New GOP contender?
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I don't see how Abbott or Youngkin would really shake up the race if none of the current bunch has.
@Mik said in New GOP contender?:
I don't see how Abbott or Youngkin would really shake up the race if none of the current bunch has.
The only thing that really shakes things up is if the majority of the “contenders” drop out and give their support to one person. That one could be Haley, Youngkin, or DeSantis. No other would work. Even if Pence somehow won the nomination, there’s no way he gets enough of the Trump supporters to vote for him in the general.
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The spoiler there is Ramaswamy. He'll get behind Trump.
Unless of course he's lying about that too.
@Mik said in New GOP contender?:
The spoiler there is Ramaswamy. He'll get behind Trump.
Unless of course he's lying about that too.
But Ramaswamy doesn’t have supporters. He has trump supporters that don’t want to poll as being for Trump.
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It’s pointless, anyway. IF Trump somehow lost the nomination, he will run as an independent anyway.
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BoJo.
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@jon-nyc said in New GOP contender?:
Joe Rogan?
Tucker?
I could see Tucker. Just this morning I was wondering why he hasn't tried to convert his career to the somewhat wide-open Presidential race. At least try. Let's not forget the host of The Apprentice became President.
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@jon-nyc said in New GOP contender?:
Joe Rogan?
Tucker?
I could see Tucker. Just this morning I was wondering why he hasn't tried to convert his career to the somewhat wide-open Presidential race. At least try. Let's not forget the host of The Apprentice became President.
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@89th said in New GOP contender?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in New GOP contender?:
BoJo.
Isn't he just Trump with an accent?
Actually, Trump is an all-American Johnson.
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A Terrific Idea That Will Never Work and Shouldn’t Happen
On the menu today: Dissecting the latest report that wealthy GOP donors still really, really, really want Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin to run for president. I’m skeptical that this will ever turn into a real campaign for a whole bunch of reasons — logistical and scheduling, for starters, but also because I don’t think a Youngkin bid would get these donors where they want to go, which is a 2024 general election with a non-Donald Trump nominee. Meanwhile, Trump pledges to unions that he’ll fight a war on American automakers and, “We’re going to take their money. We’re going to take their factories.” Also, there’s late-breaking news that California senator Dianne Feinstein has passed away at the age of 90.
Robert Costa — the chief election and campaign correspondent for CBS News and part of the team at National Review a long, long time ago — writes over on the Washington Post op-ed page:
Some of the biggest Republican donors in the country will converge next month at the historic Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach for a two-day meeting to rally behind Gov. Glenn Youngkin. The closed gathering, named the “Red Vest Retreat” after the fleece Youngkin wore during his 2021 campaign, will begin Oct. 17 and be focused, officially, on the Republican effort to win full control of the General Assembly in Virginia’s upcoming elections. But unofficially, several donors tell me, it will be an opportunity for them to try to push, if not shove, Youngkin into the Republican presidential race. . . .
The thirsting for Youngkin is not a well-orchestrated power play. It is the latest slapdash scheme in a long search for a standard-bearer and a portrait of the powerlessness so many Republicans feel as Trump plows ahead, shrugging off criminal indictments and outrage over rhetoric they fear is growing dark and dangerous.
Color me extremely skeptical that this will happen. I’m a fan of Youngkin and voted for him, and I think he’s doing a good job as governor. He’ll be able to do even more if Virginia Republicans can win full control of the state legislature; right now, Republicans have 18 seats in the 40-seat state senate and 51 seats in the state assembly. This November’s elections will have a lot to say about what Youngkin can do in his last two years.* I’m sure the Virginia state GOP would appreciate all the help it can get.
Even if Youngkin wanted to announce a run for president, he wouldn’t do it until after those state legislative elections. The candidate filing deadline for the Nevada Republican caucus is October 15. The candidate filing deadline for the South Carolina Republican presidential primary is Halloween. So, right out of the gate, Youngkin 2024 would face the problem of not even being listed as a candidate in two of the first four contests.
Unless Youngkin and his team collected signatures exceptionally fast, they would likely miss a few other deadlines. The candidate filing deadline for Alabama is November 10, three days after the Virginia state legislative elections, and the one in Arkansas is four days later. The filing deadline in Texas is December 11, and California’s is December 15 — and remember: Some states require a campaign to collect a particular number of signatures from each congressional district. To qualify for the California ballot, a Republican presidential campaign must collect 47,938 signatures.
