Which, if Biden was everyone’s second choice, would result in his winning the nomination by a landslide, since that is exactly the sort of candidate that approval, and ranked choice voting is designed to pick out.
Remember the Tea Party? That had nothing to do with Trump.
Team R will have some reason to be outraged, Trump or no Trump.
Exactly. Approval voting in particular may be the best process for learning which of the candidates has the broadest appeal. In primaries, that is.
nope, but it cements that the modern conservative movement is made up of two kinds of voters and politicians.
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fanatical, hateful, regressive white nationalists who reject democracy and want an authoritarian white nationalist ethnostate.
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enablers
the 28% will look at their shoes and go along with the crazies even though they know it’s wrong.
As I see it, the video attached should be banned from the internet. Unlock it, see it, then vomit on it
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“Stop the Steal” was a scam all along, unless trump meant it ironically.
The money in Trump’s PAC, detailed in a new financial report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Sunday evening, was largely raised via grassroots fundraising appeals pleading for help with legal challenges aimed at the 2020 election results. But Save America spent little money at the end of last year, reporting only $218,000 in merchant fees to Republican online donation processor WinRed.
An affiliated joint fundraising committee — the Trump Make America Great Again Committee — has also filed its report. Recent fundraising calls from that group have said that it is splitting donations between Save America and the Republican National Committee, with 75 percent going to Trump’s leadership PAC and 25 percent going to the RNC.
Even after transferring over $78 million to the RNC, Save America and Trump’s campaign, the joint fundraising committee still has nearly $60 million in its own coffers. Some of that money is likely earmarked for Save America, so the $31.2 million in Trump’s new PAC could be the low end of what he has at his disposal.
The former president has already used Save America to target Republicans he sees as disloyal. The PAC’s most prominent target thus far has been Rep. Liz Cheney, the House Republican Conference chair and the most prominent GOP impeachment supporter.
Didn’t read the whole thread but this sounds like it belongs here from the title.
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2A1275?il=0&utm_source=reddit.com
Dozens of ex-Bush officials leaving the GOP. Signs of the GOP losing solidarity?
Deep State Flees Rising Storm
Those remaining are probably thinking of it as purifying the party – skimming off the dross.
So wait a second – they stuck around for four years and were apparently OK with everything that happened, but needed Jan. 6 to push them over the line?
More profiles in courage.
I think it’s more likely they waited to see where the party was going after Trump. They were hoping once he was out of office they could forget the whole thing.
Perhaps also relevant. Many politicians still backing Trump. Is everyone else?
https://twitter.com/robertjdenault/status/1355714819203207170
Agreed. Which, as @Akaj says, is cowardly garbage unworthy of anyone calling themselves a political leader.
Against my better judgement, I read the comment section about this issue on The Hill. Trump’s supporters are calling all of the Republicans leaving the party RINOs that deserve to be lumped in with us “socialists”.
I honestly have no problem, at all, with sane Republicans. Of course we will disagree on policy issues, but I like the balance. Unfortunately, the kooks have taken over and are issuing death threats for those who dare displease them. I find all of it incredibly sad.
I find it vaguely terrifying. 
I read that too - can’t remember if it was The Hill specifically but it was one of those articles about Republicans leaving because the party had become a “Trump cult”. The responses would have been funny if they hadn’t been so scary - virtually all were variants on “We’re not a cult! And how dare those RINOs insult our Dear Leader like that!”. Self-awareness is in short supply these days.
This type of thing is meaningless until Republicans currently in office start doing it.
The “could” and the “on the way out” seem suprefluous in the title by now. Trump scorched the Republican Party. Even before leaving.
It’ remains to be seen how much future scorching he will do, but for darn sure he’s left a lasting mark even if he was to drop dead tomorrow.