Posted on 03/18/2024 9:27:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There’s plenty of bad news about the Republican campaign in 2024, and I’ve covered it in detail, but objectivity requires that one correctly assess what is going right too, and there’s a lot going right for Republicans right now. First and foremost, there is the massive change at the Republican National Committee with the firing of the utterly useless Ronna McDaniel and the elevation of Michael Whatley and Lara Trump. Next, Donald Trump is in a position where it looks like he is likely to win the presidency if current trends continue…that’s one heck of an if. And, finally, we also seem to be doing pretty well in the Senate races. There are a lot of reasons to be hopeful.
We’re not used to hearing it, but for the last week or so, the RNC has done everything right. The organization has totally failed for seven years under the rule of the dumbest member of the Romney family. People like RedState’s own Jennifer van Laar and superlawyer Harmeet Dhillon would point out how she was wasting tons of money on useless fluff, donors would stop giving, and she would just continue wasting tons of money on useless fluff. She studiously ignored the grassroots and imagined that her role was to go on TV and talk about policy as if anyone cared what some party bureaucrat thought. But now she’s gone, and good riddance.
Her replacements have, astonishingly, done the right things, and they have done it right away. First, they clearcut a bunch of the deadwood at the RNC, firing tons of people. Some characterize that as a purge of unbelievers, but what it really is is a purge of unachievers. Have you seen a lot of election integrity lately? People who do a bad job should be fired. This used to be basic knowledge and understood by Republicans. But apparently, some people think we ought to have a tenure system in our party apparatus. No. Party flacks and functionaries ought to live in perpetual fear that they will be canned should they fail to perform adequately. These mass firings are a great sign. The new leadership has even started to build an election integrity team.
There are more great signs. For one thing, Lara Trump has reached out to Scott Pressler. Everybody knows Scott. He’s one of the nicest guys there is, and he’s made his personal crusade to cross-cross the country registering voters. He’s a one-man grassroots tsunami. For some bizarre reason, Ronna McDaniel stubbornly refused to interact with this hero of the base, as if she knew better how to motivate voters than the guy who’s actually out there motivating voters. What the relationship between the new RNC and Scott Pressler will be remains to be seen, but the fact that Lara Trump reached out publicly is a huge indicator that the RNC is going in a different and smarter direction. The next thing the new leaders should do is publicly and, in detail, explain their legal strategy for lawfare victory to the grassroots. That’s the kind of thing that rebuilds the voters’ shattered confidence.
Donors are already taking notice of these changes and are starting to open their wallets again. I’ve written about the disastrous failure to have any kind of lawfare plan in place, and I received enormous feedback from Republicans telling me they are sitting on their hands instead of writing checks because they believe their money would be going to waste. We have much better things to do than spend our dough on Ronna McDaniel’s beauty treatments. There is a lot of cash out there on the sidelines just waiting to come in if the donors see it’s not going to be squandered by grifty mediocrities.
Yeah, our initial response to seeing Lara Trump, the nominee’s daughter-in-law, named as one of the co-chairs was an eyeroll. Would it be more of the kind of lame nepotism that is ruining so much of our country? But Lara Trump has done everything right so far. Her relationship with the president does not disqualify her any more than it qualifies her. Actions speak louder than words, and she’s taking the right actions. We need to support people who are doing the right thing. This is good news.
And there’s good news for her father-in-law, too. You’ll look at the polls, and Trump is ahead in most of the battleground states, and the ones where he is not ahead, that crusty, perverted, senile old weirdo is only barely ahead. Sure, he’s still self-destructive, unable to control his fury at Ron DeSantis for refusing to bow down, but you can yell the enemy is scared when it presses dumb and obvious lies like the “bloodbath” thing. They need to do something because Crusty is bottoming out in the polls.
The Democrats’ plan to frame Donald Trump and steal the election just hasn’t worked. People see the garbage these cases are. They’re a joke. Hell, the tubby moron prosecuting him in Atlanta is barely one step ahead of being disbarred and prosecuted for perjury. Someday, Trump will go on (show) trial in this joke of a New York case and probably get convicted by the 90% communist jury pool, and you know what? That’s going to earn him even more support from patriots who don’t want to see America turned into even more of a banana republic. Americans aren’t idiots – well, most of them. They understand he’s being railroaded. They understand this is a kangaroo court. They understand that the only way Joe Biden could hope to be reelected at this point is to toss his opponent in jail on trumped-up charges. And they are coming around to DJT. The disastrous reign of error of that creepy weirdo currently occupying the Oval Office has changed the election dynamic. For a long time, there was a group of people – like 53% – who just absolutely would not consider voting for Trump. Now, they’ve had to consider the alternative and, you know, Trump wasn’t quite so bad, 401(k)-speaking.
And while the House of Representatives is a real mess, with a significant chance of us losing control, the Senate is just the opposite. We’re playing on a good map and have some great candidates. We already have West Virginia in the bag. In Pennsylvania, we got the right candidate, Dave McCormick, without a primary, and he’s up against a bland Democrat who is being shamed by John Fetterman’s forthright defense of Israel’s right to exist. In Ohio, Sherrod Brown is likely to lose to any of the Republicans. The primary is Tuesday, and the recent cheesy hit on Bernie Moreno seems to be going nowhere. Over in Montana, the ridiculous Matt Rosendale dropped out and is not running for reelection to Congress either. We’ve got a good chance there. Kari Lake is facing some challenges now that Kyrsten Sinema has dropped out, but if she can project the normality and personal warmth that she does in person to the voters, as well as reach out to disaffected Republicans and effectively fight the lawfare battle against the election shenanigans, she’s got a shot in Arizona. Nevada seems to be turning hard for Trump, and the useless Dem dronette in that seat could be at risk too. Hilariously, the Democrats think that the nobody running in Texas against Ted Cruz has a shot, and they’ll waste a lot of money there, which is awesome. Chances are we take the Senate.
Everything isn’t roses. We still have some challenges with election integrity and with making sure Donald Trump doesn’t alienate the people who are now tentatively supporting him – the regime media shutting him out and him not using Twitter are probably the best things that can happen to him. We’re also way behind in the money race. But that said, we have some advantages and have to press them. That’s how you win. And we might just win in 2024.
Trump is draining the swamp and he’s not even president. Yet.
“the utterly useless Ronna McDaniel...”
Well, not to democrats anyway......I’m sure they’re heartbroken over her departure.
This is the old thinking where if you are doing well in opinion polls you are expected to win the presidency. Post 2020 we have entered a new era.
Akin to being the dumbest member of the 3 Stooges.
The Romneys are pure grifting scum. They get paid to mess up and do nothing to move the GOP forward. The only people easier to buy than the Romneys are crack whores.
“This is the old thinking where if you are doing well in opinion polls you are expected to win the presidency”
It absolutely amazes me what people DIDN’T learn from the 2022 “red wave” that wasn’t.
If I had my way, all polling would be outlawed tomorrow...with the first offense resulting in a 5 year mandatory prison sentence.
All good news...as long as the Dims don’t get away with election fraud yet again.
Probably my favorite thing in this whole narrative is that hiring Laura Trump was nepotism but hiring Rona McDaniel was NOT nepotism.
Hilarious.
Pres. Trump needs a house and a senate that’s his or he will again not be able to do spit, other than undo E.O.s and he’ll be sued for that every step of the way. (Think about him trying to cancel the DACA E.O.)
Right now:
- I don’t see any emphasis on congressional elections as a priority.
- I see the house as a loss and the senate at most, a tie.
I think Laura Trump is a stone assassin and things will change but the RNC has to get going funding-wise.
and who am I ? just a political junkie nobody, who just reads the tea leaves.
Trump stayed with Romney niece too long. She should have been dumped a long time ago.
I was never fooled by the polling regarding red wave. As soon as Roe was cancelled, I had this gut feeling that women who usually do not bother to go out and vote, came out of the wood work to vote for pro-abortion democrat party. And my gut feeling was vindicated.
Anyone else think Scott Pressler’s hair s too girly looking?
Here in CT young women are outraged because they now have to travel an extra nanometer to murder their babies.
:-)
I know that there are people on this forum that don’t like Trump, and this my message for them- Trump did the best job he could for four years, considering the circumstances. Sure, he says things sometimes that grate, sometimes it would be better if he didn’t say something, but he needs our support because we CANNOT survive 4 more years of Joe Biden and his handlers! He’s already done irreparable damage to this country and our only chance to survive is putting Donald Trump back in the White House, with as many Republicans in Congress as possible. We need him back.
BIDEN NEEDS TO GO!
The final 2022 generic congressional vote poll average was R +2.5.
The actual 2022 generic congressional vote result was R +2.8.
So why are you complaining about what we didn't learn from the 2022 polls?
It's getting saner out there - - bye bye Ronna...
Not sure what you are talking about. The RCP average for the year leading up to the 2022 mid terms showed a range of D +1 to R+4. The final result was R +2.8. Apparently the polls weren't fooling anybody about a red wave, they were instead predictive.
About Roe v. Wade being overturned, the polls tigtened by a couple of points after the SCOTUS decision, but then they bounced back up in October to where they were before the SCOTUS decision.
Post 2020 we have entered a new era.
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Kinda the history of this land called the
United States of America. Just look at the
changes over time since Columbus sailed
in 1492.
-The natives were put on reservations
-Africans were brought in to do the labor
both male and female
-A civil war was fought in the mid 1800s
-Slaves were given their freedom
-And now we can fly to the moon and back.
-May be living on some of those places as
time goes on.
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