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GOP candidate Larry Elder has also dropped out of the race.
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He was in the race?
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Add Francis Suarez and Will Hurd to the ex-GOP presidential candidate pile.
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See! Trump is winning again! All these no-name losers are dropping out!
Okay...maybe a little tiny bit of sarcasm there, but honestly...none of them are going to take the GOP nomination from Fragilego Mussolini. The party went "all in" on the man 7 years ago, and he is now the albatross around their necks. Ron "My Favorite Word is Woke" DeSantis tried to out-Trump Trump, but thus far has failed. Christie is clinging to the "I told you he was crazy" angle, and Haley is desperately trying to come off as reasonable, but inertia is a helluva thing. The MAGA base wants one particular coiffed former reality TV host. They've bought the hats, the flags, and won't accept any substitute.
And in the "you can't make this shit up" part of the news;
Trump on Pence’s 2024 presidential race exit: ‘He should endorse me’
Former President Trump said his former vice president should endorse him during a Saturday rally. “People are leaving now and they’re all endorsing me,” Trump said at an event in Las Ve…
thehill.com
Maybe with Trump's brain getting smaller his balls are getting bigger. I'm genuinely impressed the level of chutzpah required to say such a thing with a straight face.
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Assuming that Trump gets knocked out by his legal difficulties, the race could come down to Nikki Haley vs. Joe Biden. I would not bet that Biden could win that race. Too many people vote on the basis of visceral reactions to candidates, and she would be the bright new shiny object in the race. The marginal voters in purple state suburbs that Democrats depend on to win could disappear from their column. We could end up with a slim Democratic House majority and a Republican Senate and President.
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And then we could (after 15-20 votes) elect a woke black lesbian woman muslim activist ecofreak as speaker of the house and keep everything from moving for another four years.
Another alternative is if Trump is knocked out, there would be an upsurge of disgruntled "uniparty" MAGAcunts who won't vote in the election at all. Kinda like how Democrats were unmotivated in 2016 or Trumpsuckers couldn't be fucked with the Georgia Senate Races for 2020.
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Court arguments begin on blocking Trump from the presidential ballot under the ‘insurrection’ clause
Court arguments have begun in the efforts to use an insurrection clause in the U.S. Constitution to bar former President Donald Trump from running for his old job again.
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Gonna be a busy week for Donny's lawyers.
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Swing-state Muslim Americans threaten to vote against Biden
Muslim Americans voted overwhelmingly for Biden. But community leaders in swing states tell NBC News that the president's handling of the war in Gaza risks losing their support.
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Swing-state Muslim Americans threaten to vote against Biden
Muslim Americans voted overwhelmingly for Biden. But community leaders in swing states tell NBC News that the president's handling of the war in Gaza risks losing their support.
Have they explained who they'll vote for other than Biden?
This sounds to me like the Sanderistas who voted for Trump. If only by staying home or voting third party in 2016. They got their way, a Trump administration, then seemed quite upset about his SCOTUS pics and such. Now we've got a disaster concerning everything from immigration to abortion law.
Maybe the Palestinian supporters want that kind of pyrrhic victory. It would be typical, like blowing the crap out of the people who supplied Gaza with water and electricity.
Help the guy who moved the U.S. embassy out of Tel Aviv to Jerusalem get back into office. That'll show Biden who is really in charge in America.
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I wonder, if Trump gets knocked off enough state ballots to make it mathematically impossible to win the Electoral College in 2024, what will the Republicans do? Will rabid Trumpsters stay home? Go for DeSantis? Write in Trump anyway?
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He will challenge it at the SCOTUS and they will reverse the removal.
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Cornell West probably. Possibly also RFK Jr. He is crazy, he might just be pro-Palestinian, although I have not seen him make any statements on this war that Hamas started.
To be fair, the Jerusalem Embassy Act was passed in 1995. Trump just finally implemented moving the US Embassy to the capital of Israel.
That was the right thing to do, even if Palestinians in Gaza used it as an excuse to riot.
That said, you are right. Trump is certainly not friendly to the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel cause.
Here's what he said recently.
From here. I can't imagine Trump being more palatable to the anti-Israel crowd than Biden. So third parties will have to do.Donald J. Trump said:
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Swing-state Muslim Americans threaten to vote against Biden
Muslim Americans voted overwhelmingly for Biden. But community leaders in swing states tell NBC News that the president's handling of the war in Gaza risks losing their support.
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I Note that in Poland, the right winged, authoritarian PiS party that has ruled Poland for some years just lost their hold on Poland. Several center left parties will join a colitian government to run Poland and undo unpopular PiS policies. There was a large turnout of young voters, and especially young women voters. A massive voter turn out, bigger than turnout when Poland won their freedom from the USSR. A warning to the GOP. it remains to be seen how the new GOP speaker of the House manages to screw things up to cause a massive revolt among young U.S. voters.
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You mean, SCOTUS will overturn the Constitution?
Yeah, they might. Just like Judge Cannon will probably rule against justice.
That's why she's ruling on this, Trump and the Teaparty don't believe in justice. And they're quite powerful.
By this time next year, Cannon will probably being touring the world on a superyacht like some black guy on the Supreme Court.
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