Just so typical of the mentally ill. If you try to reject me I will kill you.

Trump hints he may split from GOP — dooming their 2024 election chances

Daniel Villarreal, New Civil Rights Movement
December 31, 2022



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Former President Donald Trump has shared an article suggesting that he should run as a third-party candidate if the Republican Party doesn’t choose him as its nominee for the 2024 presidential election.
Trump shared the article, entitled “The Coming Split,” on his Truth Social page. The article asked, “What should we do when a majority of Republicans want Trump, but the Republican Party says we can’t have him?”

“The Republican machine has no intention of letting us choose Trump again,” the article stated. “He is not a uniparty team player. They’d rather lose an election to the Democrats, their brothers in crime, than win with Trump.”

The article said that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is likely to win the Republican presidential nomination, but it refers to DeSantis’ likely nomination as a “fake non-choice among candidates who are pre-selected for us.”

“Do I think Trump can win as a third-party candidate? No. Would I vote for him as a third-party candidate? Yes,” the article stated. “Because I’m not interested in propping up this corrupt gravy-train any longer.”

It’s estimated that Trump commands at least 20 to 30 percent of the Republican voting base. If he split the Republican vote in a general election, it would all but guarantee a Democratic victory, something that the article’s writer acknowledged.

However, the article praises Trump as an “American” president rather than a “Republican” one, and says he, unlike other past presidents, delivered on his campaign promises.

Trump’s announcement of his third presidential campaign in November 2022 was met with little fanfare. Numerous Republican leaders hinted that they would prefer another candidate rather than Trump, who has continually claimed (without evidence) that an unprecedented nationwide conspiracy of voter fraud “stole” the 2020 election from him.

Other Republicans noted that the candidates endorsed by Trump in the 2022 midterm elections largely failed, helping dry up the expected Republican “red wave” to overtake the U.S. Congress. Instead, Democrats now narrowly control the Senate while Republicans rule the House with a slim margin.

Trump also hinted in 2015 that he could run as a third-party candidate if he didn’t become the GOP’s presidential nominee.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-hint...oming-their-2024-election-chances-2659052681/

 

'His team is a joke': Trump insider trashes his 'sinking' 2024 campaign

Rodric Hurdle-Bradford
January 03, 2023



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After Donald Trump blamed Republicans and the abortion issue for a poor midterm election performance, a Trump insider who spoke under confidence shared a message with The Guardian and stated: "Trump has no political skills left. His team is a joke. The ship is sinking."

The same Trump insider said that the former president has completely lost the party because of an inability to react to the party's need and read the voters.

Writing on Truth Social on January 1, Trump said: "It wasn’t my fault that the Republicans didn’t live up to expectations in the MidTerms. I was 233-20! It was the “abortion issue,” poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother, that lost large numbers of Voters. Also, the people that pushed so hard, for decades, against abortion, got their wish from the U.S. Supreme Court, & just plain disappeared, not to be seen again. Plus, Mitch stupid s!"

His comments prompted criticism from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a prominent anti-abortion group.

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“The approach to winning on abortion in federal races, proven for a decade is this: state clearly the ambitious consensus pro-life position and contrast that with the extreme view of Democrat opponents,” the group said Monday in a statement. “We look forward to hearing that position fully articulated by Mr. Trump and all presidential candidates.”

Since Trump announced his campaign to run for president in 2024, he has continued to see a decrease in support, due to both his mounting legal cases in regards to the Jan. 6 attacks and controversial ongoing public comments.



https://www.rawstory.com/his-team-is-a-joke-trump-insider-trashes-his-sinking-2024-campaign/

 

NEW POLL: Nearly Two-Thirds of Republicans Say Trump Loyalty is ‘Important’ For the Party
By Ken MeyerJan 9th, 2023, 2:55 pm
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A new poll shows that a clear majority of Republicans want the GOP to remain at least somewhat loyal to former President Donald Trump.

In the past few months, political observers have wondered if Trump’s power and influence within the Republican Party have declined. These questions have been rooted in the GOP’s disappointing “red wave” during the midterm elections, and also how Trump’s endorsement failed to move the needle during Kevin McCarthy’s chaotic bid for House Speaker until the very end — when he spoke on the phone with the last few holdouts.


Nonetheless, CBS published a poll on Monday which found that most Republicans expect the party to follow Trump’s policies and 2020 views, if not the former president himself. The results indicate 35 percent of Republicans think party loyalty to Trump is “very important,” and another 30 percent called it “somewhat important.”

The poll adds that 81 percent of Republican respondents said they would prefer candidates with similar policies to Trump’s, and 66 percent want those candidates to be similar on Trump’s view over the 2020 election. As for personal conduct, that was split 50/50 on whether respondents want people who act the way Trump does.

The poll also looked at which issues Republicans are prioritizing now that they have the majority in the House of Representatives, and whether they ought to work with Democrats. On the latter, 48 percent of Republicans want to cooperate with Democrats, whereas 52 percent want to oppose President Joe Biden and the Democrats. This was punctuated by 57 percent of Republicans — mostly “MAGA” Republicans — who say that investigatiing the president and his son, Hunter, ought to be a Congressional priority.


https://www.mediaite.com/politics/n...say-trump-loyalty-is-important-for-the-party/

 

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'This is yikes': Ex-Trump lawyer startled by Trump fundraising email 'impersonating' DeSantis — but it's fake

Eric Dolan
January 16, 2023



Donald Trump addresses crowd in Sioux City, Iowa in 2016. (Shutterstock.com)


Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is under fire after a local news anchor from Florida accused the organization of sending out a fundraising email that appeared to be from Governor Ron DeSantis. But the Trump campaign says the email is fake.

“It’s a slick fundraising email,” tweeted Spectrum News 13 anchor Greg Angel on Monday, noting that it included the Florida governor’s “campaign logo, photo, and all.”

“But - check the fine print,” he continued. “It’s a fundraising email actually for Trump PAC and presidential campaign. Always read the fine print.”

“A former popular president using a very popular governor to raise campaign cash? Not the first email like this. More and more it shows Gov. DeSantis’ orbit of power and influence - his gravitational pull in the GOP,” Angel added in a subsequent tweet.

The allegations prompted a flood of reactions.

"Trump is impersonating DeSantis in this fundraising email? Highly doubtful Team DeSantis signed off on this. Not a good sign for Trump 2024 campaign, sorry," tweeted media strategist Gabriella Hoffman.

Many in Trumpworld responded as well.

“Over/under on DeSantis campaign sending a cease and desist? Because this is yikes,” said former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis.

But Brad Parscale, a former Trump campaign manager, claimed that the fundraising email was fake. “You should confirm things first. Making more #FakeNews like usual,” he said in response to Angel’s tweet.

Alexander Bruesewitz, a conservative political strategist, also alleged that the fundraising email was fake. But he placed the blame among allies of DeSantis.

“This is a FAKE,” Bruesewitz wrote on Twitter. “No official Trump PAC sent this email out. Pro-Ron DeSantis 2024 surrogates are spreading this lie all over the place."

The Trump campaign later outright denied that it had sent the email.

“This fundraising email is fake and did not come from us,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Semafor’s Shelby Talcott.



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“This fundraising email is fake and did not come from us,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Semafor’s Shelby Talcott.

 

Trump trounces DeSantis in potential GOP primary match-up, new poll finds

Jared Gans
Wed, January 18, 2023 at 8:15 AM MST


Former President Trump holds at 17-point lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in a hypothetical GOP primary match-up, according to a new poll.

A Morning Consult poll released Wednesday showed Trump with 48 percent support among potential Republican primary voters, followed by DeSantis with 31 percent. Trump’s front-runner position differs from some polls since the November midterm elections, which have shown DeSantis closing the gap with Trump or taking a lead in some cases.

Former Vice President Mike Pence came in third with 8 percent, followed by former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) with 3 percent. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) both received 2 percent.

Trump’s support in Morning Consult polls over the past month has stayed between 45 and 50 percent, while DeSantis has hovered around 30 percent.

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Among Trump voters in the most recent poll, DeSantis is comfortably the second choice, with 44 percent backing the Florida governor. About 20 percent would support Pence, and 7 percent would back Cruz.

Just over a third of DeSantis supporters would vote for Trump as their second choice, while 14 percent would support Pence and 13 percent would back Haley.

Pollsters found Trump’s favorability rating among potential Republican primary voters to be improving over the past month, with 77 percent having a favorable view of him. Trump’s net favorability rating, taken from subtracting the percentage who view him unfavorably from the percentage who view him favorably, passed 50 percent in the Morning Consult polling for the first time in almost a month.

Almost 7 in 10 potential voters have a favorable view of DeSantis.

DeSantis has an advantage among potential voters who view each of them unfavorably. Only 11 percent said they view DeSantis unfavorably, while 23 percent said they view Trump unfavorably.

The poll did show that DeSantis would perform somewhat better against President Biden in a hypothetical general election match-up than Trump would. DeSantis led Biden by 3 points, 44 percent to 41 percent, while Biden led Trump by 3 points, 43 percent to 40 percent.

Pollsters found two-thirds or more of respondents said they have not heard anything recently about any of the other potential candidates.

Trump became the first major Republican candidate to jump in the race in November, but several other prominent Republicans have indicated they are considering running. DeSantis has not made a public announcement but has been the subject of heavy speculation surrounding presidential ambitions.

The poll was conducted from Jan. 13 to 15 among 829 potential Republican primary voters. The margin of error was 4 percentage points.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-trounces-desantis-potential-gop-151518271.html

 

Trump advisers scrambling to round up GOP support and attendees for rally next week

Tom Boggioni
January 22, 2023



Donald Trump (Photo by Saul Loeb for AFP)


With Donald Trump expected to finally leave Mar-a-Lago and kick off his 2024 presidential campaign next week, the Washington Post reports it might be a lonely affair as fellow Republican officeholders are begging off from attending in a key conservative state..

The former president will be making an appearance at the State House in Columbia, South Carolina -- a state that is home to two potential rivals for the GOP nomination: Sen. Tim Scott and former Gov. Nikki Haley.

That, in turn, has made key Republicans in the state balk at appearing over fears it will be viewed as an early endorsement among other reasons..

According to the report, advisors and close allies of Trump, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have been making frantic phone calls trying to round up key Republicans to stand with him as he speaks.

The report notes, "the appeals have run headlong into a complicated new reality: Many of the state’s lawmakers and political operatives, and even some of his previous supporters, are not ready to pick a presidential candidate," adding, "The result foretells a Trump launch event in the early primary state — with an expected endorsement by Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and a reaffirmation of support from Gov. Henry McMaster (R) — that positions the former president as a serious contender but stops short of demonstrating the dominance that he once enjoyed."

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According to former South Carolina GOP chair Katon Dawson, "Nikki Haley is probably our first South Carolinian since we voted for George Washington that has really had a chance of being president of the United States. And I think the Trump folks are going to run into that history.”

The Post reports that an assortment of GOP officials and powerbrokers in South Carolina have already made it clear they won't be attending.

"State party chairman Drew McKissick will not be attending the Jan. 28 Trump event, because of the RNC meeting next week in California, and Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), a close ally of both Trump and Haley, has a prior commitment on Jan. 28 that he may not be able to break to attend the rally, according to their advisers. Hope Walker, executive director of the state party, recently turned down a job offer from the Trump campaign because she has decided to stay in her role for the cycle," the Post is reporting.

Asked to explain the indifference to the former president, Dave Wilson, president of Palmetto Family Council admitted, "A lot of people recognize the importance of the Trump presidency who are stepping back and are saying, ‘Is there another standard-bearer for the party and the issues we believe in?’ Someone who can carry us not just four more years, but eight more years and create momentum.”

You can read more here.



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'Not president anymore': Haberman says Trump insiders stunned they can't get Republicans to 'show up for him'

Tom Boggioni
January 24, 2023



Donald Trump (Photo by Paul Richards for AFP)


Donald Trump is headed to Columbia, South Carolina this week to jump-start his 2024 presidential bid and, with reports that it is off to a rough start, the New York Times Maggie Haberman appeared on CNN to report that his close advisers are taken aback by how bad things are going.

Over the weekend, the Washington Post reported that Trump's close allies were working the phones trying to round up attendees in South Carolina and finding no takers.

Sitting down with "CNN This Morning" host Don Lemon and Poppy Harlow, Haberman noted that Trump seems to share the same sense of apathy Republicans are about his third presidential run.

Addressing the former president rarely venturing out of Mar-a-Lago, she explained, "Look, he has not been running what one would consider a rigorous effort so far. I don't know how much is his lack of desire or how much is that his fund-raising might be struggling but he is going to plant a flag, especially because other candidates this is the period where they're looking to get in."

"I think they are also finding, his team, that people are not swelling around him in the Republican Party in these states the way they had believed," she added. "Now he still has supporters and still has his operation, it's pretty small. I think they thought they would be able to get all of these people to just show up for him."

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"He's over and over and over learning the lesson he is not president anymore and for a lot in the Republican Party someone they want to be passed," she elaborated.

"He's trying to create momentum around himself.," she told the hosts. "I remember him campaigning right before the primary in New Hampshire the beginning of February, end of January 2016 and him complaining at an event how long his commute was to go back to Manchester. So this is not somebody who does retail campaigning especially well. I don't think we'll see him do it."

Watch the segment below or at this link.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-rallies-2659302083/

 

And if they find nothing, we can be sure that MAGA will flip out of their heads!

 

Well lets investigate and see, shall we?

 

I've been saying that for a while now... I still suspect that MAGA won't accept the results.

 

Suspect away.
It's your right.

 

LOL, and based on the MAGA election denialism, is also probably an accurate assessment! MAGA doesn't need reality to believe in something...

 

It would be a first for you to be right about anything political.
Fingers crossed for you, genius.

 

Trump Delivers Bitter Speech Filled With Falsehoods in New Hampshire

Philip Elliott
Sat, January 28, 2023 at 1:20 PM MST



Former President Trump Speaks At New Hampshire Republican State Committee's Annual Meeting
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the New Hampshire Republican State Committee's Annual Meeting in Salem, New Hampshire, on on January 28, 2023. Credit - Scott Eisen—Getty Images

SALEM, N.H.— On Saturday, President Donald Trump pushed false claims about his own electoral losses and suggested foreign leaders shared his doubts about the outcome of the 2020 vote during his Saturday drop-by in the first-in-the-nation primary state.

Speaking to activists in southern New Hampshire, the ex-President revived his greatest hits as he joined his first campaign event of his 2024 chase of the Republican Party’s White House nomination and tested a new idea—that every day in Joe Biden’s America is a cruel April Fools Day joke.


“I think of the United States. Every day is April Fools Day,” Trump said. “We have open borders when they should be closed. It’s April Fools Day. … We have prisons—people from mental institutions and terrorists—being dumped into our country when they should not be accepted. April Fools Day, right? Who would do that?”

The event’s tone and substance suggested the looming two-year campaign is going to match—if not surpass—the toxic tone of his past attempts.

And it met a rowdy, welcoming audience in New Hampshire, a state Trump wrongly claimed he twice carried in a general election. (Trump lost New Hampshire in 2016 by one-third of a point and again in 2020 by 7 points, but did come out on top in the state’s primaries in those years.)

“As someone who has won the New Hampshire presidential primary not once but twice—and, by the way, I believe we also won two general elections,” Trump said to applause.

Later in his hour-long, stream-of-conscious remarks that seemed vamped, Trump said leaders from other nations were slow to call Biden with congratulations after he won the presidency. “They just didn’t believe it,” Trump said. “They didn’t believe the results.” (That is not the case, even as Trump refused to concede his loss.)

Trump’s sustained truth-stretched swing is hardly a surprise. He has been marinating in exile for the last two years, imagining his revenge comeback and stewing in his grievances. In an update from his 2016 and 2020 speeches, he defended what he called “fringe benefits” that Trump provided to his former money man, Allen Weisselberg. In exchange for his cooperation with federal prosecutors, Weisselberg earned five months in jail after pleading guilty to 15 felony counts. Trump likened himself as a victim of a weaponized Department of Justice, with collateral damage hurled at folks like Weisselberg.

But rhetoric isn’t fact any more than dreams are plans, and Trump’s midterm record is, at best, spotty. His efforts since launching his third real bid for the White House on Nov. 15 have been lacking, as several prominent Republicans have started more openly questioning Trump’s viability. Instead of sprinting to early nominating states like Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina to prove them wrong, Trump’s been making headlines for all the wrong reasons: he defended Kanye West amid an antisemitism crisis, dined with a white nationalist, and demanded an unconstitutional redo of the 2020 election.

Trump mocked criticism that he’s been slow to scale-up his campaign. “They’re almost forcing me into the rallies,” Trump said. “We’re going to do them soon. … Bigger than they’ve ever been.”

And yet Trump won the prized keynote spot for New Hampshire’s state GOP, putting him on stage in front of some of the most plugged-in activists and donors in a state that gave his limping 2016 bid its first win. Trump has long pandered to Granite Staters and their coveted first-in-the-nation primary, and he announced on Saturday that the two-term state GOP chairman was joining the re-election bid as an adviser focused on New Hampshire.

That’s not to say his path is expected to be easy. Consultants and pollsters alike are grumbling about Trump’s perceived vulnerabilities, especially in New Hampshire. A University of New Hampshire survey released this week shows Trump trailing DeSantis by 12 points among likely GOP primary voters in New Hampshire. While the state is famed for its openness to upstart candidates who campaign on a shoestring budget and unreasonable optimism, Trump skipped the small-scale house parties and town halls in favor of massive rallies before and seems on track to do the same this time.

Downplaying the state’s history of rewarding underdogs, Trump steered far afield from his potential challengers. Only one likely rival won an explicit name-check: former National Security Adviser John Bolton, branded by Trump as “one of those stupid people” who were inconsistently Republican.

Even so, two groups staffed tables outside the hall to promote Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a life-size cutout of DeSantis stood across the hall for selfies with convention delegates, an unavoidable reminder that New Hampshire likes to be ornery.

With typical bravado, Trump dismissed any threat to his re-nomination in New Hampshire hours before he was set to lead his first stop in South Carolina, another crucial early-nominating state. “I don’t think we have competition this time, to be honest,” Trump said. “We are so far ahead in the polls.” Nationally, that may be the case, but it feels plenty flimsy.

When you’re Trump, saying something repeatedly is as good as fact. And, judging from his first swing on the 2024 trail, that’s going to be central to his strategy once more.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-delivers-bitter-speech-filled-202007963.html

 

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More lame attempts to defend a pompous gasbag!

 

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Chess.

You really think anyone gives a shit what despicals think about what Trump said?

 

Trump campaign 2024: The grift continues

Rodric Hurdle-Bradford
January 31, 2023



Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a New Years event at his Mar-a-Lago home on December 31, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)


The Donald J. Trump for President 2024, Inc. campaign has officially filed its year-end financials with the Federal Elections Commission.

The filing lists the over 40,000 individuals who have donated to the campaign, as well as detailed filings on expenses.

The filing also lists the itemized expenses for the campaign — well over 100 transactions that total more than $750,000.

Nearly 10 percent of Trump's expenses have gone to two Trump entities --- the Trump International Golf Club and his Mar-a-Lago Golf Club for facility rental and catering services.

Exactly $68,987.88 of the Trump campaign's $760,394.47 of expenditures have been spent on the Trump entities.

More than 600 days ahead of the next election, Trump remains the Republican frontrunner, but his grip on the rank-and-file has loosened during his two years in the wilderness since exiting the Oval Office.

"Mr Trump's conduct since announcing his candidacy for the 2024 Republican nomination has weakened his credibility within his party," Brookings Institution senior fellow William Galston said in a recent commentary.

The 76-year-old Trump has been unusually low-key since announcing his latest presidential run on November 15, cocooned at his Mar-a-Lago beach home in south Florida and declining to hold a single public event.

But he heads onto the stump facing simmering discontent over midterm elections that saw a series of extremist candidates he had backed rejected in crucial battleground states.

The former reality TV star also has riled establishment Republicans over a dinner he hosted in Florida with a notorious Holocaust denier and the anti-Semitic, Hitler-admiring rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

His continued election denialism and a call in December for the termination of the Constitution to reinstate him to office also sparked a chorus of opprobrium.

'Narrow path'

In Congress and around the country, some Republicans are openly suggesting the party is ready for a younger, fresher face -- someone who is less polarizing and unencumbered by the constant drip of scandal.

Two South Carolina Republicans in their 50s -- Senator Tim Scott and former governor Nikki Haley -- are believed to be eyeing potential presidential runs, and neither is expected to show up on Saturday.

Galston said while Trump still has a "narrow path" to victory in 2024, the former president was "increasingly seen as a loser -- and rightly so" after the midterms.

But the battle for the nomination could wind up a two-horse race between Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who would be unlikely to announce until after the Sunshine State's legislative session ends in May.

If DeSantis does run, he will be hoping for a more successful launch than Trump, who saw no polling bump after his November announcement.

Hush money
Mounting legal woes still appear however to be the biggest roadblock for Trump, whose company was convicted on 17 counts of tax fraud and related offenses the week before he announced his run.

He is facing criminal probes in Atlanta and New York over election interference allegations and a hush money payment to a porn star.

Federal prosecutors are scrutinizing his handling of misappropriated government secrets, his role in the 2021 assault on the US Capitol and his attempts to overturn his election defeat.

He is also defending lawsuits in New York over a mid-1990s rape accusation and an alleged fraud that misled lenders, insurers and tax authorities over a period of years.

But counting out the perennial comeback kid could yet prove to be a mistake, say those who point to the success of Trump's brand as an insurgent who doesn't play by the rules.

Political scientist Jeff Broxmeyer told AFP that while the midterms had likely eroded Trump's mainstream support, his scandals had done him little harm among his base.

"Perpetual legal suits and coalition building with far-right figures are central features of Trump's appeal to Republican primary voters -- not obstacles to it," the University of Toledo professor said.

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