On the Edge of an AbyssD.W. Wilber
Jul 15, 2023
The supporters of former President Trump are absolutely correct about one thing. If every single Republican pledged their allegiance to him and fell in line he’d win the nomination easily. But he’d also lose the general election, again. He does not receive enough support from outside the traditional Republican and MAGA base to win in 2024.
Hillary Clinton beat Trump by roughly 3 million in the popular vote in 2016. While Trump indeed did win the election by taking the required 270 electoral votes, just a few thousand votes in each of the key swing states would have changed that outcome into a Hillary Clinton landslide victory in 2016. The Democrats ‘ground game’ in the important swing states has been a huge emphasis for their party ever since, so that a repeat Republican victory based solely on the Electoral College likely won’t happen again.
In the 2020 election a good percentage of Biden’s votes were from people voting ‘against Trump’, not ‘for Biden’. Many of those are the same voters that Trump or any Republican candidate would need to try to attract, and get to come over to the Republican side, in order to win in the general election.
Our country is equally divided politically. A recent Gallup Poll revealed that 49 percent of voters describe themselves as “politically independent,” roughly equal to the two major parties combined. These ‘Independents’ are the people who determine our elections.
When they are offered what appears to be a reasonable alternative to Trump they will vote for that candidate. The Democrats are already preparing to package and sell (with the help of their news media allies and Hollywood), a candidate (other than Joe Biden), who will be presented as a ‘moderate, and a reasonable alternative.’ Just like the closet Marxist Barack Obama was packaged and sold to Americans back in 2008.
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Source:
https://townhall.com/columnists/dwwilber/2023/07/15/on-the-edge-of-an-abyss-n2625738
