Seven years of losing, and the GOP still can't see that Trump is the problem.
Dems won BIG again last night, in the fight to replace the disgraced George Santos.
And best of all, Dems again defied scary poll numbers.
Below is how the polls looked before voters braved snow storms (Winter storm: New York City gets most snow in years) to actually pull the lever.
Santos had won that seat by 8 points two years ago. But in a 16-point swing — DID YOU READ THAT?! A 16-POINT SWING!!!!! — Democrat Tom Suozzi won by eight points.
Perhaps most incredibly, there’s a chance that the GOP would have won the race had Trump not killed the bi-partisan immigration bill last week. (I wrote about this last week here.)
But the immigration issue flipped in favor of the Democrats once Trump killed the bi-partisan immigration bill.
And I’m not making this up. Here’s an article a week ago, showing how Dems could lose the race because of immigration: Immigration concerns pose threat to Democrats in race for Santos seat.
And here’s a post-election win article that I want to share a part of:
This race was dominated by GOP attacks on immigration. Republicans spent more than $8 million on campaign ads in this race, a huge number for a special congressional election. They hammered Democrat Tom Suozzi on immigration on the airwaves. Republican Mazi Pilip even held rallies near a makeshift tent city in Queens that houses migrants.
It's been a hot-button issue in New York with red-state governors busing migrants who crossed the border illegally to cities run by Democrats, including New York. New York Mayor Eric Adams has criticized the Biden administration on border security, calling on it to do more. Biden gets just a 29% approval for his handling of the issue, and Republicans have a 12-point advantage on which party would do a better job with it, according to the latest NPR poll.
So it's understandable that Republicans would want to try to use it. But Democrats showed they can defend themselves on this issue – by tacking to the middle. Suozzi said the border needed to be secured, called for a bipartisan compromise and supported the bipartisan congressional deal that was scuttled by Trump and the hard right. Pilip came out against the bill.
It’s insane to think that the GOP won’t get WALLOPED for the next nine months about border issues.
In fact, it’s already beginning.
After border bill failure, ICE considers mass releases to close budget gap.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drafted plans to release thousands of immigrants and slash its capacity to hold detainees after the failure of a Senate border bill that would have erased a $700 million budget shortfall, according to four officials at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.
The bipartisan border bill that Republican lawmakers opposed last week would have provided $6 billion in supplemental funding for ICE enforcement operations. The bill’s demise has led ICE officials to begin circulating an internal proposal to save money by releasing thousands of detainees and cutting detention levels from 38,000 beds to 22,000 — the opposite of the enforcement increases Republicans say they want.
The budget crunch and the proposal also present a difficult scenario for the Biden administration heading into the spring, when illegal crossings at the southern border are expected to spike again. On Tuesday, House Republicans voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his border record, and immigration remains President Biden’s worst-rated issue in polls.
You’d think Republicans would be pulling the brakes on Trump and jumping behind Haley, but they’re not. And they’re going to lose again in November, even though I’m sure ever rational person such as myself will have many scares between now and then.
But it’s also possible that losing his business assets, which will probably happen Friday, and all the trials to come, will start finally demolishing Trump and his image on the Right. He will soon be a MUCH poorer man with the business verdict (could be in the ballpark of $370 million) and the defamation verdict from a couple of weeks ago ($83.3 million).
I will close with this great graphic:
The fact is this: it only makes sense if you realize that Trump is calling the shots for the GOP and Trump is no genius. He got lucky in a SINGLE election.
But since then, he’s lost every election for the past seven years.
Trump does have one wildcard left to play, and he’s already playing it.
In an unbelievable move, Trump is going to give his daughter-in-law a great job while others do the day-to-day activities!! 😆
In Bid to Tighten Grip on GOP, Donald Trump Endorses Daughter-in-Law for RNC Co-Chair
The craziest part is she will have no responsibility, but a huge paycheck!! She will be co-chair alongside Michael Whatley, the RNC’s general counsel.
But the bulk of the work will be done by Chris LaCivita, to “in effect” assume the role of RNC chief operating officer, managing the committee’s “day-to-day operations so it will become a fighting machine for 2024.”
And when donations lag or something goes wrong, Trump will blame the two others and fire them! 😂
This is just business as usual for Trump. He hires and brings in family members, whether they’re qualified or not. And then Mr. “I love the poorly educated” blames the media, Commies, Obama, immigrants, RINOs, Deep State, and “losers” he hired and picked, which is weird, because he used to say “I only hire the best people.”
Let’s recap the list of people Donald Trump hired who eventually soured on him — or as I would describe it, finally saw the truth. (Because maybe the GOP could reach out to them):
Mike Pence, former Vice President.
William Barr, former Attorney General.
James Mattis, former Secretary of Defense.
John Kelly, former White House Chief of Staff.
Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Michael Cohen, longtime Trump lawyer.
Rex Tillerson, former Secretary of State.
Richard V. Spencer, former Secretary of the Navy.
Betsy DeVos, former Secretary of Education.
John Bolton, former national security adviser.
H.R. McMaster, former national security adviser.
Gary Cohn, a senior adviser and director of the National Economics Council.
Bill Stepien, Trump's 2020 campaign manager.
Eric Herschmann, former White House lawyer.
Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director.
Stephanie Grisham, former White House press secretary and communications director.
Alyssa Farrah Griffin, former White House Communications Director.
Want to know what these people say about Trump?
Read the article: The growing list of people Donald Trump hired who eventually soured on him.
Trump is the problem. The GOP just can’t see it yet.
But maybe 2024 is the year they finally will.
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Stan R. Mitchell
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