Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 24

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Bob001 said:
I don't know if that's true. Pretty much anybody can run in a primary, even for President. Prominent Republicans apparently spoke against the Qanon woman. Maybe the local party should find a way to be more restrictive.
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Anyone can run, but to win you have to get enough votes.

In the case of the latest QAnon proponent in Georgia this wasn't a case of someone running unopposed in a district which was bound to end up returning a Democrat, it's a safe GOP district and there was at least one alternative (one assumes more moderate) candidate.

This candidate fairly reflects the people who voted in the primary which IMO means that, unless there was a rash of Democrats voting in a spoiler candidate in a GOP primary (which I think unlikely), means that the GOP activists in that district want that kind of candidate.

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The fact that prominent Republicans spoke against the candidate shows that the local party isn't prepared to be cowed by those prominent Republicans and instead have chosen to select the candidate that they think will best serve their district.

IOW the party bigwigs no longer have control over local issues (if they ever did).
 
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US calls for shower rules to be eased after Trump hair complaints

The US government has proposed changing the definition of a showerhead to allow increased water flow, following complaints from President Donald Trump about his hair routine.
Under a 1992 law, showerheads in the US are not allowed to produce more than 2.5 gallons (9.5l) of water per minute.
The Trump administration wants this limit to apply to each nozzle, rather than the overall fixture.
The changes were proposed by the Department of Energy on Wednesday following complaints by Mr Trump at the White House last month.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53761744
 
Pence tweeted

Mike Pence
@Mike_Pence
We’ve created more jobs in the last 3 months than Joe Biden and Barack Obama created in their 8 years in office.
 
Trump Tweets

Very poor morning TV ratings for MSDNC’s Morning Joe, headed by a complete Psycho named Joe Scarborough and his ditzy airhead wife, Mika, and also @CNN, headed by complete unknowns. Congratulations to @foxandfriends on dominating the mornings (thank you President Trump!).

I will be interviewed by @MariaBartiromo on @FoxBusiness this morning at 7:30. A.M. Enjoy!
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Pence tweeted

Mike Pence
@Mike_Pence
We’ve created more jobs in the last 3 months than Joe Biden and Barack Obama created in their 8 years in office.
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And how many jobs did you lose in the last six months or so, Mike?* Obama, by one count, "created 8.9 million jobs by the end of December 2016, a 6.2% increase."

But that doesn't give the total picture. The economy lost 8.5 million jobs as a result of the 2008 financial crisis. It kept shedding them until December 2009. Since that low point, Obama created 16 million jobs, an 11.6% increase. If measured that way, Obama created the third-highest total number of jobs.
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I would guess that Pence is adding up the job gains of the last three months, which would be pretty impressive minus the losses just before that, and comparing them to Obama's net gains over his entire eight years- comparing gross oranges to net apples.

Another way to see it is like this-


See that line drawn in (appropriately enough) orange? The one that kind of just droops off toward the bottom of the page? Yeah, Mike- that's your boy.

*Now if you wanted to make an argument that Trump isn't responsible for all those jobs lost to the pandemic, that's fine. But then you also have to make an argument for how he can avoid the blame for the losses while specifically showing how he can take the credit for the gains.
 
SezMe said:
Or it could be that people such as the Republicans who run the Lincoln Project hold sway. They're moderate - at least compared to the current nutcases - and obviously have a ton of money. If this November is a blood bath, then maybe saner heads will prevail, with that faction of the GOP winning out over the extremists. I think even a guy like Moscow Mitch would prefer not to have his party infested with crazy people. I suspect there are a lot of similar views in the Republican Party. They're big supporters now for their survival but as soon as Trump is gone, I think a *LOT* of GOPers will be happy to see him gone.

That said, I will admit there is no small dose of wishful thinking behind that view. I actually *want* a principled, moderate conservative party in the USA if for no other reason to keep the Dems from going off the rails.
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You already have one. ;)
 
That 1% bump in Trump popularity is just the Kamala effect. There were enough Trump supporters previously refusing to poll but now with "nasty woman" on the ticket, they were enraged enough to participate.
 
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