Trump may announce 2024 run by end of the year

[RandySF]

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[redwitch]

1. Ridiculous man.

I doubt he lasts until then. He’s in rough shape.

[smirkymonkey]

22. Exactly. Even if he does, he will be a drooling vegetable.

He's barely functional now.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I can't begin to imagine that three years from now

the Republican Party will be remotely willing to entertain him as a candidate.

[RandySF]

4. This only harms the GOP by freezing out the field

[Cosmocat]

36. It isnt all that good for them until 2024

He us all about him and if he isnt on the ballot he will take away from their efforts but IF he makes ut that far he will be very formidable as their potus candidate.

[Thekaspervote]

50. My first thought is I agree...but ppl have very short memories and his cult's need for immediate

Gratification no longer being met, they will lose interest.

[Cosmocat]

61. We will see

He gives their average voters their fixes (racism, misogyny, hatred for us, generally immoral and entitled, etc.) in a more real and viceral way than anyone else. Decades of "normal" politicians winking and throwing backhanded dog whistles at all of this, they eagerly got behind a full on provocateur.

All these people with their yards and houses littered with Trump shit ... you don't go back from meth to sniffing glue.

[Blue_true]

8. They are terrified of him and his Magats. They will give him anything that he wants. nt

[smirkymonkey]

23. If he's not around, who are the Magats going to vote for? A Democrat?

Bwahaahahaha!

They have no place else to go! It's the republican candidate, whoever they decide to present, or the Democratic canditate. That is their only choice. Trump is over! He isn't going to make it until 2024. The entire Trump family has no place to go but down.

[Blue_true]

28. If he is not around, people like Josh Hawley, DeSantis, Tom Cotton,

and that snake Rick Scott that are licking his boots will step in. Ass-kissers like Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz will be pushed aside with aspersions about sexuality (Graham) or ethnic whispers (Cruz). Don’t think that there are not people ready to step in Trump’s shoes. We need to do a quite evaluation of what happened to a lot of our down ballot races, and we need to become brutal and kill the candidacies of people like Cunningham in North Carolina before those people become our nominee and their hidden secrets become public at the wrong time.

[smirkymonkey]

41. I know there will be others to step in, and they will be just as evil and certainly smarter.

However, I don't think any of them will ever have the hold on the people that Trump has had. I don't know why, but people like that, no matter how loathsome, only come around once in a generation, if not longer.

I don't think any of those people that you mentioned will be able to galvanize these people like Trump has, and that's a good thing. I don't even think Trump's children could do it. He was a one off. Fortunately.

He tapped into something with his sick, evil personality that aroused something in a certain demographic and took advantage of it. He exploited the zeitgeist and the rage of the disaffected rural, uneducated, racist hater. They were ripe for it and he was in the right place at the right time. I am not so sure the stars are going to align so perfectly again for the next republican candidates. I don't think they will strike the same chord, even if they speak the same words.

I could be wrong, but for some reason, I cannot see anyone topping Trump's hold on the people he had commanded. Just an instinct. I hope I am right. There is something so primal and so base about Trump, I don't know if anyone could ever quite duplicate it. He's like an untamed animal. In a bad way. He appeals to the absolute worst in people.

[Blue_true]

46. After Trump won in 2016, I stopped assuming and prepared for a hard fight

to get the country back on course. I still feel that way today. Over 70 million people, some of them non-racists and on the surface normal voted for that monster, those people are going to be around, some will die, but not enough, some of our voters will also die. We just have to take a “fight instead of assume” mindset, that is why I am very happy that Democratic Party aligned groups in Georgia are out knocking on doors and meeting people face to face for the runoff election - I know that some here are terrified by that, but we need to use what science and data is telling us about COVID19 risk factors and how to mitigate them - our people should not talk to anyone without wearing a face mask properly and they should religiously practice social distancing at all times, other than that, they need to meet people face to face instead of relying totally on an online presence and tv ads.

[Thekaspervote]

51. Very well stated! Just as we are seeing now the proud boys are in an uproar and have split in two

Once the cult leader is gone they are weakened.

Dotard had that ridiculous NYC mobster bravado, Cruz, deathsantis or cotton can’t even come close. They are more like rand paul, outspoken but limp, beige/grey personalities that will not appeal.

[smirkymonkey]

57. Absolutely!

A cult can only have one leader. The others may try to imitate him, but they will never be him and they will never capture the same "magic". I think it's over for them all. Trump is done, and therefore so are the republicans. He has destroyed them completely.

Don't believe me, just watch.

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[Polybius]

60. It's not up to them

Their primary voters want him.

[smirkymonkey]

62. But if they can't get him? If he is dead, or incapacitated or in jail?

Then what? They will have to move on at some point. Where will they go next? I honestly don't think he will make it to 2024. Not in any shape to run, anyway. That is an inevitability. He is barely holding it together now.

[Polybius]

65. Obviously if they can't get him they will vote for someone else

So maybe Republicans will also push to get him in jail. But then Republicans will go full Tucker in '24. They may get rid of Trump, but they will elect his kind again.

[smirkymonkey]

67. However, I don't think anyone will ever have the hold over these people that he does.

People like Trump come along once in a century. He is a despicable creature and I cannot understand his appeal, but for some reason he has captured the hearts and minds of a large segment of the population.

These other people that you mentioned may profess the same exact sentiments, but they do not have what Trump has. I don't think they will appeal to his base in the same way. The cult will follow because they are republicans, but they will never have the same attachment.

[Ilsa]

3. He won't be able to run, I bet.

His reputation will be shot after the legal stuff and treason charges.

[Cosmocat]

38. Sure

Like it was after the Hollywood Access tape ...

[Blue_true]

48. Bingo.

Given all we have seen, the constant lying, the massive incompetence, putting down troops alive and deceased - over 70 million Americans voted for that monster - we had enough this time to defeat them, but what happens when our internal ideological stresses weaken our numbers?

[Mike 03]

66. Other concerns will keep him from running that are hard to ignore.

His cognitive deterioration has been marked since 2016, along with his general health.

He's facing a fusillade of civil lawsuits and criminal investigations (including some from foreign countries).

He thinks he has an appetite for it now, but let's see where it goes.

I still think this could be a money scam.

[blueinredohio]

5. Who's going to pay for his rallies? He can't campaign on our dime anymore.

And he's broke.

[Progressive Jones]

49. He might get enough suckers to empty their pockets. Cheap Chinese made MAGA gear. nt

[LeftInTX]

6. Aahh

[Blue_true]

7. Hopefully, Mother Nature will do us and the world a big favor by then. nt

[ancianita]

10. Amen to that! Or accidents.

[Blue_true]

13. Accidents will work, like him slipping on a half-eaten cheese hamberder and

never regaining consciousness. Unfortunately, I don’t think that prick leaves any half-eaten food laying around.

[Thekaspervote]

53. His immunity to covid will wear off in a couple of months and since he is sure he is now immune

he will take even greater risks. The second time around may well leave him completely incapacitated or dead.

[Blue_true]

56. I agree that in his head, he likely thinks that he is invincible.

COVID19 has had a pattern with some cases of leaving a marker the first time around, then coming back to do more damage and even kill.

[Cha]

9. FUCK OFF FUCKING FASCIST.

So he Admits he LOST.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. At least he's realizing he won't be president.

[Bleacher Creature]

14. That was my first reaction as well.

He was never just going to go away, so if he wants to start having rallies again with his lunatic followers, the more power to him.

That said, he also is going to need some time fighting off criminal charges in at least one jurisdiction.

[The Great Escape]

21. Tacit Concession Perhaps?

[kskiska]

52. The rallies won't be televised.

[Doodley]

12. Gives him four more years to destroy the GOP. I say, yes!

[Yavin4]

30. I dunno. The GOP did very, very well underneath him for the past 4 years.

A massive corp. tax break. Three SCOTUS justices and a ton of other federal judges. Control of the senate. Defended the Mueller report and the Ukraine impeachment.

[onenote]

15. Let him suck up all the money and leave Cotton, Cruz, Rubio etc. gasping for air.

I'm all for it. Plus, he's too greedy to share that money with other candidates in 2022.

[Kaleva]

16. Is that a gray squirrel hiding under his cap?

[ancianita]

17. TWITTER NEEDS TO REMOVE HIS ACCOUNT PERMANENTLY!

They've done their evidence gathering job, made their money.

Now they should do the nation a fucking favor and drop him.

[greenjar_01]

18. He's going to be amazed at how quickly he becomes irrelevant

Announce away, dummy.

[Yavin4]

31. That's true.

Without the power of the office, he's nothing.

[David__77]

19. I figure that he will.

I cannot see why he would not. What else would he do?

[Liberal In Texas]

20. Way before the end of the year. As soon as Biden/Harris are certified

or whatever it's called, he'll announce so he can start raising campaign contributions. That's all that it's about, raising money.

Once a grifter, always a girfter.

[StarfishSaver]

27. Lol - I just posted almost an identical comment ...

[JI7]

24. He looks like shit

[smirkymonkey]

26. That's because he IS shit.

[bdamomma]

40. you can tell

he's been enraged. He does look like a POS.

He was FIRED by 75 million people, OUCH.

But he is still committing genocide on the American people.

[StarfishSaver]

25. All the better to fleece his MAGA cult by getting them to pony up for his "campaign"

Grifters gonna grift

[Proud Liberal Dem]

29. Which means he probably will

And will be "running" for the next 4 years if he does.

I guess that he just doesn't believe that people are sick enough of him and it's nothing short of a miracle that we actually got him out of office when so many people were totally willing to give him another 4 years, although who knows where he will be and what will be happening within the next 4 years. He may be in poor(er) health, battling legal and civil charges from everything that he has never been held accountable for, etc. It's hard to imagine him being in a good position for him to run again for the Presidency in another 4 years and even less of a chance that a majority in this country will want to do it again, now that he's been rejected and we will have at least 4 years of a "normal" Presidency

But that doesn't mean, of course, that he might not try, because he will persist in his belief that he never lost in the first place and that his second term was stolen from him (he thinks his first term was stolen from him too because of the Mueller Investigation and Impeachment).

[Luz]

64. He doesn't want to run IN 4 yrs, he wants to run FOR 4 yrs.

[aquamarina]

32. Puleese, he'll probably be dead by then.

[Renew Deal]

33. Let him, Cruz and the rest of them duke it out.

[NYC Liberal]

34. Maybe he wants to lose.

That way he can just be perpetually campaigning. That’s the only part he likes anyway, not the governing. Perhaps all these cries about fraud are just to keep his base riled up for the next campaign.

[Azathoth]

35. At some point the GOP is gonna have to can this fucking lunatic

They can only rationalize this shit so long before it eats them permanently.

[bdamomma]

37. Ha!!

Delusional as always


Enjoy that cell.

[Statistical]

39. Wouldn't he have to admit he wasn't re-elected first.

You can have a second term not a third one. So if you are running for re-election it means you haven't won your second term. Did someone explain this to Dumpy?

[Sogo]

42. Of course he'll run.

It will be a major source of income for him.

Always the grifter....

[Poiuyt]

43. Does this mean he's going to run against Ivanka in the primaries?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

44. If He's Not Dead Or In Jail By Then

I also think he'll be facing a VERY different Republican Party in 4 years, one that realizes the damage he has done to them. And a field of challengers who are out from under his thumb and no longer need to swear fealty to him. It wouldn't be a shock to me if he ran in 2024 and DIDN'T GET the nomination. But my money is on him either being dead or in jail.

[moondust]

45. So the media will follow him around

and he can hold rallies and suck donations out of his cult for the next FOUR YEARS?

Just shoot me.

[Quixote1818]

47. Thom Hartmann was talking about how he can use this to grift with just about everything he does

He can pay for all kinds of travel, food etc. as campaign expenses.

[Initech]

54. Please god make him go away!

[tman]

55. You guys do know he won't actually run, right?

This is his way of saving face.

[DFW]

59. I agree completely

He is already visibly in no condition to survive four more years at the job, even taking into consideration that he already treats the presidency as a half-time job.

[ooky]

58. He can say anything he wants to, but he's finished.

He's setting up an income stream for stupid people to send him money to live on.

[smirkymonkey]

63. I agree. This is the end for him.

He's done. And the Magats are just going to have to go through the five stages of grief until they finally accept the truth.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

68. The grift has been so lucrative for him.