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Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX
Your list of potential Republican candidates left out DeSantis, the mini-Trump but someone whose character does not turn off as many voters as Trump.
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Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX
I voted against Trump twice mainly based on his character. I think DeSantis is too far to the right for my liking but I have little problem with his character.
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Originally Posted by Jacuzzme
Anything common sense is now considered “radical right”. The left has abandoned their entire sense of normalcy. You’re an extremist hater if you don’t want men in the bathroom with your 7 year old daughter, or are pissed because a man is allowed to dominate a sport your 17 year old girl trained her entire life for. They’ve seriously lost their minds.
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SpeedRacer, I intentionally left out DeSantis because he's divisive. And I understand completely what you're saying about Trump. I too didn't vote for him because of his character. Even without the character issue though I probably wouldn't have voted for him in 2016, because I thought Gary Johnson, the Libertarian, was the best presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan.
If I were just looking at the policies he favored and implemented, I probably would have voted for Trump in 2020. The only thing I disagreed strongly with were the Trade Wars. I also wish that he'd used the soap box more during COVID, and that he and Congress hadn't been so lose with the spending. But his administration did a great job with Operation Warp Speed, and Hillary and the Democrats would have probably spent more.
Unlike DeSantis, Trump didn't make a big issue out of LGBT issues, and in his heart he didn't give a rat's ass about abortion. I liked that about him. Yeah, Jacuzzme's got a great point. Still when you campaign on issues like these, you're going to turn off a huge percentage of potential voters. If you're rabidly anti-abortion you lose a lot of women voters. If you're rabidly anti-trans you lose a lot of millenial voters. That's why I think DeSantis wouldn't be an ideal candidate for a general election.
While he was erratic and didn't use the resources of the state department and intelligence services to the extent he should have, I also liked the way Trump conducted foreign policy. He wanted to keep us out of other peoples wars.
The thing with Trump was that he was pretty unpopular heading into the 2020 election. Given what happened afterwards, when he tried to overturn the results, you're going to have fewer Republicans and Independents who will turn out to vote for him. And more Democrats who will turn out to vote against him. I just don't see how he could win in 2024.