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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP isn't trying to steal the election.
Theyre trying to appear like theyre supporting Trump because they dont want to appear to be abandoning him and risk losing the entire MAGA base a month and a half before the election for control of the Senate.
They couldnt be happier to take back their party from Trump and theyre going to make sure he falls. Theyre just going to kick and scream and make a big show until he does.
Thanks
We have an unusual double-runoff that will determine control of the Senate.
I wonder if this has ever happened before?
I think they are afraid that after he leaves he might take his cult-members with him and form his own Party, thus splitting the GOP. This would render the GOP as a non-competitive entity.
Ponietz
(2,964 posts)I dont see a difference.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)at all costs, what then?
When people tell you what they are, believe them.
texasfiddler
(1,990 posts)Response to PTWB (Original post)
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dflprincess
(28,075 posts)Trump's bad behavior and the refusal of the GOP to call him out on it may only encourage Democratic voters in Georgia to turn out in even bigger numbers.
Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)I'm a little tapped out from the last election, but I popped for the Georgia elections this evening.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)And when it fails numerous people close to Trump are going to need to be tried for Sedition. Including Trump of course.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)His foolishness WILL fail. I hope it destroys their party.
In It to Win It
(8,243 posts)Imperialism Inc.
(2,495 posts)delegitimize Biden's win.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)"Help us fight back against all the cheating!!! Keep those donations coming in!!"
Beartracks
(12,809 posts)patricia92243
(12,595 posts)Trump can save face and leave '"for now.
qdouble
(891 posts)Although maybe 25% of the country is crazy enough to believe every lie that Trump is telling, 75% know that Joe Biden won the election. There's no way for Trump to overturn the will of the people when they don't have any legal way to throw out enough votes to overturn the results of the election.
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UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)The GOP are stupid if they cannot see the danger coming down the tracks. Trump plans to stir the pot until it boils.
andym
(5,443 posts)which will give him from the sidelines quite a bit of power over the GOP. Imagine if you will, Trump TV, with the "real" President giving orders to sabotage Joe Biden and the Democrats, which McConnell would want to do anyway. Their base will be enthralled-- literally.
We really need those two Senate seats to have a fighting chance against this scenario.
captain queeg
(10,184 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,000 posts)And milking the dimwit magats for everything they got
Fullduplexxx
(7,860 posts)D23MIURG23
(2,849 posts)I keep expecting them to dump him and they never seem to. Im starting to think they have Stockholm Syndrome. That or they secretly all love him because he does all the shit they would do if they werent cowards.
PTWB
(4,131 posts)They're going to say very loudly that they support Trump - while doing nothing to help him overturn the results of the election.
They want Trump's MAGA base - without Trump.
D23MIURG23
(2,849 posts)But there is no excuse for people like Lindsay Graham feeding into his "voter fraud" bullshit.
Quiet distancing would be enough.
PTWB
(4,131 posts)MAGA will see the GOP as abandoning Trump so MAGA will abandon the GOP.
Theyve gotta walk a tightrope of appearing to support him while not doing anything to overturn the results.
lame54
(35,287 posts)Hurt them in that election