# Do you think Trump will sabotage the republicans in 2028
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Tags:** trump
**Created:** [May 26, 2026, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398 "2026-05-26T02:33:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2026, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/41 "2026-05-28T02:36:20Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#):
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> I can see Trump pressuring a Vance or Rubio to make promises like that which would sabotage their campaign. Doesn’t mean they do it.
I don’t have much of a source for it yet but rumors are going around (mostly on my favorite recreational outrage Youtube channels) that JD Vance is on his way out sooner rather than later.
> **[JD Vance hits back at report he’s ‘isolated’ in White House and may drop 2028...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-trump-2028-white-house-rubio-b2983529.html)**
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> With the departure of national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard, the Vice President’s dovish position on the war with Iran is an increasingly isolated one
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2026, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/42 "2026-05-28T02:47:42Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> You’re all assuming that there will be an election in 2028.
You’re right. There’s not going to be _an_ election. There’s going to be _tens of thousands of elections_ in every state, city, county, municipality, special district, and territory.
And 51 of those elections will be for presidential electors.
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### Author:  [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/43 "2026-05-28T02:48:10Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> You’re all assuming that there will be an election in 2028. Dream on.
All dictators have elections. I do not buy the implication of American exceptionalism.
If anything, the governments that put off elections are democracies. They value free and fair elections over being on-time. See Ukraine which has delayed elections per its constitution.
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### Author:  [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2026, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/44 "2026-05-31T19:04:42Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#):
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> All dictators have elections. I do not buy the implication of American exceptionalism.
They have elections but they often look like this one:
> **[1938 Austrian Anschluss referendum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Austrian_Anschluss_referendum)**
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> Gödl • Kucher • Kickl • Gewessler • Shetty •
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### Author:  [@billy-jack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billy-jack)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/45 "2026-06-11T21:36:44Z")
Trump probably couldn’t do more to sabotage the Republican Party than he did by proclaiming his undying love for inflation.
His continual flip-flops doesn’t help, either.
It’s obvious that Trump has even less grey matter than the scarecrow.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2026, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/46 "2026-06-11T22:08:35Z")
> [@billy-jack](#):
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> Trump probably couldn’t do more to sabotage the Republican Party…
Oddly, everyone seems to be noticing it _except_ the Republicans.
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2026, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/47 "2026-09-06T01:42:13Z")
I hope we get more of this stuff.
Trumps superPAC raised 500 million. But Trump doesn’t want to spend it, and when he spends it it goes to ads glorifying himself.
Lets hope Trump steals a ton of money from republican donors and pockets it.
> **[Trump is sitting on a $400 million war chest ahead of the midterms. But how...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-400-million-war-chest-how-will-he-spend-it/)**
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> Securing American Greatness, a nonprofit with ties to Mr. Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., unveiled its first ads to air nationwide.
> With just two months to go before the midterm elections, President Trump is sitting on a $400 million war chest, according to [Federal Election Commission filings](https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00892471/), and fellow Republicans are wondering how he’s going to start spending all that money.
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> This week, Securing American Greatness, a nonprofit with ties to Mr. Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc., unveiled its first ad to air nationwide.
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> But the ad is focused on Mr. Trump instead of local congressional candidates.
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### Author:  [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2026, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/48 "2026-09-06T02:18:46Z")
Re last post, sure, he cares little about GOP success this year, since he isn’t intending to be reigned in by anything congress does.
As for 2028, his main concern will be to make sure Vance would be willing to steal the presidential election on January 6, 2029, if needed. I’m thinking that wouldn’t work, but Trump would disagree. And he could be right.
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/49 "2026-09-06T02:54:53Z")
Vance can’t continue the MAGA cult. I don’t think anyone that I’ve seen can continue the cult of trump.
Part of me still hopes trump tries to sabotage the GOP in 2028 because of his narcissistic personality disorder. The idea that the party can function fine without him would cause a massive blow to his ego, so hopefully he tries to destroy the party in 2028 to prove to himself that without him, the GOP is nothing.
Maybe he will support a third party candidate, or tell his voters to stay home. Who knows. But the bigger the GOP loss w/o him on the ticket, the bigger the ego boost he will get.
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2026, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/50 "2026-09-06T03:02:50Z")
Odds are that he’ll be pushing up Miss Daisy by then or be so demented that he won’t even be feeding himself. If he still has some brain function in 2028, he’s going to be much more concerned with stealing and grifting as much as he can before leaving the Oval Office and its bordello decor.
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2026, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/51 "2026-09-06T04:11:46Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> Trumps superPAC raised 500 million. But Trump doesn’t want to spend it, and when he spends it it goes to ads glorifying himself.
I understand he’s giving $10M to the Paxton campaign. I’m not sure it’s legal for his PAC to outright give it to another campaign, so maybe he’s spending $10M in Texas on ads to support Paxton. If he’s having the ads made, you can be sure they’ll prominently mention him.
At any rate, Texas is an expensive state to campaign in, having several large population centers and many somewhat smaller ones. That $10M won’t go very far.
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### Author:  [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2026, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/52 "2026-09-07T00:13:36Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> Part of me still hopes trump tries to sabotage the GOP in 2028 because of his narcissistic personality disorder.
Even if he doesn’t specifically try to sabotage the GOP, all he has to do is keep on being himself.
> [@dtilque](#):
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> I understand he’s giving $10M to the Paxton campaign. I’m not sure it’s legal for his PAC to outright give it to another campaign, so maybe he’s spending $10M in Texas on ads to support Paxton
Legal? Illegal? I don’t know if that matters to Trump.
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2026, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/53 "2026-09-07T00:17:33Z")
> [@Odesio](#):
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> Legal? Illegal? I don’t know if that matters to Trump.
Good point. But if he gives the money to Paxton’s campaign, they might make ads that don’t pump up Trump’s ego. While if he does the ads, he can be sure they do.
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### Author:  [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2026, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/54 "2026-09-08T16:25:34Z")
What’s up with the 2026 Republican National Convention? I’m not seeing how this will help them win any elections.
> **[2026 Republican National Convention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Republican_National_Convention)**
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> A midterm Republican National Convention is scheduled to be held from September 9 to 10, 2026, prior to the 2026 United States midterm elections, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. In March 2026, The New York Times reported that president Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee had examined Dallas as the convention's possible host city. Trump had already been, for some time, exploring the possibility of a midterm convention for the Republican Party. At the January 2026 w...
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### Author:  [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/55 "2026-09-08T17:01:06Z")
> [@Pleonast](#):
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> What’s up with the 2026 Republican National Convention? I’m not seeing how this will help them win any elections.
They don’t have anything else to offer the American people. It’s not like they can point to their stellar economic and military successes and their plans for voter suppression might not be as effective as they’d like. This is way for Trump to stroke his own ego.
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### Author:  [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/56 "2026-09-08T17:28:06Z")
Independents have turned sharply against the GOP so the only hope is to rally MAGA (whose support has slipped a little as well). What better way to do that than successive nights of Big Daddy speechifying?
Oh, and what is Commie Don gonna do with his $400 million PAC war chest that he has thus far refused to spend on behalf of sycophantic candidates? Save it for his successor’s campaign in '28? Bwah-ha-ha.
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### Author:  [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/57 "2026-09-10T20:11:27Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#):
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> Oh, and what is Commie Don gonna do with his $400 million PAC war chest
Buy $399 million worth of TV ads from Trump Ads inc. Duh.
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### Author:  [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2026, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/58 "2026-09-10T21:32:06Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> I was having a good day until this.
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> mmm
He is significantly more self indulgent than his parents.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/59 "2026-09-10T23:04:20Z")
You couldn’t give me that glimmer of hope 4 months ago?
mmm
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### Author:  [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-trump-will-sabotage-the-republicans-in-2028/1030398/60 "2026-09-13T20:37:42Z")
> [@Pleonast](#):
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> I’m not seeing how this will help them win any elections.
You assume that el donald is rational. It’s another Tulsa rally because his ego could really use a boost right now.
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