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Can Any of the GOP Candidates Beat Trump?
Okay folks, now it really begins. The Iowa GOP caucuses are in 2 weeks minus 1 day. New Hampshire is the following week. Two weeks later we have the Nevada GOP caucus, two weeks after that we have South Carolina and Michigan a couple of days after that.
So, between today and the end of February, 159 delegates will be chosen to nominate someone at the GOP national convention on July 17th.
I’m only going to focus on the Republic(an) Party unless those so-called Progressives in the Democrat(ic) Party does something remarkably stupid and commit political suicide by sabotaging Joe’s decision to seek a second term.
But who knows? Maybe the so-called Progressive wing of the Democrat(ic) Party really is that dumb. After all, I know some people who claim to be progressive Democrats and voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, and the 100,000 votes that Nader racked up in Florida effectively handed the Presidential election that year to George Bush.
I just watched a speech that Trump gave at a rally in Durham, New Hampshire a couple of weeks ago, and in the first 4 minutes and 30 seconds of his speech, he told no less than four blatant lies, including claiming that the gasoline price under his Administration was a buck less than it was, and that he sent back more ‘gang members’ who illegally crossed the border than…