What you guys are forgetting is that Trump literally endorsed 150+ candidates and the vast majority of them won. The ones that lost, lost in the states with the most obvious electoral shenanigans (Pennsylvania, Arizona), and in close races. This isn't really about Trump at all, and its only being made about Trump because the Establishment want to remove him from the board.
Potentially, any state with enough swing voters who are dissatisfied with the current direction of the country and willing to vote for change, and DeSantis is new enough to the national political stage that he could quite easily reposition himself and his campaign to become the face of that change. Trump cannot. Trump is now a spent political force who everyone has already made their mind up about; he's no longer capable of winning new people over, and his endorsement has proven to be a poisoned chalice to just about anyone it touches.
Except I don't think that this is only about Trump. Trump is the one who thinks that this is only about Trump, and that is precisely what is turning off swing voters. Everyone who isn't still a dyed-in-the-wool Trump fan would rather move on from Trump.
If Trump's endorsement is a poisoned chalice, then DeSantis is fucked because he himself was endorsed by Trump, and I guarantee you, if he gets the nomination, that will be used against him.
If Trump didn't endorse DeSantis, he woudln't be the governor of Florida right now. Sorry, not buying the establishment kool-aid. Just because it's become a fixed game does not mean I'm going to play along.
The problem is the GOP outside of crooks like Mitch who just grift most of the GOP minus really don't get the Democrats control the country and the GOP is just controlled opposition. The deep state (that's not a conspiracy that's just the established beauracracy) votes hard blue because it's interests are in larger government and social engineering. Basically anything that gives college educated idiots more jobs and more time in indoctrination centers to make them better "citizens." The goal is to rig permablue states so eventually over time with colonization America will be a one party democracy where there is strict gun control and gay agenda's down everyone's throats. This type of power game ruins the equalizing principal of the country. Unfortunately you're probably going to get a pushback in this country but I don't know what it's going to look like. In short Anarcho-tyranny is what they want. Anarchy for them and ruthless tyranny for everyone else.
Which is precisely why DeSantis should continue to act like Trump doesn't exist, because doing so means that he can maneuver between getting much of Trump's base on side by never explicitly distancing himself from Trump, while not alienating a larger national constituency by never explicitly acknowledging it. DeSantis is now popular enough in his own right that he can succeed in spite of Trump's support, but one thing's for certain, he's clearly not going to succeed because of it.
4 years is a very long time in politics. Nixon secured a landslide victory over McGovern in 1972, only to resign in disgrace with the lowest approval rating in a generation less than 2 years later. It would be a mistake to think that the circumstances of DeSantis' election in 2018 bear any relation to the victory he was able to pull off this month, and evidence would suggest that it doesn't. Case in point: DeSantis barely mentioned Trump during the campaign.
woot maga mommy won.
Climate change isn't important to anyone...except for millions of millennial/zoomer voters, including the more apolitical types. Most of these people will easily believe ten dollar gas and carbon taxes to save the planet is a necessary sacrifice once it gets on the mainstream leftist platform in 5-10 years. The solution is not saying "shut up, climate change doesn't exist" when polling shows there is a significant minority of Republicans who disagree and this policy is widely unpopular among self-described moderate and independent voters. There are also many independents who believe taking too much action on climate change is damaging to the economy. This is a segment that can be won by trashing Democrat climate initiatives.
Then you better not drive a car or fly a plane since the government makes sure that's safe too. I mean I'm just going to assume that the government does a decent enough job since I can only find 15 deaths attributed to nuclear power plants in the United States (all maintenance workers).
Second highest turnout for 18-29 in thirty years. Turnout even higher in purple states.
About 150 pages ago I was told abortion wasn't an issue at all this election but then funny enough it cost the Republicans 10-20 House seats and a few governorships and Senate seats.
news.gallup.com
www.pewresearch.org
And yet there has been no incident like Chernobyl in over 50 years of nuclear power in the US, and if they commission more of the current generation of nuclear reactors, it will be physically impossible because physics don't work that way.
I hate this clown circus on climate change, especially as someone who's industry is directly affected by weather pattern changes. The next time someone rants to me about how we "need to stop climate change" I'll fucking tell them to kill themselves to contribute.
Is there a nuclear option of the legislature impeaching and removing the AG? I know it's unlikely but that would be peak clown world.
And yet the AP and Google still refuse to acknowledge it. Something that's been pretty consistent with their results - calling Democrat stuff early and waiting till the last possible minute with Republicans just about everywhere the margin is within 3%.
We just don’t have technology to safely transition to without hurting millions of people or causing millions to starve and freeze to death. The closest and most reliable tool we have is nuclear power but even that has long term drawbacks. Electric vehicles won’t do shit either because we don’t have the capacity to power an entire car yet. But yet climate change activists think we can magic all that away with a bill and regulations, but it’s simply not possible.
It's also based on lies.
