Guess Who Hasn’t Said a Single Word on Colorado’s Trump Ballot Decision?: Top Senate Republicans don’t seem all that outraged by Colorado’s decision to kick Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot.
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Guess Who Hasn’t Said a Single Word on Colorado’s Trump Ballot Decision?: Top Senate Republicans don’t seem all that outraged by Colorado’s decision to kick Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot.
by thenewrepublic
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The silence of top conservative leadership suggests that the Republican anti-Trumpers foresee a better Republican Party without the wannabe despot.
McConnell has wanted him gone for years but he is too much of a coward to relinquish the power Trump brings to the party. He’ll still vote for Trump in November if he’s the republican nominee.
The only one that will, would be Ball Gag Lindsey.
If the Republican party had any sense
*pause*
they would write off 2024, do nothing to even try to win saddled with Trump, and make plans for a comeback new look GOP for 2028.
Outside of the “true believers” MAGA folks, my guess is most Republicans would prefer Trump go away. His widespread popularity is waning.
Ideally the old neocons see this as the beginning of taking back their party from MAGA. Hopefully they have a plan to do so. We would all be better off with the right wing only going so far as talking about but not engaging in socially regressive policies. Not trying to defund half the government, pull out of NATO as tension steadily rises or completely gut education.
I don’t like the thought of Biden vs Haley though. She won’t drive rabid MAGA votes, but she also may not drive apathetic left wing voters who only see Trump and forget about everything happening in MAGA controlled states.
They’re not. They’re hoping to not be asked about it.
Republicans are publicly outraged at the “persecution” of dear leader and privately thrilled at the idea of finally being rid of this monster they created.
This has been the dynamic for decades: Please the billionaires, but tell the dum-dums whatever the dum-dums want to hear, because we need the dum-dum vote.
They have created this monster. And corruption has always been the entire point.
They’re hoping it gives them a bump with the indies in swing states.
Though indies have some values, they swing back and forth because neither political party represents them nearly so well as their stance that “both sides are bad” and “I don’t want either side to have too much power.”
If indies think the democrats are playing political games, they’ll vote republican. If indies think republicans support the dude who sent a mob to the capitol, they’ll vote democrat.
They want him to be gone, but they don’t have the balls to do it.
RINO like these top GOP Senators are why we are all having to deal with Trump/maga in the first place, ditto for the Teas before maga too!
That’s because they recognize that trump winning again is a threat to **their** power. And that’s the same reason the SCOTUS won’t rule in trump’s favor. They won’t do anything to diminish their own power.
That’s because it gives them a completely clean out.
The R’s should be profusely thanking the Colorado Supreme Court decision. They are giving them an easy off ramp for dumping trump. They had two previous chances to get rid of him when he was impeached twice and they failed to remove him from office. Now, someone else *could* do the dirty work for them. Could.
Even the ones from Texas?
If you read all of McConnell’s second impeachment speech. Youll find pretty decent insight as to why.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-02-14/read-mcconnell-speech-after-trumps-impeachment-trial-acquittal
McConnell had a chance to kill any future hopes of Trump being president via a Senate conviction in the second impeachment. But, as always, he took the coward’s way out. Now he’s hoping the courts will do what he was too scared to do.
Is there any chance of a domino effect? Trump was unlikely to win Colorado so it doesn’t really make it impossible for him to win the presidency.
It’s almost like the Colorado Dems did the GOP a favor
Republicans are too busy figuring out how to kick Biden off GOP-controlled state ballots
Because they secretly hope the courts do, what they don’t have the spine to do, and get rid of him.
It’s a great get rid of Trump card. SCOTUS can disqualify him, and none of them have to spend the political capital to do it themselves. There’s no real method for removing a Supreme Court justice. I think they’re likely weighing their options.
Those fuckers want him gone probably more than us. Not because he’s a threat to democracy but because he’s a threat to her stranglehold on all 3 branches of government.
If they can get their way without being exposed or hurt by the base, they would do it in a heartbeat.
Party over country, for these cowards.
There are 0 liberals and a lot of moderate republicans that don’t want trump around. But there’s 100+ million eligible voters that support him regardless of his crimes and character. Trump and his teams have set up a narrative (“the deep state”) that any legal objections to him being fit for leadership is a conspiracy against the American people. While the removal of trump from a state ballot is constitutional and necessary, it will only widen the current divide. Biden being served up as the alternate isn’t helping.
Edit: added eligible in front of voters
Maybe they see it as a way to get rid of him for good
You hire an exterminator to get rid of a pest
They’re probably delighted.
If Trump was a non-dipshit he’d be happy about this development – it’s his best chance to avoid prison.
Trump runs, he loses badly, a Democrat takes office and he sits in some kind of white collar luxury prison cell. >! Sidebar: despite the polls he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell in November unless Biden dies right before the election or something. Extremists are ones answering the polls now, non-extremists will decide the election and he’s spent eight years driving them out of his party.!<
Trump gets kept off the ballot, Republicans are enraged and vote in droves and have a very significant chance of winning, with the winner under tremendous pressure to give him a presidential pardon.
Because they are secretly thrilled.
oh yeah this is their golden goose for sure.. they get to wipe their hands as ‘some democrats did it’ (even though thats total bs), and get rid of their meddlesome problem by doing nothing.
Publicly that won’t dare call him out for all his bullshit but they’re all tired of the agenda he’s undoing. Lots of folks want someone else to do the bidding… so they can still sound outraged
MAGA has cost Republicans local state and federal seats. The GOP believes that Trump running will motivate people to get out and vote against him and the Republicans. That said, regardless, who is running, get out, and vote. Vote in all elections every time. There is an elction coming in February in New York to replace Santos. If you live in that district, vote. From the school boards to the White House, every election matters.
This is why I’m not so sure a Supreme Court ruling in his favor is a slam dunk. This Supreme Court won’t care about what is right or constitutional, but will care about what is good for their party, and it seems like Republicans don’t want Trump to win but also don’t want the blame for stopping him.
Of course not. The world’s most exclusive nursing home is full of cowards!
To be fair, saying a single word or even a complete sentence hasn’t been McConnell‘a strong suit this year…
That’s because the dems are actually doing them a huge favor. It’s obvious at this point that the first party to change their candidate is going to win this election. They can’t replace him because most the party still supports him, so they are letting the Dems do it for them.
They’re silent now but you bet yer ass they’re on the phone to their respective state’s representation/sec of state on the messaging of plans to kick Biden off the ballot. Got to get something on FOX to counter the appearance of justice.
I genuinely think the Republican Party is secretly hoping that Trump dies before the election. Think about it. He dies, they rile up his base with some bullshit to try to get them behind their new candidate, and the monster they unleashed is now gone and served its purpose.
That could be a signal to the Supreme Court to finally put an end to this madness.
Is this an article about something that didn’t happen? People aren’t saying things so that’s a news article?
I didn’t win money today can I be the news?
Question: Has Trump actually been convicted of insurrection? Because my biggest concern is having a court decide Trump shouldn’t be on the ballot without a trail.
Am I missing something?
PS I never voted from Trump and won’t in the next election.
They don’t want him at all. They only put up with him because they have to. If they were given the choice to get rid of him with no consequence, they’d do it in a heartbeat. Why out yourself and alienate Dump loyalists when you can just let Democrats do the dirty work and outrage.
It makes them all worse than Trump, imo.
Colorado republicans started this suit to bar trump. They don’t like him either. It’s just the 33.3 % of batshit crazy or deplorables that like this heathen.
And yet they’ll all vote for him all over again if it gets to that point.
If they had just voted to convict in the second impeachment, we wouldn’t be left to clean up their mess now.
This would be their ultimate dream: Trump gets kicked off the ballot, they get a traditional candidate like Haley (though DeSantis might surge if Trump is gone) and most importantly, GOP voters are enraged.
I hope SCOTUS overturns this only because Trump is who I want Biden to face. A section of voters are 100% Trump and another section is 100% Biden (or maybe more “not Trump”). Undecided voters will pick the winner and they don’t want Biden or Trump.
A younger candidate on either the Dem or GOP side might easily win just because they get the bulk of undecided voters. But if the GOP gets another candidate because that person beat Trump in the primary, MAGA will make sure they lose. Kicking Trump off the ballot gets them another GOP candidate that MAGA will support, if only out of spite.
The senate Republicans are a more institutionalist group and less bat shit crazy than their House counterparts.
I think a non-trivial number of them would be happy if Trump was gone but are too spineless to do anything about it. If someone else does the dirty work, all the better.