Posted on 02/08/2020 1:29:32 PM PST by karpov
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The third impeachment trial in American history ended on Wednesday not with a bang but with a whimper. But here in Waukesha County, a patchwork of suburbs, small cities and rural areas west of Milwaukee that holds more Republican votes than any other county in this crucial swing state, there was a nervous excitement.
Yard signs have been flying off the shelves in the county Republican Party’s headquarters in a strip mall near a vegan food supply store. More than 150 people showed up for a State of the Union watch party on Tuesday night, applauding and cheering in a giant hall. And volunteers like Diane Schlosser, a 63-year-old homemaker, have been walking in off the street to sign up.
“We got tired of yelling at the TV,” she said, cleaning up plates of pretzels and bags of popcorn after Tuesday’s party.
The path to the presidency runs through Wisconsin, one of the three key industrial states, along with Pennsylvania and Michigan, that flipped by narrow margins and gave Mr. Trump the presidency in 2016. Mr. Trump won the state by fewer than 23,000 votes, setting up a battle of inches in this year’s presidential race.
Suburban places like Waukesha will be key this year in Wisconsin and nationwide. But though many are trending toward the Democrats, that is hardly universal. These suburbs west of Milwaukee are less white and more educated than they used to be, but over all they have changed much more slowly than suburbs in states like Virginia, Georgia and Arizona.
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[I]n about two dozen interviews over three days, many Republicans said that while they voted for Mr. Trump reluctantly in 2016, they no longer felt hesitant. They pointed to the booming economy, Mr. Trump’s judicial appointments and the conservative stances he has adopted
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Bump
“We aren’t going to truly understand how important President Trump was to the future of the conservatives and Republican Party until the next Republican POTUS cannot assemble the diverse coalition he has been able to put together.”
you know, that all depends on getting the right candidate, AND having Trump STRONGLY endorse said candidate and throw a giant series of rallies in support of that candidate.
right now, we have some potentially great choices, including Rand Paul, Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, Mike Johnson, John Ratcliffe, Elise Stefanik, and yes, even Lindsey Graham ...
President Trump could easily get behind any one of those folks ...
“Democrats did the impossible: they unified the Republican Party behind Trump.”
100% correct ... and STRONGLY aided by the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia pumping out lies and propaganda 24x7x365 for four (soon to be five)years straight ...
“They are now bellied down right up to the axles in the slickest mud in the world.”
Great turn of phrase.
I call BS. Waukesha has always been conservative.
That is the county I live in, never ever doubted Trump
What about MN. That is the state I'm looking at most closely this election.
Will the dump-a-crap party allow ANY presidential approval polls to be published between now and November 4???
What the Donkeys need to be concerned with are not the voters who voted reluctantly for Trump in 2016. Its the voters who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Trump in 2016 but who will now. I have 3 friends who fit this description.
I went to Catholic Memorial high school in Waukesha and it is more Republican now than it was then....my wife’s family still live there!!
“This is a warning piece from a Slimes reporter to the rest of her Democrat brethren!”
...and to decode: You BETTER act as if you give a damn about the Second Amendment.
Dang! So you're saying we all owe letters of thanks to Mittens?
Can we at least wait until he's recalled to send those Thank You notes?
Oh, man! I tell ya, that's one of my most fervent desires for this next election, that Trump wins the nationwide popular vote, so that all the Blue or purplish-blue states like Calif & NY & my own residence of Colorado, will be forced to eat their own political vomit by following the laws they recently passed, requiring them to cast their electoral votes for whoever won the national popular vote, instead of a candidate who may have overwhelmingly won the vote in their states!
Can you imagine Calif & New York voting overwhelmingly for the Dem, but being forced to flip those votes to Trump?? Can you imagine the reaction of their all-Dem statehouses & governors the next morning? ROTFL!!
“will be forced to eat their own political vomit by following the laws they recently passed, requiring them to cast their electoral votes for whoever won the national popular vote”
that compact isn’t active until states join that together have over270 electoral votes ... and that hasn’t happened yet ... so at this point the compact is still moot ...
Obviously the whole suburbs must be investigated for its collusion with Russia!
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