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Originally Posted by GaGambler
Since when did ANYBODY, ever call Donald Trump a "statesman" including his biggest supporters?
The country wasn't in the mood for a "statesman" along the lines of a John McCain or a Mitt Romney, who had one thing in common, not only were they losers, but they were "good losers" and the Republicans were sick and tired of nominating "good losers" They wanted a pit bull and that's what they got in Donald Trump
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the RNC and high level republican party operatives wanted nothing to do with Trump. they didn't want him to win the nomination. recall that what eventually became the Steele dossier was started by a group of "Never Trump" operatives and fat cat donors. they abandoned the effort, they simply couldn't come up with any dirt. Then Clinton took it over and made up the dirt now known as the Steele Dossier. it reads like the 5th rate pulp fiction spy novel it is .. they could have done better by plagiarizing Robert Ludlum and Ian Fleming spy novels.
if Steele was half the so-called MI6 operative he was supposed to be he would have known all the "Russian intel" was garbage. and he did know but since he didn't like Trump (isn't that collusion by a foreign national in US elections?? YES IT IS) he turned it all over claiming it was likely true. we all know now it was all rubbish none it was ever proven true.
it was Trump's "America First" stance that resonated with republican voters that got him the nomination. McConnell said it best in 2016 .. "he got the most votes in the primaries". and he won the nomination easily. he was the front runner a week after he announced his candidacy and walked away with the nomination.
RNC leadership secretly pined for a contested convention. didn't come close to getting their wish. if you combined Kasich, Rubio and Cruz's delegates as one candidate you still couldn't have stopped Trump from a first vote nomination. not even close.
Results (president)
Trump (
NY): 1,725 (69.78%)
Cruz (
TX): 484 (19.58%)
Kasich (
OH): 125 (5.06%)
Rubio (
FL): 123 (4.98%)
Carson (
MI): 7 (0.28%)
Bush (
FL): 3 (0.12%)
Paul (
KY): 2 (0.08%)
Abstention: 3 (0.12%)
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Originally Posted by VitaMan
Tell us who will be the Republican nominee in 2024
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Ron DeSantis