Yuri Kobzar22:37, 04/21/24
In addition to his passionate love for Putin, Trump has many more reasons to irritate Republicans.
Donald Trump is gradually losing influence in the Republican Party, a clear indication of which was the adoption of an aid package for Ukraine in the lower house of Congress. This also indicates the growing likelihood of Trump losing the presidential election this November, writes The Atlantic .
The publication notes that Donald Trump unconditionally dominated the Republican Party for 9 years, although his views and rhetoric often contradicted the fundamentals of the party’s political platform. This particularly concerned Trump’s love for Russia and Putin, which was incomprehensible to other Republicans.
In the end, Trump managed to introduce a principle into the party: if you want his loyalty, become an enemy of Ukraine. This explains why Republicans traditionally loyal to Ukraine blocked new aid to Kyiv for a long time – to please Trump.
But it wasn’t just Trump’s position on Ukraine that irritated many Republicans. Earlier this year, Trump torpedoed a bipartisan agreement to strengthen the border with Mexico. An agreement that many Republicans liked.
“Three months later, Trump’s party in Congress has turned against him—not out of personal retribution against some weirdo loyal to Trump, but over one of Trump’s most cherished issues—his commitment to Russia versus Ukraine,” The Atlantic writes.
However, the vote on weapons for Ukraine is just one manifestation of a larger process: Trump is gradually losing the loyalty of his party members and the electorate. For example, in the internal party “elections” of a presidential candidate, where all of Trump’s competitors had already withdrawn their candidacies, some voters still voted for the withdrawn candidates – as long as they did not vote for Trump.
Trump is also losing the favor of donors – people who voluntarily donate money to finance the election campaign of a candidate they like. Biden’s campaign now has twice as much money as Trump’s, who until recently was considered an almost guaranteed winner in the fall election.
At the same time, America’s problems on which Trump planned to outpace Biden in November are gradually “melting away”: inflation is falling, crime has decreased, and Trump himself discredited the migration issue by blocking the agreement that was supposed to solve it. And all this against the backdrop of new trials against Trump for his commercial and personal “exploits.”
“Each of these warnings and troubles unsettled Trump. He was deflated to the point that he could no longer block aid to Ukraine in Congress. Ukraine won, Trump lost. This could happen again next year,” The Atlantic summarizes.
Trump began to lose the election fight
As UNIAN wrote, throughout the past year, Donald Trump has only been gaining popularity among voters, gradually increasing his lead over both potential Republican candidates and incumbent President Biden . The peak of his electoral power was his final victory over rivals within the Republican Party in March of this year.
However, already in mid-March, Trump unexpectedly began to lose ground to Biden in the ratings, and his victory in the fall elections no longer looks inevitable.
(C)UNIAN 2024
What the quite aloof David Frum (afai remember, he blocked me at Twitter, after some objections by yours truely) wrote may be true for the reasoning of smarter voters who really want the best for their country and not only themselves. But that’s a minority. About half of the population has an IQ of under 100, let’s not forget that. Brainwashed Trumpsters and political opportunists, who expect to profit from rightwing policies, won’t care. And on the other hand, Biden’s leadership hasn’t been especially impressive, neither. So, it’s really too early to make any predictions about the outcome on November 5th. But one thing is safe to say: For an incumbent President, Biden’s polling lousily. This election shouldn’t be this close at all! 🙁
I’m not a believer in polls as the outcome is quite sensitive the structure of the questions. My personal feeling is that Trump has a very high wall to climb. Not because of the voters, but because the people counting the votes.
Yep. And I’m concerned about security of computer systems used to support elections. I forget which state, but a legit analysis was performed on one random device by an independent cyber security firm following the 2020 election. They found numerous vulnerabilities like default password not changed and so on. This is a dream for Russian & Chinese hackers.
This would only be to his advantage.
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I really hate elections in which both candidates cause pain to put an X by their names. The next one, it must be Biden, but with a high level of cringe-factor.
For the good of the United States, for the good of the free world, this orange loudmouth must never see the inside of the Oval Office again.