{"id":516517,"date":"2022-11-26T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-memo-democrats-pine-for-trump-as-gop-nominee\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T20:00:00","slug":"the-memo-democrats-pine-for-trump-as-gop-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-memo-democrats-pine-for-trump-as-gop-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Memo: Democrats pine for Trump as GOP nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a8679f0480\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a8679f0480\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-memo-democrats-pine-for-trump-as-gop-nominee\/#The_Memo_Democrats_pine_for_Trump_as_GOP_nominee\" >The Memo: Democrats pine for Trump as GOP nominee<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Memo_Democrats_pine_for_Trump_as_GOP_nominee\"><\/span>The Memo: Democrats pine for Trump as GOP nominee<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/trumpdonald_111922ap-john-locher_memo-trump-1.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President Trump met a muted response from many Republicans when he launched his 2024 White House bid at Mar-A-Lago this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But his campaign is stirring excitement, and even some glee, from Democrats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Members of President Biden\u2019s party are openly pining for Trump to become the 2024 Republican nominee, believing he is just too flawed to win a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> election. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They argue that the situation today is markedly different from 2016, not least because voters now know what they get with Trump in office. And Democrats are eager to have such a beatable opponent in an election that is likely to be challenging for their party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am hoping for Trump\u2019s nomination, \u2018cause I think he\u2019s the easiest candidate to beat,\u201d former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) told \u201cThe Briefing with Steve Scully\u201d on SiriusXM this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dean, a presidential candidate in 2004 and subsequently the head of the Democratic National Committee, noted that he had warned his party in 2016 that Trump could win the presidency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, he insisted: \u201cPeople are sick of this. They\u2019re tired of the inflammatory stuff, they\u2019re tired of the divisiveness, they\u2019re tired of the lies. If Trump gets the nomination, I think we have got a pretty good chance of turning over some more states than we did the last time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told The New York Times recently that even though he thought a Trump candidacy would be \u201can absolute horror show\u201d for the health of American democracy, it would be \u201cprobably a good thing\u201d for those who want Republicans to lose in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Democratic strategist Mark Longabaugh told this column that Trump is \u201cinfinitely weaker than he was.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can always get burned by making some of these predictions, but I just think he seems a little bit of a spent force,\u201d Longabaugh said. \u201cThere are a whole bunch of dynamics that are very different from 2016.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even some on the right believe the Democrats have a point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>An editorial from The Wall Street Journal the day before Trump\u2019s campaign launch savaged his chances in 2024, lamenting that after the 2020 election, \u201cthe country showed it wants to move on but Mr. Trump refuses \u2014 perhaps because he can\u2019t admit to himself that he was a loser.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Journal\u2019s editorial asserted that if Trump did press ahead with his campaign, \u201cRepublican voters will have to decide if they want to nominate the man most likely to produce a GOP loss and total power for the progressive left.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and Trump-skeptical Republicans believe that the GOP has other candidates who could either be more persuasive to center-ground voters in a general election \u2014 or at least bring less baggage into the race than Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is just as confrontational as Trump but not dogged by the same degree of indiscipline, nor by legal troubles \u2014 and he just won reelection in his usually competitive state by 19 points. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) was elected in a Democratic-leaning state in 2021, just a year after Biden had carried it by 10 points over Trump.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants and the leading female contender for the GOP in 2024, would offer a much more inclusive face of the party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Democrats \u2014 and pundits \u2014 have underestimated Trump before, most notably in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His candidacy was treated as a self-promotional gambit or a joke in many places. The Huffington Post at one point ostentatiously announced it would move coverage of his bid to the \u201cEntertainment\u201d section of its website. Various Democrats pronounced that Trump had no chance of winning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows how that turned out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, the argument that Trump is the weakest link has several new threads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, even though the former president retains the fervent support of his base, he is unpopular with the public at large.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An Economist-YouGov poll conducted from Nov. 13-15 found that Trump was viewed favorably by 77 percent of Republican voters but by only 41 percent of the overall population. Fifty-two percent of all adults had an unfavorable view of him \u2014 notably higher than the other potential GOP contenders the poll tested.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Secondly, the defeat of high-profile Trump-backed candidates in the midterms has strengthened the argument of those who believe the former president is an electoral liability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senate and gubernatorial candidates endorsed by Trump, including Mehmet Oz and Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania, Blake Masters and Kari Lake in Arizona and Don Bolduc in New Hampshire all lost. The fate of another prominent endorsee, former football star Herschel Walker, will be decided in Georgia\u2019s December 6 Senate runoff.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is Trump\u2019s relationship to the festering legacy of Jan. 6, 2021, the darkest day in recent American history. Even the Journal\u2019s reliably conservative editorial page acknowledged that \u201cthe deadly riot will forever stain his legacy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Capitol insurrection is just one\u00a0of the factors contributing to Trump\u2019s sea of legal woes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland recently <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed a special counsel, Jack Smith, to take over the investigation into events surrounding Jan. 6, as well as the separate probe into sensitive documents found at Mar-a-Lago.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Either of those investigations could result in a criminal indictment for Trump.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A probe in Georgia looking into efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 result in that state could also be damaging. Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is moving forward with a massive civil suit targeting the Trump Organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Put it all together \u2014 and add in those voters who have simply grown weary of Trump-fueled chaos \u2014 and it\u2019s easy to see why Democrats and some Republicans find it hard to see a path for the former president to win the White House back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI think we would all like Donald Trump to run again,\u201d former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) recently told Gray Television.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump has significant negatives that makes it very difficult for him to win a majority of the vote,\u201d Republican pollster Glen Bolger told this column.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For all that, however, Trump remains the leading candidate in polls of the potential GOP 2024 field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the Democrats might get their wish \u2014 and then they will find out if they should, again, have been careful what they wished for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage.<\/em>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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