You don’t need psychic powers to read the signs of the coming 2024 election. For reasons best understood by Republicans, there is an insistence in returning Donald Trump to the top of the 2024 ballot. The lessons of the past three elections seem to be forgotten, or for some reason ignored. the Republicans are forging ahead with Trump.
The fact that their fundraising is at an epic low should act as a warning signal but that seems to be bouncing off of them as well. Trump’s own personal money making machine managed to get him $46 million in contributions the first six months of 2023. That’s quite a haul. But when you subtract $18,000 a month for Melania’s fashionista strategy consultant, and $50,000,000 for legal fees, then $46 million starts to melt like ice cream in summer. So the GOP has a lot to fear this election and Adam Kinzinger succinctly summarizes it.
Adam Kinzinger on why he believes swing voters will vote for Biden over Trump in 2024:
“Donald Trump's literally insane.” pic.twitter.com/7Exj5T9DUi
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) February 2, 2024
Trump had an advantage in 2016 that he lacked in 2020 and also lacks in 2024. That is, that in 2016, Republicans voted for Trump because he had the “sanction,” if you will, of the GOP. He was the GOP standard bearer and so Republicans who voted for him did so because they were following the party line. He’s one of us, he’s been vetted and signed off on, went the logic. We can depend upon him to follow party principles.
Wrong. And a lot of people who voted for Trump in 2016 did not vote for him in 2020. And will not vote for him in 2024.
Plus, and this is truly incredible, Trump goes on to alienate massive blocs of people. He said just last week that anybody who ever donated to Nikki Haley is barred from belonging to MAGA. That is not a way to grow the population inside the tent. That is a way to spell your own political doom.
But that’s what Trump is hell bent on doing. He seems to believe that his tabloid ways, piling outrage upon outrage, as long as it gets headlines it’s good, is going to get him reelected.
Meanwhile, it looks like Alvin Bragg’s trial is up first, among the four indictments. The January 6 trial was originally scheduled for March 4 and that date has been vacated. The country, and the world, await a decision on the presidential immunity issue.
Trump cannot win on MAGA votes alone, yet he seems determined to alienate everybody else. Meanwhile, other GOPers, apparently attracted by the light of his funeral pyre, mistaking it for something glamorous, continue to throw themselves on the flames. It will be interesting to see how Tim Scott, J.D. Vance, Elise Stefanik and Nancy Mace all fare after the 2024 dust settles. It’s been presumed for quite some time now that some new form of the GOP will rise from the ashes of the old and it will be interesting to see what their place is in such an order, having backed Trump fascism over democracy in 2024.
I can’t imagine that that decision is going to endear them to a lot of Americans. But they’re all pursuing short term goals. Stefanik is hoping she’ll be Trump’s VP choice, perhaps Vance is as well. Tim Scott has made it clear he wants to stay on Team Trump. Nancy Mace is simply desperate to get reelected. She’ll say or do anything, she’s made that clear.
What a gullible and easily bribable ship of fools.
Time to put this ‘movement’ of moronic nazis in the rear view mirror. Let there be ‘wailing and nashing of teeth’. The only path forward is to give democrats the presidency, the senate and the house. First order of business is to fix the Supreme Court. Second is to eliminate the vestiges of racism…the electoral college. Then move on to fix the evil the Republicans have perpetrated on the rest of us since Nixon.
Y’all can keep talking about getting rid of the Electoral College all you want: IT. AIN’T. HAPPENING.
The ONLY way to get rid of it is a Constitutional Amendment.
And, in case you’ve obviously forgotten, that process is not easy to accomplish. First, BOTH the House and Senate have to approve a SINGLE bill with a 2/3 majority (in the House, that means 290 members; in the Senate, that means 67) and then it’s sent to the states om which case 3/4 (or 38) states must ratify it.
And, good luck in getting enough members of the House and Senate to support amending the Constitution to get rid of the Electoral College not to mention getting 38 states to ratify it. There are currently 13 states with either 3 or 4 electoral votes (DC isn’t included in this number as it wouldn’t be able to participate in efforts to abolish the Electoral College); 6 are reliable “red” states, 4 are reliable “blue” states and the other 3 are frequent swing states (MT’s gone “blue” once in the last 8 presidential elections and NH’s gone “red” once in the same frame; ME has the “split” system which has given the GOP 1 EV in the last two presidential elections with the others going to the Dems).
Nancy Mace has a former staffer challenging her in the primary. If I’m not mistaken HE already has Trump’s endorsement. Add in her backstabbing of Haley which I’m sure her GOP challenger will find a way to exploit (tricky since Haley’s challenging Trump but it can be done) and Mace might be done this spring. I’d say good riddance but I also am plenty an old enough fart to know the whole be careful what you wish for thing. At least Mace wasn’t always (like her challenger) MAGA/Trump and with a solid enough whupping this fall she might tack back some (not a lot but some) towards the center.