'But Trump Won …!'Arthur Schaper
Jul 10, 2023
The Republican Party is no longer facing a fight between moderate-liberal (McCain, Romney) and Conservative (Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo), but a fight between Talking Conservative (Trump) and Walking Conservative (DeSantis). And growing numbers of pro-DeSantis Republicans are emerging.
Sure, the polling shows Trump with a runaway lead. However, Republicans had runaway leads in 2022, and we all saw how that turned out. Furthermore, the 2024 primary will be decided by voters in specific states, not national polling or national sentiment.
Slow and steady wins the race. Another reason I prefer DeSantis to Trump at this point: he is focused on the real mechanics and political engineering of elections. The Left does not measure success on how many people attend a rally, or how many people follow a candidate on social media. The focus is always on getting votes, or in more recent times how many ballots they can stuff in the ballot box, how many illegal aliens they can register to vote, how many dead voters they can list as casting ballots.
Not just ballot-harvesting, but ballot-chasing is the name of the game, and DeSantis has announced he will use every legal maneuver to win. I live in California, where cheating is rampant, yet in 2022, Republicans gained back Congressional seats for the second cycle in a row. We have not had that kind of restoration in nearly forty years. If committed partisans are willing to make the effort, we can win.
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Source:
https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2023/07/10/but-trump-won-n2625488