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    Primary challenge to Trump? It could help him in 2020

    President Trump could face a primary challenger in 2020. And a contested fight for the Republican nomination might be exactly what he wants.

    Trump has transformed the Republican Party in his image over the last two years, driving critics out of the party and instilling fear in would-be GOP challengers.

    The president is undefeated in the last 14 Republican primaries, a winning streak that suggests opposition, at least within the GOP electorate, is futile.

    As a result, the big question isn’t whether Trump would win a primary, but whether being tested would weaken him for the general election.

    Intraparty challenges to incumbent presidents have traditionally wounded commanders in chief.
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    He's the guy most conservatives want. That's how he got elected.

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    • #3
      Trump seems to thrive in the face of opposition, so he might actually welcome a Republican challenger.
      Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
      But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
      Than a fool in the eyes of God


      From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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      • #4
        The primary challenge to Trump is the truth.
        "Yes. President Trump is a huge embarrassment. And it’s an embarrassment to evangelical Christianity that there appear to be so many who will celebrate precisely the aspects that I see Biblically as most lamentable and embarrassing." Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler Jr.

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        • #5
          Or he might decide to change to an independent. That way he could skip the primaries and run no matter what the Republicans decide in their primary.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
            Or he might decide to change to an independent. That way he could skip the primaries and run no matter what the Republicans decide in their primary.
            That would be an interesting strategy, but it would also risk dividing the conservative vote and give the Democrats an easy victory, similar to how Clinton won his first election when the conservative vote was split between Bush and Perot.
            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
            Than a fool in the eyes of God


            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
              That would be an interesting strategy, but it would also risk dividing the conservative vote and give the Democrats an easy victory, similar to how Clinton won his first election when the conservative vote was split between Bush and Perot.
              Gee, I miss Ross Perot - "the hand grenade with a bad haircut" (especially as Dana Carvey portrayed him)

              The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
                He's the guy most conservatives want. That's how he got elected.
                He got elected because he's not Hillary, and many people in the Midwest who had voted twice for Obama switched sides in '16. He got nominated because people were ticked off about the state of the country and the Republican establishment. Given the conservative Cruz was the last man standing in opposition, I don't think it's necessarily Trump's conservative base that got him the nomination.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                  He got elected because he's not Hillary, and many people in the Midwest who had voted twice for Obama switched sides in '16. He got nominated because people were ticked off about the state of the country and the Republican establishment. Given the conservative Cruz was the last man standing in opposition, I don't think it's necessarily Trump's conservative base that got him the nomination.
                  And because blacks decided the DNC didn't own them, and white working people were "stiffed" by Hillary - even her own husband saw that coming.
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Charles View Post
                    The primary challenge to Trump is the truth.
                    He is almost as bad as the Democrat politicians.
                    Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                      That would be an interesting strategy, but it would also risk dividing the conservative vote and give the Democrats an easy victory, similar to how Clinton won his first election when the conservative vote was split between Bush and Perot.
                      Excellent RINO tactic.
                      Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                        That would be an interesting strategy, but it would also risk dividing the conservative vote and give the Democrats an easy victory, similar to how Clinton won his first election when the conservative vote was split between Bush and Perot.
                        Exit polls indicated that Ross Perot's supporters were pulled fairly evenly from Clinton and Bush, so I don't think this is the case.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                          He got elected because he's not Hillary, and many people in the Midwest who had voted twice for Obama switched sides in '16.
                          That election was very close. It could have gone either way. Looking for explanations for why Trump got a slight edge over Hillary, descends into an examination of the electoral college, at which point its pretty clear that it was random. I agree however that the only way he got as far as he did was because many didn't like Hillary.

                          He got nominated because people were ticked off about the state of the country and the Republican establishment.
                          As I said, he's the guy the conservative base wants. Hard to see how he could have gone through the primaries any other way. More people voted for him.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
                            That election was very close. It could have gone either way. Looking for explanations for why Trump got a slight edge over Hillary, descends into an examination of the electoral college, at which point its pretty clear that it was random. I agree however that the only way he got as far as he did was because many didn't like Hillary.



                            As I said, he's the guy the conservative base wants. Hard to see how he could have gone through the primaries any other way. More people voted for him.
                            Respectfully, I don't think you engaged with either of my points. Let me reiterate. The disaffection of voters who had gone for Obama in the Midwest was critical to giving Trump the electoral votes he needed there to win. The next to last man standing in the nomination process was the most conservative of the whole group (Cruz), so it was hardly the conservative wing of the Republican Party which pushed him over the top then.
                            Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom

                            Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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                            I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Terraceth View Post
                              Exit polls indicated that Ross Perot's supporters were pulled fairly evenly from Clinton and Bush, so I don't think this is the case.
                              Exit polls don't mean much. If we were to trust exit polling then Hillary won in a landslide.
                              Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                              But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                              Than a fool in the eyes of God


                              From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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