It doesn't matter at all WHY Trump STOLE those documents...at least not at this point it doesn't. It ONLY matters that he STOLE them. Those documents do NOT belong to him. There are HUGE punishments for taking such documents, and there is precedent for prison time for others who have done so...others who didn't take as many or as classified.
I am for SURE not being cocky or overconfident. I am just being a realist. The GOP is VERY damaged. I actually WANT it to come back to be a reasonable second party. Compromise is good. Being checked on both sides is good.
The Democrats' ONLY hope is that Trump is the nominee. This CAN happen, but if your party's hopes depend on one guy, they are NOT in overall good shape.
Getting 47% of the house vote nationwide isn't winning... That can get you across the finish line in already blue states like Nevada, but that's NOT going to cut it in 2024.
let's not forget that politics runs on passions and trust. Policy is secondhand, aside from the 3-4 wedge issues. So the Dems need to find young, charismatic, genuine, authentic, likeable candidates. Whoever does that will win a lot of elections. Without that, the dems will be trying to sell policy and frankly few care about policy outside the Dem base. And they are already voting Dem.
That sounds like a fancy/cope way if saying many Democrat policies aren't popular.
let's not forget that politics runs on passions and trust. Policy is secondhand, aside from the 3-4 wedge issues. So the Dems need to find young, charismatic, genuine, authentic, likeable candidates. Whoever does that will win a lot of elections. Without that, the dems will be trying to sell policy and frankly few care about policy outside the Dem base. And they are already voting Dem.
That sounds like a fancy/cope way if saying many Democrat policies aren't popular.
poor white republicans have been voting against their economic self interest for generations. They literally vote to take away their own healthcare and in exchange give tax cuts to rich people. these people are in no way voting on policy. They are voting on something else. What are they voting on? Some racial issues, some misinformation, some envy, some resentment, some 'don't tread on me' ideology, some ignorance. But they don't vote about policy. other than 3-4 wedge issues.
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — President Biden said Monday that Democrats still lack the power to codify abortion rights into law despite his party's stronger-than-expected performance in the midterm elections.
The excuses begin.
What was the excuse in 2009 when the Dems had total control?
Fewer than 60 votes in the Senate, to defeat a filibuster.
Are you really this ignorant about the American legislative process?
Actually they did have 60 votes some of the time.
April 28, 2009: Senator Arlen Specter switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.[9]
February 4, 2010: Republican Scott Brown's election to the Senate ended the Democratic super-majority.[11
So, the Dems can do nothing unless they have the White House, a massive majority in the House, and 60 or more senators?
Odd that the GOP had only 50 senators during the Bush years but got what they wanted with Cheney being the tie breaker on some occassions
Giving stuff: student loan debt forgiveness. expanding obama care giving health care. Cheaper prescription medications.
The GOP can still absolutely recovery. It depends on who plays the game smarter. Whoever declares an effective war on fentanyl and does something meaningful about it would be enormous for example. Whoever effectively brings people together instead of being more divisive would be enormous (not that this is likely on either side). Whoever does something meaningful and intelligent to avert a cold war or makes a deal with Russia ending that conflict would be enormous.
Let's not get overconfident and cocky (a big reason dems lost against trump).
We still must win back a rational supreme court.
We still must make sure republican attorney generals don't try to not certify legitimate elections based on feelings.
I am for SURE not being cocky or overconfident. I am just being a realist. The GOP is VERY damaged. I actually WANT it to come back to be a reasonable second party. Compromise is good. Being checked on both sides is good.
Republicans got sh!tcanned in this election. If you go by historical norms, the GOP should have DESTROYED the Democrats in this election.
As bad as it was for Republicans on the national level, if you go to Arizona and see that Kari Lake lost the governor's race to a candidate who didn't campaign much, didn't want to debate, was in hiding like the pandemic was still going on, then you can see how MUCH the M*A*G*As have fallen. Lake was a rising star among the moron red hats. Trump was considering her as a running mate for 2024. She got beaten by a woman who hardly campaigned in a state that until VERY recently was very red. Just a complete rejection of M*A*G*A nonsense.
Yes, there are still risks of illegal shenanigans on the part of Republican elected officials. Yes, the Supreme Court is radical. We can only take things on on a case-by-case basis, and ultimately the voters will decide the direction of our country. Getting rid of M*A*G*A Republicans and their idiot leader is the first order of business. HUGE step in that direction with these midterms.
Now, as vindictive as Trump is, suppose he doesn't get the Republican nomination for 2024. He could run as an independent and gift wrap the Presidency to the Democrats. He doesn't care about party politics, so he wouldn't give a sh!t if he did that. If he decides it's better to punish Republicans for not picking him, AND he thinks he can raise a buck or two by running as an independent, he'll do it. He doesn't care about the Republican Party. He only cares about Donald Trump.
How will the GOP recover? It is unclear. Their members are old and dying. Young people have registered to vote like never before and are heavily registered as Democrats.
Could someone like Chris Sununu or Larry Hogan become the leader of the Republican Party? If so, that would be good...I still wouldn't vote for either of them (well, likely not...I suppose it does matter who the Democrat candidate is), but at least (especially Hogan) they are decent people.
Trump has been the reason Republicans have done poorly in the last 3 national elections. I suspect he will raise his ugly orange head and do so again in 2024. We will see. Maybe a conservative group will raise a billion dollars and give it to him to stay out of the race.
Well, I hope you are right. What frightens me is dark money and the power it wields. Behind most politicians are billionaires in the shadows. Hopefully these guys will stop trying to impose their will on the masses who clearly do not agree with them.
I am for SURE not being cocky or overconfident. I am just being a realist. The GOP is VERY damaged. I actually WANT it to come back to be a reasonable second party. Compromise is good. Being checked on both sides is good.
The Democrats' ONLY hope is that Trump is the nominee. This CAN happen, but if your party's hopes depend on one guy, they are NOT in overall good shape.
Getting 47% of the house vote nationwide isn't winning... That can get you across the finish line in already blue states like Nevada, but that's NOT going to cut it in 2024.
eh
let's let desantis try to campaign outside FL and see how it goes before we get all excited about his potential. Dude is not mr charisma and he is short and mag'a. It's too early to say, but he could easily be a Jed Bushy sort of low energy candidate.
I laugh at your belief the congressional popular vote means anything. For the first time in a century the ruling party lost zero state houses. MI has become a blue state again. PA is blue. AZ is light blue. Best midterm for a ruling party in decades (and that one was in wartime).
Dems had a good election, Rs didn't. Nothing you say can change that.
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let's not forget that politics runs on passions and trust. Policy is secondhand, aside from the 3-4 wedge issues. So the Dems need to find young, charismatic, genuine, authentic, likeable candidates. Whoever does that will win a lot of elections. Without that, the dems will be trying to sell policy and frankly few care about policy outside the Dem base. And they are already voting Dem.
That sounds like a fancy/cope way if saying many Democrat policies aren't popular.
LOLz, you know there is no chance he's not running. He knows you have more dollars to give him - no way he misses out on that. And if Ds are crushing it right now in this current environment, imagine how they'll do when Rs engage in an open civil war. My prediction - Trump will run with much lower support from the base and from the GOP. Most of those who sided with him will continue to do so publicly and will not get behind someone like DeSantis. Trump will be the R nominee and will have terrible VP pick. By then R support will be openly fractured and he will get crushed in a manner we have not seen before - and that's saying a lot. It must really suck to still be a trump lover.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of the very few GOP lawmakers who had planned to go down to Mar-a-Lago tonight for Trump’s announcement, says the weather is not looking good for his flight down from D.C. to Florida. But he will be there “in spirit.”
Trump is a forgiving guy. He even forgave Pence for his treachery (although Trump can't, as a matter of principle, allow Pence to be his running mate again).
But I don't see Trump forgiving Gaetz for this cheap move. Gaetz is in his little Florida DeSanctimonial bubble, and doesn't realize how much trouble he caused himself. Gaetz is a ponk and will be dealt with accordingly.
I am for SURE not being cocky or overconfident. I am just being a realist. The GOP is VERY damaged. I actually WANT it to come back to be a reasonable second party. Compromise is good. Being checked on both sides is good.
The Democrats' ONLY hope is that Trump is the nominee. This CAN happen, but if your party's hopes depend on one guy, they are NOT in overall good shape.
Getting 47% of the house vote nationwide isn't winning... That can get you across the finish line in already blue states like Nevada, but that's NOT going to cut it in 2024.
INCORRECT!
Democrats will lose the White House in 2024 IF any one of these things is the case (and IF Trump is NOT the nominee. If Trump is the nominee, I don't believe there is a chance in hell that Democrats lose).
1) We are in a recession leading up to election day. Probably has to be a bad one to ensure the loss, but a recession of any kind makes it tough for Democrats to win.
2) We are in an unpopular war.
3) Biden has a major health emergency or dies just before the election.
Your House votes matters little because it is typical in a midterm for the party not in power to have more votes...Republicans should have had WAAAAAAY more than that in this election. In the most important swing states (WI, MI, PA, AZ), voters were resoundingly voting for Democrats...Democrat Governors in all four states, Democrat Senators in two of those states with MI not having an election and Ron Johnson barely pulling it out in WI when Democrats didn't financially support their candidate because they thought Johnson would easily win. Democrats did well with state-level races in those states also.
Don't forget also that Trump could run as an independent and gift wrap the race to Democrats. He won't do that FOR Democrats, but that will be the result. He'll do it to punish the GOP if they don't nominate him, and he'll do it to try to make more money from idiot Trumpers.
Lolz, it occured to me that trump could run to be the GOP leader. He would not leave any mouth breather cash on the table so he's gonna run for president of course but it would be hilarious.
So to me the big question for tonight is if trump threatens the gop not to stray from trump. If our boy Donnie tells the gop to nominate him because it’s a nice party and it would be a shame if anything happened to it. honestly, the perfect ending to the trump era would be him destroying the gop, after all of them complained non private about trump but praised him in public. would be chef’s kiss perfecto.
If I recall correctly, that was Disco Gary's wish and (sort of) forecast 6 years ago.
I am for SURE not being cocky or overconfident. I am just being a realist. The GOP is VERY damaged. I actually WANT it to come back to be a reasonable second party. Compromise is good. Being checked on both sides is good.
The Democrats' ONLY hope is that Trump is the nominee. This CAN happen, but if your party's hopes depend on one guy, they are NOT in overall good shape.
Getting 47% of the house vote nationwide isn't winning... That can get you across the finish line in already blue states like Nevada, but that's NOT going to cut it in 2024.
is this winning? Feels like it to me.
Brent Peabody 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @brent_peabody Democrats now control 24 governors mansions— more than they did after the 2018 Blue Wave
Biggest political announcement of the last 70 years coming up in a few hours. The ratings for Trump's announcement will be higher than the Super Bowls.
Liberals will all be watching, frothworthy in nature. Their woke movement is dead before the eye of the Lord. Less than two years after the fraudulent ouster of Trump you can look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -- that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back . . . .
I am for SURE not being cocky or overconfident. I am just being a realist. The GOP is VERY damaged. I actually WANT it to come back to be a reasonable second party. Compromise is good. Being checked on both sides is good.
The Democrats' ONLY hope is that Trump is the nominee. This CAN happen, but if your party's hopes depend on one guy, they are NOT in overall good shape.
Getting 47% of the house vote nationwide isn't winning... That can get you across the finish line in already blue states like Nevada, but that's NOT going to cut it in 2024.
Yard signs and Jamin’s endorsement would be MUCH better 😂😂😂
The Democrats' ONLY hope is that Trump is the nominee. This CAN happen, but if your party's hopes depend on one guy, they are NOT in overall good shape.
Getting 47% of the house vote nationwide isn't winning... That can get you across the finish line in already blue states like Nevada, but that's NOT going to cut it in 2024.
Agip has correctly pointed out that the 47% number is pretty meaningless.
That said, I agree with your larger point that the Dem party is not in particularly good shape. The only reason that they may appear to be in good shape to some is that the GOP is a hot flaming mess so the Dems may look not too bad in comparison.
Rare example of a Republican official not lying. Mark it! mitch notes that m’aga crazy scared away moderates and indies. But the GOP is owned by trump now so the crazy is here to stay.
McConnell: We underperformed among independents and moderates because their impression of many of the people in our party and leadership roles is that they are involved in chaos.. which is why I never predicted a red wave pic.twitter.com/zwiJus9PvF
The Democrats' ONLY hope is that Trump is the nominee. This CAN happen, but if your party's hopes depend on one guy, they are NOT in overall good shape.
Getting 47% of the house vote nationwide isn't winning... That can get you across the finish line in already blue states like Nevada, but that's NOT going to cut it in 2024.
eh
let's let desantis try to campaign outside FL and see how it goes before we get all excited about his potential. Dude is not mr charisma and he is short and mag'a. It's too early to say, but he could easily be a Jed Bushy sort of low energy candidate.
I laugh at your belief the congressional popular vote means anything. For the first time in a century the ruling party lost zero state houses. MI has become a blue state again. PA is blue. AZ is light blue. Best midterm for a ruling party in decades (and that one was in wartime).
Dems had a good election, Rs didn't. Nothing you say can change that.
Funny, I didn't mention Desantis, but... We already know he's popular among Florida independents and the GOP base nationwide. And he's already doing campaign events around the country.