Posted on 12/17/2023 5:42:00 PM PST by cotton1706
DURHAM, New Hampshire — First Donald Trump’s Republican critics banked on one of his opponents catching a spark in Iowa. Then they said New Hampshire was where they’d make their mark.
Eventually, advisers to Trump’s rivals maintained, someone would emerge from the field of lower-polling candidates to get a clear shot at Trump.
After the past week, that idea has never looked more out of reach.
In Iowa, new polling shows Trump not only maintaining his enormous lead in the first caucus state, but expanding on it — stretching his support to 51 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers. And in New Hampshire, Republicans desperate for someone other than Trump were further dividing the field.
When the state’s popular Republican governor, Chris Sununu, endorsed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Tuesday, he became the third of three early-state governors to endorse a different candidate.
For Haley, it was great news, just as Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds had publicly backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, or South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster had gone in for Trump. But for Republicans yearning to move on from the former president, it was a disaster — capping one of the worst weeks yet in the movement to block Trump from the nomination.
“If you’re Trump, that’s the best-case scenario,” said Phil Taub, a prominent New Hampshire donor and Republican activist who is close with Sununu. “Everybody just wants it to be Trump versus one candidate. But as long as they are splitting up all the votes, Trump doesn’t even have to get 50 percent.”
Trump’s opponents aren’t just failing to coalesce around one candidate — they’re actively making it harder to do so, with lower-polling candidates giving no indication they’ll step aside before voting begins.
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And got the same response,, no change, or perhaps a drop! in polls
Embrace the suck, a holes.
Compare and contrast Krispy and the younger Sununu....
They are all playing Hyena. They are fighting for the spot they think will be vacant when Trump is taken out. Except for Vivek, they all seem to be ok with what they are doing to Trump— it would be hard to vote for any of them.
Birdbrain got a big bounce in NH it looks like. We have to watch for Christie dropping out to endorse her. How much of his support does he pull over. NH, it’s basically Rats trying to make Trump lose, they will not vote Republican. NH should definitely not be the first Primary on the Republican side. It’s silly to make leftist in NH decide whom to propell on the national Republican side.
This the uniparty deploying their hopeful variation of “death by 1000 papercuts” on Trump
Won’t work
There is absolutely nothing the fat bastage , the sununu offspring, or the star indian can say or do that is going to prevent Trump from blowing the doors off this whole charade.
Yep...keep them all in it for the first several states. DeSantis is actually helping Trump in this...he just doesn’t realize it.
If it is not Trump I will most likely vote RFK Jr, I’m tired of getting lied to by the Republican establishment.
To them, Trump simply won’t take the hint.
And that is why they hate him so.
“If it is not Trump I will most likely vote RFK Jr, I’m tired of getting lied to by the Republican establishment.”
I could never, ever vote for a Kennedy. But then I live in Massachusetts.
Everybody wants Trump to drop out, except the people.
To them, Trump simply won’t take the hint.
And that is why we love him so!
If it is not Trump I will most likely vote RFK Jr, I’m tired of getting lied to by the Republican establishment.
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One the most, if not THE most stupid things I’ve ever read on this forum in 20 plus years.
Too bad so sad
Couldn’t happen to nicer folks
The midgets nipping at his heels have no chance unless the deep state has him killed.
Hard to vote for any of them? Seriously? They are nothing but Uni Party approved, political elite endorsed, gaslighting Rinos.
A vote for any of them in any election of any type, under any circumstance is what they expect from you and how little they regard your intelligence. Well the whole damn lot can go to hell. My sacred vote is ONLY going to an America First platform. The only one running on that is Donald Trump.
teas of unfathomeable sadness yum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ula8oi_M4Ww
What is best in Life?
Conan answers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9buo9Mtos
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