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Renew Deal

(81,945 posts)
Tue Aug 1, 2023, 09:53 PM Aug 2023

Who will be the republican nominee?


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Christie
0 (0%)
Desantis
2 (10%)
Haley
0 (0%)
Hurd
1 (5%)
Hutchison
1 (5%)
Pence
0 (0%)
Ramaswamy
0 (0%)
Scott
0 (0%)
The Prime Suspect
14 (67%)
Other
3 (14%)
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Who will be the republican nominee? (Original Post) Renew Deal Aug 2023 OP
Whichever turd floats to the top of the GOP punch bowl. FSogol Aug 2023 #1
Vote Hurd, because....why not? OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2023 #2
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party after Biden's second term looks solid Wednesdays Aug 2023 #5
Concur.....and we have real legislators in Congress. OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2023 #7
Moscow Turtle.... magicarpet Aug 2023 #3
At this point, H2O Man Aug 2023 #4
Donald Drumph has a blindly loyal significant minority of the GOP... DemocraticPatriot Aug 2023 #6
Youngkin is my current guess. barbaraann Aug 2023 #8

OAITW r.2.0

(25,038 posts)
2. Vote Hurd, because....why not?
Tue Aug 1, 2023, 09:58 PM
Aug 2023

This carcass of a party is rotting pretty bad, really starting to stink. After Trump, there is no consensus on anyone or anything. The Party of Nothing Really.

OAITW r.2.0

(25,038 posts)
7. Concur.....and we have real legislators in Congress.
Tue Aug 1, 2023, 11:41 PM
Aug 2023

I honestly don't think the GOP is capable of doing the business of Congress.....legislating for the national common good.

DemocraticPatriot

(4,592 posts)
6. Donald Drumph has a blindly loyal significant minority of the GOP...
Tue Aug 1, 2023, 10:26 PM
Aug 2023

and the rest have no charisma


If the GOP had followed the Democratic example set many decades ago, and made all of their presidential primaries "proportional representation" of delegates, they would have had a better chance of getting rid of Trump...

but a lot of the GOP primaries are still "winner-take-all" for state delegates, and Trump can run-away with the delegate count for the nomination with a minority plurality of GOP primary voters...


Since polls show that more GOP voters think "Trump did nothing wrong", and they don't care about the law, and they seem to LIKE the fact that he is a criminal--- I don't see how he can be denied the presidential nomination of their lawless party... even if he WAS in prison at that point, although that seems unlikely just because of the slow pace of judicial proceedings...


There is a minor chance that a Trump trial could conclude and lead to sentencing, BETWEEN the 24 GOP convention and the general election of 24... In that case, the question is, would there be anything that the GOP National Committee could do to DUMP their nominee, between the convention and the general election?? I don't know, but even if there is, I suspect that they would lack the intestinal fortitude to DO it...





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