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Post-2020, Where Republicans Go from Here
Townhall.com ^ | November 21, 2020 | Ted Harvey

Posted on 11/21/2020 7:42:40 AM PST by Kaslin

With recounts and run-offs pending, the 2020 election is in the home stretch. Most of the votes are counted, and the liberal media has already named its preferred candidate, Joe Biden, the president-elect.

But the 2020 election is not over—far from it. President Trump has not yet conceded, nor should he until the legal process runs its course. In Georgia, voting irregularities and potential fraud have been discovered, raising questions about Biden’s presumed victory in the Peach State. For example, more than 2,600 ballots in Floyd County were recently found uncounted, and they are likely to help President Trump narrow his 14,000-vote deficit to Biden.

To ensure accuracy, fairness, and transparency in America’s electoral process, the Trump campaign should leave no stone unturned in Georgia or elsewhere. We certainly won’t: The Committee to Defend the President recently invested more than $100,000 in the Georgia recount effort, simply to ensure that all legal votes are properly counted. Despite Biden and his media allies putting pressure on the Trump campaign to concede, Americans won’t know the final outcome until the electors’ December 14th meeting—and there is nothing wrong with that.

Look at it this way: 70 percent of Republicans believe that the 2020 election was not conducted fairly or freely. Why would President Trump abandon his voters to prematurely admit defeat?

No matter the final outcome, the Republican coalition is stronger than ever. President Trump received more than 72 million votes in the 2020 election, the most for a sitting president in U.S. history.

In 2008, Barack Obama received fewer than 70 million votes. In 2012, then-President Obama picked up fewer than 66 million. And the Obama campaign was universally praised (by the liberal media, that is) for putting together the most diverse coalition ever.

President Trump just smashed the Obama totals, adding to his minority support in the process. Over the course of four years, President Trump became even more popular among African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Hispanics. In Florida, 55 percent of Cuban-Americans voted for President Trump, in addition to 30 percent of Puerto Ricans and 48 percent of “other Latinos.” That is diversity.

Beyond 2020, Republicans need to take a page out of the Trump playbook. Gone are the days of establishment politics, exercised by Republicans In Name Only who are all too eager to compromise with left-wing Democrats. Gone are the days of political correctness, when Republicans were crucified by a biased media and played along with it. Gone are the days of flip-flopping, when Republicans campaigned on issues like border security but governed as open-borders advocates.

President Trump showed Republicans the way: Don’t make excuses for high taxes, burdensome regulations, runaway healthcare costs, globalist trade deals, illegal immigration, and other issues long accepted as the status quo. Don’t apologize for contrived scandals, propagated by Democrats with an axe to grind or liberal activists masquerading as “journalists.”

Always speak your mind—from the heart, to the people. The Trump rally is the blueprint for Republicans to message traditional conservatism to the masses, not like politicians, but as fellow Americans.

Which brings up the last point: Be proud of America. There is a reason why slogans like “America First” or “Make America Great Again” resonate with tens of millions of Americans—because tens of millions of Americans love this country. Regardless of skin color, those Americans are ready to support political leaders who believe in common-sense principles, such as free speech or law and order. When Democrats resort to anti-Americanism, as they increasingly do, the Republican Party needs to position itself as the party of the people.

Whether President Trump wins or loses in the weeks to come, the future is bright for Republicans. Our party is in a better place than it was a decade ago—but only if we learn the right lessons.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2020; joebiden; presidenttrump; republicans
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1 posted on 11/21/2020 7:42:40 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Who cares? The GOP deserves to die.


2 posted on 11/21/2020 7:44:20 AM PST by SoCar
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To: Kaslin; All

If any ballot in question does not has that voter’s name listed on that precinct list of registered voters. It’s not just the signature. What’s also required is the verification of name, address (location must be in that precinct), and citizenship and that’s done by canvassing.


3 posted on 11/21/2020 7:48:12 AM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: Kaslin

The fraud must be exposed or we are finished.


4 posted on 11/21/2020 7:51:44 AM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.dirt road.)
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To: Kaslin
The fix is already in the works. If Trump loses this election, a “Constitutional Republic Party” is being drawn up. The Republicans will go the way of the “Whigs” because of their corruption and collusion with Democrats.

Get ready folks...
5 posted on 11/21/2020 7:54:04 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Kaslin

Bushbot Liz Cheney is minority leader. This says everything about going forward.


6 posted on 11/21/2020 7:54:56 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SoCar; MinuteGal

Wherever they go, I won’t be going with them.


7 posted on 11/21/2020 8:00:51 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: Spok

What’s disturbing is that, yes, the Democrats had to massively cheat to “win”, but in addition to that racial identity politics and gimmiedat are what millions of voters want.


8 posted on 11/21/2020 8:02:35 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Kaslin

I’ll ponder this matter after I’m done celebrating President Trump’s re-election.


9 posted on 11/21/2020 8:04:46 AM PST by glennaro (The question the media should be asking: "Why hasn't Joe Biden conceded?")
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To: Kaslin

Dream on.

Dems have been perfecting methods of cheating for several election cycles. They have gotten good at it. In 2012 several PA precincts got more votes than it had registered voters -- by 110-130%. Dems won, so there was no investigations. In 2016, the Dems thought Hillary-against-Trump would be no contest, so they did not have a contingency plan. In 2018, the Dems continued to count well passed election day until they managed to count enough votes to flip 8 or so House seats and given them a House majority. In 2020, they had a contingency plan -- to massively flood some states with enough ballots/votes to make sure they won.

"Never let a crisis to to waste." If you don't have a crisis, make one. With the massive flood of ballots, if they win, they won't need investigations. If they lose, who is going to believe there was any 'significant' fraud?

The biggest problem is that too many Republicans are more than happy to just sit back and let the Dems have control. The Pubbies still get a turn at the money troughs and get to sit on committees and still get to enjoy happy hour with their colleagues from across the aisle. Maybe, the Dems will occasionally let them have a good ole deep-stater GOP president. With the deep-state back in control, the situation returns to 'normal'.




10 posted on 11/21/2020 8:17:57 AM PST by TomGuy ( )
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The logic they’ll use is that since Republicans weren’t prevented from voting, and all of their votes were counted (maybe a few missed, but a tiny number), the Republicans have NOTHING to complain about.

Laugh if you want...but that is what’s going on now.


11 posted on 11/21/2020 8:30:14 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Kaslin
No matter the final outcome, the Republican coalition is stronger than ever.

No, it’s not. The Republican coalition disappears once Trump is succeeded — either in 2021 or 2024 — by another jackass politician who has spent years in Washington. Even among Trump’s own senior leadership ranks I don’t see a single person who can be an effective candidate in 2024.

Mike Pompeo made a trip to the West Bank yesterday, and it was portrayed in the media as a “first step in a 2024 presidential campaign.” That globalist sh!t is simply not going to work. If you want to make a statement about being a contender for the GOP in 2024 you ought to be seen in places like Grand Rapids, MI and Williamsport, PA.

12 posted on 11/21/2020 8:43:46 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: Kaslin

“No matter the final outcome, the Republican coalition is stronger than ever.”

That’s the DUMBEST statement EVER written.


13 posted on 11/21/2020 8:45:30 AM PST by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: Peter W. Kessler
Wherever they go, I won’t be going with them.

They sandbagged DJT all the way, and if they prove to have succeeded in electing slo' joe, I am walking away.

The only person who can beat the demoncraps in 2024 (assuming dominion has won 2020) is President Trump if he should so choose to run again.

Frankly I don't see why he would. What an ungrateful nation.

14 posted on 11/21/2020 8:49:54 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
The Republicans will go the way of the “Whigs” because of their corruption and collusion with Democrats.

The structure will have to be taken over rather than replaced. Since the time of the Whigs, too many laws have been passed to institutionalize the Democrats and Republican parties in perpetuum. That's why Trump had to run as a Republican. No quick fix here. The lefties were very patient, carrying out a 55 year plan (if not more). We have to do similar. I have no solution for the cultural rot, other than prayer, fasting, and standing clear when it collapses.
15 posted on 11/21/2020 8:50:28 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“The Republicans will go the way of the “Whigs””

If Trumps falls, the GOP falls

If the GOP falls, the two-party system falls.

Then what?

A One-Party STATE into the foreseeable future.


16 posted on 11/21/2020 8:51:46 AM PST by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: Kaslin

If Republicans want to survive, they better get away from the big money corporate lobbyists and head out to man the guillotines, there are some Democrat and Deep State (and apparently foreign) heads that need to be lopped off.


17 posted on 11/21/2020 8:53:34 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (I did not leave my country, my country left me)
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To: Kaslin
From the article: Whether President Trump wins or loses in the weeks to come, the future is bright for Republicans.

Well, let's just see how the GOP legislatures of WI, MI, PA, GA and a SCOTUS with a majority of GOP appointees come through this mess, before we start tossing around words like "future is bright" and "Republicans" in the same breath.

18 posted on 11/21/2020 9:06:40 AM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal that can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground--Mencken )
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To: BobL

That could be part of the cheat, where they increase the Republican votes but less so than they increase the Democrat votes.


19 posted on 11/21/2020 9:07:37 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: JPJones

Constitutional Republic Party. Now, we are already a uniparty. The GOP’ers become Constitutionals, or they stay Democrat lackies. We force their hand...but we never again get forced to vote for Bush, McCain, or Romney....


20 posted on 11/21/2020 9:10:14 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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