When he speaks to the nation tonight in a primetime address, Donald Trump is likely to say that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him and the Republican Party, and the prospect of such a scenario has many in the GOP “scared s—less,” according to a report from Politico.
“The people I talk to are scared shitless,” said a former Trump administration official, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “It’s not scared shitless about the text of what he’s going to say, it’s, what does he add to the text?”
“Republican operatives, including those in Trump’s inner circle, have pleaded for months for an unrelenting focus on the economy. And while the president has talked up his tax cuts and Trump Accounts during campaign stops, his decision to use a rare prime time address to focus on election integrity is a missed opportunity, the former official said.”
“From the White House, they would prefer to be talking about economic conditions improving,” the former official said. “And any second of the day that’s not spent talking about that right now I’m sure frustrates many in the administration.”
But some on the extreme right of the GOP believe Trump is justified in continuing to whine about how he lost to Joe Biden six years ago.
Former White House aide Steve Bannon said recently, “The election integrity revelations coming on Thursday and thereafter will be the exact tonic the MAGA grassroots base need to fire them up — to remind them of what they are really fighting for in these crucial November elections.”
What might a rehash of 2020 wind up accomplishing? Not much, according to a dejected Republican Senate campaign official.
“Republicans won Hispanics, swing voters, and young Americans in 2024 by exposing that extremism and offering a better alternative to open borders, the Green New Deal, and left-wing identity politics. If we spend our time looking in the rearview mirror instead of through the windshield, we’ll drive our coalition right off a political cliff.”
Of course, the political cliff is a location Trump is familiar with, as he repeatedly shoots himself in the foot with his moronic, rambling statements, in which he says that “affordability” is a fake concept, as if millions of Americans aren’t currently living from paycheck to paycheck and often wondering how they’ll be able to get ahead in an economy that seems rigged against them and in favor of billionaires.
If the GOP wants to know who’s responsible for the fix they’re in, they don’t have to look any further than the nearest mirror.
