Posted on 08/01/2023 9:21:43 PM PDT by conservative98
The ruthlessness the indictments detail won't convince the former President's base to abandon him, but it better unite those who care about the rule of law, the project's founders say. Former President Donald Trump’s indictment for trying to subvert the 2020 election has some of his fiercest critics believing these charges will not keep Trump from reclaiming the White House.
The unprecedented details of a U.S. President hitting such levels of depravity and ruthlessness to hang onto power has to be a call to arms for all sane Americans, according to a statement from Reed Galen and Rick Wilson, co-founders of the Lincoln Project.
“He IS the Republican nominee. He IS leading in the polls against Joe Biden,” said the statement from the project that’s become known for ads and videos skewering Republican extremism. “The MAGA GOP is a cult that no longer cares about the rule of law and wants to send Trump back to the White House. No indictment is going to stop his campaign.”
A New York Times/Siena College poll released Tuesday found that President Joe Biden is in a neck-and-neck race with the 45th President who started the day with two criminal indictments against him.
Biden and Trump are tied at 43% apiece in a hypothetical rematch in 2024, according to the poll.
The progenitors of the Lincoln Project, which bills itself as a "pro-democracy" effort, say the battle is becoming increasingly urgent, given the lengths the indictment shows that Trump went to perpetuate the “Big Lie” that he won the election.
The indictment contends that Trump tried to recruit fake electors to subvert the legal vote, lied repeatedly despite warnings about the damage he was doing and knew that he was lying.
“All Americans must realize the only choice before voters is between a functioning democracy versus a disgraced former President who tried to overthrow the government,” the Lincoln Project’s statement reads. “There is only one functioning party in America that cares about the rule of law and believes in democracy — and President Joe Biden is its candidate.”
“I think DeSantis would fare better in a general election”
His polling is at 8%, so I don’t think so.
“His polling is at 8%, so I don’t think so.”
General elections don’t work that way. That many on our side don’t understand that is what we lose so often.
No, that’s not why we lose. We lose because we are delusional half the time. We think 8% polling has ever resulted in a win later on.
This is a threat, or a warning to the members of their team who do wet work.
Hope they are wetting their pants.
A hatefilled witch, in other words.
ANNE GEGGIS’S BIOGRAPHY
Currently North Broward cities reporter at the Sun-Sentinel after a sojourn dodging layoffs at various newspapers, including the Daytona Beach News-Journal, the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun and the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press.
I have been arguing at FR for decades that the site should include a listing of reporters and their bios. Something that could be turned to in seconds, or be available to add on new people.
Joe Biden was polling similarly going into South Carolina in 2020 and is now president. If they let Bernie win, Trump would still be president, and we would be debating over picking Trump’s successor. Wouldn’t that be nice?
The primary electorate in no way resembles the general electorate. That’s why they’ll never let one of their loony black supremacists in the CBC ever get the nomination. You’ll never see Clyburn endorsing Sheila Jackson Lee. The Democrats understand general election politics much better than our voters do and use it to their maximal advantage.
“Joe Biden was polling similarly going into South Carolina in 2020 and is now president.”
Through election fraud, not votes.
One way or another they will never allow Trump near the Oval Office. There is NO Republican opposition to the current state of affairs. They are all playing on the same team. And WE are not invited to the game.
Democrats now stuffed the ballot box in their own primary in South Carolina but not New Hampshire? Get real. Jim Clyburn told black voters whom to vote for, and they obeyed orders.
“Democrats now stuffed the ballot box in their own primary in South Carolina but not New Hampshire? Get real.”
Retarded comeback. No one is talking about the primaries.
“Retarded comeback. No one is talking about the primaries.”
You were when you said Desantis was polling at 8% (which is a gross underexaggeration anyway). In return, I pointed out that Biden was getting clobbered in the primaries early in 2020. Maybe you already forgot.
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