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grantcart

(53,061 posts)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 12:51 AM Jan 2021

Trump's calling GA Senate "illegal and invalid" can only mean one thing:


GOP internal polling shows them losing and he is trying to discredit the results before the results come in.
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Trump's calling GA Senate "illegal and invalid" can only mean one thing: (Original Post) grantcart Jan 2021 OP
Sounds about right. n/t NanceGreggs Jan 2021 #1
Could be, or it could be Trump just being irrational. RDANGELO Jan 2021 #2
Psycho thinks Lawless Loeffler & Chicken Cha Jan 2021 #3
Absolutely pandr32 Jan 2021 #4
Gosh I hope you are right! Thekaspervote Jan 2021 #5
and/or it's payback time for mitch saying trump lost mucifer Jan 2021 #6
Yeah, this. TDale313 Jan 2021 #8
+1, Red Don doesn't want moscow Mitch as leader of the kGOP just sandbag him now uponit7771 Jan 2021 #10
I think you're right. Not only wnylib Jan 2021 #15
Or maybe he's talking about the November 3rd election Mr.Bill Jan 2021 #7
That's not literally true. Bucky Jan 2021 #9
It could also be used TlalocW Jan 2021 #11
Good point grantcart Jan 2021 #18
About 9:30 On Facebook I Posted Much The Same Thing DallasNE Jan 2021 #12
Reality is, they're legal and valid ailsagirl Jan 2021 #13
He did the same in 2016 and won. It's a lie to unify loyal his followers. zaj Jan 2021 #14
He wants attention and money. Always. PurgedVoter Jan 2021 #16
trump's trying to project they're rigging this election duforsure Jan 2021 #17
I think Trump insists that the Dems are rigging the ekection TexasBushwhacker Jan 2021 #21
K&R. nt Wednesdays Jan 2021 #19
Trump supporters should boycott the US Senate elections if they think they're illegal. Gothmog Jan 2021 #20
GOP is losing period. bdamomma Jan 2021 #22
Yup Lucinda Jan 2021 #23

Cha

(319,168 posts)
3. Psycho thinks Lawless Loeffler & Chicken
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 01:01 AM
Jan 2021

Perdue are gonna Lose.. or he doesn't give a shite who gets the most votes.. only that he thinks he got cheated out of Georgia, AZ, & the Swing States ad nauseum.

TDale313

(7,822 posts)
8. Yeah, this.
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 01:19 AM
Jan 2021

Trump will be perfectly happy seeing Republicans lose the Senate. He wants to punish the Repubs who “betrayed” him by actually eventually accepting that Biden won. I also think it kinda kills him that the November Election didn’t show America rejecting all Republicans, mainly just him.

wnylib

(26,053 posts)
15. I think you're right. Not only
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 03:57 AM
Jan 2021

was Mitch being "disloyal," but he is still in office and poised to become a greater political influence than Trump. Even if Mitch loses control of the Senate, he will still have some strength because the votes in the Senate will be so close. So Mitch will take over as a political power and Trump can't tolerate the challenge to his own influence.

With luck, Trump will take down Mitch for us and spare us the trouble. Imagine that. Trump doing something good for a change.

Bucky

(55,334 posts)
9. That's not literally true.
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 02:00 AM
Jan 2021

You'd have to assume that...


1. Trump is paying attention to someone else's polls
2. Trump is paying attention to someone else's election
3. Trump is capable of understanding what polls mean, and
4. Trump cares about consequences.


I think a better bet is that Trump is just barking at the moon again.

TlalocW

(15,675 posts)
11. It could also be used
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 02:29 AM
Jan 2021

As an excuse on why he hasn't donated any of the $250,000,000 he's raised to fight his defeat (of which he gets to keep 75% of) to them... But I haven't seen a lot of republicans doing that...

TlalocW

DallasNE

(8,009 posts)
12. About 9:30 On Facebook I Posted Much The Same Thing
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 02:38 AM
Jan 2021

Trump must have seen internal polling on the Senate races in Georgia showing the Republicans trailing as he is ranting about it being illegal and invalid.

PurgedVoter

(2,715 posts)
16. He wants attention and money. Always.
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 03:57 AM
Jan 2021

Attention, Money, CYA. Those are his constant motives. It is all he understands.
Attention or money going to others is never his motive. He will attempt to draw campaign money till that is bled dry. Any money spent on a campaign that Trump cannot steal from is lost money. Since the same type of suckers who would donate to Trump might donate to Republicans in Georgia, Trump is against their campaigns.

Trump wants his followers to send him money and the tap will be closed soon enough. But if he make a crisis and sells it to his people, some may get arrested, some may die, and all of them will look like fools, but what is most important to Trump is that he will get attention and money.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
17. trump's trying to project they're rigging this election
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 04:50 AM
Jan 2021

Like he wants people to think happened in his election loss, and that it was rigged rather than accept the facts he and they are losers, and lost their elections fair and square. trump also looks bad after campaigning for them and them losing makes him look bad too now. trumps losing voters , something that'll hurt his ability to generate money from them, and that really is what upsets him the most. trumps a loser

TexasBushwhacker

(21,204 posts)
21. I think Trump insists that the Dems are rigging the ekection
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 11:14 PM
Jan 2021

because the GOP rigged the election BUT THEY STILL LOST.

bdamomma

(69,533 posts)
22. GOP is losing period.
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 11:21 PM
Jan 2021

tRump is stirring the pot again, he needs to just leave. Enough of this.

President-elect Biden and VP Harris are on deck.

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