How Democrats Could Have Won, Easily.
Despite outspending Republicans two to one, having a legacy media that promoted their preferred talking points and running against a historically unpopular candidate, Democrats managed to miss what should have been a layup. Some simple choices could have avoided it.
1. Biden should have pardoned Trump in 2021. This shouldn't be a shock to anyone but Trump's entire brand and appeal is being anti-establishment and hated by elites. That "drain the swamp" was a winning slogan for him is a pretty big giveaway. Literally, the best possible thing that could boost his brand was a prosecution by that swamp. It's instant legitimacy for people who believe they are outside a system that is rigged against them. Despite this, the Biden DOJ went ahead and charged him the exact same crime (mishandling classified information) that Trump refused to prosecute CLinton for and Biden also got a pass on. That's a dream scenario for a politician.
2. Biden should have done everything short of declare war on New York to stop it from prosecuting Trump for those ridiculous crimes. A ridiculous indictment after a prosecutor already passed on it for literally the same misdemeanor Hillary committed was another gift The reasoning about burnishing Trump's image applies in spades here. Instead, they sent one of the leading attorneys in the DOJ to New York to handle the trial. That indictment sealed the nomination for him.
3. Be normal. Stop the costumes and being shrill scolds. Stop calling everyone who disagrees with you a fascist or Nazi, or garbage.
4. Oppose open borders from the beginning. Keep the Trump EOs and work to reform the system. Embracing open borders to the point cities had to cut their budgets to take care of illegal migrants was sheer lunacy and recognized as such by everyone who isn't part of La Raza.
5. Triangulate. There are a numerous insane people in the democratic coalition. Instead of pandering to them (bail for terrorists!, sex changes for illegal migrants at the taxpayers expense) have a sista souljah moment and criticize the more extreme left wing positions. Even a modicum of moderation would have been huge.
6. Realize its not 1992 anymore. The Democrats are like tame house cats used to controlling the environment through a friendly media who always frames the story as they wish, or simply refuses to cover stories that put them in a bad light. The internet has been chipping away at their control but it fell apart with Musk's purchase of twitter. Suddenly, they couldn't control social media by having stories banned or muted. Zuck stopped helping and Twitter completely left Democrat's control.
Hiding Biden might have worked before Musk took over Twitter, but too many people can now see the evidence without it being censored. It made the heavy handed attempts to counter the videos of Biden's struggles (the unedited videos are deepfakes!) so ridiculous and destroyed the credibility of everyone involved. I still don't think Democrats how badly their conspiracy to cover up his condition destroyed their credibility. One issue they had on Trump and they went nuclear on the notion they had any more integrity than Trump.
Democrats (and the legacy media) have to learn to engage with voters who can't be so easily manipulated. They can't just lie about firing squads or very fine people without people having easy access to the truth.
7. Hire a competent spokesperson. KJP did so much damage to Biden/Harris with her incompetence and lies.
8. Biden should have announced he wasn't running the day after midterms. It was obvious he's incapable of serving another term and it would have stopped the conspiracy and allowed Democrats to hold an actual primary and vote for their nominee.
9. Select Shapiro as the VP. Walz was such a clown and provided no benefit but comedic relief. If you look at the polls, the Vance Walz debate is when the election turned. Shapiro might not have been enough to win, but at least it would shown Democrats weren't afraid of having a Jewish person on the ticket.
10. Offer some sort of program on the economy. Focusing on tertiary issues while ignoring the elephant in the room was malpractice.
11. Stop the racialist obsession. The left's embrace of wokery starting about 10 years has done more damage to the nation's fabric than just about anything. It's designed to segregate and set Americans against each other. A reaction is inevitable.
It took a lot of work for Democrats to lose this election. Just being normal and focusing on economic matter would have been enough to win, considering Trump's manifest problems.
Will you please stop lying about your real beliefs.
You dont care that a traitor is president. Just spit it out.
He never committed treason so he can't be a traitor.
We have been through this before. And you were proven wrong then, too.
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The majority of this country disagrees with you.
I don't think he's a traitor, nor do most Americans.
Actually exit polling showed Democracy was the biggest issue, slightly bigger than the economy. Democrats told us democracy was over if we elected a fascist. America rejected that nonsense.
He won the popular vote and electoral college by a wide margin rejecting the bizarre disinformation pushed on this country.
For the Democrats it was but not overall. For Republicans the #1 issue was still the economy. But I agree that the voting does tell us that attempting to label him as a fascist and a Nazi was wrong and correctly rejected by the electorate.
This is so tiresome. Trump did not act to stop the "riot" on the afternoon of Jan 6th BECAUSE HE WANTED IT TO SUCCEED.
Trump was asked about this specifically, if belatedly, 3 or 4 times this year on national television, including at two debates. HE DID NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION, HE IMMEDIATELY CHANGED THE SUBJECT. He may be a moron jagoff, but he has enough sense to not speak when all he can do is incriminate himself.
Trump also approved of a plan for his vice president to DECLARE him the winner of the 2020 election. It is right there in black and white.
Oh he's a traitor, you guys just dont want to know about it, thats why almost no conservative on this site watched the J6committee, and none of you can discuss the evidence against him. The president is calling up state officials asking them to deny the facts and give him more votes, or send the fate of the election to state legislatures? Jesus Christ, what is wrong with you people? Well now we know, you dont care if a traitor is president.
He has not been convicted or even charged with treason. What is wrong with some imaginations?
On the view they called the Harris campaign flawless. How do you explain that level of delusion? This sees, to encapsulate it
I agree, Sean, i don’t see him as a traitor at all. I do see the democrat party as traitorous.
Is there something wrong with you? Seriously man. The complete definitions of traitor and treason are not the same. This has been explained on this site at least ten times. And I'm sure you have seen some of them.
Did Trump want the riot to succeed , or not? If you dont think he wanted it to succeed why did he sit watching it on tv for hours while doing nothing to end it. And dont say he sent out a tweet asking the mob to "remain peaceful" when Ashley babbitt was already dead and dozens of cops were fighting for their lives when he sent out that tweet.
If Trump has a good explanation for his actions why didnt he give it? He was directly asked what he was doing multiple times and he changed the subject every time.
What the hell is wrong with you people?
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so what?
did you have access to a dictionary?
Traitor Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
IT ISNT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD DEFINITION OF ANYTHING.
Do you think Trump was being faithful to his duty while he watched tv for hours while cops were being beaten at the capitol, offices were being ransacked, and a dude with horns on his head sat in the leadership chair on the US Senate floor?
There is sworn testimony that around that time Trump was told the mob was chanting "hang Mike pence" and he replied "so what?"
I ask again, what is wrong with you people?
You've tried this many times in the past. And every time you leave out a critical fact. There have been no charges for treason. Making your whole argument opinion devoid of fact.
Your comment is blatant trolling, although I'm sure you will get away with it on this seed.
My comment is BLATANT FACT. You resorting to personal attacks just reinforces that.
Yes, and it has been wrong every time
We know he's a traitor, as do most Americans.
They are synonymous.
Again, from Mirriam Webster
Traitor Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
You keep ignoring the fact that there are 2 definitions of traitor by Miriam Webster
Here, again, is the second definition
I know for a fact you have been told this exact thing at least 10 times. Yet you dont stop and if I say something to you I will get suspended.
That is Newstalkers today.
There are THOUSANDS of words that have more than one meaning, in fact most of them do. You dont have to have committed treason to be a traitor. I could explain that to a 7 year old in about 30 seconds.
Then you need to submit your grievance with Mirriam Webster and not me. They say the words are synonymoous to each other.
Get over it.
You cant fix stupid.
Our public education system has proven you right.
I think you can, and I wish you luck
Looks like they refused to buy into the hysterical ramblings of many of the same folks calling them nazi, fascist, low iq...etc. Why would that surprise you?
Treason committed by a traitor - should have gone before a firing squad yet gets re-elected. I mean that's what he was calling for, for Liz Cheney
Wow...
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That is the exact strategy that was tried. Yet no one cared about lame accusations of the hysterical anti trumpers. It was a lame strategy. Obviously totally rejected.
Constantly repeating that everyone who disagrees with me is a traitor, racist, depraved or stupid is not going to win many new supporters.
Until Democrats even attempt to understand why people have good faith reasons that make their policies unpopular, nothing will change. They'll just keep yelling in ever shriller voices to an ever shrinking audience. .
How anyone could possibly think that could be a winning strategy is beyond me. Human nature dictates the more you push them the more people push back. It sounds like dems may stick with the racist/fascist angle still. They may be trying to bully and shame people to vote as they wish but instead it pushed people away. Hilarious how much it backfired
If you dont want to be referred to as a nazi fascist low iq racist then dont vote for one for president.
I think they would rather try to convince you that you have no valid good faith reasons
How did calling the majority of voters that work out for you?
Yeah, fucking amazing how telling the truth backfires.
Obviously, lying to them did a lot better.
Note to self: Lie through your teeth about basically everything. It worked for the Donald.
Maybe you can quote the exact words”firing squad”.
And another falsehood believed by the gullible. Look up what he said. Not what people told you he said.
Trump was asked about this specifically, if belatedly, 3 or 4 times this year on national television, including at two debates. HE DID NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION, HE IMMEDIATELY CHANGED THE SUBJECT.
I don’t remember you whining that Harris was asked specific questions several times over the past few months, did not answer the questions and IMMEDIATELY CHANGED THE SUBJECT.
Yeah...
LOL. I think you are topping yourself !
No one asked Harris about traitorous behavior intended to subvert the peaceful transfer of power. Trump could have prevented the Jan 6 riot. Having failed to do that he is now going to free those criminals as soon as he gets in power and pretend the whole thing never happened.
18 USC §2381. Says differently.
Treason MUST be charges and to be convicted the prosecutor must PROVE that the act was committed. It must also be corroborated by at least 2 witnesses. To date, the burden of proof has NOT BEEN MET .
Don't you think that if the J6 Shitshow even remotely thought they met the burden of proof charges would have been filed?
So spare us your opinion on the matter.
Kind of like the hard core leftists who consider and call anyone who did not put a checkmark in the D box on a ballot and/or does not share their particular polititical worldview and ideology absolutely has to be a MAGA rat Trump supporter. There simply is no middle ground to them. On many occasions I have asked someone on the left to give me definition of what the consider MAGA to be and not one has ever provided a answer. Today many simply just cannot accept that the collective will of the American people spike and did not choose the anointed one the Democrats put forward.
Truth. They vote for traitors. I wonder where a lot of folks here were on 1/6.
Things that make you go hmmmmmmm
Trump the Traitor
Better luck next time
More opinion lacking fact.
They didn't learn a damn thing from the whooping' they just got!
Nope, just made some of them worse.
But, but, they just know./s
Obviously not, unless of course you can show proof.
Just like they "knew" Biden was "doing fine" and what Trump thinks?
I remember when Woodward had some integrity, now he is nothing more than a democrat propagandist.
Thus the title “triggered.”
I have a firm believe that they are a small minority. A loud one but small. Problem is many live here to spew their hate.
Pretty sad existence to be sure.
Been wanting to post this for a while and now seems like a good time
Changing one word to update Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama
"Now we all did what we could do
Now January 6 does not bother me, uh-uh
Does your conscience bother you? Tell the truth"
If January 6th doesn't bother you, you don't have a conscience.
I think "bothered" and "triggered" are two different things.
I have one, keeps me out of trouble
Doubtful
Keeps me out of trouble but doesn't prevent gloating
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[✘] Those who think 1/6 was nothing, don't really have much of a conscience, or decency.
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You are gloating about Jan 6th ? Get some help.
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I don't see any evidence of that after your remarks about gloating and feral cats over all these years.
No, yesterday's election, after hearing all the carrying on before it
and January 6th - no big thing as far as you're concerned
"...after hearing all the carrying on before it."
And after it as well. Trump won fair and square and that just sticks in some people's craws no matter what. He won, it's a done deal, and time to move on but some just cannot seem to do that.
I should have added to show a little leadership. Harris spent her entire campaign avoiding specifics, to the point where she was afraid to say whether she supported Prop 36 which undid the prop that allowed criminals to run rampant and ruin San FRancisco. It was uncontroversial enough that 70% of Californians supported it but Harris wouldn't address it.
Hey, Hey, Hey, she was going to stop price gouging in the grocery industry!
To be fair, she did get pretty specific about her upbringing and her neighbors and their lawns.
Funny that so did Waltz.
And the moral of this story is:
Money can’t buy happiness or elections…..
The political lawfare was a huge mistake. The attempt to pad swing states with illegals became a catalyst for minority voters. Then of course the realization the legacy media cannot tell the truth really devastated the Kamala campaign. The men for Harris ads featuring beta cucks turned out to be a total disaster. Running an empty vessel with no particular platform wasn't such a good idea either. Having no answers for what could be done about inflation and our economy was a dud.
And Towards the end of the campaign, putting Diddy Party attendees on the stage to endorse your candidate was a big mistake.
Good job mystery man. Youve found your rightful place in NT society again.
It is important to discuss these factors that led to the landslide and mandate. I could have worded that more politely and for that i apologize. The men in the ads did not represent men in this country.
BF
No decent men support the traitor trump. The 'men' who support trump are as impotent as he.
Link please
Chirp, Chirp, chirp...
Nothing out of the ordinary. Just like the infatuation with the sexuality of people
Lack of fiscal responsibility. That was the first indication that I wasn't going to "vote blue".
This is something that we still hear from the Democrats and their supporters daily. It's tiresome and their constant shrieking about it no longer has the same effect.
This was a MAJOR mistake by the Democrats. Granted we all know that the reason they threw the borders open was because Trump worked to get things moving to better secure them. Suing border states for trying to do what the Democrats failed to do didn't help either.
Now goes both ways. Neither the Republicans or Democrats will really criticize their extreme sides.
The media completely annihilated their own credibility with their coverage. They have reduced themselves to mere bloggers with the lies and cover-ups despite what everybody has witnessed.
KJP, IMHO, is a DEI hire. (Well, much of Biden's administration could be considered DEI hires.) She was horrible at her job. Rarely answered a question and frequently threw a tantrums on questions that she couldn't answer.
Reality is, we haven't had a good Press Secretary is a long time.
This was another thing that caused me not to "vote blue". The Democrats played off the obvious mental decline of Biden. The media is just as culpable. After the Trump / Biden debate, there was no denying the mental issues Biden has. Hence we ended up with Kamala Harris as the Democrat candidate.
I don't think they had any idea what to do about the economy. The Biden administration has failed at every attempt to slow it.
I don't think the Democrat will can move from that. They have been pushing race in so much over such a long time, they don't know anything else. On one hand they shriek about "equality" then turn around and treat some as imbeciles. The subterfuge was exposed a long time ago and they haven't realized it yet.
Not "easily" when culture war issues like the "trans" bathroom panic which fueled a massive negative advertising blitz on Football games close to the election by the Trump campaign and an ad blitz by Republican PAC's. Fear is a wildfire when ignited and the Trump campaign and Republicans played the fear card for all it will as worth and won. Hard to beat the culture war "trans" panic in sports and bathrooms when the fear factor overrode all common sense. Elect the party that promises to get rid of "trans" people and you will be safe.