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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump (reportedly) dumbfounded by the president's decision on Sunday.
He could not believe that Joe Biden would willingly give up the power of the presidency. All the effort was going into securing a landslide victory. Only a skeleton staff were working on Harris oppo. No ads were being prepared against her; the RNC convention went ahead unchanged. Trump's team feared Harris; Trump did not: Biden would stay the course. Then, all hell broke loose.
Trump Is Planning For A Landslide Win
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-campain-election-2024-susie-wiles-chris-lacivita/678806/
This Is Exactly What the Trump Team Feared
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-campaign-biden-dropping-out/679183/
bottomofthehill
(8,624 posts)He would never do something so selfless.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,011 posts)That can't think their way out of a paper bag.
Big Blue Marble
(5,416 posts)Read the articles; they will chill you to the bone.
uponit7771
(91,129 posts)RockRaven
(15,897 posts)than his own -- which are sick and twisted if you recall.
meadowlander
(4,649 posts)We already know he thinks soldiers are suckers and losers. What in his life has prepared him to understand what Joe did?
dweller
(24,435 posts)By water flowing down a toilet .
✌🏻
murielm99
(31,203 posts)He probably stands there and watches the toilet flush, over and over. It is fascinating for his tiny mind.
spanone
(137,223 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,713 posts)RussBLib
(9,473 posts)The lies about every little thing can wear you down if you let them. Kamala hasn't let them wear her down. Every Dem I know is PUMPED, and it's been a long time since I felt that.
https://russblib.blogspot.com
CentralMass
(15,437 posts)Cha
(302,626 posts)but when I go to the link it fades away. I'm too tired for a free trial..
Ms. Toad
(35,173 posts)https://archive.li/rh9bZ
(Just an FYI: You can get around most paywalls by copying the URL, then going to archive.li and pasting the URL in the first box. If it's been archived before it will come up. If not, it will take several minutes. Both of these were already archived.)
Cha
(302,626 posts)SunSeeker
(53,097 posts)Cha
(302,626 posts)article.. I just went to the 2nd one.
Good Luck!
Ms. Toad
(35,173 posts)They work on my android phone and on my PC laptop.
IbogaProject
(3,315 posts)Your ISP likely has archive.is on block, you have to move your name servers to someone else. It's how the web urls get pointed to an ip address.
Search this plus your operating system.
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Cha
(302,626 posts)They thought his "Irish Ego was too stubborn."
sheshe2
(86,033 posts)Thank you, Ms. Toad.
Will check them out tomorrow...late and I gotta sleep.
canetoad
(17,799 posts)Part of being a stoic involves preparing yourself by considering every possible option. Both adverse and beneficial. In this preparation lies the path of success and happiness.
Suck on it repubs.
lees1975
(5,116 posts)He measures the worth of everything by monetary value. The kind of consideration that went in to Biden's selfless act is beyond is ability to understand.
And this is the guy Evangelical Christians have turned to as their new savior.
blogslug
(38,458 posts)I know. I know. A lot can happen between now and election day but my goodness, these maga tears are tasty.
speak easy
(10,207 posts)Pinback
(12,665 posts)Fakes em out every time.
MotownPgh
(257 posts)evening in the Pittsburgh market. I'd say about 2 an hour on both stations we've watched tonight. Border and lying about Joe Biden's condition. (With video of Present Joe falling down)
speak easy
(10,207 posts)liberalmuse
(18,832 posts)They guy who called our troops, suckers and losers will soon be both.
Wounded Bear
(60,024 posts)That's how they justify cheating and gaming the system. They think "everybody does it" so are surprised when other don't.
LudwigPastorius
(10,276 posts)"I don't get it. What was in it for them?"
He is mentally incapable of understanding altruism, patriotism, and self sacrifice.
krkaufman
(13,605 posts)but Trump failing to plan for contingencies is so March 2020.
CentralMass
(15,437 posts)The Orange Anus up by 1.9% on Biden after the debate and up on Harris by 1.5%. Not an insurmountable lead but with a consensus that tha race will be won or lost in the electoral college and that Biden would probably lose the swing states and the election as as a result
Is it PA. WI and MI? I think so. The hope/bet is that VP Harris will poll/do better.in the swing states.
mwb970
(11,570 posts)As they find out about her they will realize that now they have someone to vote for, instead of against.
I haven't been this optimistic in years.
CentralMass
(15,437 posts)Hassler
(3,517 posts)Happened after the Chump spectacle. If it was planned, even better.
orleans
(34,541 posts)mwb970
(11,570 posts)Can you feel it? He's toast.
Skittles
(156,940 posts)anamnua
(1,273 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 26, 2024, 03:01 PM - Edit history (1)
which was correctly identified by Gandalf and formed the cornerstone of his strategy, was that he could not conceive of anyone voluntarily giving up the ring of power.
Heres looking to Mordor crashing down in November.
Irish_Dem
(55,557 posts)They did not have contingency plans ready.
Also the Dems are running a tight ship.
Big Blue Marble
(5,416 posts)They are surprisingly and scarily smart. And if Biden had not dropped out
they were probably guiding the campaign to a landslide and loss of both
house. in other words, a nightmare.
Even now, the Harris campaign will be wise to not underestimate them.
And we should not either. (The long article is really worth your time)
Irish_Dem
(55,557 posts)It did not take GOP genius for plan A.
Big Blue Marble
(5,416 posts)It was theirs. This was most likely this article that convinced Pelosi, the majority of Congress,
and maybe even Biden that he had step aside. It is chilling.how close they came to it working.
It was predicated on the perceived weakness of Biden and the actual lack of enthusiasm in
the base, plus making inroads into the minority votes in the swing states. And it was
clearly working. They and all of us were looking at realignment election that would have
destroyed our constitutional democracy.
Irish_Dem
(55,557 posts)All the cheating, gaslighting, and election crimes are not a skillful campaign.
It is a sign of weakness that they have to cheat to win.
They are good crooks, I will agree to that.
Big Blue Marble
(5,416 posts)The author explained that this was a far better and much more organized campaign than
2016 or 2020.
These campaign managers were implementing their theory of the campaign and it
was working. If you need proof, look at the CNN poll released today. Look where the country was
headed Sunday morning. They had substantially weakened Biden's 2020 coalition.
The only thing that was going to change the trajectory or the election, was for Biden to step down.
Of course it is a moot point now and they are undone. I would not be surprise if
Trump fires them.
And stop underestimating Trump, the cheating, lying and attempted steal of the government,
even the crimes and conviction do not matter to one half of American citizens.
Why? I do not know, but they just do not. Gaslighting works. That is why demagogues always use it.
no_hypocrisy
(48,041 posts)MichMan
(12,581 posts)I think most people here were as well
Mountainguy
(896 posts)I guess that means he wants to rename everything named after a Confederate. I guess he also favors renaming his home state.
Somebody should ask him.
speak easy
(10,207 posts)and charge them a fee (in perpetuity).
former9thward
(33,050 posts)Minutes after the Biden announcement the Trump campaign had anti-Harris ads running in the battleground states. They were prepared for it.
speak easy
(10,207 posts)former9thward
(33,050 posts)Do you think the convention would have had a different result if they knew Biden would drop out?
speak easy
(10,207 posts)or perhaps other contenders. Alternative History. Who knows?
Big Blue Marble
(5,416 posts)They had a brilliant strategy that was working all too well. His campaign managers are
serious professionals who had became overly confident that Biden would not drop out.
They will have to reshuffle much of their campaign and are not really prepared
at all for what has occurred,,thankfully as they were planning to for a landslide
and a down ballot wipe out and it was working.
former9thward
(33,050 posts)but if they thought that then they were aligned with the vast majority of DU who insisted Biden would never drop out.
Big Blue Marble
(5,416 posts)That was terrifying to read how effectively they were running a campaign based on
the perceived weaknesses of Biden's age and mental health.
It is amazing how close we were to the abyss. Thank you President Biden and thank your
VP Harris. Now we are all going win. it was the right thing to do.
DFW
(55,910 posts)The nerve!