'Trump is a loser': Conservative pundit erupts after 'profoundly disappointing' midterm results

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just-jim wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 7:38 am However, my bet is that tubby’s oversized ego will NOT allow him to wait another month to announce….
In his mind his best PR defense against the criminal indictments which are possibly heading his way is to argue they are politically motivated, and that argument is harder to make if he isn't running for office.
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Republican strategist advising El Lardo to hold off his announcement until AFTER the Warnock/Walker vote….just for the reasons MC points out.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ia-run-off

“Scott Reed, a Republican strategist, told the Associated Press: “We had a historic opportunity and Trump’s recruitment of unelectable candidates blew it for us. Trump’s now lost three elections in a row for the Republican party and it’s time to snap out of this foolishness.””

However, my bet is that tubby’s oversized ego will NOT allow him to wait another month to announce….
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I think he will do grievous damage on the way down, though.

He for sure is going to announce his run for president in the near future. The short-term impact of that will be that Warnock will be much more likely to win his runoff in Georgia and the Dems will almost certainly hold the Senate.

The longer-term impact of that is that he will either win the Republican nomination (because enough dingbat Red Hats will vote for him under any circumstances), he will badly cripple whomever does win the nomination even if he does not win it, or he will get butt hurt and run as an independent. In any event that won't help R chances in 2024, which might otherwise be quite good under normal circumstances.

I note that not much will change on the above if he is indicted or convicted of any crimes.
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Looking more and more like the Rep punditry has opened up the floodgates. Frank Luntz, the Party's top pollster/wordsmith/influencer just gave them permission to go after Trump's hide.

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Notably, the Murdochs seemed to have turned on Trump. Wall Street Journal, Fox & NY Post all have commentary and Op Ed's out thrashing Trump. Trump himself is blaming Melania. If/when Trump declares a run for the Presidency the first thing that will happen is silence from Rep's then the RNC will close the faucet on funding for Trump's legal bills as they can't legally pay for a candidate's legal fees. Trump will explode on Truth Social and he'll be met with crickets.
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Jeez... Maybe the right is starting to figure it out... :-)
'Trump is a loser': Conservative pundit erupts after 'profoundly disappointing' midterm results
Raw Story - Yesterday 12:49 PM
By Sky Palma

"It's time for Donald Trump to go." That's according to Charles C. Cooke in a new op-ed for the National Review.

According to Cooke, Republican voters must respond to last night’s "profoundly disappointing midterm-election result by telling the Republican establishment to pound sand," adding that Trump has become the GOP "establishment" that he vowed to topple when he first ran for president. "With the country in its present state, Republicans simply cannot afford that sort of frivolous, low-energy, old-boys-club complacency. [Republicans], you’re on notice."

Trump's attacks on now-reelected Florida Governor Ron DeSantis were "classic establishment gate-keeping," Cooke writes.


"Trump is a loser. He squeaked past the most unpopular woman in America in 2016, he presided over a blue wave in 2018, he lost to a barely breathing Joe Biden in 2020, and he hand-picked a bevy of losing Republican nominees in 2022."

DeSantis, on the other hand, is a "winner," according to Cooke. "He beat the Democratic wave in 2018, he got the biggest challenge of the last four years — the Covid-19 pandemic — almost exactly right, and he won reelection by the largest margin achieved by any Republican gubernatorial nominee in Florida’s 177-year-history."

Cooke writes that Trump actually enjoys destroying prospects who don't show the necessary fealty to him, and now he's applying that treatment to DeSantis.

"These days, Trump isn’t a rebel; he’s the boss. But he’ll only remain the boss for as long as Republican voters allow him to."
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