2020 Presidential Race

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Sea Ray said:
I doubt much happens of significance legislatively in the next 4 yrs. Republicans did very well down ballot. Not a single House incumbent R lost this week and it's likely that they'll retain control of the Senate, probably 52-48. That means no packing of the court. No elimination of the filibuster, no green deal, no far left Nancy Pelosi legislation getting to the President's desk.

Republicans should sit back and let the Dems implode as they try to govern. The R's should work on finding a non Trump to run in 2024 but one who'll get Trump's full support. I'd suggest Ron DeSantis.

In the meantime, Trump's people in the judicial system will continue to deliver victory after victory for Republican causes.

Four yrs of Trump worked out far better than I envisioned. I feared he'd blow up the party and lose by a landslide in 2020. Instead the party is energized and Trump is more popular than he was 4 yrs ago. He has the love and adulation that his ego sought. Conservatives were lukewarm on him 4 yrs ago but they absolutely love him now. He really exceeded expectations especially considering all the forces against him.

Thank you Mr President for all you did for us and all the crap you had to endure. Now go enjoy your fame and it's up to us to take it from here
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I'm telling you guys . . . 52-48 is not a given with the 2 Georgia seats going to a runoff in January. I feel OK about the David Perdue race, but Kelly Loefller is not a good candidate and Rafael Warnock is pretty impressive.
 
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GroverCleveland said:
Maybe you knew Richard Nixon personally. One of my friends was a Secret Service agent on Nixon's White House detail. And he has told that of the four Presidents he guarded, (Nixon-Reagan), Nixon had the highest personal integrity of any of them (the agent was a Democrat at the time), Carter made him a Republican and he loved Ronald Reagan absolutely.

I do not know Trump personally, didn't know Nixon. I like Trump's policies. Based on what I've seen, read and heard, Trump would not win a favorable comparison with Nixon personally. But the tripe that has been passed along by people who do not know their butts from a hole in the ground about Nixon gets old.
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Would be interesting to know what your former Secret Service agent-friend considers "personal integrity." If you know anything about Nixon then surely you understand the man was a sexist xenophobe who had deep insecurities that led to him hiring squads to do his dirty work for him. Finally, when people refused to lie and cover up for him, he fired them.

My comparison is based on both Trump and Nixon's relentless attack on the mainstream media, how both tried to frame themselves as "the president of law and order," and how both depended on what Nixon termed the "silent majority" for support.
 
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titansvolsfaninga said:
Jeb Bush said that Florida changed their system after 2000 debacle. There are 49 other states with 49 different ways of doing things. It would be nice if we had some national conformity.
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I just wish ya know. We could be ahead of things for once instead of finding out its a complete disaster before changing it.
 
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GoBigOrangeUT said:
It’s pretty simple. The people who hate switching to the popular vote know that if we did, Republicans in their current ideology would never win another presidential election. I’m torn on the issue myself. I see both sides but the right only cares for one reason only.
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The left wants popular vote for only one reason. Me, I want the EC because I believe it serves its purpose. I'm a Constitutionalist more than anything else, and I firmly believe in the right of each state to be fairly represented. I don't think a popular vote accomplishes that.
 
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GAVol said:
You have hit the nail on the head.

The funny thing is that nobody seems to notice that Stacey Abrams still hasn't conceded the 2018 Georgia Gubernatorial election . . . exactly like Trump is doing right now.
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She used some lawyer speech to do it like a month after.

It was something like "I am ending my campaign to be Governor, so that I can focus on the issues facing Georgia while maintaining my newly acquired public office."

It was something janky like that. She officially did concede but the wording, and her actions, made it seem like she was sticking around.

And I have already told the stories of her issuing letters on governorial letter head. It just came with a tiny asterisk.
 
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