it will make their efforts to do Trump in futile.

For a summary see here:

“Democrats want Trump Dead”

Watching The Defectives ^ | Dec.3, 2023 | Parker Shannon

Posted on 12/3/2023, 12:53:50 PM by Candor7

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4200945/posts

One of the remaining Republican challengers for the nomination is likely informed of this plot, either Deantis or Haley probably.Or maybe both. I think Haley.


4 posted on 12/08/2023 4:27:12 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>,<a href="">tag</a>)
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To: cotton1706

I know about Thune and Cassiday, but I do not know Lummis.

They should ALL BECOME DEMOCRAPS, COME ON PEOPLE, BE HONEST WITH YOUR INNER SELVES.


5 posted on 12/08/2023 4:45:07 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: cotton1706

What’s that river in Egypt? Oh, yea, denial!


6 posted on 12/08/2023 4:47:43 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: cotton1706

So - Thune is “impressed with Haley’s performance” - has Nikki been performing Kamalas on him?


7 posted on 12/08/2023 5:00:49 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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“..The tables have turned, and they don’t like it. They don’t like it at all!...”

^THIS^
Cassidy is a backstabbing, greasy turd.
He’s done in Louisiana on the next go-around.


8 posted on 12/08/2023 5:01:51 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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The Bush, Cheney, Paul Ryan Republican party is DEAD...


9 posted on 12/08/2023 5:19:15 AM PST by CMailBag (I)
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To: cotton1706

They also declared water is wet.


10 posted on 12/08/2023 5:55:19 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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Thune is a rino collaborator who is almost certain to replace Mitch. He is just as bad as McConnell maybe worse.


11 posted on 12/08/2023 5:56:52 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: CMailBag

Yes but they still run it


12 posted on 12/08/2023 5:58:08 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: cotton1706

The UniParty/Deep State will see to it that Trump isn’t on the ballot in 2024. Chris Christie so much as said so at the last debate.


13 posted on 12/08/2023 5:59:09 AM PST by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: BradyLS

Id bet Trumps record of accomplishment at a national political level towers over any of the losers who might hold out. Petty and hateful. This strange jealously drives a lot of this hate. Folks still cant believe, 8 years later the man won and kept more promises than any politicians I’ve ever seen in my lifetime...embarrassing so many lifelong hacks that have literally done nothing....


14 posted on 12/08/2023 6:02:37 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: cotton1706

Trump59.

DeSantis12.

Haley11.

Ramaswamy4.9%

Christie2.7%

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The RINO party is toast...


15 posted on 12/08/2023 6:02:59 AM PST by GOPJ
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“Thune is a rino collaborator who is almost certain to replace Mitch. He is just as bad as McConnell maybe worse.”

Correct. And they have systemtically prevented ANY other type of Republican to get into the Senate, their oligarchic bulwark against the people.


16 posted on 12/08/2023 6:04:44 AM PST by cotton1706
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John Thune (R-S.D.), Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.).

What a worthless party of clowns.


17 posted on 12/08/2023 6:08:34 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Candor7

BTTT


18 posted on 12/08/2023 6:12:47 AM PST by nopardons
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To: cotton1706

do they also believe the sun will rise? what led to this sudden realization that Trump would be the nominee?

LMAO


19 posted on 12/08/2023 6:21:06 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: cotton1706
Be on ALERT for Democrat dirty tricks. They are masters.

They'll probably throw Biden under the bus somehow and replace him with someone more electable.

Election fraud goes without saying.

An evil genius is operating behind the scenes.

20 posted on 12/08/2023 6:21:34 AM PST by Savage Beast (TRUTH is a terrifying thing to behold when trapped in a web of delusion.)
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