Posted on 01/04/2024 4:41:59 PM PST by cotton1706
On his last day as president on Jan. 20, 2021, Donald Trump stood in a snapping wind and waved goodbye to relatives and supporters before he took his final flight on Air Force One back to Mar-a-Lago. No elected Republican of any stature showed up at Joint Base Andrews for the bleak farewell.
Trump, at that moment, was a pariah among Republican elites. The party’s leaders in the House and Senate, Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, blamed him for the Capitol siege. Party fundraisers assured donors they were done with him. On conference calls, House Republican leaders contemplated a “post-Trump” GOP.
Today, three years after Jan. 6 and more than a week before the Iowa caucuses, Trump has almost entirely subjugated the elected class of the Republican Party. As of this week, every member of the House Republican leadership is formally backing his campaign to recapture the White House.
Trump has obsessed over his score card of endorsers, according to more than a half-dozen Trump advisers and people in regular contact with him, most of whom insisted on anonymity to describe private conversations.
He sees gathering the formal endorsements as a public validation of his triumphant return that serves his strategy of portraying himself as the inevitable victor. He calls endorsements the “E word”; when lawmakers merely say they “support” him, he considers it insufficient and calls that the “S word.” In recent weeks, his allies have told lawmakers that Trump will be closely watching who has and hasn’t endorsed him before the Iowa caucuses Jan. 15.
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I continue to be astonished at the waste of ink, and apparently strenuous contortions of phrasing and scene-setting it takes to craft an utterly meaningless “report” like this, which is just another rote exercise in “continuing the narrative” any way you can. And “Maggie Haberman” seems to always play a part in these efforts. Pathetic!
The democrat party platform is a complete fear based approach.
This is the very definition of POLITICS!
You RINOs had better beware,
For Trump sure doesn’t play fair!
Oh, you’ll bitch and you’ll whine,
“He’s no President of mine!!”
Too bad - time to grow you a pair!
Woo hoo!
👍👍👍👍👍
I was going to say...”and what are the Dem’s excuse for doing the same?”
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