Republicans Fear A Trump Primary Loss Will Destroy Voter Turnout In 2024 - The Ring of Fire [View all]

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Republicans are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They know that Donald Trump likely won't be able to win a general election fight, but they now say that they won't be able to win with another candidate because voter turnout will drop substantially if Trump isn't their nominee. There may be more lunatics than normies in the GOP, and the MAGA freaks won't want to go vote if Trump isn't on the ballot, and that would lead to a landslide defeat for Republicans across the board, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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Republican strategists across the board are actually starting to sound, the alarm bells over what will happen to the Republican party if Donald Trump is not the 2024 nominee. Even though many of these strategists, those have been working in the Republican Party for decades or more, they understand the damage Donald Trump does being at the top of the ticket, especially if he's convicted of any of the things he's been indicted for. And there's plenty to be convicted for. They understand, yeah, we're screwed if he's at the top of the ticket. But now they're also warning the opposite. They're saying, not only are we screwed if he's at the top of the ticket, we're also very much screwed if he's not on the ticket at all. Because these strategists are now warning us, again, Republican strategists. They're saying, if he's not the nominee, we got a good 25% of our party that is going to stay home in 2024.

And then we lose everything. Because if 25% of our Republicans stay home, not only are we not getting the White House with whoever our nominee is, we're not taking back the Senate and we're gonna lose the house. So Republicans are stuck between that proverbial rock and a hard place. You know, damned if you do, damned if you don't, like, if Trump's the nominee you lose, you drive higher democratic turnout, you lose the House in the Senate. If he's not the nominee, then you lose, according to them, about 25% of your G O P voters. You lose the White House, the House, and the Senate. I mean, if you're a Democrat right now, you gotta be looking at these numbers. You gotta be looking at the fear in the Republican party's eyes and thinking, you know what? We're looking pretty good. Just keep talking about these, uh, economic issues. The economy is on, on the whole getting better. I mean, obviously you can drill down, you can find a lot of problems in the economy, but on paper, things look good. And that's all they seem to care about. So whatever campaign on that.

But Republicans are in trouble. And the funniest part about this whole thing is that Republicans are in trouble because they got themselves in trouble. This is 100% happening because the Republican party didn't stand up after the events of January 6th, 2021 and say, we're done. We're done with this guy. Republicans in the Senate specifically are the ones to blame. They held their little sham of a trial. They voted to protect him and not convict him of the second impeachment for January 6th. And by doing so, allowed him to live, to fight another day, to keep tanking their party. And ever since they did that, he has done nothing but drag that party down.

And he is gonna continue to do that because Republicans allowed him to, even if they didn't want to convict him and still voted against it and didn't convict him in that second impeachment, they still could have walked away from him. But they didn't. They kept consulting with him. They were having meetings with him. And you know why, right? Because they were terrified he was gonna launch a third party bid for the presidency in 2024. And if that would've happened, it would do the same thing that this fear of low voter turnout would've done. It would've splintered the Republican vote. You would've lost the presidency, but you probably could have kept the house. And you may even have taken back the Senate.