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stevebrooks wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 4:58 pm Trump keeps boasting that every time he gets indicted his numbers go up, and that's true, among the Republican Primary voters they are polling, you see the issue here? They aren't even polling the rank and file Republican's, polls of non-republican voters show support dropping and increasing number saying they won't vote for him, even more if he is found guilty and imprisoned. So what is likely to happen here, if he is allowed to run, is that the Republican Primary voters will nominate a candidate that can't possibly win.

So it may actually be good for the Dems if he is allowed to run and any 14th amendment claims denied by the Supreme Court. Him not being allowed to run may actually put someone in who is electable in a general election, although maybe not the first choice of Republican Primary voters one of the other candidates may attract back those Republican and independent voters who have sworn to never vote for Trump again.

If candidates from No Labels, the Green party and the People’s party peel off just 15% of the anti-Trump vote from Biden, and Trump’s base stays with him, Trump would win all five swing states comfortably and return to the Oval Office.

Each state delegation in the House of Representatives is given a single vote for president. Each state delegation in the Senate is given a single vote for vice-president.

Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe on Monday suggested Donald Trump had thrown his own defense in his election obstruction case “not just under a bus but under a freight train” when he boasted to NBC’s Kristen Welker that it was his decision to challenge the 2020 result.

“It’s said sometimes that only a fool hires himself as a lawyer to defend himself. I don’t think Trump is a fool, but he’s certainly a narcissist,” he noted.

“He just has to say that he is responsible for everything. He doesn’t depend on anybody,” Tribe added. “That’s all very nice politically. But in the courtroom, he’s just blown that defense, the defense that I was just relying on my lawyers and therefore I didn’t have a state of mind that it takes to commit these crimes. He’s just blown that out of the water.”

Trump acknowledged to Welker on “Meet the Press” that he’d ignored the attorneys who told him that he should concede in 2020.

“I didn’t respect them,” Trump said. “In many cases, I didn’t respect them. But I did respect others. I respected many others that said the election was rigged.”

“Of all Trump’s implacable enemies, Murdoch had become a frothing-at-the-mouth one. His relatively calm demeanor from the early Trump presidency where, with a sigh, he could dismiss him merely as a ‘fucking idiot’ had now become a churning stew of rage and recrimination.

“Trump’s death became a Murdoch theme: “We would all be better off …? “This would all be solved if …” “How could he still be alive, how could he?” “Have you seen him? Have you seen what he looks like? What he eats?”