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There is a missing side of this story. The fact that we have lost the ability to vote even though we still go through the motions pretending we are doing something.

1) Chain of custody is gone with all mail in ballots. No more 'two people signing for valid ballots' every step of the way.

2) Electronic voting machines made by a private company with proprietary software can never replace the chain of custody. The Hursti hack has been proven in the 1990s and is likely still being used today.

3) The primary process has been hijacked. The DNC has claimed they are a private group that can 'pick their candidates in smoke filed rooms' and created superdelegates to do exactly that. They use the media polls to prove a candidates popularity and prohibit certain candidates from coverage thus driving their own popularity measures.

4) The media illegally censors presidential candidates (RFK Jr) and tells the people who is popular while hiding the negative aspects of a candidate and making them appear honorable. As an example, the mainstream media has not reported on Missouri vs Biden court case or the Great Barrington Declaration (close to 1 million doctors claiming the pandemic was handled completely wrong) thus making Biden appear better than he is. Same thing with Ukraine, Hunter Biden and more.

5) The vilification of Trump is designed to make Republicans double down and democrats to anything Trump doesn't want. Claim something is MAGA and the Biden supporters will avoid it like the plague. The Biden vs Trump contest is designed to keep any real contenders out and make the next election (which is impossible to certify) result in one of the worst two candidates this country can offer. We need two new candidates and not one of the prepared by the same failed system (like Nikki Haily).

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My nightmare scenario: Trump loses the nomination, runs a 3rd party campaign because his ego won't let him do anything else, and Biden wins in a walk. 4 more disastrous years! And we lose SCOTUS in the bargain.

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Donald Trump is not the future. We need someone who has similar policies, but is way less erratic. Less rhetoric and younger will secure a victory. I used to love Trump, but I can now see he's not the future. People who can't get past that are as brainwashed as the liberal SJWs.

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Can we please get a Gen X leader? These 80-year-olds are awful.

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This old conservative wants someone else. I would also like a straight shooting media along with honest progressives. Our country is being divided by lies of the aforementioned.

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I agree and that's why the Republicans will fail. If you are saying I have to follow the extreme right then you've lost me. It's early yet so we may see someone from the middle run on an acceptable platform.

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The question is, will any of these otherwise fabulously personality-gifted and resume’d potential candidates be able to *deliver* our country on policy, as we plummet in free-fall?

A lot of you are card-carrying “it’s self-evident” Trump-haters who are reluctantly opening up to conservative candidates as your eyes start to lose their sleepy Democrats-only glaze.

Still I assert the validity of opinion of that most maligned demographic, the Trump supporter.

No, he wasn’t perfect, and yes, I like other candidates as I did in 2015.

But I think the real question Trump’s supporters are asking is, what would Trump have done with his second term? Compared to this national disaster. A large number of intelligent but nationally maligned and underestimated Americans simply want to answer that question.

I wish more of you would seriously ask the question, why do excellent intelligent men and women still support Trump? To supporters, this is self-evident also.

My corollary question of the author is, why should we be more interested in the opinions of 18-to 30-year-olds, no matter where they graduated in their classes? I am sure they are very intelligent, well-intentioned, and well-read.

But this is not the 1960s anymore. I hope we grew past that “Don’t trust anyone over 30” implosion of the American psyche. Anyone under 30 needs to start recognizing the long-view that older people have honed over decades, shut up, and listen once in a while. Speaking as someone on the fulcrum.

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Questions of the day: How are Sen. McConnell's fall and hospitalization affecting the Biden's irresponsible plans to run of re-election? Will McConnell have to step down as minority leader?

Head injuries disable people and can be fatal. Be careful, President Joe Biden.

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CPAC is like Young Americans for Freedom in the late 1950s.

It's loud, cultish and irrelevant.

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That’s my question - who goes to these things? They have time and extra money but they aren’t representative of the whole.

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Garbage article.

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Ms. Reingold, instead of saying "without evidence" which many journalists seem to do a lot of, ever since 2016, why not add a sentence or two of reporting about why the correlation of DeSantis to Soros may actually be wrong. Give us the information and trust us to draw the best conclusion.

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To my knowledge, Ron DeSantis has no connections to Soros, and in fact he regularly bashed Soros during the '22 election season. Also, apparently Soros has not actually endorsed DeSantis.

There was some chatter that Soros wanted DeSantis and Trump to battle it out in the primaries, to divide the Republicans and cause some to stay home from voting. This seems like a stretch; whichever of those two wins the nomination, is the one Republicans and some independents will rally around to defeat an appallingly bad incumbent.

If I were Ron DeSantis, though, I'd sit this one out and run in '28, when Mr. Trump will be too old to "do it again" (or if Trump is miraculously elected in '24, which I don't see happening). DeSantis is only 44. If he were to win the presidency in '24, he would be the 3rd youngest ever to hold that office, behind Teddy Roosevelt and JFK.

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Give it a rest and find a dictionary.

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The election of Donald Trump is a scare on the face of the Republic!

He is emotionally immature, selfish and drunk with the idea of power.

He has no diplomatic capacity and is more of a danger to the country than even Joe Biden.

We must move on !

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Look at the results, not the man.

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Hmm … hard to sell that he’s more dangerous than old joe who opened our borders, ran from afghanistan, and is about to start WWIII.

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Is there any way we can get Tim Scott a serious shot?

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I'd like to see Ron DeSantis as the nominee but the math isn't there. Trump has ~30% or more of GOP voters as die-hard loyalists. If the non-Trump vote is split between Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswammy, Mike Pompeo, Tim Scott, Glenn Younkin, Kristi Noem and maybe others, Trump will be a shoe-in. I hope I'm wrong but unless one of these folks catches fire, it looks like a 2020 repeat. Ugh!

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