The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump didn't say the polls were fake when one showed him doing better with independents in Iowa now compared with when he was in office..He raved about it to his supporters.


Potential candidates always test political waters in Iowa. Trump's trip is different

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"There always seems to be someone testing the presidential waters in Iowa.

Over the summer, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and former Vice President Mike Pence headlined an event for a prominent evangelical Christian group.

At a fundraiser, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton went viral doing pushups with his Iowa colleague, Chuck Grassley.

Coming to the early presidential nominating state this far ahead of the contest is about meeting voters and laying the groundwork for a potential campaign.

But what's happening Saturday night is unprecedented: Former President Donald Trump, who is teasing another run, is holding a large rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.

The latest Iowa Poll, published this week in The Des Moines Register, says Trump is more popular in the state after leaving office. Pollster J. Ann Selzer says Trump remains very popular with Republicans and has made recent gains with independents.

"From March it was 45/53 — so a majority of independents saying they had an unfavorable opinion of former President Trump," she said. "In this poll, it was 48/49. So he's evened out the edge that was there as a problem with independent voters in Iowa.""

 

At the Iowa rally, Trump announced a new slogan for a potential 2024 run: 'Make America Great Again, Again'.


Donald Trump signals at Iowa rally that he intends to run in 2024, teases that his campaign slogan will be 'Make America Great Again, Again'

 

Even better: Make 'Make America Great Again' Great Again

 

Evangelicals have the highest rates of rape, divorce, child abuse, alcoholism, abortion, and suicide, and love to claim they have a direct line to God. Forget about calling them hypocrites, they're all fucking liars seldom worth giving the time of day.

 

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When they tar and feather him, and push him in the Boston harbor, we'll see just how well he can walk on water.

 

At the Iowa rally, Trump did a run of about 22 minutes whining about the election that he legitimately lost.

 

Texas will audit the 2020 election, but Trump hasn't been able to convince Texas to add an election audit bill to the legislative agenda that would implement county-level audits for future elections. Governor Abbott threw a dog bone to Trump with the 2020 audit, hoping that it would satisfy him, but it didn't.


Trump asks Abbott to add election audit bill to Texas special session

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"Former President Donald Trump on Thursday pressed Gov. Greg Abbott to add an item to the agenda of the year's third special session: allowing for an Arizona-style election audit of 2020 ballots.

"Despite my big win in Texas, I hear Texans want an election audit!" Trump wrote in a public letter to Abbott. "Texas needs you to act now. Your Third Special Session is the perfect, and maybe last, opportunity to pass this audit bill. Time is running out."

In the final hours of this year's second special session, the Texas Senate approved a bill that would give party officials the power to demand mandatory county-level audits of the 2020 general election and future elections. The bill did not get a vote in the House, however, and Abbott did not add the item to the agenda for the third special session, which began Monday."

 

Trump continues to claim that his 2020 Georgia election loss was highly unusual. He cites other southern states where his win margin was larger, implying that cheating in Georgia cost him the election.

His performance in the 2016 election in Georgia was modest with about a 5% win margin. McCain and Romney performed better in 2008 and 2012, respectively.

Hillary Clinton performed well in Henry, Cobb, and Gwinnett counties in 2016.

The demographic trends in the Atlanta area for the three presidential election leading into 2020 were troubling for the GOP.


2016 United States presidential election in Georgia - Wikipedia

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"Trump won Georgia by 5.09%, a lower margin compared to Mitt Romney's 7.82% in 2012 and even John McCain's 5.20% in 2008. Clinton received 45.64% of the vote, making this one of the few states where she outperformed Barack Obama in 2012, when he received just 45.51% of the vote.[3] This, combined with Trump's reduced margin of victory, made Georgia one of eleven states (plus the District of Columbia) to vote more Democratic in 2016 than in 2012.[4] The Atlanta metropolitan area in particular shifted strongly Democratic compared to 2012, with Clinton becoming the first Democrat to win Henry County since Georgia native Jimmy Carter in 1980, and the first Democrat to win Gwinnett County and Cobb County since 1976, when Carter won all of the state's counties."

 

Trump will simply contend that election fraud increased in Georgia during those years.

The GOP in Georgia has taken a shallow approach of passing legislation that tries to restrict voting by Democrats more than Republicans. It doesn't address the demographic trends that are problematic for the GOP.

The same can be said for Texas whose recent election cycles are showing it shifting back to a swing state like it was before the 1980's.

Arizona is another example with its growing population in the Phoenix area.

 

The Electoral College votes of AZ, TX, and GA in the 2020 election wee 11, 38, and 16, respectively, for a total of 65. Trump lost the 2020 election by 74 electoral votes.

The GOP will eventually need to change its stance and address the needs of the urban and suburban population in those states if it doesn't want to lose them in presidential elections. Squelching voting rights won't be effective long term.

 

Kissing the back side of someone who tried to kill you is difficult to top.

 

House Capitol attack panel ready to urge prosecution of Trump aides, says Schiff

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"The House select committee investigating the deadly assault on the US Capitol on 6 January is prepared to urge federal prosecution of former aides to Donald Trump who refuse to comply with subpoenas, a key panel member said.

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, strategist Steve Bannon and Pentagon aide Kash Patel are defying subpoenas for documents and testimony, under instruction from the former president.

Amid fears that the panel will not take legal action to enforce its will, Adam Schiff, a member of the panel as well as chairman of the House intelligence committee, spoke to CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday.

The 6 January committee, he said, “wants to make sure that these witnesses come in and testify, and we are prepared to go forward and urge the justice department to criminally prosecute anyone who does not do their lawful duty”"

 

Trump spent a lot of time talking about Antifa, which is unorganized and has few members or adherents. In contrast, Trump has acted like the Proud Boys and other ultra right wing organizations have done nothing worthy of criticism.

 

Bout time, huh?

 

I have been on a road trip so haven’t been keeping up with what’s going on. Yesterday, I was on I70 west of Denver when traffic came to a stop, then started slowly moving. Off on the shoulder a bunch of trumpsters with their pickup trucks and flags were shouting at the drivers.

 

https://theweek.com/donald-trump/10...ple-takes-to-tell-rioters-to-leave-capitol-in

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"In his upcoming book Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show, ABC News' chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl reports that, during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, former President Donald Trump didn't make it easy on his aides who produced the Twitter video in which he called on his supporters to go home.

At first, Trump, who reportedly boasted about the crowd size, pushed back against the members of his team who wanted him to put a halt to the rioting. And even when he relented and agreed to film the video, Trump reportedly had to go through several takes before he actually stuck to the script. An aide present for the recording told Karl that in earlier versions Trump never actually told the crowd to disperse.

He eventually did, though some of that ambiguity remained in the final version, in which Trump told the rioters, "We love you. You are special.""