Posted on 11/19/2022 9:19:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The leadership elections in the House and Senate were only the opening salvo in what promises to be a long, drawn-out struggle for the soul of the Republican Party, running at least through the 2024 presidential election.
You might consider Donald Trump to have fired the first shot when he announced his intention to seek the GOP nomination for president. While most observers see Trump’s announcement and effort to win the nomination as an uphill battle, others, like MyPillow maker Mike Lindell, see Trump’s candidacy as a coronation.
“After he announces today, I think [Florida governor] Ron DeSantis will end up just endorsing him,” Lindell, a rabid Trump cheerleader, told The Guardian early on Tuesday evening. “I can’t imagine anybody wasting the time, effort and money of the people. We need to unite our country and there’s only man who can do that and he’ll be up on that stage. Period.”
While that’s not likely, Lindell’s obvious devotion to Trump is matched by millions of others. Trump may not have the muscle in the Republican Party anymore, but candidates like Ron DeSantis have to approach Trump with care. And the riddle that DeSantis and any other candidate who wants the nomination must ask is: How to defeat Trump without losing the bulk of his devoted followers?
How Trump’s outsized influence on the nominating process will play out is only one question. There are other issues and other personalities for which Republicans are sharpening their tomahawks.
“You’ve gotta have a war every five or 10 years to get rid of the bad blood,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said, paraphrasing a line from The Godfather. “And then you start over.”
That war is very likely to get very bloody this week when the gay marriage bill comes to the floor.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
McConnell celebrated his overwhelming support this week with a thumbs-up and a triumphant press conference, striking a positive tone as his super PAC pours more into next month’s Georgia Senate runoff. But the same-sex marriage bill that moved forward this week with 12 GOP votes simultaneously drove a new wedge, similar to the split it caused earlier this year among the also-feuding House GOP conference.
The marriage protection bill made everything even more “rough — a lot of our members were adamantly against it,” said one Republican senator.
LOL. Whatever pal.
I predict that you will be voting for Trump in Nov. ‘24.
Get used to the idea.
Where else are you going to go?
All this speculation is going to be derailed and made irrelevant. 2023 is going to be an ugly year and this time next year people are going to be hunkered down into Survival Mode. IMO
We cannot lose America in 2024 by allowing 20% Trump (Third Party), 19% DeSantis (GOP), 5% Libertarian and the grand pseudogods the Democrats raking in the rest. Around 51% not counting Green Party and others such as Liz Cheney and write-ins.
Dems must be stopped.
We cannot lose America in 2024 by allowing 20% Trump (Third Party), 19% DeSantis (GOP), 5% Libertarian and the grand pseudogods the Democrats raking in the rest.
So, what will “we” do?
So you hate to Santa’s and you support mcconnell?
Cheney is not going to be anywhere. Stop promoting her.
There is no civil war. We are just cleaning up the house.
All Trump supporters should spend the next two years focused solely on destroying DeSantis. So he couldn’t even get elected dog catcher in Florida. Anything else is a waste.
All Trump supporters should spend the next two years focused solely on destroying DeSantis. So he couldn’t even get elected dog catcher in Florida. Anything else is a waste.
This is all irrelevant and a MSM misdirection
From “Election Wizard” in quotes: VBM Vote BY Mail
It doesn’t matter if it is Trump or DeSantis on top of the ticket because “Democrats fortified their COVID mass mail-in-voting apparatus,vote by mail VBM. It’s a vote-harvesting juggernaut that will continue to produce competitive results no matter the GOP nominee. “
“It it’s crucial to understand VBM has changed the game in many ways. 2020 wasn’t a one-off. There is now a well-established Democrat machine that will harvest hordes of votes during “Election Month.”
What they legally do (some call it legal cheating) is go to each registered Democrat and ask them if they want them to hand in their ballot, Fetterman had 70% of his vote in before the debate, two weeks before the election.
In every questionable state, AZ, NV, PA the democrats control the Secretary of State-the people in charge of voting. And of course who knows about the illegal cheating who is really filling in the ballots but it is untraceable in almost every state.
“Dems must be stopped”
The path to ever greater and intrusive government, less freedom, more spending must be stopped.
It is supported by Dems and the GOP.
You must properly frame the problem.
The solution, in my opinion, cannot come until a financial crisis and meltdown where the government cannot simply print money. Whenever that may come.
The GOP are not the good guys. The Dems even less so.
Trump won’t work up a sweat. We all know that Trump will win in every state, even Florida. If Ron runs he will lose some people forever. We want Trump be elected to say to the Dems, take that for stealing 2020.
The Trump/DeSantis controversy is entirely media created to continue the “get Trump” saga, an’ yer all dickwads for spreading the articles.
Due to legalized fraud(ballot harvesting) and demographics(57 years of open borders), it is highly unlikely any Republican will ever be in the white house again.
There simply are no more political solutions.
Trump will be President in 2024 and DeSantis will reign in Free Florida until 2028 when he will follow on Trump’s lead to the White House.
There, I have spoken!
Which is why the ballot box is now officially worthless to GOP voters whether they realie it or not.
The country is lost.
Republican’s tripped all over themselves this week trying to be the first to vote when they voted to end tax exempt status to conservative churches’
Yep. I don’t see this country making it through 2023.
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