Look out — Republicans are defecting from Trump’s MAGA army in droves

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4837058-harris-rise-gop-trump-weakness/

48 comments

  1. I’d like to believe it, and perhaps I will if the election goes just right.

  3. Well let’s make sure we get the droves to the polls, because I remember the same forecasts in 2016. Nothing matters until you vote.

  4. I highly doubt it. Most Republicans see the Democrats as absolute evil. Even if they hate Trump, they’ll hate the Democrats more.

    If you don’t want Trump to win, then vote.

  5. This weekend I will be working on my parents. They didn’t vote in the last election, but my dad has been back to his maga ways lately. But they really like my bf and he used to be in the army which my dad really respects so we’re going to talk to them. They’ll never vote for Harris, but I’m going to try to get them to sit out this election again.

  6. Are the ones defecting away the county level election officials? They’re the ones who will be causing the most chaos on election day.

  7. I still like to think that there are moderate republicans out here that have not drank MAGA kool-aid

  8. Unfortunately it’s not droves. But ya it’s a good sign.

  9. > Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) announced that she would cast her ballot for Harris in November. “After January 6

    Let’s stop there for a moment because I’d like to post this again:

    Remember, remember, the 5th of November,
    Because of the January 6th treasonous plot
    I see no reason
    Why that treason
    Should ever be forgot.
    Donald Trump, ’twas his intent
    To stop the vote and watch them kill Mike Pence
    Thousands of supporters did go
    to Congress to overthrow
    But thanks to the brave, the coup was stopped
    But many a life was lost.
    Those who did this dastardly deed
    Do holler – Back the Blue
    But it was the blue who paid that day
    because a liar and thief they did follow and heed

  11. See if Bush can just endorsed Harris, then we can see the biggest defections of all time.

  12. I just keep thinking there’s gonna be some right leaning (or even Trump supporting folks) who have been in this really depressing fear and outrage loop for almost a decade now, and maybe they are tired of this shit and starting to see everybody having fun and want to join in.

    There’s gotta be a few out there.

  13. I keep stressing how important it is for the Harris/Walz campaign to embrace these people. The more MAGA cultists see people defecting, the more permission and grace they are given to do the same.

  14. Overconfidence is how 2016 happened. Let’s revisit this in January.

  15. Before Election Day Trump will suffered a complete meltdown and his supporters will become completely demoralized.

  16. I’m a former Republican “never Trumper” and know of others like me. We are part of the reason Biden won in 2020 and hopefully there are just enough of us to get Harris a win in 2024.

    There aren’t a huge number of us, but one thing about us is that we take action. I donated to Biden and Harris and now phone bank. We are not going back.

    I believe Trump is a threat to national security and a second term would be terrifying.

    The way to win is at the ballot box. Vote and get the word out!

  17. Despite all the defections, I expect more than 80 million dumb fucks to still vote for Trump. And really, these defections only matter if they take place in Pa.

  18. Never let them forget they supported a fascist criminal rapist dictator. They aren’t leaving because they had a change of heart, they are leaving because they know he’s going to lose and don’t want to support a loser.

  19. I remember they all did that after January 6th too. Didn’t last long.

  20. They can smell a loser. Trumps about to find out that nobody actually liked him, he was just a useful idiot

  21. This is a fantastic thing, and it should be highlighted and praised by progressives. It provides the opportunity to engage with conservative members of our families and communities and highlight the broad range of options available to them to exercise their beliefs without aligning with MAGA.

  22. I thought it read “defecating” – I clearly need more coffee.

  24. I truly believe the enthusiasm is waning, but vote for Harris? Most will just not vote, not that that’s bad. I’ll wager a substantial number of Trump voters did not regularly vote before 2016, and will not do so after he loses this year. Hilarious the Republican party sacrificed everything for that “base” and it doesn’t belong to them.

  25. I’ve heard this too many times now. I just don’t believe it anymore. I’ll just vote.

    After the 2016 election a MAGA I work with was sneering at me that I underestimated Trump because I said he wouldn’t win.

    I told him that I didn’t underestimate Trump. I overestimated his voters. I thought that his antics, crimes, rapes, etc would prove too toxic for them to vote for him. Boy was I wrong. His voters are much worse people than I realized prior to 2016.

  27. Still not letting it make me complacent and keeping me from voting.

  28. I was thinking last night that it seems the Democrats are speaking about family values and community. They are talking about cutting bureaucracy and lowering taxes for the middle class. They are talking about supporting our allies against threats to democracy. They talked about securing the border, and even talked about respecting the law and law enforcement.

    That sounds a lot like the old Republican party. A lot more than Trump does.

  30. Vote as if it is your last chance to vote. Blow it out of the water so we can get past this shit

  31. DJT was always going to contest the election if he doesn’t win. The MAGA base, including various state election officials, is less likely to support him in that effort if he continues on his present path. Harris will be much more effective if she has a clear mandate to govern.

  32. He’s committed the greatest sin a circus freak can commit, he’s become boring, mundane, just another loser.

  33. Ignore the polls and the narratives and the spin and VOTE.

  35. 1. These fucks will still vote for Trump
    2. As soon as the election is over and Trump dies there will be a ton of MAGA that will suddenly state that they were never a Trump fan.
    3. American voters will forget about Trump and his supporters and republicans will start winning elections. American voters have the memory of a goldfish

  36. I would believe this if I hadn’t heard it a thousand times.

  37. If you know someone who is defecting – PLEASE be accepting. It is HARD to change, but, adding in being ridiculed doesn’t help. We need to accept them for finally doing it.

    Source: Me. A recovering conservative since 2017.

  38. Nah, they’re not. They may be talking loudly that they’re not happy but once they’re in the voting booth they will vote maga.

    Listen closely when they grumble and you will hear the “both sides” argument and other false-faced things.

  39. Doesn’t matter. History will remember where they stood when our democracy was under attack.

  40. Sounds like wishful thinking. Maga nuts are entirely different species.

  42. Ignore stories like this. Vote and get everyone you know to vote as well. Ensure that you are checking your voter registration so that the shenanigans of the right to disenfranchise voters gets corrected as quickly as possible.

  43. Doesn’t matter. Vote anyway.

    But more specifically, I don’t doubt that his cult is growing tired of him, but I’m not convinced that they’ll turn to Harris. I think best case scenario is that they either don’t turn up at the polls or vote RFK. which is helpful, but not as.

  44. Good, as they should, the party needs a reboot or to be dissolved so Trump has nothing left of it and restart as a new party since he’s been siphoning money from it.

  45. “…right-wing performance artist Laura Loomer, who rose to fame in part by riding Trump’s media coattails. “Have you noticed how weak so many of the Trump surrogates sound on TV?” Loomer asked in a post on X. “Needs to change FAST because we can’t talk about a stolen election for another four years.” ”

    Loomer says the quiet part out loud.

  47. This is straight up pro-Trump propaganda trying to push disinterest on potential nonvoters. This is exactly what people were posting about Hilary’s “huge lead” in 2016. Republicans lie in interviews. Republicans lie to pollsters. Mainstream media helps them spread these lies. Maga is a cult, they are not leaving him and they are not abstaining from the vote.

    Vote vote vote vote vote. Do not get complacent and do not spread media that encourages complacency.

  48. Don’t fall for MAGA traps. Still go out and vote. Trump and MAGA are trying to lure us into a 2016 trap.

    Always remember the Trump MAGA campaign election strategy. Rig it, cheat it, steal it, violence.

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