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WarGamer

(16,850 posts)
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 03:38 PM Apr 2

The GOP is about to have a "Trump's not on the ballot" problem. [View all]

Remember 2023, 2024... all those BIG off year special election victories?

Suozzi winning the big race, a harbinger of things to come for November 2024??

Turns out the Special Election victories in 2023-2024 really didn't mean anything as Trump swept into the White House in November.

Bottom line... the GOP in 2024... 2025.. hell, back to 2016 is mostly a Donald Trump Adoration Society...

As per the historical trend, DEMS should grab seats in 2026 taking the House but probably not the Senate.

But in 2028... will the General Election look like an off year Special Election?

Will it look like 2008 or 2012 where cardboard cutout candidates like McCain and Romney got spanked?

Trump changed the GOP electorate BUT will a big chunk of them EVER vote GOP again?

I don't think Vance can garner that kind of support. Don Jr. might want to run... but he's pathetic.

There really "isn't" another Trump waiting in the wings.

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