Last week, conservative commentator Erick Erickson said on X that many Republicans are rooting for a Harris presidency with a GOP-controlled Senate in order to save their party.
“The damage Trump is doing to himself is playing out in private conversations like this: ‘We have a really good shot at taking the Senate,’” Erickson wrote on X.
“‘[Senator Joe] Manchin leaving gets us to 50. [Senator Jon] Tester is toast. That’s 51. Between that and the Supreme Court, we can hold off Harris for two years and get more reinforcements then fight in 2028 for the White House. If Trump gets in, we set back the pro-life cause and free markets by a generation at least.’”
Independent Senator Joe Manchin is retiring at the end of his term and Democratic Senator Jon Tester is fighting a close race against Republican Tim Sheehy in Montana.
The Never-Trump movement, made up of Republicans who have publicly disavowed the former president, is nothing new. The movement includes The Lincoln Project, an organization of Republicans dedicated to keeping Trump out of the White House, and Republican Voters Against Trump.
Politico columnist Jonathan Martin also argued that the fate of the Republican party could depend on Trump losing this November.
“The best possible outcome in November for the future of the Republican Party is for former President Donald Trump to lose and lose soundly,” Martin wrote. “GOP leaders won’t tell you that on the record. I just did.”
Martin said many Republicans are looking to accelerate Trump’s exit from politics.
“One high-level Republican, conceding it may only be ‘wishful thinking,’ even floated the idea of a Harris victory followed by Biden pardons of both his son, Hunter, and Trump,” Martin wrote. “That would take the issue of both cases off Harris’ plate and, more to the point, drain the energy behind Trump’s persecution complex so that Republicans can get on with the business of winning elections.”
John Conway, director of strategy for the group, called Trump “a threat to democracy” who “promises to do even more damage to our system if he is returned to power.”
“That’s why we’re reminding voters of how high the stakes are this election. And we’re doing it by spotlighting the voices of the most credible, trusted messengers available: real former Trump voters who refuse to support him again,” he said.
The group is also financing a series of billboards that feature the same anti-Trump testimonials.
A CNN poll, released September 4, found that Harris leads Trump in four battlegrounds states: Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Nevada. Trump leads in Arizona, while the two are tied in Pennsylvania.
then they should secretly not vote for him if they are too cowardly to speak out loud
Stanley Arrington
29d ago
Trump will lose the 2024 cause the women will vote for Harris, on 2020 Trump got 71 million votes of that 50% were women, but in 2024 he's not getting those votes. he will get less that he got I'm 2020 a lot less.
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