# Are some republicans happy to be able to get off the Trump Train? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 9, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-some-republicans-happy-to-be-able-to-get-off-the-trump-train/925099 "2020-11-09T00:27:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-some-republicans-happy-to-be-able-to-get-off-the-trump-train/925099/1 "2020-11-09T00:27:33Z")
After hearing about GW Bush’s congrats of the Biden win, I thought that some republicans must have been on the Trump train for just party reasons and really didn’t like Trump and didn’t like to be associated with Trumps views of the truth. How many have jumped the Trump train and happy of the opportunity to be off that ride? Twitter has seemed to be much more restrictive of Trump’s unsubstantiated statements and has indicated his account reverts to a standard one after Jan 20 (which if trump keeps up his tweets will mean trump will be banned faster the a sock on the SDMB), and the networks cut off his his public rants after too many untruths were told (though BBC allowed Trump to ramble on). So there are some to be happy to be off the train. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-some-republicans-happy-to-be-able-to-get-off-the-trump-train/925099/2 "2020-11-09T00:31:57Z")
Nearly every elected Republican officeholder will be glad to see the end of Trump. Either because they can’t stand him, or because when he’s gone they hope to take up his mantle for themselves. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-some-republicans-happy-to-be-able-to-get-off-the-trump-train/925099/3 "2020-11-09T00:35:57Z")
I fully anticipate a host of republican congresspeople assuming the mini-Trump roles in an effort to cater to their base. Which has grown significantly. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-some-republicans-happy-to-be-able-to-get-off-the-trump-train/925099/4 "2020-11-09T00:39:12Z")
A similar thread: > [@Did the GOP (not Trump) expect to win?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-gop-not-trump-expect-to-win/924962): > > I can’t find the post now but in the election running commentary thread a few people indicated that the GOP expected to win all round despite Democrat optimism which was based on polls. I always expected that true Trumpers would insist they would win through. But the GOP’s less loony (but still detestable) wing - the McConnells and Grahams - I always assumed were bracing for a drubbing, and must be relieved that they were spared while Trump was not. I guess that’s incorrect? Do you think the G… ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-some-republicans-happy-to-be-able-to-get-off-the-trump-train/925099/5 "2020-11-10T13:02:14Z")
I fthe feel the can run a far-less-crazy candidate than Trump (say, Rubio or Romney) without that candidate also being called worse-than-Hitler for opposing abortion, then sure. If the moderate that if just maybe too far way from your policy, that you might hold your noe to is also devastated 24/7 as wanting a new Holodomor, what’s the point? If I’m going to vote for a candidate and that candidate is going to get smeared mercilessly, I want one that will fight back. Milquetoasting didn’t get Romney anything.