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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think the gop will drift further right but I hope Nikki is the ticket Here's why
I'm saying this based on the ugliness of them.
The establishment thinks it will neutralize Democrats with minorities on some level, but they still underestimate how much their base hates minorities or women who are not obnoxious MAGA/husband supporting caricatures.
We've seen when trump isn't on the ticket, their energy and GOTV goes down.
trump likely won't be on the ticket. Numbers should be lower.
Add a female minority to the ticket and well, watch is drop even further.
The best part is that some think that it will help them.
OneBlueDotBama
(1,384 posts)Faster than Scott Walker.
klook
(12,153 posts)I hope youre right.
moose65
(3,166 posts)We know that Trump wants to start a media empire, but I wondered if he might try to take his loyal minions and split off into the Trump Party (you just KNOW he would name it after himself.)
There are still some country-club Republicans who would resist the total craziness of the Trump party, but would it be enough for an effective split?
It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch!
jayfish
(10,038 posts)They will embrace her and claim they were for a "female minority" President all along. Have we learned nothing? They put a spray tanned, pussy grabbing, grifter into office and called him a "man of the people". Underestimate her and them at your own risk.
Blasphemer
(3,261 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Orange Buffoon
(188 posts)She seems to calculate everything to her career advantage.
Hotler
(11,412 posts)Autumn
(45,026 posts)She Kind of Reminds You of Margaret Thatcher: Liz Cheney Prepares To Make Her Move
Could the daughter of one of the more reviled leaders in recent GOP history become the face of the party as soon as next year?
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2020/11/01/liz-cheney-moment-430972
Earlier this year, Liz Cheneys ambitions came into focus.
To their shock, she turned them down.
Behind her veneer of support for President Trump she votes with him something like 97 percent of the time, she bragged on Fox & Friends in Julytheres a far harsher reality: Many of her and her fathers closest friends and ideological allies have become the most virulent Trump critics. The large group, which includes former national security adviser John Bolton, Steve Schmidt, Steve Hayes, Bill Kristol, and Jennifer Rubin, are rooting for Liz to restore their brand of conservatism after Trump.
"I've talked to a lot of people about the conversation we have to have in the Republican Party, about how to cut this albatross off from around our necks if he loses, Bolton told POLITICO, referring to Trump. And I think it's going to be very robust across the board."
Schmidt, the former counselor to Dick Cheney and adviser to John McCain who has become a prominent Trump critic, said, If theres a resurgence of conservatism as a functioning political philosophy in this country, Liz Cheney is as good a bet as anybody to be a leader in that. Liz Cheney is certainly not going to be a person over the next 20 years whos fighting to advance nationalism and populism.
Link to tweet
JI7
(89,244 posts)she won't win unless she wins similar to Romney and McCain where the crazy candidates split the votes .
GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)South Carolina is bought and paid for by the GOP, yet they had no problem with her holding the levers of power. This is the same party that was willing to put an unqualified hack like Sarah Palin as second-in-line. So, they don't hate women--as long as they have an "R" after their name. As for Hayley, she does a good job of passing herself off as white. Her given name is "Nimrata." She goes by "Nikki." That tells you all you need to know about her. I have no doubt that both she and her party are praying that most of the Trump stank she has on her will dissipate in 4 years. Unfortunately, it probably will. This is The United States of Amnesia, after all.
themaguffin
(3,824 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)And, they very well may be come 2024.