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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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To: Dr. Sivana

Great post!


41 posted on 11/21/2020 1:41:57 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Alberta's Child
Former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke should run!

America's Sheriff


42 posted on 11/21/2020 1:50:59 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance

He needs to be FBI director.


43 posted on 11/21/2020 1:58:03 PM PST by Reily
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“We can break the corrupt Republicans”

Can we?

I think it would be smarter for us to start a “Moderate Liberal Socialist Green Party”.

Split the dem vote:

Portray Biden, AOC, Harris, et al as weirdo extremists. It wouldn’t be hard.

Easier and more effective than starting a “Republican Constitutional Party”, which will immediately be labeled Racist, Sexist Homophobic etc etc. And will be DOA before it even gets started.


44 posted on 11/21/2020 1:58:56 PM PST by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: jersey117

Sorry I think Mccarthy did get the no 1 GOP spot.


45 posted on 11/21/2020 2:20:34 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: JPJones

Good points. However splitting the Dem vote only gives us RINOs, not true conservatives


46 posted on 11/21/2020 2:28:35 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“Good points. However splitting the Dem vote only gives us RINOs, not true conservatives”

That can be dealt with later at an internal Party level.


47 posted on 11/21/2020 2:32:28 PM PST by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: Kaslin

“70 percent of Republicans believe that the 2020 election was not conducted fairly or freely.”

That means that thirty percent of Republicans are either lying about what they believe because they are actually rinos or they are blithering idiots who could not tell a Chihuahua from a timber wolf. I doubt that thirty percent of democrats REALLY believe this election was conducted fairly, you have to be really, really stupid to believe that even if you are a democrat.

Joe Biden doesn’t even believe it in truth.


48 posted on 11/21/2020 2:40:27 PM PST by RipSawyer
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To: Jan_Sobieski

The Constitution Party loves to a big game but you float $$$$$$$$$ in their faces they fold up like a cheap suite.
They’re also Anti semitic racist bigoted towards the Jewish nation of Israel and Jews they knowingly screwed Dr. Alan Keyes, out their nomination despite the fact that Alan was long time friends with founder Howard Phillips.
They did the same thing to FReeper EternalVigilance they lied to and about him every which way despite him doing everything that was asked of him he helped build up the Iowa state CP he also even them offered to bridge the gap between the CP and America’s Party they still screwed him. They’re whole entire foreign policy platform; is an absolute joke (NeoCom) leftist Pro-Russian communist putinist isolationist peacenik pro Islamic fascist terrorist jihadists if those loons at their way Russia China would own 95% of the world while Islam owns the rest.


49 posted on 11/21/2020 7:30:13 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Live Free or Die)
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To: Kaslin

Fcuk Republicans

Where do we go


50 posted on 11/21/2020 7:34:16 PM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

From Gods ears


51 posted on 11/21/2020 7:34:49 PM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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To: Kaslin

The author is dreaming these Republican bastards don’t give a shit about us they only care about themselves they just want Trump out of the way and back to their back room deals I WILL NEVER VOTE AGAIN!!!! SCREW THEM!!!


52 posted on 11/21/2020 7:40:43 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Alberta's Child

These ASSHATS are dreaming TRUMP IS the coalition these people STILL don’t get it REALLY quite amazing, I mean they are not stupid people but WE will never follow them WHAT IDIOTS!!


53 posted on 11/21/2020 7:45:28 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I believe MILLIONS will not vote again after this let the GOP ROT IN HELL!! I just don’t give a damn anymore!!!


54 posted on 11/21/2020 7:51:53 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I WILL NEVER VOTE AGAIN!!!! SCREW THEM!!!
= = = = = = = = = = = =

I agree with your statement and sentiment etc...

BUT

Isn’t that what ‘they’ want us to do?

Like the mask and the shut down BS...they weren’t good before they were good, then they were, weren’t etc etc etc.

Not sure of YOUR mask position BUT if you take all that you see with and ask why, a good portion will just give you the ‘look’ while a lot will say it is easier to comply than argue about it.

Notice this latest on the masks...USUALLY when anything ‘new’ happens, either the young or old will ‘hold out’.

Now because of new indoctrinations(??) with the young and the fear factor with the old, we will probably NEVER get out from under the mask factor.

I ‘joke’ about how they weren’t sure about the masks and the final straw was when they ‘banned paper/plastic’ grocery store bags, started selling cloth totes for your groceries, then turned around and said the cloth totes were ‘dangerous’ and since NO ONE stormed the castle gates etc they figured ‘we’ were ready for anything and imposed the masks on us....

I don’t/can’t/won’t wear one BUT by the first ‘analysis’ way back when was that at my age if I didn’t hunker down I would die.

Well, I went about life as usual, refused to lock myself in the basement, and am still here...

81...


55 posted on 11/21/2020 7:51:59 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: RipSawyer

You STILL believing polls LOL, LOL, LOL


56 posted on 11/21/2020 7:53:57 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Kaslin

“ the future is bright for Republicans”

Republicans have no future.


57 posted on 11/21/2020 7:54:26 PM PST by Jim Noble
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

What are you laughing at, my post clearly indicates that I did NOT believe the poll.


58 posted on 11/21/2020 7:59:57 PM PST by RipSawyer
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To: MinorityRepublican

Millions of Trump voters are standing back. Standing by. If Joe Biden pulls a Bill Clinton and moves toward to the center, then everything will be fine. If hard core Socialists are able to manipulate Joe Biden into enacting the Green New Deal and confiscating firearms, then there will be a problem.


biden moving to the ‘center’ is of no concern,...he’s irrelevant and a Trojan Horse...The real threat is ‘Heel’s Up’ harris. She will move farther left, and is the long term player ensuring dem control and subsequent destruction of this Country.


59 posted on 11/21/2020 8:00:04 PM PST by AFret.
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

They threw away the Tea Party chance in 2010, and now they are throwing away the Trump supporters.


60 posted on 11/21/2020 8:01:13 PM PST by rxh4n1
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