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In reply to the discussion: GOP plans to get rid of Trump [View all]onenote
(42,700 posts)81. I'll accept your rather bold statement about your foresight regarding Trump
because I'm too lazy to check.
But the reality is that Trump got nominated notwithstanding the opposition of the repub establishment. That establishment remains terrified of the Trump base and how it could kill them in 2018. And the Trump base listens not merely, or even primarily, to Fox. They pay attention to Breitbart and Dally Caller and the such, and those sites aren't going to turn on Trump.
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Yes or his pollsters are telling him he's dead and he wants his Koch check.
Chasstev365
Dec 2017
#34
When the average generic ballot average is +13 Democrats you better start panicking.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2017
#77
If the Repubs vote the way Trump wants them to, why is his legislative record so poor?
Kaleva
Dec 2017
#46
And the second they start criticizing him he will turn on them like a rabid animal.
tanyev
Dec 2017
#8
I am fine with the Repubs betraying 45 and invoking the wrath of the deplorables.
LonePirate
Dec 2017
#9
They are all horrible. Every last one of them. Pence is a freak in a can.
GreenEyedLefty
Dec 2017
#37
Trump had nothing to do with the few GOP holdouts who wanted slightly bigger slices of the pie.
Orsino
Dec 2017
#42
I am also sure Putin has other assets in the US. He did not put all of his eggs in the Trump basket
Irish_Dem
Dec 2017
#66
why? this makes zero sense. donnie contributed nothing that any replacement couldn't have done.
unblock
Dec 2017
#56