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The answer is "No!"

The Republicans are committed to following Trump over the cliff. The only question left is whether they will take the rest of the country over with them.

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The idea that a candidate’s good character and a regular Republican platform do not have to be mutually exclusive startled me, even though after reading this it seems so obvious. The House leaders in Congress have not gotten that message, nor have many of the R governors and state legislators. As a liberal, it delights me that the abortion issue has rocked all of their boats, but I try to keep that tamped down. And Ron DeSantis doesn’t fit the bill either. Like Trump, he wants to wreak vengeance on anybody, human or corporate, when they disagree with him. I read where he stepped on S. Florida’s evangelical toes with his laws about transporting undocumented immigrants. I don’t know where that stands currently. The politics of hate is exhausting though.

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if you are advocating for public character over public policy, i am curious as to your thoughts on those many leaders who, by one means or another, were able to keep their private character out of the public eye, for the most part ? (King Charles, President Kennedy, President Johnson, President Clinton, and multiple senators come to mind first).

the thing about Trump is perhaps that he is unrepentant, a liar, a bully, inexperienced, and basically a jerk…..but…..his demeanor, or perhaps one should say his platform, resonates with almost half the voters in our country.

that is something not to be taken lightly.

His many shortcomings are being ignored or overlooked by a very large constituency, which many would find scary.

Politics in this country often appears to come down to the lesser of two evils….and sadly, the democratic party has become known as the pro-murder (abortion), pro trans, pro war, pro tax, pro crime, pro homeless party, that a diminishing number of people are willing to support

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We probably see some of the specific issues differently but my main point at this time remains: many of Trump's positions are held by people who respect the Constitution and social convention, are publicly ethical/moral, and who don't lie everytime they speak. Evangelicals have a choice to support those candidates and yet they don't. In fact, he doesn't really have a policy platform, he has a platform of grievance. I don't take that lightly but it doesn't make me tense, it makes me angry and resolved to oppose it in whatever small way I can.

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"that a diminishing number of people are willing to support"

Come again? Ignoring your nonsense about the Democrats (what on earth is wrong about being "pro trans" and "pro homeless"?) you seem to forget that while Trump boasted he obtained more votes than any sitting president before him in 2020, a certain Joe Biden won 7 million more votes than him.

Even when it comes to abortion, 70% of the US population is against the draconian abortion bans the Republican states are bringing in, and even without Trump, the Republicans would be on the defensive come election time.

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Trump lies about checkable things and then lies when he is caught in lies. It is scandalous that evangelicals would ever defend that but evangelical leaders have lined up to do that. Trump has no shame.

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Maybe Tim Scott (R. SC)? Senators Thune and Rounds (SD) intend to endorse him.

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And when Tim Scott drops out, as he inevitably will, then what? Back to Trump, right? Trump isn't a dead cert for the Republican nomination, but he's close enough to it that nobody (and I assume this includes Tim Scott) will dare to criticize Trump over anything, let alone his sexual assaults, theft of classified documents, or his attempts to subvert the 2020 election results.

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yes, a diminishing number……Biden’s poll numbers are not on the rise, and the latest revelations about him and his family’s financial shenanigans are not likely to cause a jump in his approval ratings. And i would not be the first to state that the 2020 election was more anti-Trump than pro-Biden. Given the way Trump was portrayed by our fourth estate, a potato may possibly have beaten Trump.

and no matter what your numbers say about abortion legislation, it’s still murder. I pray that in the near future more people will acknowledge the truth.

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LOL. You say that as though everything the press said about Trump wasn't true. If there is any justice at all, he'll be ending the campaign making Zoom calls from his prison cell having been convicted of sedition.

As for the so-called revelations about Biden, funny how all that evidence is dependent on one person who is suddenly (and conveniently) nowhere to be found. Is this like the "beautiful healthcare plan" Trump kept promising "in two weeks" only to never materialize? When you've lost Fox News, you know things aren't going well...

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