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re: 2024: Republican In-Fighting So BAD Amidst Effort to Keep Biden OFF Ballot
TRUMPs' ANGER and Embarrassment Revealed After 2022 Midterm MAGA Failures
TRUMPs' GOP-Hyped Red Wave Crumbles as Dems Demolish MAGA Extremists
MSRAW 11 APR 2024
While Democrats were celebrating their stop to the so-called "red wave" in 2022, Donald Trump was stewing in anger in a Versailles-inspired ballroom in Florida as a hurricane bore down, a writer revealed in a new book.
Isaac Arnsdorf's "Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy" details the movement's rise to power and its success outside of Donald Trump. After his reign, Trump attempted to recruit candidates he thought could follow his MAGA playbook and win in the 2022 Midterms.
It was an embarrassing failure for the ex-president, Arnsdorf wrote.
That night, as Hurricane Nicole approached the Florida coast, Trump entered the ballroom to a lackluster crowd of loyalists and a smattering of press.
"Trump, for all his deceits, could be hopelessly transparent about his emotions in person. Though he would later insist he was 'not at all ANGRY,' you could tell he was by his expression," writes Arnsdorf.
"You could tell by the way he thanked the press for being there, calling it a 'great honor' to have them (not his usual posture toward the 'Fake News'). He knew the reporters from the major national outlets had bailed, catching the last planes out of town before the storm."
That night proved he was losing when it came to getting those in his image elected to office. Taking the stage, he spoke for no more than five minutes and never addressed the crowd again, the author wrote.
"Trump recited his record of endorsing winners, in the primaries and now in the general. He mused aloud, 'Wouldn’t that be funny, if we were better on the general election than on the nominations?'" the book recalls.
He wasn't. Everyone from Kari Lake and Mark Finchem to Doug Mastriano and Herschel Walker failed in 2022. While they may have tried Trump's 2020 tactic of questioning the election results and the legitimacy of the vote, they were forced from the pillars of power.
Trump bailed on the faux celebration by midnight, and "only a few stragglers remained to cheer him off. Watching Trump work the room that night, it was possible, if only for a fleeting moment, to see him as just the club owner, the host of a party where no one wanted to be," the book recalls.
The book goes on to recall an interview Steve Bannon did with Oath Keeper Dan Schultz on "War Room," in Feb. 2021, promoting the necessity of taking over a political party to be successful. Bannon understood that third parties don't work, Arnsdorf said.
“Essentially, what we have to do is, we conservatives have to take over one of the two major political parties. Our party is, the one we’ve been using, is the Republican Party.
The problem is we’re not in control of it," Schultz told Bannon.
A Storm Foretold -Bannon
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'Absolute MESS': Republicans 2024 Ballot Petition FULL of FAKE Addresses and Forged Names
"This absolute mess of a candidate nomination petition is for Michelle Martin, libertarian candidate for #AZ01," wrote Archer in a lengthy post on X. "There are probably 1.5k signatures here and I would not be surprised if not one of them is valid.
MSRAW 11 APR 2024
One sheet as an example: None of the addresses exist as written, the names are all middle and last and those signatures are all done by the same person. Nearly every sheet is a variation of this."
According to a new report, many of the names appear to be on the ballot without the knowledge of those people; Archer called several of the voters named on the petition, "showed them the signature they allegedly signed with, and they ... categorically denied it was their signature."
"Even if there are real voters here and there spot checking is a disaster," wrote Archer. "Of the voters I can find that 'signed' the petition, most are either Republicans or Democrats. In a decade of politics I've never seen anything like this. Even the signatures of the circulators look like they could be forgeries. Someone just went through the voter file and mined for names and addresses. The circulator even changes their style depending on the day."
Arizona's First District, which encompasses Scottsdale and other suburbs northeast of Phoenix, is represented by Republican David Schweikert.
The lawmaker has been subject to a scathing ethics investigation over his payments to a consulting firm operated by his chief of staff, which led in 2020 to tens of thousands of dollars in fines and almost caused him to be formally censured.
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