Republicans warn Trump of 2018 bloodbath

[UpInArms]

Source: Politico

A few weeks before Alabama's special Senate election, President Donald Trump’s handpicked Republican National Committee leader, Ronna Romney McDaniel, delivered a two-page memo to White House chief of staff John Kelly outlining the party’s collapse with female voters.

The warning, several people close to the chairwoman said, reflected deepening anxiety that a full-throated Trump endorsement of accused child molester Roy Moore in the special election — which the president was edging closer to at the time — would further damage the party’s standing with women. McDaniel’s memo, which detailed the president's poor approval numbers among women nationally and in several states, would go unheeded, as Trump eventually went all-in for the ultimately unsuccessful Republican candidate.

The backstage talks provide a window into how those closest to Trump are bracing for a possible bloodbath in the 2018 midterms, which could obliterate the Republican congressional majorities and paralyze the president’s legislative agenda. The potential for a Democratic wave has grown after Republican losses this fall in Virginia, New Jersey and Alabama, and as the president’s approval ratings have plummeted to the 30s.

In recent weeks, some of the president’s advisers have taken it upon themselves to warn him directly about the fast-deteriorating political environment. White House officials have convened to discuss ways to improve his standing with suburban voters. And on Wednesday, the president met with Kelly, political director Bill Stepien, communications director Hope Hicks, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Brad Parscale, Trump’s digital director in the 2016 campaign, to discuss the political landscape. Lewandowski forcefully raised concerns about the party’s efforts, according to one attendee and another person briefed on the meeting.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/21/2018-midterms-republicans-trump-warning-312404

[marylandblue]

1. He doesn't care, he wasn't supposed to win in the first place

Yet he thinks won by the largest margin in US history. So surely the next Congress will see the Republicans gain 100 seats.

[sandensea]

11. They cheated and got away with it in 2016.

And they intend to do the same next year.

[Dave Starsky]

25. And the next, and the next...

That's life in the new Union of Supremacist Amerikkka.

[eggplant]

14. in the senate alone! n/t

[keithbvadu2]

2. Oh, ye of little faith... Trump predicts great GOP wins

Oh, ye of little faith... Trump predicts great GOP wins

Trump Invents an Alternate 2017 Election History, Predicts GOP Win in 2018

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/trump-revises-2017-history-predicts-gop-win-in-2018.html


Trump Says GOP Will Do ‘Well’ in 2018

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/trump-gop-well-2018


(Sarcasm thingie goes here)

[NNadir]

3. If he thinks - and he doesn't actually even remotely know how to think - it will...

...be limited to a "bloodbath" for his legislative agenda, he should think again.

He has lead a lifetime of criminal behavior, most often connected with his racism and bigotry, but certainly in his financial dealings.

The idiots in his party who care for nothing but power itself and rewarding the 1% for doing nothing more than paper shuffling have embraced this bankruptcy king who is now extending his record of financial collapses to the nation as a whole.

It was an awful surprise for the nation when such an awful and unintelligent fool acceded through improbable events - driven in part by the propaganda of the Pravda of the right, Fox News -to the highest office in the United States.

It may prove an awful surprise for the tiny handed morally bankrupt idiot and his crime family of equally tiny minded circle that their legislative "agenda" of generating spoils will lead to criminal indictments.

There may be no one willing to be Gerald Ford and extend pardons, because the consequences of this perturbation of American morality may prove extreme, so extreme as to lead to long prison terms.

We may find new jobs for machinists making tiny handcuffs for tiny hands possessed by a (now) powerful thug with a tiny mind who is currently defiling the White House.

Since he is too stupid and too ignorant to listen, he may find himself keeping company another ex-New York billionaire, Bernie Madoff.

This will not pass.

[mr_lebowski]

18. I f***ING LOVE THIS POST ... If only I could rec it 1000 times and give it 5 stars and ...

Just generally kick it to high heaven ...

Great stuff, NN ... GREATNESS!

[DavidDvorkin]

4. I'm dreaming of a Bluenami.

[diva77]

13. I'm dreaming of a Blue Christmas!

but first I have to dream away the computerized voting machines, tabulators, optiscans, Crosscheck, other forms of voter suppression, gerrymandering, and dream that all states SOS's will only certify paper ballots, hand counted at the precinct level with public oversight

[bluestateboomer]

5. I pray for a few cool heads in the White House

If no one is there to stop him, I could see him wagging our dog into a war just to keep us from throwing him out.

[NYC Liberal]

6. As long as they keep supporting the same hateful, racist, and all-around terrible policies,

it won't matter.

They're concerned about optics when the problem is their fundamental values.

[OliverQ]

12. At the same time, an enormous segment of this country (about 100 million)

share the same hateful, ignorant, racist, homophobic, treasonous viewpoints as the GOP as a whole. Until we do something about that and stop the massive anti-truth/Fox news fascist propaganda, we'll never recover.

[procon]

7. Trump will do the exact opposite of whatever his advisors recommend

because he's the boss, goddammit, and no one is ever going to tell him what to do.

[FakeNoose]

23. +This+

It's obvious to most of us on DU that Cheeto is a complete contrarian.
He does the exact opposite of whatever he's told, like a naughty 3 year old.

Sometimes I think he does it of his own accord, and sometimes I think it's because Pootie tells him to.
Whatever!

[C Moon]

8. In other words....Can you get Putin to help the GOP, please!

[Honeycombe8]

9. Maybe this explains why they rolled out Ivanka to speak on the tax bill.

Trump probably thinks women are unimportant in winning elections. I also notice that in the meeting where they discuss the deteriorating female support, there's only one woman present, and it's Trump's assistant.

[Scarsdale]

22. She is there only

to steam his suit, while he is wearing it!! The most important person (apart from the Orange Ass) in the room is that "digital" guy. Why wasn't Ivanka there, isn't she his most important adviser? Delusion runs deep in that tRump family. Don Jr. thinks his daddy is "Making America Great" Filling the family coffers does not count for the rest of us.

[Hekate]

10. Their goals will have been achieved, the damage will have been done...

I don't know if they even care that much any more. But I certainly hope for a lot of seats to flip blue.

[not fooled]

15. GOPee Bloodbath

Music to my ears.

[Le Gaucher]

16. I still can't get over the fact that Putin won on November 8th 2017

Because there were some people too stupid to see beyond their fucking noses on that day.

Democrats I personally know , in the Bernie camp, who voted for Agent Orange because they thought Hillary was corrupt.

[FakeNoose]

24. That was 2016 - seems like a lifetime ago

[YOHABLO]

17. I hope they're right. It's time for the Republican Party to die. They're inhuman

[MFM008]

19. They know what's coming

He's going to find out the hard way.
They won the battle.
We will win the war.

[pecosbob]

20. They'll probably try to orchestrate an incident with N. Korea

if their approval ratings drop too low...exactly the type of thing at which Putin excels.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. "outlining the party's collapse with female voters."

There's no "collapse". Among his swamp base, 63% of women support scum like Moore.

Opinion: White women overwhelmingly supported Roy Moore. We shouldn't be surprised.

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, The Washington Post Published 8:26 am, Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Many were surprised and disappointed to see white women support GOP candidate Roy Moore by a margin of 63 -34 in his losing Senate bid in Alabama - just as many were surprised to see white women support President Donald Trump last year. But they shouldn't be.

White women's support for conservative and white supremacist politics is not new. The nation's white conservative women did not magically rise whole-cloth in 2016 from the politics of white evangelicalism, the New Right, Steve Bannon's new nationalism or even Trump's populism. Instead, white women's embrace of these causes has been an enduring feature of our politics for more than a century.

White women worked hard for the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, America First in the 1930s, the anticommunist crusade in the 1950s and the John Birch Society in the 1960s. They created their own organizations as well - the Supreme Court Security League, the Minute Women, Pro-America, Women for Constitutional Government, National Action Group and Restore Our Alienated Rights.

Indeed, in many ways white women have helped shaped conservatism, and repeatedly prioritized racially conservative views over solidarity with other female voters. The shock at white women supporting Trump and Moore fundamentally misunderstands that the female vote has always been deeply divided - a misperception stemming from a focus on politicians and not the political foot soldiers working hard, if often anonymously, to further their pet causes.

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/White-women-overwhelmingly-supported-Roy-Moore-12444369.php

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. A definite majority of white women voted for Molestor Moore in Alabama. 63 pc something?

Ah, post above me confirms my memory. Thanks!

[Ferrets are Cool]

27. How can he improve his standing with suburban voters?

Go straight to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

[Gothmog]

28. I am hoping that this will be a major wave election