Posted on 07/15/2023 7:22:04 PM PDT by bitt
Allan Lichtman – famous for correctly predicting the outcome of every U.S. presidential election since 1984 (barring 2000) – says Donald Trump is now the mainstream in the Republican Party, and no other GOP presidential hopeful stands a chance of winning the party’s nomination.
The American University professor, himself a fierce critic of Trump, said ex-MAGA rival Ron DeSantis was an “abysmal candidate” who lacks Trump’s appeal and personal charm.
Lichtman was clear that other candidates, sometimes described as standard-bearers of the “Republican mainstream”, had no chance – and were no longer the mainstream. “Here’s another mistake that all the commentators make… They pose Donald Trump against the so-called ‘Republican mainstream’,” he explained.
“[S]upposedly Chris Christie is a ‘mainstream Republican’, right? Wrong! Donald Trump is the mainstream,” he continued, adding that Trump “is the new mainstream.”
The historian’s assessment echoes Trump’s own comments that the GOP is “never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush.”
Lichtman said “the only way a DeSantis or a [Mike] Pence or a Tim Scott could possibly become the Republican nominee” is if the Republican National Committee (RNC) somehow strips Trump of the nomination, possibly following federal convictions. He noted that there is no legal bar to Trump running for the presidency however, even from behind bars.
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He’s the new mainstream and the old mainstream.
I third that.
We are never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush.
I will vote for President Trump...again.
It’s one thing to win the nomination. But does the election prediction apply to the general?
Meh..... Who is collecting and counting the ballots?
“We are never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush.”
I surely hope not.
Trump is for peace in Ukraine and for our border security. Everyone else is either on the opposite side or just gives lip service. Perhaps DeSantis is OK on the border, but he was endorsed by Bush which makes me skeptical.
Same people who will count them when he wins the primaries.
“The historian’s assessment echoes Trump’s own comments that the GOP is “never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush.”
I third that.
We are never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush.”
I fourth it.
A great man is a great man.
https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2020/02/07/one-minutes-silence-for-sotu/
Kristol and The Bulwark cast of clowns have been finished since 2018. All they are capable of doing now is making noise. No one is paying any attention to them.
Steve Bannon Interview with RSBN at Turning Point Action Conference 2023 in West Palm Beach, Florida
https://rumble.com/v308yow-steve-bannon-interview-with-rsbn-at-actcon-2023-day-1.html
DeSantis has been voting for border security long before Trump arrived on the political scene, and he also doesn’t want us involved in Ukraine.
Doesn’t matter as long as dead people vote and multiple ballots are stuffed.
If ever there was damning with faint praise . . .
Trump is a genius, guided early on by Norman Vincent Peale. Trump is the greatest leader of our age.
In typical fashion, the NY State Republican establishment for the most part rejected Trump. Not “one of us.” Biggest snobs in the world. And those hangers-on and wannabes who have to always adopt the next fashion have gone along with the money crowd.
Now they are floundering to find another nonwinner since DeSantis is turning out to be such a dud. But since they are not really looking for a candidate but only trying to defeat one, the project is bound to fail.
I second that.
Of course not.. he handed the presidency to Fauci n birx, locked us down, restricted our travel, signed blank checks to big pharma, a bumpstock ban and gave the finger to the constitution on his way out with mail in ballots.
He is a classic leftist, with marxists leanings.
EUAs are only authorized for a single reason According to the CFRs. So it was either an abuse of power or justified. Even Tucker softballs trump.
Isn’t anyone curious.
If the country survives and it’s an if at this point,it will be because we unite enough to get Trump elected above and beyond massive voter fraud.I’m betting we will but it won’t be pretty.He is the only one at this point who can save the country.
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