Meanwhile, unfortunately it seems likely we're going to be put through the Dotard trying to run for office again. It's just a matter of whether he announces before or after the Midterms. It's horrible and scary and nauseating to us. After all the proof being shown that this criminal planned a coup, how some of our fellow Americans think having him back is a good idea is insane and depressing.
Thankfully, there are 843 days until the 2024 election (and 115 days until the Midterms).
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The reason for this poll is a recent POLITICO article talking about how Democrats want him to announce right away to use it for the Midterms. We strongly lean toward disagreeing with that. Democrats are already raising tons of money. Virginia and other races have shown that running against him when he's not in office doesn't work. And even though it's almost two years, we still have a visceral stomach-churning reaction to him, and the less we hear about him the better. Yet here's what some are saying:
Lots more at: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/1 ... t-00045969Why Democrats are begging Trump to start 2024 right now
Democrats are already plotting how to take advantage of another White House run from the 45th president.
By CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO 07/15/2022 04:31 AM EDT
Democrats aren’t just eager for Donald Trump to cannonball into the 2024 presidential race before the fall midterms. Across the country, they are actively plotting ways to immediately capitalize on a pre-November announcement. Campaigns and officials at major Democratic outfits are planning to capture the anticipated cash windfall that would come their way should Trump announce he’s making another run at the White House. Candidates also are exploring ways to exploit Trump’s premature entry to energize despondent base voters and coalesce independents and suburb-dwellers who have soured on the party over stubbornly high inflation.
Since leaving office, Trump’s lies about a stolen election and grievance-filled tirades against disloyal “RINOS” have continued unabated. While he’s never fully receded from the national stage, a formal declaration that he’s running would dominate the media landscape and — many Democrats expect — serve as a major distraction for down-ballot Republicans. “It puts in perspective what’s at stake, shows that the Republican Party is still extreme and helps set up the contrast,” said Cedric Richmond, a former White House senior adviser now at the Democratic National Committee. “Democrats need to home in on what they stand for — from their agenda to their values and contrast it with how extreme the other side is and what they want to do.”
Having Trump out of the wings as the GOP’s frontrunner and formal standard-bearer will sharpen the stakes “and it will help Democrats,” Richmond added.Few singular political factors could still upend the midterm landscape like Trump. Inside the White House and among close allies, there’s a sense that the former president would alter voters’ views of Biden and Democrats and help calm intraparty disappointment and turmoil they view as misplaced and unproductive.
Here's the background on his planning.
Lots more (Olivia gets great juice): https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article ... ision.htmlTHE POWER TRIP JULY 14, 2022
Donald Trump on 2024: ‘I’ve Already Made That Decision’ The only question left in the former president’s mind is when he’ll announce.
By Olivia Nuzzi
Donald Trump was impeached twice, lost the 2020 election by 7,052,770 votes, is entangled in investigations by federal prosecutors (over the Capitol insurrection and over the mishandling of classified White House documents and over election interference) and the District of Columbia attorney general (over financial fraud at the Presidential Inaugural Committee) and the Manhattan district attorney (over financial fraud at the Trump Organization) and the New York State attorney general (over financial fraud at the Trump Organization) and the Westchester County district attorney (over financial fraud at the Trump Organization) and the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney (over criminal election interference in Georgia) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (over rules violations in plans to take his social-media company public through a SPAC) and the House Select Committee on January 6 (whose hearings are the runaway TV-ratings hit of the summer), yet on Monday, July 11, he was in a fantastic mood.
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At a rally in Alaska on Saturday, he told me by phone, his fans were adoring. “More love,” in his words, “than I’ve ever had before.” His voice was humming with excitement. He was still in awe. After all of this time, after so many rallies, so many crowds, so many winding speeches and chants of “Lock her up” and “USA” and “Build the wall” and the familiar sounds of “Tiny Dancer” and “Memory” (from Cats) and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and “YMCA” and that goofy little dance and the delusion and the fervor so great that it built up to an attack on the Capitol and the democratic process at the center of the Republic itself, the novelty of this had not faded.
As a technical matter, the Anchorage event was on behalf of Sarah Palin and Kelly Tshibaka, Trump-endorsed candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, respectively, but like all such endeavors, it was for its star a means of discerning through a vibe check what traditional polls could not so reliably or completely tell him. And what it told him this time, he said, is that his voters — a portion of the electorate that he insists amounts to a majority of the country, though it does not — want to, and will, bring him back to power.
“Look,” Trump said, “I feel very confident that, if I decide to run, I’ll win.”
I fixated on If I decide. Trump is less a politician than a live-action mythological creature, and so punditry and all of the standard forms of analyses tend to fail. What would factor into such a decision for such an unusual person? “Well, in my own mind, I’ve already made that decision, so nothing factors in anymore. In my own mind, I’ve already made that decision,” he said.
He wouldn’t disclose what he’d decided. Not at first. But then he couldn’t help himself. “I would say my big decision will be whether I go before or after,” he said. “You understand what that means?” His tone was conspiratorial. Was he referring to the midterm elections? He repeated after me: “Midterms.” Suddenly, he relaxed, as though my speaking the word had somehow set it free for discussion. “Do I go before or after? That will be my big decision,” he said.
He was thinking aloud now. “I just think that there are certain assets to before,” he said. “Let people know. I think a lot of people would not even run if I did that because, if you look at the polls, they don’t even register. Most of these people. And I think that you would actually have a backlash against them if they ran. People want me to run.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/1 ... s-00045665Trump discussing 2024 plans at secret donor dinners
The former president recently gathered big donors for small off-the-record discussions in three cities in recent weeks.
During the gatherings, which typically go on for several hours, Former President Donald Trump has refrained from tipping his hand about his plans. |
By ALEX ISENSTADT 07/13/2022 04:52 PM EDT
Donald Trump has quietly convened some of his wealthiest and highest-profile supporters for intimate dinners in recent weeks, where the groups have talked about the former president’s 2024 election plans — and debated when he should make his expected comeback bid official. The gatherings have taken place in Houston, Nashville and, last Friday evening, in Las Vegas, where billionaire casino mogul and longtime Trump friend Phil Ruffin implored the ex-president to launch another run for the White House soon. The consensus has been that Trump should run again — the only question being when he should announce, with most echoing Ruffin’s view but others saying Trump would be better served by waiting until after the midterm elections. The previously unreported dinners, which were described by four attendees, provide a window into Trump’s deliberations and show how he has quietly begun to reassemble the political network that he cultivated in the White House. With other potential Republican candidates circling, holding their own donor meetings and making plans for 2024 runs, the former president is taking subtle but concrete steps to prepare for his next campaign.
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But the conversation inevitably gravitates toward the next presidential race. During a June dinner at the JW Marriott in Nashville, Graham told Trump that he’d have his wholehearted support for another campaign — but that if he wanted to run again, he should make his intentions clear soon. Trump aides have crafted guest lists of around 12 to 16 people per dinner, which have included Republican candidates, elected officials, and major contributors. Friday’s event at the Trump International Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip included Nevada gubernatorial hopeful Joe Lombardo and real estate investors Robert Zarnegin and Roger Norman. Many of the attendees have a long history of cutting big checks to Trump — Ruffin, Zarnegin and Norman each gave in the six-or-seven figure range in 2020 — but organizers have made the decision not to ask them for money right now. Trump advisers say the purpose has been to get Trump in front of a kitchen cabinet of supporters who, in an easy-going environment, will feel comfortable giving the ex-president their unvarnished opinions.
The dinners are not designed to convince Trump of whether to run, the advisers say, but rather to provide him with feedback. That feedback has not always been entirely positive. With Trump continuing to push his unfounded claim that the 2020 election was stolen, attendees have gently encouraged him to focus more on policy or what he would do if elected again. The deliberations come as some in the GOP have begun to question Trump’s political strength, wondering whether or how much the House investigation into his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot will damage him. On Tuesday, the New York Times published a survey showing more than half of Republican voters expressing a desire for someone else to lead the party’s ticket in 2024. (Trump responded by lashing out, saying the paper conducts “fake polls.”)
By the way, Democrats are swinging back in polling, the Senate is looking better and better because of the horrible candidates the GOP nominated and the generic ballot is moving back. Recently, idiot troll Kurt Schlichter warned the GOP if gun control passed, they'd lose the Midterms. Not letting Kurt forget that.
OrlyLicious
@Orly_licious@KurtSchlichter called it 5/26 with his @townhallcom column: "Warning to the GOP that if they betray us on guns they lose the midterms." #GunControl passed & with #DrOz #HerschelWalker #BlakeMasters & #EricGreitens, GOP's #Midterms2022 are collapsing.
Anyway, the question is, if he's going to do it, is it better for Democrats if he announces before or after the Midterms? No and Never aren't included because while that's what most of us want, doesn't look like that's an option. Curious about what everybody thinks about the timing issue.
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We went for a ride,
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