Their false attacks on Trump in 2016 didn’t work, especially with an unlikable person like Hillary Clinton running. And when American citizens could see that Hillary was given special treatment over her email felonies. Without COVID, Trump would most likely be president now, even with the Democrat cheating
‘We’ve seen this story before’: Dems grow anxious of a Trump ’16 redux
These should be celebratory times for Democrats. But as Donald Trump is set to get booked on Tuesday over a hush money payment he made to a porn star, a chunk of the party is growing anxious. An uneasy déjà vu has set in.
“Last time people were rooting for Donald Trump, he ended up president of the United States,” said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif). “We’ve seen this story before.”
The electoral potency of Trump is once more the central element of the Democratic Party’s internal debates. Back in 2016, Trump was supposed to have been the perfect opponent: too crude and way too outrageous to win a general election. As Hillary Clinton’s campaign geared up for that November’s race, many were rooting for Trump to be the GOP nominee, believing that he’d be the easiest Republican to beat.
It didn’t work out as planned. And the shock many in the party experienced because of it compelled them to pledge that they’d take a more sober-minded approach to the possibility of a Trump revival.
But with Trump once more eyeing the White House, the conventional wisdom is again forming that he would be the easiest Republican to defeat, owing to the myriad of legal problems he’s facing.
Even quite a few Democrats realize that the charges from Alvin Bragg are complete mule fritters, that they are ginned up by a guy who ran on promising to prosecute a US citizen no matter what. That’s not justice. And they realize that it could be them on the chopping block next if this continues.
Biden’s people aren’t so sure
They also point to the affirmative case for Biden, including two years of job growth, as well as steady leadership during the COVID pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
You mean how more people died under Biden from COVID, how he instituted mandates and ruined businesses, how the jobs that came back were due to lockdowns instituted mostly by Democrats, and the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, leading to Putin invading Ukraine, where Biden is sending gobs of money and arms?
But even as many Democrats are quietly betting that Trump is the most damaged potential GOP nominee, some are wondering whether that viewpoint misses something fundamental about his support. They fret that they might jinx the election too.
“Trump is a tremendously flawed candidate who has hurt his party in every election since 2016, but it’s impossible to say that he is the weakest because none of these other Republicans have been on the national stage before,” said Dan Pfeiffer, who served as an adviser to former President Barack Obama. “Given the Republican bias in the Electoral College — any Republican, including Trump, could win the election.”
Trump defied the odds once before. While his portion of the electorate may have shrunk since leaving office, he won more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016 and his MAGA base remains fervent.
The witch hunt is driving people to support Trump, and Trump isn’t brain-addled like Biden. Trump didn’t attempt to control the citzens at every turn like Biden. For all the calls of Trump being a Fascist, he was reducing the power of the federal government. These witch hunt attacks on Trump only serve to show the citizens that the government is not there to serve them, and can go after anyone for anything.
Time will tell.
Mr Teach: Without COVID, Trump would most likely be president now, even with the Democrat cheating
Trump barely won in 2016, even with no COVID and the unlikeable and unpopular Hillary.
He lost in 2020 to the weak, crooked Biden with dementia by 8 million votes. We get that MAGAts like Teach cannot imagine that the god-like, virile, badass, take no prisoners, wealthy Trump could lose, so they (with Trump’s urging) invented the Big Lie that Biden won by cheating.
Risibly, Mr Teach typed: the government is not there to serve them, and can go after anyone for anything
Yes, anyone who pays $130,000 to a porn star to keep her quiet before a Presidential election claiming it was a legitimate business expense is a candidate for prosecution. We get it, it’s perfectly understandable that Trump wanted to hide that he had sex with a porn actor when he had an infant baby at home. It looks bad for a candidate. But I’ll take my chances that prosecutors will not come after me. Note too that Trump will be indicted for his actions against Georgian voters and his actions around his illegal hoarding of documents of the United States.
If you believe that Brandon got that many legitimate votes, after attracting DOZENS to his campaign appearances (when he could be lured out of his basement by promises of ice cream) you are credulous beyond belief.
C’mon, man, they even bragged about cheating in a TIME article. They called it “fortifying” the election, but only a credulous rube would buy that.
We understand it hurts conservatives to admit Mr Trump could lose.
After all, The Evidence:
Brandon hardly campaigned!
Brandon drew small crowds!
Everyone I know voted for DonDon!
Brandon has dementia!
The laptop! Hunter!
Trump was ahead when I went to bed!
More people voted in 2020 than 2016? Yeah, right!!
Brandon got more votes than anyone in history?? Yeah, right!!
Affidavits!
Videos!
Dominion!
Italian satellite!
Mail in votes!
Sarah Longwell, director of Republicans for the Rule of Law says:
So, I may be wrong that believers in the Big Lie are mentally ill. You have just been groomed by the Republicun machine to believe an untruth. My apologies.
Dear Elwood:
“Yes, anyone who pays $130,000 to a porn star to keep her quiet before a Presidential election claiming it was a legitimate business expense is a candidate for prosecution.”
And what law has he broken?? Please be specific.
You will have to look at the indictment.
The prosecutors claim many broken laws.
Thirty four felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree as part of an illegal conspiracy to influence an election.
Donald Trump may have been elected based on these crimes.
What is FOX telling you?
“These should be celebratory times for Democrats.”
The only people celebrating this are totalitarians, ignorant ones at that.
The exercise is left to the class.
The only movement on betting lines since the indictments were announced has been up in Bidens favor
COVID ?? Did teach body something about COVID?
Well let’s see what ess happening 3 years ago
April 6 2020
President Trump announces (all caps)
“Light AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL”
deaths still under 10000 after 3 months
Teach ever go back and see what you were posting in April of 2020
Dear H:
The press lies. And lies. And distorts. Almost all are in the Democrat’s destroy America and Trump machine. Now they claimed it he played the pandemic down.
Of course, he played it down.
Leaders don’t yell fire in a crowded theater. Panic is never good.
At the same time, he was
organizing a response team of scientists and doctors;
shutting down travel into to the country from China by non US citizens;
meeting with the 50 governors on a daily basis to see what they needed;
meeting with our manufacturers to get them started on producing ventilators, masks and other PPE equipment;
encouraging our pharmacy corporations to develop a vaccine and medicines;
establishing a plan to distribute the vaccine nationwide immediately when available;
moving US Navy hospital ships to NYC and SF as backups;
having the US Corp of Engineers build emergency hospitals;
noting that Hydroxychloroquine was showing good results for some;
all while informing the US people of the status of things on a daily basis.
And all of this started while the number of confirmed cases in the US was less very low.
Other than that, he was pretty well doing nothing. (sarcasm alert)
Of course, Fauci was telling us we didn’t need masks they wouldn’t work, just shut the country down. He then changed his mind when the low death rates in Japan and other mask wearing countries was pointed out.
In the meantime, Slow Joe Biden, and other Democrats were calling him a racist for shutting down travel from China.
And Fancy Nancy and Crazy de Blasio was encouraging people to partying on down for the Chinese New Year celebrations. That spread the disease nationwide.
Killer Cuomo and other Democrat governors were killing nursing home patients and staff by forcing sick people back into the homes.
Lefties and the media are such liars
Trump’s last month in office was also worst month in US with 80000 dead.
Just about 1/2 of the US total deaths occured in the last year of Trump which was also it’s peak in deaths.
About 1.1 million died AFTER Trump told us not to worry about it, it was under control
Carbon boy-was that before or after Brandon and Pelosi called it “racist” and “xenophobic” to restrict travel from China?
Was the Trump administration DOJ overtly political when they prosecuted Individual 1’s attorney, Michael Cohen?
Just heard that a Trump PAC just started peddling T-shirts with a fake Trump mugshot! Get yours now before they sell out!
In the last 3 polls taken since the indictments the number if people who disapproved of the decision ranged from 30 to 40%
““Trump is a tremendously flawed candidate who has hurt his party in every election since 2016, but it’s impossible to say that he is the weakest because none of these other Republicans have been on the national stage before,” said Dan Pfeiffer, who served as an adviser to former President Barack Obama.”
Yep, I’m sure we can trust a Leftie Democrat to give us good advice.
In the last 3 polls taken since the indictments the number if people who disapproved of the decision to indict ranged from 30 to 40%
Bragg charging 34 felony counts over 1 fucking check!
What a clown show!
#AttaboyAlvin
Bwaha! Lolgf
James
Look at the results from 2020 and 2022
And e cc en FoxNews has now had to say that there was no fraud in 2020