Posted on 02/29/2024 8:00:34 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
I imagine truckloads of ballots are waiting delivery on Election night.
Yeah...its would be nice to find out where they were parked the night prior...and burn them (the trucks) to the ground about 4 hours out from delivery
Would be a shame if they suffered the fate of numerous food processing plants.
Also, could these truckloads of pallets suffer the fate of amazon delivery trucks stalled on the streets?
I list of location, for public consumption, would be a worthwhile endeavor.
What D, in their right mind (heh) would admit to their Fellow Travelers that they have changed their mind about Trump? It’s social suicide in that camp.
There must be a faction within the D’s that retains a smidgeon of moral honesty. Maybe I’m wrong.
I love that election—Reagan was actually behind in early polls:
I love watching the election from that night, you could just sense the depression in all the network pundits.
“We obviously need Nikki Haley! /s”
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I am no fan of Nikki Haley. Were she to be elected, she would be, at best, a mixed bag in the vein of George W. Bush. That being said, she should be taken seriously when she asserts that Donald Trump cannot win a General Election. It would be more accurate to say Trump will have a difficult time winning the 2024 General Election.
It remains possible for him to eke out a win, but only if the stars align exactly right. He caught lightning in a bottle in his 2016 victory, primarily because he was running against the universally despicable Hillary Clinton and the Democrats were caught flat footed by taking the rust belt states for granted. Democrats are determined not to let that happen again in 2024.
With the corrupt and feeble Biden’s approval rating in the tank, Democrat strategists have known for some time that their only hope for prevailing in 2024 is to be matched against the one GOP candidate whose approval rating is similarly in the tank – Trump! To be matched against any of the GOP rising stars (DeSantis, Kim Reynolds, Youngkin, Tim Scott, etc.) would spell disaster for Biden and they would have quickly replaced him with Newsom.
In order to ensure Trump would get the GOP nomination, Democrats unleashed the flurry of scurrilous legal proceedings against Trump, knowing that Trump loyalists would instinctively come to his defense via the GOP nominating process. That strategy has worked like a charm, as numerous quality GOP candidates were bullied and insulted out of the race by the petty, childish and vindictive Trump. A true statesman would have stepped aside and let a newer generation of GOP leaders emerge, but the 77 year old Trump’s narcissism would not allow for that. His vindication is all that matters to him, and his loyalists have remained firmly in his camp in sufficient numbers to ensure he is the nominee.
Now that the GOP nomination is in his grasp, where does that leave things? Trump likes to say “I’m leading Biden by a lot!” That is true – In West Virginia, Alabama and Wyoming! That is not true in the states that will determine the outcome of the 2024 election. Here are Trump’s poll numbers in six key swing states (RCP averages):
Georgia – 48.5
Wisconsin – 46.4
Arizona – 47.5
Nevada – 48.7
Michigan – 46.2
Pennsylvania – 44.2
In 2020, Trump carried 46.8% of the vote. As seen in these poll numbers he remains stuck at that level in the swing states with little prospect of increasing that number. He is universally known, and no one is changing their mind about him. If the electorate was comprised exclusively of patriotic, rural white males, Trump would have a historic landslide in 2024, winning 98% of the vote. Unfortunately the electorate is far more diverse.
As Trump’s loyal base celebrates his “victories” in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Michigan what do those results really reveal? I submit the following:
As a de facto incumbent, Trump should have been able to vanquish his GOP opponents decisively (80 – 90%), especially after spending tens of millions of dollars in negative attack ads throughout 2023. Instead, between 30 and 50% of GOP voters said they wanted someone other than Trump to be the nominee. This is more than a little alarming.
Winning a general election will require putting together a broad and diverse coalition. Trump’s MAGA loyalists are certainly a part of that coalition, but by themselves are not enough to put him over the top, especially with the Democrat fraud machines in Philly, Detroit, Fulton County, Maricopa County, etc. The blueprint for building such a coalition was demonstrated by Glenn Youngkin in 2021 and Ron DeSantis and Kim Reynolds in 2022, where tremendous victories were achieved in heretofore swing states.
Rather than taking steps to build a winning coalition, Trump is recklessly driving voters away that he would desperately need in November. Building a winning coalition is about addition, not subtraction. Trump doesn’t seem to see that. He gets his thrill from watching his followers at MAGA rallies fawn over his every utterance.
I wonder how many suburban women voters appreciate him calling Nikki Haley “bird brain” or mocking her husband’s overseas deployment. I wonder how many Arizona GOP voters appreciated hearing him denigrate McCain’s military service? I wonder how many Italian Americans were fond of him mocking Ron DeSantis’ name all those months? (DeSantis has been a tremendous governor for Florida, and the best FR members can do is call him “meatball”.) If Trump had not entered the race, DeSantis would be leading Biden 58 – 42 at this point.
Does Trump still have a chance? Yes, if he can avoid a conviction in Bragg’s kangaroo court. He needs to go after Biden relentlessly, but also show some conciliation to other parts of the GOP coalition. That would start by selecting a running mate such as Glenn Youngkin.
Perhaps the best hope is that Biden’s supporters are so despondent they will stay home in large numbers, but that remains a huge unknown. Based on his track record I am not optimistic that Trump can show the self discipline to attract a sufficient number of undecided voters to pull this off. I hope I’m wrong.
You people talk as if you think the election will be anything close to legal. Not a way in the world the democrats aren’t planning fraud even more massive than 2020. No way they allow Trump to win.
It looks good, but it's way too early.
“Biden must have a lot of dirt on other politicians in the swamp.”
After 50 years of child sniffing, women groping, bribe taking, and every other demonic thing that decrepit disgusting pervert has done he knows where all the skeletons are. AND he has brought in his allies on his scams and bribes. This is why I believe Obama chose him as VP. Obama was just some smooth talking grifter who wanted to know where the real money and power was. Chomo Joe was his foot in the door to where the real power is.
Biden operatives are going to have to stuff a lot of Zuckerbuck drop boxes.
Some are not outside of the DCP Fraud capabilities.
The Orange County Register just ran a story explaining how safe our voting system is. I believe the article glossed over the part where they talked about making sure everyone’s signature on the envelope matched their signature obtained when the supposed voter registered. Does anyone believe this is actually happening in California? Remember that there are over 20 million votes. I don’t believe this is happening at all. What about in Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Maricopa County, Clark County, etc….? In these swing areas it only takes a very few ballots to sneak through the process. I also believe that ballots that do sneak through the process are 99% in favor of the RATS.
If you say so, nerdboy.
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