Republican voters think Trump is electable. They may be right

CNN via MSN ^ | August 19, 2023 | Harry Enten

[DoodleBob]

… Trump continues to hold a mammoth lead for the Republican presidential nomination and is polling within the margin of error of President Joe Biden in a hypothetical general election matchup….Americans don’t like Trump, but Republicans do. And general elections aren’t referendums on one candidate but a choice between two or more – and Americans, as a whole, dislike both Trump and Biden.

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… Between 14% and 16% of Republicans believe Trump should have been charged, according to recent ABC News/Ipsos surveys. The vast majority don’t.

Republicans justify their stance by saying that the charges are politically motivated. Over 80% of Republicans agree in the new polling from ABC News/Ipsos and the AP that both the Fulton County district attorney in Georgia and the Department of Justice are playing partisan politics.

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Republicans by and large still say Trump is more electable than DeSantis.

Indeed, I’m not sure they’re wrong. Trump is running neck and neck with Biden in general election surveys. Fox News and Quinnipiac University have the matchup within the margin of error nationally, and Trump has been ahead of Biden in more polls this year than during the entirety of the 2020 campaign.

If we see Trump overperform in the swing states relative to his performance nationally this cycle – like he did in 2016 and 2020 – you could make the argument that he should be favored over Biden if the election were held today.

Moreover, Trump is polling no worse against Biden nationally than his Republican rivals. If anything, he’s been doing slightly better, on average, this summer.

The reason is simple: Biden’s polling is awful for an incumbent. He has one of the highest disapproval ratings on record for an incumbent at this point in his presidency: in the mid-50s, on average.

[DoodleBob]

Trump has to answer just ONE question. How are you going to flip 38+ electoral votes?

We NEED Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona or some combo theirin.

And this is against the backdrop of mail-in voting, which isn't going away.

We need not break law like the Others, but at least bring a knife to a knife fight.

flamberge had some good ideas too:

To the extent that we have any legal and peaceful means of winning "elections" it will depend on adopting new tactics and strategies to game the mail-in ballot system.

Committing ballots as early as possible is part of what is needed. Get the ballots with relentless daily tracking of Republican voters and provide them with every possible assistance to turn in a vote.

Preventing last-minute injection of fraudulent ballots is another critical part of what is needed.

Campaign advertising must change. Issues don't really matter all that much. Hard to accept, but how many times does that need to be demonstrated? "Tribal" affiliations override just about everything else.

The biggest factor, however, is not race, nor ethnic background, nor religion. It is gender. Quite simply, the Republicans must focus on appealing to men.

Without any apology, the Republicans must project hyper-masculine imagery in everything they do, even to the point of caricature.

It is the one strategy that can draw enough Black and Hispanic men to cripple the Democrat voter base. They have become too dependent on 90% turnout in those demographics, to win without them. Even a minor shift will make a major problem for the Democrats. They would need to extend their fraud efforts to preposterous levels in order to deal with the defectors.

The Democrats might indeed extend fraud to such an obvious level that they can demonstrate no further need for elections ever again.

If so, then everybody will proceed to settle political conflicts by other means.

Really, thoughtful ideas.

If CNN is worried, this is winnable.

[thegagline]

Independent voters will be the deciding factor in 2024.

[Bullish]

Democrats don’t really realize how pissed we are and it will hit them like a ton of bricks if we do it right.

[DoughtyOne]

He’s electable. We just don’t know if Joe Biden will get
210 million votes or not in 2024.

[daler]

Wouldn’t VA be attainable now?

[patriot torch]

Republican county precincts need to have a lot of “water breaks” to even the score;>)

[Old West Conservative]

“We (the GOP, MAGA, etc) will do it right”

hard to know whether the correct response to this generic statement is laughter or tears.

[SERKIT]

:::::Americans don’t like Trump, but Republicans do. ::::;

Very telling..

[DoughtyOne]

Over at PredictIt.com they’re asking if folks think Biden will
get 625 million votes or not in 2024.

/s

[PGR88]

The electoral fraud in 2024 will be off the charts.

The GOP had better have a million poll watchers out there

[MinorityRepublican]

Trump is electable IF Biden is Hillary.

[sauropod]

Never underestimate the ability of the Stupid Party to really mess them up. Loo

[Adder]

2022

The big red dribble.

[Tupelo]

Oh Yeah.
I think President Trump can and will be elected next year, even as a write in.
I also think he will not be sworn in as president.
The two parties (Uni-party) and the Deep State will not allow it.
The Democrat nominee, probably Michele Obama will be sworn in as presidentess and the losing Republican will swear everlasting fealty to her.

[Bullish]

The GOP had better have a million poll watchers out there

What good do poll watchers do when they'll just intentionally black out the windows?

[Parmy]

I was talking with a guy and his wife this past weekend and he said that they will vote for Trump even if he is in jail.

[Carriage Hill]

“The electoral fraud in 2024 will be off the charts.”

I’ve been thinking that exactly, since before the recent mid-terms, where the “red wave” became a “pink mist”.

[SecondAmendment]

The Deep State will not allow Trump to be President and as seen by the COVID-19 farce will stop at nothing to make sure it won’t happen again.

[toddausauras]

The GOP had better have a million poll watchers out there
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I agree with you but Mitch does not.

[Beowulf9]

And if Biden keeps making such sympathetic statements like he did to Hawaii about nearly losing his house and Corvette due to a kitchen fire...