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George II

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30. Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt said pretty much the same thing many months ago, which is why....

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Nov 22, 2020, 04:35 PM

Nov 2020

....they left the republican party and have been doing just about everything they could to finish them off.

Unfortunately that's probably not going to happen.

The same was said for the republican party back in 1964 when Johnson crushed Goldwater and Democrats increased their leads in the House and Senate, both to veto-proof majorities of 295-140 and 68-32 (although Johnson wasn't going to do much vetoing)

Everyone in the country said that republicans were dead.

But Nixon won in a virtual landslide and they won 5 seats in both houses, although Democrats retained the majority, and Nixon followed that up with a 520-17 crushing of McGovern.

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