Posted on 05/01/2023 10:14:43 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
With an eye on the 2024 election, young conservative influencers are trying to get a handle on how to reach out to their increasingly alienated generation and pull them back to the Republican Party.
Speaking with Newsweek's Katherine Fung, conservative commentator and OutKick podcaster Tomi Lahren, who built her reputation as a staunch defender of Donald Trump, said she is worried about 2024 -- particularly following reports that Joe Biden's digital strategy team is working hand in hand with liberal influencers to reach out to more young voters.
"If we want to win [the 2024 election], we're going to have to understand what our best chances of actually winning are and be honest: Is what we're influencing about winning an election or about, what I call, personal grifting?"
Lahren added that as much as she loves Trump, she's afraid he has become unelectable -- a common refrain heard from Republicans -- and that conservatives as a group need to coalesce around a single message.
"I love Donald Trump. I loved him as my president. He was the greatest president of my lifetime. I wish he was my president now," Lahren, who has 4.2 million followers combined on Twitter and Instagram, explained before adding, "I'm afraid that Donald Trump, as the nominee, will cause people to vote for Joe Biden just because they hate Trump."
She also noted that the former president faces an uphill battle in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Arizona, and that the "facts on the ground" bear that out.
"Am I willing to be loyal to a losing candidate just to be loyal? No, I have to be loyal to my country first and if I see another candidate that embodies the America First principles, but can win, I would be stupid to not advocate in that direction,"
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You’ve been quite active all day, starting early this morning, with your anti-Trump poo-throwing.
I’ve heard very little from Tomi in the last few months.
She is correct, we need to consider all options on the table, vs act mainly out of sentiment and loyalty.
It’s still early in the game.
The whole system is rigged against anyone who gets in the way of the Leftist agenda.
She is free to vote for someone else in the Primary. But, she will go down in flames.
Umm….she already is.
This is one disingenuous, plastic, untruthful person!
Can …not ….abide….her!
Baby killers are by definition not conservative.
Yes, we should censor anything that is a negative towards Trump the same way we censored anything anti-vax or anti-mandate.
You will be a loyal party member, comrade!
And much of this is on DJT. He chooses to make political enemies when he could be courting allies.
Dems and many Indies viscerally hate Trump. If Trump runs as our nom, he'll stimulate tons of Biden voters just to turn out against Trump, one highly suspects.
Yes. Bears repeating.
Hey listen—when you post something in the first instance, please don’t fail to initiate the conversation with some kind of comment, however short. It’s only fair.
Well then apparently Biden is a shoo in, especially since no republican can beat Trump. DeSantis keeps sinking, most of the Trump supporters will not vote for lesser candidates, so all you all better brace yoursel for Biden 2.0 and the demise of America as a result.
Oh and of you are looking to blame someone for that, blame all the candy a$$ republicans who vote for the ones who can win….you know..Dole, McCain, Romney etc.
Her “blonde” is showing.
Erik,
You cost us a senator with your “Dr. Azz” nonsense and gave us Fetterman.
Grow up or go away.
Let’s let the Media-Dem Party pick our candidate, then we’d be sure that they wouldn’t attack and smear that candidate, or rig the election against him/her.
By that same logic, no one else can win without Trump’s supporters.
No Republican presidential candidate will win because Democrats steal elections with impunity. They don’t even try to hide it anymore, because they know, no one will stop them, or hold them accountable. Just like the Clintons, The Kerry’s, The Biden’s, Obama’s, Pelosi’s, etc., have never been held accountable for any of their criminal activity. It’s an undeniable fact.
“Am I willing to be loyal to a losing candidate just to be loyal? No, I have to be loyal to my country first and if I see another candidate that embodies the America First principles, but can win, I would be stupid to not advocate in that direction,”
Here is the rub. The reason Trump can’t win is that he is America First, he basically invented the concept. His policies were unpopular with the FBI, CIA, Homeland, IRS, State Department, Judges, Democrats, most politicians profiting from the American People ripoff, The Chinese, the Media who is threatened by the above, Athletes who get subsidies from the above, the Communists, and especially one World group who want to eliminate the Constitution and your bill of rights.
Your NEVER going to have an America First candidate (at least a real one who is actually trying to do that) who isn’t going to be unpopular with the above crowd. That means your either getting a liar (who is faking it) or just another Loser.
I would rather support Trump, because he is the only one who would risk it all to help the average American, and the vigorous attacks are proof positive that he was doing what the people who voted for him wanted. If the author really cared about American, and not more ‘establishment’ Republican propaganda, or left wing nut stuff, he would have ‘figured’ that out.
That is it in a nutshell
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