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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“… 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.…”
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This is a stupid article. This “middle-ground approach” is precisely the approach that BOTH Trump and DeSantis follow. This STUPID article is simply another attempt to drive a wedge between Trump and DeSantis. DON’T FALL FOR IT.
Sadly, I do note that some of our more GULLIBLE FReepers have fallen for it.
I really hope that the debates are about issues that are actually important. Not this mindless vaccine nonsense.
Trump cannot even win common chess against idiots like Schiff.
Jeez… after reading the comments in this thread I must say that MANY FReepers are falling for the enemy’s attempts to divide. SO MUCH GULLIBILITY!
i prefer to keep him as governor of florida for a full second term...
screw the rest of the country...
life is good here...
I agree. Trump is not slamming DeSantis, at all.
No calculations needed. I also am confident DeSantis is exactly where Trump is on this and where most people probably are. You want to get vaccinated, have at it. If you don’t want it, that’s your prerogative. Vaccine mandates are ridiculous. The difference with Trump and the politicians is they ARE being calculated and probably poll testing this to death.
Now that’s a narrow minded outlook.
Nonsense he won against the entire establishment and is still putting the fear of God into the establishment.
“ Trump in August got booed at an Alabama rally for telling supporters to get vaccinated. Four months later, during a Dallas event with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, Trump got booed again after revealing he got a Covid booster shot. ”
Sounds like a 2015 Cruz supporter. If Trump is attacking anyone you’ll know it. DeSantis is probably with Trump on this. It’s just that Alex Jones and the like are pretending it’s not so. Why anyone is surprised Trump is for the vaccines that he commissioned is odd. The question is about mandates and I don’t think there is any disagreement there.
Snort.
Trump wasn’t up against Schiff. He was against Schiff, Nancy, Linda, Mitch, FBI, CIA China and Europe (to name a few)
Huuuge!
I have overlooked his style because of his inexperience. But now, he should know better. DeSanits is off limits. If he helps the Dems with this, it’s adios, Amigo.
This right here lets you know it’s crapaganda
some suburban voters that fled from him toward Biden
No. They did not. Dominion fraud. Period.
In other words, you want to go back to the days of George Bush. Sad.
how is focusing my attention on my home state being narrow minded???...
Out on that limb sawing like hell. You might as well forget about Trump running again. This vaxx of his will finish him off.
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