Republicans would be losing without Trump voters

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Republicans would be losing without Trump voters
By
Jeremiah Poff
October 8, 2024 2:00 pm
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As it stands, the race for the White House is a toss-up. Practically every poll in all seven main swing states shows former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris deadlocked with just four weeks until Election Day.

The race is so close, and a segment of the GOP is still embittered that the rest of the party’s voters chose to nominate Trump for a third consecutive election. A favorite pastime of anti-Trump Republicans is to claim that if the party had instead nominated former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, Trump’s last surviving rival in the primary, Harris would be trailing by a wide margin as the GOP barreled toward a landslide victory not seen since George H.W. Bush in 1988.

In many ways, this appeal to a hypothetical is wishcasting for a group of people who dominated Republican Party politics for most of the last 40 years. To this wing of the Republican Party, Trump is an insult to their policy agenda, which is best described as economic libertarianism with a robust and hawkish approach to foreign policy.

But this assessment not only misunderstands Trump’s enduring appeal but also overestimates the ability of Haley, or a candidate like her, to replicate Trump’s success at turning out Republican voters while restoring the party’s appeal with the suburban voters who once formed the backbone of the Republican coalition but have since embraced the Democratic Party following Trump’s emergence on the scene in 2016.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

Trump is the Republican Party.

The Republican establishment abandoned conservative principles during Bush '43.  They expanded  Big Government, started an undeclared war of foreign adventure in Iraq, and socialized private sector financial losses and malfeasence.

Mitt Romney ran against his own Masachusetts healthcare plan.

John McCain flip-flopped on illegal immigration.

John Bohner, Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, and Mitch McConnell were underperforming and underwhelming Congressional leaders.

The GOP needs better talent, better coaches, and a new owner after Trump bankrupts it.

[jmyrlefuller]

Trump is the Republican Party.

The Republican establishment abandoned conservative principles during Bush '43.  They expanded  Big Government, started an undeclared war of foreign adventure in Iraq, and socialized private sector financial losses and malfeasence.

Mitt Romney ran against his own Masachusetts healthcare plan.

John McCain flip-flopped on illegal immigration.

John Bohner, Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, and Mitch McConnell were underperforming and underwhelming Congressional leaders.

The GOP needs better talent, better coaches, and a new owner after Trump bankrupts it.

The worst part is, the party has such good and effective leadership at the state level. Yet get to the feds, and it turns to garbage.

There is such a potential for solid conservative governance from the Republican Party, and every opportunity there is to bring that to a national level, it gets squandered. Be it in the House, or the Senate, or Presidential primaries. All those names you listed... of all the guys on that list, the only one who was reliably conservative was Ryan, but he wasn't a leader.

The Republicans have become a bizarre coalition of old-guard upper-class politicians (Mitch, Romney), the Trump cult, and a small minority of conservatives like DeSantis. That's up against a Dem coalition of the woke, and the remnants of the old political machines in the northeast.

We will get nowhere in this country so long as conservatives only make up 10-15% of the voting population at most, and declining.