If Nikki Haley, who dropped out weeks ago, is pulling 20% in the GOP primary against Trump in Ohio--this is a worrisome thing for him. Here's what I'm thinking--it's well-educated and female voters who realize that Trump is an appalling person. Some of these people will end up voting for Biden. Some will stay home. But this is an issue that Trump actually CAN'T address.
What do I mean by that? Take the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit. He counter-sued and lost, because what in the hell is the difference between assaulting someone digitally vs. with a penis? He's going back in against ABC and George Stephanopoulos because Nancy Mace kind of made him do it. So we are now going to be talking about Trump's being a rapist and Trump INVITED it.
We are going to go back to the Ukraine issue in the first impeachment because Trump invited that, too. We are going to se him condition Jewishness as it relates to Zionism, for a degree of Zionism that truly is anti-Palestinian. We are going to question what he REALLY wants done at the border because he stopped the border deal. We are going to question whether he understands foreign policy because after all--Russia is being expansionist, dare I say, imperialistic? And there's stupid tyrant fanboy Trump, wanting to be recognized by the Big Kids Dictator Club.
While doubling down on deporting masses of immigrants and the insinuation that all of them are "vermin" and "poisoning the blood" of our country. While talking about an abortion ban, which would be a ceiling, not a floor. Because he is proud that he selected the SCOTUS justices that shot down Roe v. Wade. While promoting loyalists, despite their being shitty, inept, or even openly racist and anti-Constitutional people. While promoting theocracy, even if he's barely a Christian, because Christian Nationalists love him.
When is it too much? Hasn't it already been? When does his party appreciate that they were had by a goddamn grifting nut?
Maybe this is breaking through.
UPDATE: Kansas--
It's not a mirage.
UPDATE: I'm just saying:
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I hope I'm not just taking up space; I'm a bit excited about this. I live in KS, just posted this on another blog, so I'm copying it here.
Biden has 35,031 votes for 83.8%, tfg has 70,561 for 75.5%.
Haley has 15,040 for 16.1, None has 4,888 for 5.2%, DeS has 2,491 for 2.7%, and Binkley has 502 for 0.5%.
On our side, None got 10.3%. The others can be seen at https://www.kake.com/elections .
FWIW. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks for all your writing. I just thought of something while reading this post. You're right, Trump CAN'T address the raping elephant in the room himself.
But he COULD address that with one weird trick you've probably heard before: putting Haley in as VP to deflect every evidence-based and historically sound context with her fawning lies and faux humility.
She didn't endorse Don the Rapist but said he could earn her endorsement. In Nikki Haley's self-serving ethos, nominating her is as good as it gets so she'll be all in—and so will her voters. Media surrogates will falsely claim that Haley has a moderating force on Honest Don.
I don't think she's that good as a politician, so I don't know if they can pull it off—but that's how they're going to try. Haley is in on this, and despite dropping out will keep on receiving delegates and votes but they won't be the potential protest votes against Trump in the general.
Thanks for reading, guys! I think there's a good possibility that Trump might think of a woman running mate, but because of his famous grudge-holding tendencies, he'd probably have a hard time accepting Nikki Haley, even if she were willing to take the job. I've noticed Kristi Noem really seems to be putting herself out there, and possibly Nancy Mace is a sort of "dark horse" option, but my gut says he goes for "central casting"--another white dude.
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