Pollster: GOP looking beyond Trump in
early primary and caucus states
Posted By: MDConservative, 7/13/2022 9:50:26 AM
Republican pollster Rick Shaftan is like a lot of political junkies: He looks to his mother for hints on what real America is thinking. Lately, their talks have been about former President Donald Trump and whether he should run again. “Here’s the thing: My mom, of all people, my 96-year-old mom points this out,” said Shaftan, who just finished polling Republicans in Iowa about the coming 2024 presidential caucus. “She says, ‘I don’t see Trump doing anything. What’s he doing? He’s not making any news,'” Shaftan said. Of course, Trump does make some news, but it's mostly complaining about the 2020 election results...
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Titled The Personhood Act, Click’s legislation stipulates that the state “shall recognize the personhood, and protect the constitutional rights, of all unborn human individuals from the moment of conception.” The measure would not prohibit abortion in any case where doing so would “endanger the life of a mother.”
Republican pollster Rick Shaftan is like a lot of political junkies: He looks to his mother for hints on what real America is thinking. Lately, their talks have been about former President Donald Trump and whether he should run again.
“Here’s the thing: My mom, of all people, my 96-year-old mom points this out,” said Shaftan, who just finished polling Republicans in Iowa about the coming 2024 presidential caucus.
“She says, ‘I don’t see Trump doing anything. What’s he doing? He’s not making any news,'” Shaftan said.
Of course, Trump does make some news, but it's mostly complaining about the 2020 election results...
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Who has student loan debt in America?
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Snack and Die Early
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“Something to drink, sir?” asked the polite flight attendant as she passed my row. She placed the famous Southwest snack mix package
Capitol Police Serves AOC up a Little
Reality as She Continues to Freak out
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On Wednesday evening, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “I posted about a deeply disgusting incident that happened today on the Capitol steps, but took it down bc it’s clearly someone seeking extremist fame.”
“It’s just a bummer to work in an institution that openly allowed this,
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Dick’s Sporting Goods Hit with Civil-Rights
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Complaint for Funding Employee Abortions,
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Republicans Are Favored to Win the Senate
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Recently there has been a spate of stories about Republicans’ difficulties in taking over the Senate. These analyses typically focus on candidates’ poor polling numbers in key states and the weakness of the Republican recruiting class.
These aren’t absurd analyses; I’ve referred to the battle between the overall electoral environment and Republican candidate quality as “the irresistible force versus the immovable object” in previous columns. Had the Republican Party fielded its A-team in states like Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona, we probably would not be talking about Democrats even having a shot at retaining the Senate.
At the same time, we shouldn’t get carried away.
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Yes, of course it's all Dem propaganda to demoralize the GOP faithful. Nonetheless, the Trumpistas are expecting a GOP nomination cakewalk for FPDT, and they may be badly disappointed. Remember "Clinton Fatigue"? Remember the last months of Dubya? Obama? While there is Trump derangement, there is also fatigue whether his supporters like to recognize it or not. The GOP offers a number of capable and younger candidates. They're not going to let their opportunity pass.