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Most people don't realize how easy it is? And don't believe that it matters? They answered in regards to both my first calls! I'm not stopping! Calling my representative, my congressman, and my senator once a week! They get at least the data on these calls. Rise up and call them! The numbers talk! A government run by the people, for the people!

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Can anyone tell me why more people don't call or write there Congress, representative or senator? Their office will answer and I replied back to. Every citizen in this country can easily pull up the phone numbers of their elected officials and call! Mr.erickson taught me something very important! The number is there? Leave your message. Every citizen talk to your elected! Don't think you are not heard! People by the millions should be calling the electid officials. It's easy say your piece... Let them know! Search the numbers and call them!

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It's clear (to me, anyway) DJT is unelectable in next presidential election. Here's two possible scenarios that should deeply concern everyone who loves this country of ours. First: The left and the media won't let go of Trump. The left will vote for him in primaries in states that allow cross party voting and he may get the republican nomination NOT from republicans but from cross voters who want the GOP to be embarrassed. He would then lose the general election. Second: DeSantis or someone more reasonable wins the party nomination and DJT decides to run as an independent. The deep state, which leans left will welcome that division which divides our voters because some republicans won't let go of Trump either. I'm genuinely concerned for the U.S.A. May God help us.

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If the Georgia Republican primary ballot in 2024 included only Donald Trump & Tulsi Gabbard, I'd vote for Tulsi.

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Nov 8, 2022·edited Nov 8, 2022

The biggest obstacle to a potential Republican sweep (White House, Senate, House) in 2024 is a Donald Trump candidacy.

No one can unite the Left and the Lincoln Project Right like Trump.

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I agree this has to stop. We're sadly looking like the Soviet Union before it fell. We need leaders who genuinely care about more than just themselves, and younger leaders would help.

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I was a bit shocked and disappointed by Trump's derisive nickname for DeSantis. I admire DeSantis very much and see him as being much like Trump, without Trump's negatives. Trump did not help himself with this criticism of DeSantis. He made himself look worse. Too bad as they should have been allies. Trump was a decent president, but he is too self-absorbed and I wish he would not run again. Pretty sure he will though :/

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DJT, Democratic Operative.

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yep, trump needs to not run and he could attach the left from mara largo. time for new blood

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Two things I'm interested in are:

1) Senate seats Repubs have to hold to have a chance of flipping the Senate if they can flip a seat or two.

2) What are the odds on some Western states seeing an increase in voters in the time between the polls close in the Eastern or Central time zones.?

Would those voters be Repubs coming out to try and increase a red wave or Dems coming out to try and turn one back?

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Voted for Trump twice but never again. He cost GA and the GOP the Senate, and what he did to Kemp and Raffensberger were outrageous. Saying he preferred Abrams ove Kemp shows just what a bitter narcissistic Bastard he is. And now this latest stunt with DeSantis, what in the holy hell can possibly justify that, other than the fact that he knows RS would kick his ass in a primary? He might be the most toxic person on the planet. I will absolutely skip the top of the ballot in 2024 unless maybe there is a Libertarian candidate listed. Can't the GOP just rig the primary for DeSantis like the Dems always seem to do with their chosen candidate?

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Agree as well.

It time...past time...to move beyond the octogenarians...the GOP has an excellent bench...time to move them forward.

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I voted for him twice. I sure hope we have a different choice next time. He had his chance. He d did some good things. But it’s time to move on.

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When I was a child, I worked at a failing Wendy’s restaurant. The home office brought in a new manager - a ringer that had been with the company since the days that Dave Thomas was slinging hamburgers. The great thing about him was he would and could turn a failing Wendy’s into an earnings power house. The problem with him was that he was a thief. He was going to save the restaurant, and he was going to skim his cut. And that’s exactly what he did, and everyone knew it. And he did it until they didn’t think they needed him anymore.

Get my point?

Erick, millions of us do not idealize politicians like you do. Millions of us understand that all politicians are narcissists to differing degrees, and we’ve learned to work with what we have. And if we have a bombastic, self-absorbed, self-aggrandizing, nasty tempered, combative president who despite his personality will nonetheless keep his promises to the degree possible and thereby save America, and he’s our choice over the entrenched politicians that have broken their promises to us for decades, than so be it!

Despite your opinion, millions of us will not be talked out of voting for Churchill.

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I thought it was bad for conservatism when the Republican Party made Trump our candidate the first time. I didn’t want him to be the face of republicans or conservatives. He had enough baggage to sink a battleship. He was smart enough to govern from a conservative position on the “social issues” and on ridding us of some gov bureaucracy, but he was/is still a huge narcissist who I believe cares more about Trump than he does about doing right. This latest attack on a great Republican candidate just proves that. I love the good things he did while president, but I still hate that he’s apparently the “conservative” standard bearer. Give me Desantis any day of the year. Go away DT.

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Me, Me, Me, I, I, I .......

I fear Trump will run,,,,and could very likely lose. I refused to vote for him the first time, and wrote in a candidate knowing my vote was likely wasted. I simply could not vote for Clinton "The what does it matter?" apologist for letting American lives be taken as long as it is not hers, or for the self absorb pompous, never had to say sorry for anything Trump. I voted for him last time, because it was so incredibly obvious that Joe Biden was hiding in the basement for reasons other than COVID. (His wife should be ashamed of letting him run, but power knows no bounds, even if it means sacrificing the country to get it.

I voted for Trump the second time knowing he probably list the election in that first debate where he made such an ass of himself. If he had just shut up, bumbling Joe would have shot himself, but the "look at me being Mr. Nasty" got him what he deserved but what the nation did not.

I hope that the Republicans do primary him. He should not be aa shoe in, for all the reasons stated. We have far better leaders who are in their prime and ready to serve. But will the Republicans have a backbone? I would vote for Mike Pence way before I will vote for Trump. I would for DeSantis well before Trump. Trump's treatment of his loyal VP should be recorded in history as one of the most despicable acts of any president ever. Trump deserved to lose, even if the country would have been better if he had not.

Let's hope that someone chooses to run against Trump, and then let's hope that there are enough sane people to understand the difference between a Me, Me, Me, I, I, I personality and a servant leader. If the choice is between Trump and a second season of Joe Biden...I am not sure I would not choose to write in another name again. It would be really nice to vote "for" someone, and not just making the choice between two evils.

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