You Will Anyway: Because they can't win if they don't cheat

Monday, February 10, 2020

Because they can't win if they don't cheat

And expect November to be the worst cheating ever.

Eager to put on a show of force in a general election battleground state, President Donald Trump tried to rattle Democrats on Monday with a rally in New Hampshire on the eve of the state’s first-in-the-nation primaries.

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The president relished the idea of dominating the stage in New Hampshire and stealing some of the media oxygen from the Democrats. Advisers hoped that Secret Service moves in downtown Manchester to secure the area for the president’s arrival would make it harder for Democratic candidates and their supporters to transverse the state’s largest city in the hours before the primary’s first votes are cast.

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Trump has not hesitated to try to influence the Democrats’ nominating process. At the rally, he urged New Hampshire independents — who are allowed to vote in either party’s primary — who support him to instead back “the weakest” Democratic candidate Tuesday. He also, again, trafficked in the unfounded conspiracy theory that buses of illegal voters traveled in from Massachusetts in 2016 to deprive him of a victory in the Granite State.

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“Our good Republicans in the United States Senate voted to reject the outrageous partisan impeachment hoax and to issue a full, complete and absolute total acquittal,” Trump told a crowd that roared and cheered throughout his speech. “And it wasn’t even close.”

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Before leaving Washington, Trump said he had planned the rally to rattle Democrats and demonstrate his strength in the state before the primary vote.

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At the same time, Trump continued to celebrate the Senate’s acquittal decision, lacing into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her performance during his State of the Union address last week.

“I had somebody behind me who was mumbling terribly, mumbling, mumbling,” Trump complained, calling it “very distracting, very distracting.” He did not make mention of how, at the address’ conclusion, Pelosi tore up her copy of the speech.

Trump’s remarks prompted the crowd to break into the same “Lock her up!!” chant that his supporters directed at Hillary Clinton four years ago.

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If we get out of this shit alive with a functioning democracy, I hope all those Trump chumps crawl back under their rocks and stay there.

As Air Force One touched down in New Hampshire, a stream of TrumpWorld luminaries — including Vice President Mike Pence and first son Donald Trump Jr. — preceded the president to the stage.

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In addition to Vice President Mike Pence and Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior adviser, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu were set to campaign on his behalf Tuesday.

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With his reelection effort heating up, Trump also suggested he’s trying to turn the page and notch a couple of legislative victories before November.

The president said he was hopeful that Democrats would work with him to pass an infrastructure bill as well legislation to lower prescription drug prices, despite the rancor and divisions.

I'm sure this kind of shit makes them eager to give him a boost. WTF?

The speech...