Summer is not technically over, but it is over. Labor Day has passed. Everything matters more daily on the campaign trail because everyone is paying attention now in ways they were not before. In the most recent polling, conducted by Donald Trump’s pollster for the Wall Street Journal, a poll conducted with both an online sample and a phone sample (🤷♂️), found Trump dominating the GOP field right now. The same poll shows DeSantis beating Biden and Biden beating Trump. If we take the primary numbers as real, we should also be willing to take the general election numbers as real.
James Comer and Jim Jordan need to stay the heck off TV until they can bring charges. (Even Chuck Schumer thinks they're on TV too much.) Speaker McCarthy needs to be on TV as often as possible saying the Republicans are trying to correct the results of the disasterous policies of the Biden Admin: (higher energy prices, higher grocery prices, higher utility rates, higher mortgage rates, decreased military readiness, increased ilegal immigration, the disaster in Afghanistan, etc., etc. etc. )
By almost every metric, Anericans are doing worse than they were before Biden took office, and things will get much worse if left unchecked.
The Repubs dont need to hammer Biden on Hunter's business dealings. They already have enough nails on which to hammer him.
This baggage that everyone is talking about with Trump was done purposely. This is how the left has planned it. Make Trump have so much baggage he can not win. Well as a Trump supporter that is what draws me in closer to him. If you walk away now the lefts plan worked. Now you can see another reason why Trump supporters will not abandon him. It is like when Jesus was being crucified and Peter denying him three times. With one other point, these stupid ads that are supposed brain wash you to move on only draws us closer. If there so much money able to be spent on foolishness. Why not put the money behind a candidate that would be better.
Just me, but I would be really reluctant to compare Trump with Jesus. You might consider how happy the support for Trump makes Dem strategists. Maybe they’re wrong, we’ll see.
At any rate, it amazes me that, listening to FoxNews, the emphasis is on how shocked the Dems must be that Trump, despite four indictments, is tied with Biden at 46%. How about how shocked the GOPs should be that, despite going again the most incompetent and harmful administration in the history of the country, Trump is only managing a tie? That's SCARY.
And Trump has proven to have no coattails (but then, why would a totally self-consumed person help anybody else? He's certainly done little for others with his money). This bodes particularly unwell for GOP Senate and House prospects in 2024.
I totally agree with the poll. Trump has too much baggage and can’t control his rhetoric. It’s like Biden and Trump are the only ones around and they are NOT. We need to move on toward the future and not litigate the past. The democrats don’t have an alternate candidate. We do. Let’s clear the field and start looking forward NOT back.
Erick-Woods Erickson said, "If I could give a word of advice to the candidates, talk about the issues Republican voters care about." How about saying 'talk about the issues that CONSERVATIVES care about'? Not all conservatives are Republicans, you know.
I wonder how many bot accounts there are out there that are the real Donald Trump supporters? The majority of real, actual people I meet are open to Donald Trump AND....The power of and. If your mind is "this candidate and no other" I don't want to have a conversation with you because it isn't a conversation. It's you swinging your Trump stick to beat down anyone who doesn't fall in line. That's not conversing. Lets have a vigorous primary and then an enthusiastic general so we can get our country back on track.
I can't agree more. The current administration is an embarrassment at best and Trump isn't that far behind. I just returned from six weeks traveling in three African countries. Believe me, they wonder what the heck is happening here in America. My answer was that the church (ecclesia) fell asleep, falling for the doctrine of tolerance, but is finally waking up. They get it. If Trump wins, the US won't be that much different than many of their leaders, an administration of vengance.
I am 100% for DeSantis. And that is who I will vote for in the primary. I do not understand why the GOP cuts their own throat by allowing dozen people to compete for the nomination when we see time after time that it does not work to their advantage. If they let it go this way, Trump will probably get the nomination. And just like they didn't let him win in 2020, they will not let him win in 2024. Now unlike some, if Trump is the nominee, I will vote for him, because I will never vote for a democrat as the party is now. Nor will I pretend that not voting is taking a moral stand. This country is in trouble. And hiding our heads and thinking there will always be a next time is just plain crazy.
And therein lies the problem. The Leftie media knows EXACTLY what they are doing down to the details (anger right of center voters and push them toTrump).
When you shop online, many websites allow you to pick 2 or more items and do a comparison. If that were the case with the GOP field. there is no way a majority would choose Trump. (full disclosure, I voted ffor him twice. First time because I saw real potential (I was more wrong than right), Second time, because I knew what a disaster Joe Biden was and is. I saw faults in Trump I would have liked to avoid, but had little choice. Now? I am full on incensed that he is the front runner. Too many disparaging thoughts come to mind of my fellow Right-wingers even as I understand they were much better off during the Trump years.
I dislike that I am pulling examples from the dems but in 2016 and 2020 the left took measures to stop Bernie. Like trump sanders had a loyal 30% following that would have given him enough to win. The dems had candidates drop out or used super delegates to prevent that.
The GOP needs to step in and do something. Trump is about 42% which gives him the lead and probably the nomination. But if the other candidates dropped and made this a 2-3 person race trump loses.
In previous elections who won didn’t affect much. You could always say theres the next election. This is different. Don’t listen to those who say “well we’ve gotten through this before..” no. You don’t get it.
The dems want to shut down voting all together. They love the Russian fake voting process to guarantee power. Love it.
They also want the totalitarian regime of China.
If we don’t elect someone other than Biden we will not only get a possible Kamala Harris admin. We might never get rid of the dems.
I don't think giving the GOP more power over who can or cannot run is the solution. As mentioned, the elites in the Democratic Party use their power to preselected the camdidate. We shouldn't want that for either party.
Polls are like statics…. They lie and liars use them to manipulate people. And the elections will never be “honest” as long as technology is being used. In person, ID’d and hand written… works even if the lights go out in Georgia.
A poll is much is like s shaft especially when used to manipulate the voting public. Usually skewed to steer you to their outcome. Because most Americans vote by what they think not taking into consideration if the individual supports Gods 10 commandments at the least. When you pray you should include everything that you consider an issue including voting.
I can’t say enough about Governor DeSantis. God , family, country, character, leadership, I don’t know what else you could ask for. If Trump wins the nomination we will lose. Most people do not care how bad Biden is they just hate Trump more. Even if Trump would win the election which he will not, do you want 4 years of absolute chaos or 8 years of recovery?
Erick - Great post. I appreciate that you are someone who has shown a willingness to speak uncomfortable truths and would respectfully make a request of you. As it becomes clearer that Trump will likely be the nominee, I ask that you consider delivering your audience one of the hardest truths that they would hear from someone they respect this election cycle - That as bad as Biden and the democrats are for the country, someone who has demonstrated the willingness to end democracy / suspend the constitution (through both word and action) is much worse.
Our nation has shown time and again the resilience to recover from bad policy. The political winds / pendulum swings in either direction from one political season to the next. But in order to do that we need to still have a functioning democracy. Any viable threat to maintaining a functional democracy must be vanquished at nearly all costs (meaning in this case hold your nose and vote Biden). You obviously may disagree with me on this and there is certainly a lot of things we can tell ourselves to cope with our choice (i.e. this time around Trump wont do that, or if he tries he will again be to incompetent to succeed just like last time, or the other side is just to evil to support, etc.), but the stakes are to high to tolerate the risk he has proven to be. If we are willing to gamble the stability of democracy in order to get our favored guy or policy then we have truly lost the plot.
You may say to yourself - I had reservations in 2016, but finally came around and it worked out in some ways (economy, tax policy, supreme court justices, etc.). There is one huge difference between now and all previous times we either enthusiastically voted trump or did so as the better of two evils - We now have significant evidence of Trump's illegal attempts to overturn democracy. Unfortunately many of your listeners / readers will never look directly at this evidence from the source and instead have nearly all of their information on the matter filtered through their favored media personalities who wouldn't dare expose them to hard truths that could jeopardize their popularity and income. However, I assume you have looked at the actual evidence and know what I'm saying has merit.
I understand that even if deep down you do agree with me, that you would then have extensive personal risks in delivering this message. I assume this a bridge to far for the bulk of your audience and would seriously jeopardize your livelihood (a position I definitely do not envy), but the risks to our country are so monumental that true courage is warranted. - again easy for me to say as someone whose income doesn't depend on engaging an audience that will largely despise this message an thus the messenger.
Sir, I respectfully could not disagree with you more. I do not like Trump and I wish he would go away. But Sir, the democrats and the left have done more to demolish what this country is supposed to be and everything that our founding fathers wanted for and intended for this country to have. The corruption in our government that has come to light since Trump was in office is staggering. Anyone who thinks that the left stands for the rule of law and our constitution is delusional.
You have a false prophet flying around the World blaming the public for a natural occurrence promoted by the Democratic Party and many GOP candidates. They passed a green climate bill built on a scam increasing the cost of living while the Big Guy is delivered 10 % free gratis and the AG looks the other way. The only way we can realize who would be the best choice is to ask Jesus in our prayers as we have deceivers who claim represent God but not against the Climate Scam .
Find out who is making money on the new Green Deal and you can eliminate candidates one by one as they are crooks.
I am certainly not going to defend Democrats or Leftist policy, but we have a mountain of evidence that Trump explicitly tried to illegally end democracy from the white house. I honestly believe that if he had been successful it could have led to a chain of events that jeopardize the safety of my family and all of yours. Once we have a President who successfully blocks the peaceful transfer of power I don't know what comes next, but whatever form of government is not going to be better. If you can produce actual evidence of Biden or a broad Democrat conspiracy to end democracy that is either on par with or greater than what I have already seen regarding Trump than I will re-think my position. Note: said evidence cant be some BS spouted by the pillow guy.
No - I go directly to the source when its available, please see what is just a brief sampling of that evidence below - not sure substack will let me use all of the links below, but feel free to look up any of this information yourself if the links don't work.
Pence directly on what Trump tried to get him to do (you make your own judgement on who has a better reputation for honesty between Pence and Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tglap7tGwHg
I assume you will either not actually look through this information or do so and then do some mental gymnastics co come to one of a couple possible conclusions (1) this isn't enough information to convince you, or (2) the other side is still worse or whatever you have to do to rationalize your continued support for someone who tried to end our democracy to satisfy his ego.
Sir , don’t presume that you know absolutely anything about me.
Did miss the indictment on the classified documents? First
I am not a fan of the former president. He is his own worst enemy. Do I think that he is getting screwed over by a very corrupt administration, yes. Do I think that Hillary and Biden should be indicted for treason, yes. Do I think the FBI, DOJ, IRS, and DOD should be thoroughly investigated, yes. I guess we will just have to see how this plays out. Just because it’s on the internet doesn’t make it true. I am done here.
I chose not to include the classified docs indictment (though it is quite damning) because it doesn't relate to trying to overthrown democracy. I frankly don't care as much about not returning papers to the archivers, and I am trying to not write a novel in each of my posts. I'd love for us to indict whomever on whichever side is corrupt or tries to overturn democracy as long as their is actual evidence of illegality. What I linked to above is a small fraction of the unfiltered source information that directly relates to Trumps illegal attempt to end democracy.
I think we likely would have had many, if not all, of the successes of Trump were one of the other GOP candidates won in 2016. Unfortunately, I'm not sure any if them would have beaten Hillary.
Now, it's being seen that DeSantis could beat Biden. It's likely several of the others could, too. We don't need Trump to win.
Hard to know without a crystal ball, but Hilary was incredibly unpopular even among democrats. If another Republican won we may or may not have had the same success as Trump, but Republicans probably would have won the GA runoffs and still had control of the senate. Again hard to know without the magic crystal ball.
The SCOTUS appointments would have happened regardless of who was the GOP winner. And the lot would likely have followed the advice of the same people Trump did in choosing nominees.
Economy, border, etc.? Trump used the fairly standard GOP playbook on these although it would be hard to guess if another POTUS would have had the fortitude to push through.
What I'm not sure could have happened under one of the others is the criminal justice reform.
I saw only one candidate that should up for God and it wasn’t Pence.
Psalms 47:9 the Shields of Earth belong to God,
C02 is one of the shields of earth. If you are willing to stand up for abortion then you shouldn’t be closed mouth on Climate.
Climate belongs to God. Vivek stood up for God. The other candidates were dead silent. First time I have ever seen Chris Christie with his mouth shut.It’s much better that way.
Richard, I was very enamoured when I heard him speak at Erick's event, but he's flipped (evolved??) on too many issues for me. Not keen on his big-mouth about abandoning Taiwan as soon as chip mfg is off island. That's the sort of thing you do NOT talk about. Let your enemis think otherwise. To me, that showed ego over maturity.
No offense, friend. I get why you like him. I certainly wanted to.
James Comer and Jim Jordan need to stay the heck off TV until they can bring charges. (Even Chuck Schumer thinks they're on TV too much.) Speaker McCarthy needs to be on TV as often as possible saying the Republicans are trying to correct the results of the disasterous policies of the Biden Admin: (higher energy prices, higher grocery prices, higher utility rates, higher mortgage rates, decreased military readiness, increased ilegal immigration, the disaster in Afghanistan, etc., etc. etc. )
By almost every metric, Anericans are doing worse than they were before Biden took office, and things will get much worse if left unchecked.
The Repubs dont need to hammer Biden on Hunter's business dealings. They already have enough nails on which to hammer him.
This baggage that everyone is talking about with Trump was done purposely. This is how the left has planned it. Make Trump have so much baggage he can not win. Well as a Trump supporter that is what draws me in closer to him. If you walk away now the lefts plan worked. Now you can see another reason why Trump supporters will not abandon him. It is like when Jesus was being crucified and Peter denying him three times. With one other point, these stupid ads that are supposed brain wash you to move on only draws us closer. If there so much money able to be spent on foolishness. Why not put the money behind a candidate that would be better.
Just me, but I would be really reluctant to compare Trump with Jesus. You might consider how happy the support for Trump makes Dem strategists. Maybe they’re wrong, we’ll see.
I will admit comparing him to Jesus might had been a little to far! My apologies for that.
I looked at the full WSJ poll, https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/WSJ_Poll_Aug_2023.pdf, and didn't see a Biden-DeSantis matchup. Surprised also that the WSJ poll would leave the polling to a Trump pollster. Maybe there's another WSJ-affiliated poll?
At any rate, it amazes me that, listening to FoxNews, the emphasis is on how shocked the Dems must be that Trump, despite four indictments, is tied with Biden at 46%. How about how shocked the GOPs should be that, despite going again the most incompetent and harmful administration in the history of the country, Trump is only managing a tie? That's SCARY.
And Trump has proven to have no coattails (but then, why would a totally self-consumed person help anybody else? He's certainly done little for others with his money). This bodes particularly unwell for GOP Senate and House prospects in 2024.
I totally agree with the poll. Trump has too much baggage and can’t control his rhetoric. It’s like Biden and Trump are the only ones around and they are NOT. We need to move on toward the future and not litigate the past. The democrats don’t have an alternate candidate. We do. Let’s clear the field and start looking forward NOT back.
Erick-Woods Erickson said, "If I could give a word of advice to the candidates, talk about the issues Republican voters care about." How about saying 'talk about the issues that CONSERVATIVES care about'? Not all conservatives are Republicans, you know.
I wonder how many bot accounts there are out there that are the real Donald Trump supporters? The majority of real, actual people I meet are open to Donald Trump AND....The power of and. If your mind is "this candidate and no other" I don't want to have a conversation with you because it isn't a conversation. It's you swinging your Trump stick to beat down anyone who doesn't fall in line. That's not conversing. Lets have a vigorous primary and then an enthusiastic general so we can get our country back on track.
I can't agree more. The current administration is an embarrassment at best and Trump isn't that far behind. I just returned from six weeks traveling in three African countries. Believe me, they wonder what the heck is happening here in America. My answer was that the church (ecclesia) fell asleep, falling for the doctrine of tolerance, but is finally waking up. They get it. If Trump wins, the US won't be that much different than many of their leaders, an administration of vengance.
I am 100% for DeSantis. And that is who I will vote for in the primary. I do not understand why the GOP cuts their own throat by allowing dozen people to compete for the nomination when we see time after time that it does not work to their advantage. If they let it go this way, Trump will probably get the nomination. And just like they didn't let him win in 2020, they will not let him win in 2024. Now unlike some, if Trump is the nominee, I will vote for him, because I will never vote for a democrat as the party is now. Nor will I pretend that not voting is taking a moral stand. This country is in trouble. And hiding our heads and thinking there will always be a next time is just plain crazy.
Exactly!! I feel like I wrote this except that I'm taking a 2nd look at Nikki Haley before I cast my primary vote next year.
exactly
And therein lies the problem. The Leftie media knows EXACTLY what they are doing down to the details (anger right of center voters and push them toTrump).
When you shop online, many websites allow you to pick 2 or more items and do a comparison. If that were the case with the GOP field. there is no way a majority would choose Trump. (full disclosure, I voted ffor him twice. First time because I saw real potential (I was more wrong than right), Second time, because I knew what a disaster Joe Biden was and is. I saw faults in Trump I would have liked to avoid, but had little choice. Now? I am full on incensed that he is the front runner. Too many disparaging thoughts come to mind of my fellow Right-wingers even as I understand they were much better off during the Trump years.
Go, pretty much anyone else! Not Trump!
I dislike that I am pulling examples from the dems but in 2016 and 2020 the left took measures to stop Bernie. Like trump sanders had a loyal 30% following that would have given him enough to win. The dems had candidates drop out or used super delegates to prevent that.
The GOP needs to step in and do something. Trump is about 42% which gives him the lead and probably the nomination. But if the other candidates dropped and made this a 2-3 person race trump loses.
In previous elections who won didn’t affect much. You could always say theres the next election. This is different. Don’t listen to those who say “well we’ve gotten through this before..” no. You don’t get it.
The dems want to shut down voting all together. They love the Russian fake voting process to guarantee power. Love it.
They also want the totalitarian regime of China.
If we don’t elect someone other than Biden we will not only get a possible Kamala Harris admin. We might never get rid of the dems.
I don't think giving the GOP more power over who can or cannot run is the solution. As mentioned, the elites in the Democratic Party use their power to preselected the camdidate. We shouldn't want that for either party.
Polls are like statics…. They lie and liars use them to manipulate people. And the elections will never be “honest” as long as technology is being used. In person, ID’d and hand written… works even if the lights go out in Georgia.
A poll is much is like s shaft especially when used to manipulate the voting public. Usually skewed to steer you to their outcome. Because most Americans vote by what they think not taking into consideration if the individual supports Gods 10 commandments at the least. When you pray you should include everything that you consider an issue including voting.
I can’t say enough about Governor DeSantis. God , family, country, character, leadership, I don’t know what else you could ask for. If Trump wins the nomination we will lose. Most people do not care how bad Biden is they just hate Trump more. Even if Trump would win the election which he will not, do you want 4 years of absolute chaos or 8 years of recovery?
I’ve got Desantis bumper stickers on our cars. Go Ron!
Erick - Great post. I appreciate that you are someone who has shown a willingness to speak uncomfortable truths and would respectfully make a request of you. As it becomes clearer that Trump will likely be the nominee, I ask that you consider delivering your audience one of the hardest truths that they would hear from someone they respect this election cycle - That as bad as Biden and the democrats are for the country, someone who has demonstrated the willingness to end democracy / suspend the constitution (through both word and action) is much worse.
Our nation has shown time and again the resilience to recover from bad policy. The political winds / pendulum swings in either direction from one political season to the next. But in order to do that we need to still have a functioning democracy. Any viable threat to maintaining a functional democracy must be vanquished at nearly all costs (meaning in this case hold your nose and vote Biden). You obviously may disagree with me on this and there is certainly a lot of things we can tell ourselves to cope with our choice (i.e. this time around Trump wont do that, or if he tries he will again be to incompetent to succeed just like last time, or the other side is just to evil to support, etc.), but the stakes are to high to tolerate the risk he has proven to be. If we are willing to gamble the stability of democracy in order to get our favored guy or policy then we have truly lost the plot.
You may say to yourself - I had reservations in 2016, but finally came around and it worked out in some ways (economy, tax policy, supreme court justices, etc.). There is one huge difference between now and all previous times we either enthusiastically voted trump or did so as the better of two evils - We now have significant evidence of Trump's illegal attempts to overturn democracy. Unfortunately many of your listeners / readers will never look directly at this evidence from the source and instead have nearly all of their information on the matter filtered through their favored media personalities who wouldn't dare expose them to hard truths that could jeopardize their popularity and income. However, I assume you have looked at the actual evidence and know what I'm saying has merit.
I understand that even if deep down you do agree with me, that you would then have extensive personal risks in delivering this message. I assume this a bridge to far for the bulk of your audience and would seriously jeopardize your livelihood (a position I definitely do not envy), but the risks to our country are so monumental that true courage is warranted. - again easy for me to say as someone whose income doesn't depend on engaging an audience that will largely despise this message an thus the messenger.
Sir, I respectfully could not disagree with you more. I do not like Trump and I wish he would go away. But Sir, the democrats and the left have done more to demolish what this country is supposed to be and everything that our founding fathers wanted for and intended for this country to have. The corruption in our government that has come to light since Trump was in office is staggering. Anyone who thinks that the left stands for the rule of law and our constitution is delusional.
Linda,
You have a false prophet flying around the World blaming the public for a natural occurrence promoted by the Democratic Party and many GOP candidates. They passed a green climate bill built on a scam increasing the cost of living while the Big Guy is delivered 10 % free gratis and the AG looks the other way. The only way we can realize who would be the best choice is to ask Jesus in our prayers as we have deceivers who claim represent God but not against the Climate Scam .
Find out who is making money on the new Green Deal and you can eliminate candidates one by one as they are crooks.
I am certainly not going to defend Democrats or Leftist policy, but we have a mountain of evidence that Trump explicitly tried to illegally end democracy from the white house. I honestly believe that if he had been successful it could have led to a chain of events that jeopardize the safety of my family and all of yours. Once we have a President who successfully blocks the peaceful transfer of power I don't know what comes next, but whatever form of government is not going to be better. If you can produce actual evidence of Biden or a broad Democrat conspiracy to end democracy that is either on par with or greater than what I have already seen regarding Trump than I will re-think my position. Note: said evidence cant be some BS spouted by the pillow guy.
Are we talking Adam Schiff's mountain of evidence?
No - I go directly to the source when its available, please see what is just a brief sampling of that evidence below - not sure substack will let me use all of the links below, but feel free to look up any of this information yourself if the links don't work.
Trumps full audio call with Raffensberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhBxg17QqZ4
Giulliana admitting in court filing that he made false statements about Ruby Freeman (which formed the basis for much of Trumps coercing of Raffensberger in audio above): https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720.84.2.pdf
Pence directly on what Trump tried to get him to do (you make your own judgement on who has a better reputation for honesty between Pence and Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tglap7tGwHg
The actual DC indictment (I encourage you to actually read it, its worth it): https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23893878-trump-dc-indictment
Same for GA and same comment about actually reading it:https://www.ajc.com/news/annotated-the-fulton-county-georgia-grand-jury-indictment-of-donald-trump/OR6JJJMX3BDTFPCZYIREEXKLOI/
I assume you will either not actually look through this information or do so and then do some mental gymnastics co come to one of a couple possible conclusions (1) this isn't enough information to convince you, or (2) the other side is still worse or whatever you have to do to rationalize your continued support for someone who tried to end our democracy to satisfy his ego.
Sir , don’t presume that you know absolutely anything about me.
Did miss the indictment on the classified documents? First
I am not a fan of the former president. He is his own worst enemy. Do I think that he is getting screwed over by a very corrupt administration, yes. Do I think that Hillary and Biden should be indicted for treason, yes. Do I think the FBI, DOJ, IRS, and DOD should be thoroughly investigated, yes. I guess we will just have to see how this plays out. Just because it’s on the internet doesn’t make it true. I am done here.
I chose not to include the classified docs indictment (though it is quite damning) because it doesn't relate to trying to overthrown democracy. I frankly don't care as much about not returning papers to the archivers, and I am trying to not write a novel in each of my posts. I'd love for us to indict whomever on whichever side is corrupt or tries to overturn democracy as long as their is actual evidence of illegality. What I linked to above is a small fraction of the unfiltered source information that directly relates to Trumps illegal attempt to end democracy.
I think we likely would have had many, if not all, of the successes of Trump were one of the other GOP candidates won in 2016. Unfortunately, I'm not sure any if them would have beaten Hillary.
Now, it's being seen that DeSantis could beat Biden. It's likely several of the others could, too. We don't need Trump to win.
Hard to know without a crystal ball, but Hilary was incredibly unpopular even among democrats. If another Republican won we may or may not have had the same success as Trump, but Republicans probably would have won the GA runoffs and still had control of the senate. Again hard to know without the magic crystal ball.
The SCOTUS appointments would have happened regardless of who was the GOP winner. And the lot would likely have followed the advice of the same people Trump did in choosing nominees.
Economy, border, etc.? Trump used the fairly standard GOP playbook on these although it would be hard to guess if another POTUS would have had the fortitude to push through.
What I'm not sure could have happened under one of the others is the criminal justice reform.
Ramaswamy aims to ride the Trump train to VP - from there, who knows? he will continue in the race till his dough runs out
If he ever leaves New Hampshire he may discover there 49 other states.
I saw only one candidate that should up for God and it wasn’t Pence.
Psalms 47:9 the Shields of Earth belong to God,
C02 is one of the shields of earth. If you are willing to stand up for abortion then you shouldn’t be closed mouth on Climate.
Climate belongs to God. Vivek stood up for God. The other candidates were dead silent. First time I have ever seen Chris Christie with his mouth shut.It’s much better that way.
Richard, I was very enamoured when I heard him speak at Erick's event, but he's flipped (evolved??) on too many issues for me. Not keen on his big-mouth about abandoning Taiwan as soon as chip mfg is off island. That's the sort of thing you do NOT talk about. Let your enemis think otherwise. To me, that showed ego over maturity.
No offense, friend. I get why you like him. I certainly wanted to.