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Anything less than a 9-0 decision by SCOTUS will be bad news. I predict 6-3.
Yikes! Are you in San Fran?
Vivek out, maybe he’ll run for VP?
With 95 percent of ballots counted, Trump had won 51 percent of the vote. DeSantis and Haley came a distant second and third at 21 percent and 19 percent, respectively. (Haley described her third-place finish as evidence that the primary was a two-horse race.) Vivek Ramaswamy came fourth with 8 percent and suspended his campaign late Monday night.
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That’s all he’s been doing, despite any #%^&&* fueled delusions of grandeur. The same applies to Miss Nikki and Da Doo Ron Ron.
Wow! Big Media had the Trumpster at less than 50% and Miss Nikki leapfrogging Da Doo Ron Ron by several percent. This was probably more “wishful” thinking, in both cases, than last minute voter changes.
Gotta keep up with Joe
“This is the type of leadership we’re looking for,” said James Taiclet, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin. "It’s been just a few years since our nation was embroiled in an endless quagmire of armed hostilities in the Middle East — which is far too long. President Biden has fixed that glaring problem, and we are behind him all the way.”
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No, why?
Another one out, DeSantis endorses Trump. not looking good for Nikki
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Will be interested to see the Democrats’ nominee. My prediction based on Biden’s obvious infirmity is that they will wait until the convention, then Biden drops out and they appoint a replacement.
Newsom? Michelle? Hillary?
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Illegal immigration costs unwelcome in democratic sanctuary cities, and are becoming a national voting issue.
The crisis is leading many Democrats to turn on their own party. I spoke with 18 Democrats in Chicago, including a restorative justice advocate, a former Obama intern, and an exonerated felon, who all told me they’re considering sitting out the election this year rather than vote for President Joe Biden. A couple said they’re even thinking of voting for Donald Trump. It’s a phenomenon that’s being reflected in national polls, with Trump on track to win nearly a quarter of the black vote in key battleground states. That means that a fifth of black voters, who voted for Biden by a margin of 92 percent in 2020, could turn their back on the president.
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The Republicans do not have much of a chance in Illinois. Memo to Texas governor, Greg Abbott, send some of those buses to Milwaukee and Detroit.
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NH looks like a clear majority win for Trump over Nikki.
https://apnews.com/live/%20new-hampshire-primary-results-updates
Exit polls:
- 69% OF NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY VOTERS VIEW ECONOMY AS NOT SO GOOD OR POOR
- NEW HAMPSHIRE GOP PRIMARY VOTERS: 56% EXPECT NEXT GENERATION TO BE WORSE OFF COMPARED TO 33% IN 2016 PRIMARY
- NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY VOTERS: ECONOMY, IMMIGRATION, ABORTION, AND FOREIGN POLICY TOP CONCERNS
- 49% OF REPUBLICAN PRIMARY VOTERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE BELIEVE THAT JOE BIDEN DID NOT LEGITIMATELY WIN THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, ACCORDING TO AN EXIT POLL.
- HALF OF NEW HAMPSHIRE GOP PRIMARY VOTERS BELIEVE TRUMP IS FIT FOR PRESIDENCY EVEN IF CONVICTED
- 19% OF NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY VOTERS DECIDED VOTE IN LAST FEW DAYS
- 37% OF NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY VOTERS IDENTIFY AS MODERATE OR LIBERAL, UP FROM 29% IN 2016
- WHITE EVANGELICALS’ PROPORTION OF NH REPUBLICAN VOTERS FALLS TO 19% FROM 23% IN 2016 PRIMARY
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So is this supposed to be a good thing?
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I guess it isnt if you are a Democrat…
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Is this supposed to be a good thing if you’re not a Democrat?
Presumably it’s a good thing if you’re Trump, or I suppose if you’re someone know thinks he’d be better for the next 4 years than Biden (or whoever they might swap in for him after the primary).
Taking the other side of those points, there was definitely shady election inference against Trump, such as Pfizer hiding their Covid vaccine success for a month until after the election and nearly all the media hiding and knowingly lying about the Biden laptop scandal. Maybe that’s not saying Biden didn’t “win” the election, but maybe it does make the 2020 election “stolen” or Biden “illegitimate” in many people’s eyes.
As for Trump being convicted impacting his candidacy, I think we’ve seen enough blatant double standards and politically motivated and/or corrupt prosecution (NY and Georgia recently) that being convicted of those things just means he’s fighting the Democrats or the bureaucracy which is what many of his supporters want and approve of.
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More in that vein
Even MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who made a career out of blaming Trump for every sparrow that falls, changed her tune after the Iowa caucuses. Now, it was the people’s fault. The greatest threat of “our democracy falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government,” Maddow concluded, is “. . . people wanting that.”
The implications are clear. Not only Trump, but the nearly 75 millionAmericans who voted for him, must be silenced and crushed. To save democracy, it must be modified by a possessive: “our democracy.” Only one side of the political divide has legitimacy. The progressive elites and their Democratic allies must rule in perpetuity since any defeat entails the triumph of fascism. Given their criminal and subversive tendencies, Republicans and their ilk must be smothered under the heavy hand of the state. Dissenters to the progressive creed of identity should be treated as domestic terrorists. Disfavored opinions—about Russia, about Hunter Biden, about Covid-19—must be barred from the prestige media and censored in social media. Noble lies must be told by scientists and intelligence experts. In “our democracy,” the ideal election is a choice of one: Trump must be knocked off the ballot. He should be investigated, impeached, prosecuted, not just once or twice but as many times as it takes to destroy him forever.
The elites, including much of the Democratic Party, have given up on representative democracy. That is a terrible truth… As the elites forsake democracy, the public has lost confidence in virtually all institutions. A 2023 Gallup poll on institutional trust found “historically low” numbers: only 26 percent of Americans trust the presidency, but fewer still trust the criminal justice system (17 percent), television news (14 percent), and Congress (8 percent). President Biden, an elite herd animal, hovers around 40 percent in approval and has sunk as low as 33 percent. A fascinating recent Rasmussen poll of elite opinion found an extraordinary divergence from the positions held by average Americans. Trump is the sign and symbol of elite failure.
There remains the question of Trump’s unbreakable hold on a segment of the voting public. Clues to the answer have been provided already. The public, we saw, deeply mistrusts the established order. In this context, Trump is once again an epiphenomenon: a club in the hands of an alienated public, with which to bash the elites and their unresponsive institutions.
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What they miss is that this is their fear, not reality. Their constructing a potential reality based entirely on their fear. But it isnt everyone’s fear, thus it isnt everyone’s reality. People do not want that, they simply disagree with the assertion that it is the inevitable conclusion to walking this path.
You are afraid to walk in the shadows because you fear there is a mugger hiding who will club you with a bat. So when I walk in the shadows, you automatically assume I have a death wish, wanting to be clubbed to death by that potential mugger. What gets swept aside is the fact there is no mugger. Welcome to the 2024 Presidential election.
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