PBP: Joe Biden vs Donald Trump :: The Election That Just Won’t End Thread :: [R]

Donald Trump talks of 'another four years' during White House Christmas reception - CNNPolitics

Trump, as expected, leaving the door open for a possible run in 2024.

 

Lots of people in here follow SCOTUS (though, in my own defense, I did enjoy the More Perfect podcast produced by WNYC), but were you at all surprised by the court's seeming reception to the arguments made at the recent ACA hearing?

 

How do you show everyone that there is no evidence? Hold a press conference and open an empty manila folder?

 

Good all around.
Trump would make the inauguration about him, anyway.

Better he is not there.

Let him hold a rally in Wyoming or something.

 

How are you so sure, when constitutional law experts that have been writing about it for the last year haven't been?

 

He is the first, I am willing to bet he will not be the last and only one.

“Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) has been telling colleagues and allies that he plans to challenge the Electoral College votes when Congress officially certifies Joe Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, as long as a Senate Republican joins him in the long-shot effort,” Politico reports.

 

Actually, I will not be surprised if he launches his 2024 campaign on InaugurationDay and a number of GOP elected officials are present. It may even be a litmus test for GOPers. Will you be at Trump 2024 launch or Biden inauguration.

 

This is the stupid focking right wing postion.....

“I don’t have proof, but you don’t have proof it didn’t happen”

I hate these people....if they started rounding them up, I wouldn’t say a damn thing

 

Because they're idiots.

 

I won't be surprised if Trump tries this. But, I think that even by as soon as Jan 20, Trump's ability to compel obeisance from GOP careerist hacks will have waned. He's already gradually shrinking in status, day by day. And announcing a 2024 run means abandoning fantasies about overturning 2020, which will somewhat demobilize and demoralize the hardcore Trumpers.

Plus, any party support for a nonsensical Trump 2024 initiative would effectively channel small donations to Trump's scammy organizations, hampering other Republicans from raising funds from the same sources. Those other Republicans REALLY don't want that to happen, unless there's no alternative.

A lot of ambitious Republicans would probably attend neither a Biden inauguration or Trump announcement, and COVID provides an easy excuse. More broadly, almost every Republican figure who isn't a family member wants to watch Trump sink into irrelevance, without being blamed for contributing to his fall. They may keep their heads down in the cowardly fashion we've all become accustomed to, but they won't do anything to slow down the process of Trumpism's political decay.

 

Per MSNBC...Biden is touting his relationship with McConnell in a NYT interview


I said it in the primary....and I’ll say it again....Biden is hopelessly naive. The Republicans have been engaged in total political warfare for decades and Dems like Biden didn’t even recognize it was an actual battle.

 

Or he's doing it to reassure people but most likely knows that you can't really reason with these people.

 

Ah, ok, well then.

 

The obvious way for Trump to escape punishment is for him to resign and have Pence pardon him. I can't see Trump doing this but it would be fun if he resigned then Pence refused to issue a pardon.

 

Depends what you mean by reception? Are you talking about the Conservative Justices that wondered why the entire law had to be declared unconstitutional just because the "Tax" portion was unconstitutional now that there was no fee?

 

How awesome would it be if he did that and then Pence got impeached.