If it ends up.being rice that alone is going to make this a close race.
No one gives a shit about rice. No one.
Make her secretary of state, not vp
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No one gives a shit about rice. No one.
Make her secretary of state, not vp
Not much of a reason to even have an in person convention at the moment. That's fine.
Sounds pretty positive for early talks. I'm super surprised the GOP is allowing talks to even mention December as a cutoff. Their previous public position was a week!
Brownback was the Martin O'Malley of Kansas
He's a bunch of personality disorders wrapped in a skin suit.
Basically coincides with lock downs, the sharp decline with republicans basically meeting Dem/Ind over the course of 3mo is pretty wild to see. I don't recall why they would be riding so high into Feb/early Mar though.... The fog of each month becoming a century long has me struggling to think back to Feb. Solemani was killed in early Jan... Vindman fired in Feb. Uh... Impeachment vote in the senate early Feb, that's probably it right?
Also in other news...
Who could have seen this coming.
The totality of his lack of empathy is normally reserved for fictional villains like Lord Voldemort or I don't know, Skeletor. If you wrote a 1:1 Trump into fiction he'd be derided as cartoonish and unrealistic.
It's going to get worse to. Now that the federal unemployment benefit ended it will hurt things economically.
Gonna be tough when he can't stonewall the NY DA any more out of office.
How do other Republicans running in the primary even battle against a Trump when the GOP kneels down for dear leader?
If it's Eric or Jr, they shouldn't have too much of a problem running against them. Neither one has charisma or the draw of their father. Ivanka is the problem. They'll think it makes them look better to progressives by running a woman. She has a lot more charisma than her brothers and, I think she's all around smarter than either of them. She seems to understand that you can't just appeal to the racist mouth-breathers in order to win. Unless the Trump brand, and by extension, the children can be tarnished, then you have a very high possibility of her running and being able to beat out other Republicans.
None of those kids strike me as having the carny charisma you need to enthrall the conservative hoopleheads. I bet it will be someone Trump-esque, just not a literal member of the brood. Someone we don't see coming, like an fascist evangelical twitch personality.
Ivanka and Jared are directly tied to some of the biggest fuck ups of this administration, including the COVID-19 dumpster fire. No way she makes it through an election.
Eh, Starship initially had nothing at all to do with NASA. My understanding is that SpaceX had funding from NASA to develop the Falcon rockets. The Starship project was a fully private endeavor at SpaceX. The US government actually viewed it as a competitor to its own in-development SLS rocket, and made sure no government funding was being used to advance Starship. That apparently changed this year when NASA selected SpaceX to develop a lunar lander based on the Starship design, but it's not clear to me (and I haven't looked deeply into this) whether the Starship prototype launch that just took place was part of a private enterprise or tied to this partnership.
Long story short, I'm not sure Obama should get much credit for this, but I'm sure Trump should get even less. Nevertheless if it resulted from something that happened during his administration then I guess he has some kind of bragging rights.
God I'd love to see Eric try. I can kind of see Ivanka and Jr debating other people on stage but him?
Who the GOP wants to be run post-Trump and who will actually get the nomination are likely going to be two different things. It will likely be somebody who doesn't directly position themselves as Trump's successor (unless he wins in 2020), but who will give plenty of winks and nods to QAnon, Fox News, OAN, etc. without using explicit rhetoric. I imagine it will be a lot of remembering the "good old days" when we didn't have to be so politically correct and when people respected the troops (which they'll conflate with standing for the anthem) and law enforcement. More than anything, though, I expect them to be the most charismatic one running, as that's almost always the deciding factor. People want somebody saying what they want to hear in a way they want to hear it.
As for who meets that criteria? I'm not really familiar with a lot of the potential candidates, but I could see it being somebody like Tom Cotton, who actually had me fooled as a halfway decent candidate when I watched a townhall video of him a few years ago. He was good at feigning decency when listening to others, despite the fact that he's proven to be a complete sleazeball.
As for who meets that criteria? I'm not really familiar with a lot of the potential candidates, but I could see it being somebody like Tom Cotton, who actually had me fooled as a halfway decent candidate when I watched a townhall video of him a few years ago. He was good at feigning decency when listening to others, despite the fact that he's proven to be a complete sleazeball.
Tom Cotton said last week that slavery was a "necessary evil."
Guys like Cotton and Hawley are the more superficially appealing package on the same wretched Trumpism. I am more worried about those kinds of candidates than someone like Nikki Haley, who will almost certainly be the Marco Rubio of 2024 -- the non-white conservative that mainstream reporters who love a good horse race can't help but breathlessly hype as the savior of the GOP and will flop among the base for those exact same reasons. With the caveat that Haley has a much higher chance of ending up on the final ticket at least as a running mate.
It'll be pretty crazy (and sad) if this response doesn't sink her chances, I mean Iowa went to Obama both times
See, I feel Tom Cotton would be the Scott Walker of 2024. Hyped by the media, completely devoid of charisma, drops out before the first primary and throws his support to Tucker Carlson.
Back when Cotton did that town hall, he really did try to put out the appearance of being a reasonable Republican, especially when other Republicans were hiding and avoiding the press and the public. The problem for him though is that in the years since then, he's completely thrown away that persona and showed us all who he really is. At this point. I don't think he'd have a chance. They would need someone who can act like a reasonable person, but secretly continue Trump's deathmarch to fascism. The real key is going to be charisma, and the current crop of Republicans just don't have it. Tucker Carlson sure as hell ain't it, either.
Who runs and who wins depends a lot on what the Biden presidency is like, and world events during it. It's fun to think about who will try, but the world will be a very different place in 3.5 years.
Given how the suburbs are going there's a decent chance Crenshaw doesn't even get re-elected and I'd bet anything that the GOP doesn't vote for a women a Sikh background. Look at some of the ads that Manny Sethi is getting in Tennessee. My dark horse pick for 2024 is Jim Justice. He's rich, loud, has a name that looks good a hat, and can even do 'I was a Dem until they all went crazy' thing.
Part of it is also going to depend on whether we see the GOP clean house or not. They could just as easily wind up splintering, too. They have to know that the hardcore Trumpers are costing them.
As they are now, it seems like their cohesion has really fallen apart since the '18 midterms. If the Senate is indicative of the party as a whole, they're barely holding together, and that's probably just because right now they have someone to rally behind. Once Trump is out of power, I think we may see some serious intra party fighting.
As they are now, it seems like their cohesion has really fallen apart since the '18 midterms. If the Senate is indicative of the party as a whole, they're barely holding together, and that's probably just because right now they have someone to rally behind. Once Trump is out of power, I think we may see some serious intra party fighting.
2024 will be a run on "young" conservatism:
Nikki Haley
Josh Hawley
Tom Cotton
Marco Rubio
Donald Trump Jr.
Mitt Romney (depending on how the party shifts during those four years)
Nikki Haley
Josh Hawley
Tom Cotton
Marco Rubio
Donald Trump Jr.
Mitt Romney (depending on how the party shifts during those four years)
DC statehood is opposed by Republicans because it would give the Democrats two additional senators, basically. Now, their proclaimed reasons for opposing are that it's too small and/or the Founders wanted DC to not be represented.
Puerto Rican internal politics regarding statehood is complicated. They keep holding referenda because some people really want it to happen, and as long as PR remains a territory its status is inherently a live question, since the US was never supposed to acquire territories in perpetuity. The referendum being held this fall is in reaction to the federal government's neglect of PR after Hurricane Maria. We'll see how many people actually show up to vote and what the result is this time.
They want representation, but quite a few people are opposed to giving it to them. DC statehood is a harder sell.
Rice is certainly not a well-known figure either way, but her being on the ticket is not going to make this a close race. Vice presidential selections don't matter that much unless they're considering egregiously unqualified (see: Palin).
This is the only poll in months that has show Ernst ahead, for the record.
Ivanka is not a problem. She isn't popular with the GOP base at all; they like Donald Jr. much more. She's been trying to sell a Diet Trumpism that doesn't interest either swing voters or Trumpism's current consumers.
True. And Republicans thought they had a roadmap to moderation after their 2012 loss, which they proceeded to throw out the window when their voters demanded the racist carnival barker.
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