Acquittal means Trump will loom large in upcoming election contests

[DonViejo]

Feb. 15, 2021, 9:05 AM EST

By Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Carrie Dann and Melissa Holzberg

WASHINGTON — In the end, just seven out of 50 Republican senators — 14 percent — voted to convict Donald Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, leading to his acquittal in his second impeachment trial and once again demonstrating his powerful hold over the GOP.

It all but guarantees that Trump — and Trumpism — will be a dominant force in the next round of political races, both in determining GOP nominees and in providing potential fodder for Democrats in general election contests.

In this year’s Virginia’s gubernatorial contest, will the pro-Trump Amanda Chase win the GOP nomination? (As of now, Virginian Republicans are slated to pick their nominee at a convention instead of a primary.) And how will memories of Trump play in the November election, especially in the electorally crucial Northern Virginia suburbs?

After retiring Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., voted to convict Trump (and now faces a censure vote), is Trump daughter-in-law Lara Trump really going to run in next year’s North Carolina Senate contest to fill Burr’s seat? "My friend Richard Burr just made Lara Trump almost the certain nominee for the Senate seat in North Carolina to replace him if she runs,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said yesterday.

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[Botany]

1. Trump was not aqquittted the Senate voted 57 to 43 to convict

but in the end the majority of Republicans put their party and power in front of our country.

[flying_wahini]

2. BAH! Let him take all the donors from the GOP with him, too. Won't be enough to beat Us.

It will be so destructive to what’s left of the GOP that neither will be able to win anything big.
I think.

[empedocles]

4. Not so fast about trump looming large in upcoming elections

Not so fast. traitortrump's worst days are ahead of him. Courts have beaten him up, may continue to do so. Truth also beating him up on his lies, finances, convictions, - and the slow growing of the trickle down effect, as more voters continue to get more 'consciousness' of what has been going on, and 1-06-2021 starts to sink in.

traitortrump has been trending down since the November Election

[captain queeg]

6. I'm starting to think trumps peak is over. The collapse might take a little while

But he’s in his way down. The fan club is going to disapate. Now that he’s out of power all he has is some kind of behind the scenes power broker and he’ll fuck that up just like he fucks everything up. The fan club is going to be a lot less willing to support his rallies, cities will make him pay any expenses up front because they know he’ll stuff them, and he’s no longer legally immune. His businesses are going downhill. He’ll just be festering like an infected boil on the GOP and I think little by little they’ll slip away. I’d love to see a stupendous crash but I’ll settle for a slow but sure one where every day there is some new frustration to eat his lunch and make him lash out at anyone who is still hanging on. I’ve read some threads here about how the pack turns on the alpha once he is seen as weak and I think we’ll see that with trumpers. They will still be Q nut jobs but won’t be focused on their loser-leader so much.

[empedocles]

10. Agree. May even take a longer while, but also could start to decline faster.

Like your text.

[musclecar6]

5. I Like the ring of that

Traitor Trump. Yes the despicable deplorable base would never abandon him because they’re just like him. That said, the Republican party are not all deplorables, maybe 70% of them are deplorable but the other 30% are moderates and will have nothing more to do with him. Along with the independents and the whole Democrat party, he couldn’t get elected in any kind of election with those numbers.

[StarfishSaver]

7. Trump would have loomed large in upcoming elections even if he'd been convicted and disqualified

Largely because people like Chuck Todd would have seen to it.

[bdamomma]

8. contact info for MSNBC

https://www.wikihow.com/Contact-MSNBC-News

[gulliver]

9. Trump will follow the money.

He's going to need a lot of it to pay off those big loans coming due. Also, his name is worthless now.

The Apprentice kept him afloat, possibly with some assistance from the Russian mob (also know as the Russian government). I think Trump will try for a media play more than a political one. It'll be Trump against Murdoch, not Trump backing a bunch of yahoos in primaries who can then take him down in 2022 by getting trounced.

Trump is the Walter White of bullshit. He has some of the purest, smelliest, shittiest bullshit available on the market. Murdoch had the market cornered with Fox News, but there's a new kid in town.