Posted on 04/18/2022 6:25:14 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
BREITBART BIDENFLATIONUKRAINE WAROPEN BORDERDEM-CITY CRIME WAVETRANSANITYMASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE David Plouffe: Trump Will Not Run for President in 2024 PAM KEY18 Apr 20220 1:26 Former campaign manager for the 2008 Barack Obama campaign David Plouffe said Monday onMSNBC’s “The Beat” that he believed former President Donald Trump will not run for president in 2024.
When asked about Trump, Plouffe said, “I said for some time, and I may end up eating these words, I doubt he ends up running. Because I think, at end of the day, you can see the trend lines. In some focus groups that have been reported on Republicans, even people like him say it’s time for something new. Because they think that is the best route to win. And what is fascinating about the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago is I believe it’s likely Republicans that are most successful this November, in true swing competitive Senate, Governor and House races, are those that show a little distance from Trump.”
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Sure — Oz is a clown and I don’t trust his politics (to the extent that the guy even has any political views at all).
But I said the same thing about Trump in 2015.
And in Pennsylvania, I’ve come to realize that most of the contenders in the top statewide races are people currently in state offices who don’t have a chance in hell of winning a statewide election.
Ugh. "Le Plouffe celebre" would have been more subtle, posters.
Sorry, but a solid conservative, like Kathy Barnette, can win statewide.
I do not understand why our side talks itself out of supporting constitutionalists with this fake "unelectable" thinking.
Trump was proclaimed to be unelectable in 2015 as well, but he won.
If we do not support solid constitutionalists in the primary, they will stop running for office and Pennsylvania will turn into New Jersey and New York where the GOP has no real defenders of the constitution who run for office.
YEP!!!
When you use the words of other FReepers, doesn’t etiquette require you to identify them?
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The list got too long…
Silly boy....he only knows how to STEAL elections, so actual voter analysis escapes him.
1. Kathy Barnette isn't one of the current state elected officials running in PA, so my comment about those candidates being unelectable in a statewide race doesn't apply to her.
2. Having said that, I would point out a very big hurdle for someone like her: She ran once already for Congress in a suburban Philadelphia district, and lost. Statewide elections in PA are won and lost in the suburbs of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. What makes her a better prospect to win a statewide race in PA in 2022 than she was when she lost in suburban Philadelphia in 2020?
3. Take a look at the last 25-30 years in Pennsylvania and list the Republicans who have won statewide races. Does that track record give you any confidence that a "solid conservative" can win there? I see names like Arlen Specter (about as liberal as it gets for a Republican), Tom Ridge, Tom Corbett (lost his re-election bid), and Pat Toomey. Rick Santorum was the only one who came close to an ideal Republican, and he was very much an anomaly in GOP politics in Pennsylvania.
4. Barnette's biggest problems are two-fold: money and name recognition. I think it's great that someone who isn't a career politician is running for the U.S. Senate. When you're an outsider with little name recognition and no money, it's pretty much impossible to win a race that has any kind of media coverage and an opponent who is running a well-funded campaign.
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