FL_Ag1998 said:
aggiehawg said:
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I'm not sure whether he truly believes that or not, but I think that's beside the point.
I think the true reason he keeps hammering this point ("We have all the votes we need!") is that he's setting up his excuse for when he loses in the General election should he be the Rep candidate.
Perennial losers learn to preemptively set up excuses to fall back on when they lose. Expert grifters also know this rule - set up the excuse beforehand so when the sake oil doesn't deliver as promised you can trot out the "See, I told you blah, blah, blah" excuse and continue to grift.
Or, bear with me for a moment, he's under indictment for really not believing he won in 2020 and he needs to stay consistent that he did win? He then goes on to talk about guarding the votes in the swing states, GA, AZ, PA, WI, MI, NV.
Ok, but two honest questions, and you obviously have the experience when it comes to thinking about legal manuevering...
1) Is there a reason it can't serve both purposes?
2) Does his legal battle regarding 2020 require him to show confidence that he's already won an election still 11 months away?
I'll buy your point, but still....it's a detrimental message to the Republican Party who needs a high voter turnout in 2024, and it only serves Trump's interests by marginally helping him in his court battle. Again, Trump comes first, everyone else second.
Sooooo, congrats Trump, I guess? You get to help your personal legal case at the expense of convincing Rep voters the '24 election is already in the bag and they don't need any sort of GOTV push.
He's in Iowa. When is the last time Iowa went blue? Trump has several different audiences he is playing to with very different agendas.
But I do think he's doing a pretty crappy job at campaigning this go around, even if I understand the stress he must be under. I was always a wreck right after a single trial. He's fighting on multiple fronts in different states. Not surprising he's not on his A game.
Still wish he would drop out and endorse DeSantis at some point but again understand why he feels he can't even if he wanted to. And that's why I think his comments about the polls in relation to his strength and faith. His supporters. He feels he owes them to stay in as long as they still do support him.
Since I'm an old, I have been very familiar with Trump for many decades now. He hasn't changed. He is exactly the same as he was many years ago. But what has changed is where America's head has gone and the lurch leftward of the Dem Party since 2000. Years ago (before 2000), he might have been able to run and win as a Democrat. He's clearly been mulling a run for office for a very long time. Is his motivation a sense of
noblesse oblige? Partially. Is it like Gordon Gekko said that America is a dysfunctional corporation that is being mismanaged? And he could do it better? (He showed he could do it better, in my view.) Again, maybe partially.
But he doesn't hate America nor the everyday American, of that I am sure. Bag on the guy all you want on the picayune stuff, he certainly can be honestly criticized, but this demonization is so over the top and frankly, just emblematic of the deranged Mikas, Liz Cheneys and Scarboroughs of the world running around with their hair on fire.
It is sad for our country to be where we are right now.
