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7. While it's true Trump still has a lot of support among Republicans...
Wed May 6, 2026, 01:58 PM
9 hrs ago

...it's gone down considerably. So his influence is still strong in primaries, but his losses of additional Republicans and his cratering with independents has made the incumbents and candidates who support him more vulnerable in the general election. A conventional president with an approval rating in the mid-30s would have candidates running away from him like he was a coked-up Freddy Kruger, but this guy is different because he has ended a lot of political careers of Republicans. I'm interested in seeing what the pivot is going to be for the general. My hunch is it will be a lot of demonizing transgender folks, and the usual painting Democrats as soft on crime.

Democrats can attack the economy and the ultra-rich, but they also need to propose solutions, and those solutions should be bold. Democrats also can't be afraid of educating voters when it comes to how much this person has hurt our democratic system, how he and his family have gotten multiple times richer through self-dealing and corruption. How, now, he and the Republicans want the taxpayers to foot a billion dollar bill for a ballroom no one asked for, and, of course, the Trump-Epstein Files.

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