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Counting The Day Until Trump's Power Is Greatly Diminished (10,9,8)

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This hot on the statements of many that it would be a shocker if Donald Trump:
  • Seriously stayed in the primary race, rather than using it as a publicity stunt.
  • Stayed in the primary race until votes were actually taken.
  • Won even a single state in the primary.
  • Managed to remain in the primary race until only the serious candidates remained.
  • Won the primary race.
  • Actually received the Republican nomination (rather than having it taken away from him due to procedural trickery).
  • Managed to stay competitive in the presidential race for any length of time.
  • Managed to become president.
  • Managed to actually be inaugurated.
  • Managed to stay president for any significant length of time before being impeached.
And yet we're still meant to take seriously predictions that he will be removed from office before 2020.

Just get prepared to make the statement: "Sure President Trump may have won the 2020 with a bigger margin than the 2016 election, but it'll be a shocker if he isn't impeached within a month of his second term."
ALL of those other comments, essentially happened before anyone could judge his job performance or his capacity to do his job. If his approval ratings have tanked as they have, well, that at least SUGGESTS that some of those who voted for him are reconsidering his fitness for the position.
 
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Well that day is already here. He thought he could just tell his base to jump, they'd say how high. He told voters for vote for a candidate, three times in a row that candidate has lost. His White House is a constant dumpster fire they started themselves. His disapproval rating is high. Leaders of our allies think he's a dang fool.
 
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And then comes 2018, with Republicans running as far away as they can.

If they wish to be re-elected they best rally behind and support Trump.
M-Bob
 
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If they wish to be re-elected they best rally behind and support Trump.
M-Bob

They better or else they will end up like Ed Gillespie, Luther Strange, and Roy Moore.
 
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If they wish to be re-elected they best rally behind and support Trump.
M-Bob

There must be a lot of smog around the mountain if you can’t see what is going on down here. Trump is toxic to the Republican Party, 0 and 3 in football talk, keep that up and there is no Super Bowl ring. At least he is getting people out to vote that normally would have stayed home.
 
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There must be a lot of smog around the mountain if you can’t see what is going on down here. Trump is toxic to the Republican Party, 0 and 3 in football talk, keep that up and there is no Super Bowl ring. At least he is getting people out to vote that normally would have stayed home.


Have I asked about those pesky tax returns lately?
 
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ALL of those other comments, essentially happened before anyone could judge his job performance or his capacity to do his job. If his approval ratings have tanked as they have, well, that at least SUGGESTS that some of those who voted for him are reconsidering his fitness for the position.

Yeah, no one ever judged Donald Trump before he had a chance to act as president. Everyone was more than willing to give him a fair shake from the start.

Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
 
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There must be a lot of smog around the mountain if you can’t see what is going on down here. Trump is toxic to the Republican Party, 0 and 3 in football talk, keep that up and there is no Super Bowl ring. At least he is getting people out to vote that normally would have stayed home.

And there's obviously no way that "those people who would have normally stayed home" can possibly be convinced to support Republican candidates.

But the thing is, it is true that many establishment Republicans would rather lose their office than get support from the unclean. That's fine. We could use a purge of establishment Republicans, so that they can be replaced by politicians who actually do anything of worth. The public has been clamoring for such a replacement since at least the tea party protests.
 
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And there's obviously no way that "those people who would have normally stayed home" can possibly be convinced to support Republican candidates.

Well, you would be wrong because I know one, my mother, who lives in Huntsville Alabama. She voted for Nixon, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush and McCain. She did not vote in 2012 or 2016. She did vote on Tuesday and it was the first time she had ever voted for a Democrat.
 
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Well, you would be wrong because I know one, my mother, who lives in Huntsville Alabama. She voted for Nixon, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush and McCain. She did not vote in 2012 or 2016. She did vote on Tuesday and it was the first time she had ever voted for a Democrat.

And conversely many people who never voted for a Republican in their lives voted for President Trump and others like him. This is apparent by the number of historically strong blue states that swapped. Even Minnesota, which didn't even vote for Regan, got reasonably close to a Trump victory.

Democracy is a game of net change, not touching anecdotes.
 
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You “ mocked” me with that Countdown Clock.."...maybe I’m not the only one that lost the argument as you have so aptly taught us.i actually thought the clock was very clever—-wrong, but clever lol. Now will you please address my assertion that trump got in the elevator as it was going up.

Me? Mockest thou? No never. I was assisting you.

As for the elevator, you mean the one that was supposed to crash in a fireball if the President was ever elected? That elevator?

And now I have addressed your assertion.

Blessing to you
 
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Well, you would be wrong because I know one, my mother, who lives in Huntsville Alabama. She voted for Nixon, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush and McCain. She did not vote in 2012 or 2016. She did vote on Tuesday and it was the first time she had ever voted for a Democrat.

Same with my relatives in Alabama.
 
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Yeah, no one ever judged Donald Trump before he had a chance to act as president. Everyone was more than willing to give him a fair shake from the start.

Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
Oh don't get me wrong, PLENTY of people had the good judgement of character and foresight to recognize his complete lack of fitness for the role. But those people wouldn't have voted for him at the start moonlessnight and so they are TOTALLY irrelevant to the slowly lowering approval rating.

When you have that slow steady eroding of support, it is from a people who are slowly reconsidering their vote and support that was tenuous to begin with.

How Trump is going to win these people around is a huge question mark. WEll, theoretically. A good sized terror attack followed by a war would certainly be enough for him to get some traction back amongst those who love a "strong" war leader.
 
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And conversely many people who never voted for a Republican in their lives voted for President Trump and others like him. This is apparent by the number of historically strong blue states that swapped. Even Minnesota, which didn't even vote for Regan, got reasonably close to a Trump victory..
This does not mean that numerous Dems switched over. There is a LARGE portion of independent or undecided voters who had a big impact. That is where you'd probably find the reason for big change.
 
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But the thing is, it is true that many establishment Republicans would rather lose their office than get support from the unclean. That's fine. We could use a purge of establishment Republicans, so that they can be replaced by politicians who actually do anything of worth. The public has been clamoring for such a replacement since at least the tea party protests.
The bitter irony of this post MoonlessNight is that no doubt there are people who think the exact same thing about Democrats.

Y'all need to get term limits in place.
 
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The bitter irony of this post MoonlessNight is that no doubt there are people who think the exact same thing about Democrats.

Y'all need to get term limits in place.

I don't know what's "ironic" about it. All the democrats deserve to be purged.
 
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As soon the IRS Audit is finished…

Hahahahahaha.....somebody give me a drink of water! Hahahahahahahah!!! ,!! Audit has no bearing in this matter.....for Pete’s sake! He takes the heat for this because he is hiding something....a ten year old kid could see it
 
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Me? Mockest thou? No never. I was assisting you.

As for the elevator, you mean the one that was supposed to crash in a fireball if the President was ever elected? That elevator?

And now I have addressed your assertion.

Blessing to you


Still waiting patiently here for you to discuss the economic elevator.."..instead of evading it. Blessing to you also
 
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