In the long term, Biden defeating Trump could actually be a good thing for the Republican Party. First, the midterm elections usually favor the party not in the White House, so the Republicans would probably have a better shot of winning back the House in 2022 and getting rid of Pelosi once and for all. She is 80 years old. She'd be 82 at that point. If she loses the Speaker position she'll resign from the House guaranteed. Second, Biden is 78 years old, meaning he'd be 82 at the end of his first term. It's highly unlikely he'll run for a second, but if he does, his age will work against him. If he doesn't, his VP will almost certainly be the heir apparent unless he makes a bad pick. In that case, there is no incumbency handicap that the Republican challenger would need to overcome. This provides a great opportunity for younger GOPers like Marco Rubio or Nikki Haley to step up and run in 2024 without the stench of Trump lingering and bogging them down and giving the American people a fresher choice than these constant stale Baby Boomers we keep getting thrown at us. Candidates like Rubio and Haley could also invite a more diverse group of voters into the Republican coalition, which the the party needs if it wishes to remain viable long term.
I said back in 2016 that if Trump were to actually win he could provide a short term gain for the party, but would be disastrous long term and we've seen that play out. Republicans had their worst midterm defeat in 2018 since Watergate. Trump's antics in public and in social media are embarrassing. He's headed for defeat this year and he's dragging the Senate down with him. Senate seats that shouldn't be competitive are being out raised by their Democratic challengers. The Republican Party is no longer about conservatism, but about Trumpism, and his cult like sycophants are becoming just as deranged as their TDS suffering counterparts in their hypocritical defense of him.
Donald Trump had the potential be a great president, but his narcissism got in the way. He keeps tripping over his own feet and if he loses in November he has nobody but himself to blame for it, but ultimately, the party might be better off cutting him loose and letting it happen.
While you are certainly entitled to your opinion, you are way off base. Obama lost more seats in the midterms than trump, a common occurrence in politics and trump singlehandedly kept the senate in republican hands, a win you give him no credit for. As far as money goes, it is being funded by a handful of billionaires who hate trump and have already shown they will spend any amount to buy the election. The seats in California barely went democratic because both Bloomberg and stern spent 100 million each on their campaigns, so let’s dispense with any idea that this is a grass roots phenomenon. Trumps recent dive in the polls can be attributed to a lot of msm mythology that everyone else had a great plan that trump didn’t follow, the typical rewriting of history that we see so much of lately. Frankly he did as good a job as anyone under the circumstances of a never before seen crisis, as I think a fair accounting of history will show. Of course your opinion or my opinion or even the polls mean nothing at this junctur. Heck a month ago trump was on top of the world. You have not accounted for Biden’s foot in mouth disease like the you ain’t black comment, the investigation into his sons activities, the possible criminal indictments of Obama officials, the economy coming back quickly or a new vote getting stimulus bill for people still out of work in august, or the debates or Biden’s pick for vp.
But what you are glossing over in your Democrat’s take everything scenarios that with everything being dem controlled Nancy Pelosi bill would have passed. Illegals would be getting money, democratic states would get bailout taxpayer money for their failed budgets that partly gets funneled back into political campaigns, mail in fraudulent voting would become the norm, hell voting on the internet will become the norm, China will get a pass, regulations will go hog wild, liberty(just as we have seen in dem controlled states) will be squashed. In their vindictiveness and hate for anything republican they will pass all this in the first 90 days because Dems stick together unlike republicans. People like ignorant aoc and her unsustainable ideas will come to power and in their fanatical attempt at over reach the country will lose any resemblance to the constitution. The poor will not be helped, the economy will be crushed, and our politics will be in worse shape than they are now.
i am rather surprised taz that you parrot the trump sycophant theme like so many on this board do, most of the time you have been tolerant of all views, but it seems like you have drunk the kool aid and consider that anyone that supports trump is an ignoramus that doesn’t care about their country. That is unfortunate. We shall see in November.