These are some glad tidings and it makes perfect sense. Yes, the GOP is crazy enough to put Donald Trump back at the top of its ticket. Apparently, it’s unable to learn from history and it intends to keep repeating the same mistake and hope for a different result — or at least hope for the original result that it obtained in 2016. But now we learn that a post-mortem of the 2022 midterm has been done up in a paper commissioned by the Republican National Committee, and the message is clear: people are sick and tired of hearing about election fraud. The problem with that is, that’s Trump’s favorite gripe. Rolling Stone:
“The American people want to move forward and rarely, if ever, are concerned about what happened in the past. The balance of survey data makes it clear that voters are done with the 2020 and 2022 elections. They have no patience for endless conversations relitigating previous elections from Democrats and Republicans,” reads the draft. “Those who don’t heed that lesson from 2022 will be more likely to lose in 2024 and successive cycles.”
But as the RNC mulls a new approach for 2024, their main obstacle will be Trump’s own stubbornness. While the report did not outright name Trump, the conclusions were clear — the party needs a new message, and Republicans’ approach to issues such as mail-in voting and abortion needs to change.
On stage in New Hampshire, the Republican presidential frontrunner reiterated his belief that the 2020 election was “rigged.” While Trump did write out his usual attacks against prosecutors, judges, and those who have accused him of misconduct from his New Hampshire speech, the diatribe was clogged with his standard rambling stump on domestic issues and foreign policy.
Trump’s got nothing original to bring to the party. Every single thing out of his mouth is a rerun of talking points from years back, “hoax” “fake” “witch hunt.” He even announced in New Hampshire that he intended to start calling Joe Biden “Crooked,” his favorite appellation for Hillary Clinton.
Campaigning in New Hampshire, Trump says he is transferring his “Crooked” nickname from Hillary Clinton to Joe Biden:
“I’m gonna give her a new name — I don’t know, like maybe 'Lovely' Hillary or 'Beautiful' Hillary … because he’ll be known from now on as 'Crooked' Joe Biden.” pic.twitter.com/SxiVRi0LhO
— The Recount (@therecount) April 27, 2023
I guess this makes sense coming from a man who has a vocabulary of 200 words, right?
Meanwhile, the most sensational primary in American history keeps chugging along day by day. Never before have we had a candidate who is defending himself in a civil rape trial (just to mention one) and whose vice president just finished testifying to a special counsel about a refusal to participate in a peaceful transfer of power after losing an election.
I’m old enough to remember when such things were automatically disqualifying — and so are you, if you’re over the age of ten.
Maybe Ron DeSantis will do something that seems impossible right now. Maybe he will put Trump out of this contest and get the nomination himself. It seems like a wild idea, considering the polls, but if recent history has taught us anything it’s that polls can be totally off and more importantly, anything can happen. It’s not over until it’s over.
200 words? Has he been studying?
The guy didn’t even win the popular vote in 2016, when a lot of people didn’t bother voting.
And now there are more voters on the D side.
Don’t tell me “get in line to blow putin” isn’t working for them anymore….