Posted on 01/13/2022 3:06:33 PM PST by conservative98
Those remarks weren’t just vintage Trump braggadocio. They’re likely also smart politics, as they provide an opening to win back some suburban voters that fled from him toward Biden in 2020. Sixty-seven percent of suburban residents were vaccinated as of August, according to a late summer NBC News poll. That was below the 79 percent of urban residents who got the vaccine, but well above the 52 percent of rural residents, where support for Trump runs deep. Even Biden gave credit to the Trump administration for the development of the Covid vaccine and for getting a booster shot.
It’s unclear that a pure anti-vaccine message is a winner in the 2024 Republican primary fight. Yes, vaccine opposition is highest among Republicans (along with young adults). But that still leaves millions of primary voters who got the vaccines. So Trump’s positioning could also further push DeSantis into fighting for a fringe of the GOP electorate rather than the broader coalition necessary to win the party’s 2024 presidential nomination.
Indeed, Virginia GOP Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin shows the potential for success with a middle-ground approach. The first-time candidate said on the campaign trail in the fall that he supports the Covid vaccine but opposes mask and vaccine mandates. He went on to beat former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe 50.6 percent to 48.6 percent, earning crucial support from swing voters that included younger Virginians, moderates, independents and white women, among others.
Trump’s digs against political rivals who won’t get boosters and his positive talk about vaccinations can easily be seen as cynical and craven calculations aimed not at helping humanity but in boosting his political interests. Still, whatever the motives, they’re right on the public health merits. Politically, they may also be effective
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I have no idea if this is true. Probably isnt. But, if true it reminds me of The Bruce’s betrayal of Wallace in Brave Heart.
BINGO
Lefty idiot telling us what Trump says.
RRRRRRight.
Clearly, DeSantis is being eyed by the rino-republican party as The Trump silver bullet. Christy is going nowhere. 2024 will not be the year of the rino. DeSantis will be easier to control and will likely get ground to dust in a general election. Sorry guys, there is only one Trump. I would possibly vote for DeSantis. He’s the only republican so far that I would consider besides Trump.
That’s what my friends and I concluded last summer. In the end, Trump will be blamed by the media for the vaxx deaths.
When the cost benefit equation shows it is costing the regime politically more than they reaping from vaxx authoritarianism, the narrative will change on a dime. Trump’s Deadly Warp Speed Failure would be a democrat campaign hard to refute because it’s true.
DeSantis is a politician, and will fall in line with the GOP once elected. We will be disappointed and longing once again for Trump’s return. Trump was far from perfect, but at least he was willing to buck the GOP where ever he could. Unfortunately, he had to toe a line with his nominees, otherwise they would have never been confirmed. THAT was Trump’s Achilles heel.
Unless you are a one issue voter, I really think you are missing the point. Trump is right, it just so happens to be DeSantis and the vax question in this case. But yes, any pol that will measure their words in anticipation of the upcoming election is, in fact, gutless.
I have nothing against DeSantis. Nothing at all. Trump is still the better man for the job in 2024. Then we get DeSantis in 2028. That would be perfect.
If he didn’t the media would have ammo against him the left is gearing up big tome to keep him out of the race.
DeSantis may still be on his short list as VP the best plans are the long game ones.
If you believe people have the right to do with their bodies as they want why would any politician be say don’t take the vaccine. Conservative say that people are smart enough to make their own decisions.
You’ll be made a fool of like all trump haters and you certainly are a fool.
I don’t disagree really but as Trump continues to push and focus on vaccines I am hearing more pull away from him from his base. The left has been trying to do divide his base for years and I’d hate to see him do what the left has been unable to.
I’d rather just see him state that vaccines are an individual choice and leave it at that.
We used to say that about Karl Rove the magnificent
I do not think that any person has ever been more unfairly treated than President Trump but sometimes he cannot get out of his own way
So Trump who had got into the ventilator business, got the hospital ships, got the masks and gowns, wanted everything open, had less Covid deaths than Biden, is against vaccine mandates, is against vaccines for young people, and believes in natural immunity, wanted everyone to have access to all of the treatments...
But because Trump says you can take the vaccine if you want it and won’t go InfoWars on everyone and scare people from taking the vaccines, he is Karl Rove now.
If you say so.
Trump did a great job and is doing a great job. Rove did a horrible job in his time and destroyed the GOP. Some of these governors did a horrible job and destroyed their states.
I agree with what you say completely. Perhaps I wasn’t clear in the framing of my comment
He didn’t.
This is from NBC News.
SNORT.
This is old BS that was already proven BS. Cut it out.
It was posted 2 weeks ago, stop yourself from bringing it back to the top, dummy.
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