Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a Trump ally who usually avoids criticizing the president in public, told reporters Wednesday that "claiming you've won the election is different from finishing the counting."
But my wife's sister, whom she is VERY close to, inhales Fox News and believes every word. — Hippyhead
Hah! We have a very similar situation in our family - sister-in-law is Trump supporter. We love her dearly. The crazy making thing (well OK, one of many crazy making things) is that she (and most Trump supporters) is not stupid - AND - she voted for Obama in 2012. — EricH
Donald Trump donated $175,860 more to Democrats than Republicans from 1989 to 2010, — BallotPedia
Trump was questioned about his previous political contributions to Democrats while on the campaign trail. During a June 2015 interview, Trump was asked why he donated to the Clinton Foundation and prominent Democrats, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), and Obama White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
Trump replied, “It’s smart. It’s called being an intelligent person and a great business person. ... But the truth is that, you have to be able to get along with—if you’re gonna be a business person, even in the United States, you wanna get along with all sides because you’re gonna need things from everybody. And you wanna get along with all sides, it’s very important.
Trump is something else altogether. Trump isn't really a Republican at all. He has no convictions other than his own personal self interest. Evidence.... — Hippyhead
What made conservatives so convinced Trump is one of them? Most of all, what made religious conservatives think that? — Marchesk
She's Russian and wants the best for her country. — jamalrob
dunno. Perhaps they saw Trump accurately as a purely transactional actor, and concluded that he would deliver on his end of the bargain, which he did with the Supreme Court. They did a deal with the devil? — Hippyhead
Far more better if he would be sentenced to jail for the a) rampant corruption b) the killing innocent Russians to reignite the Chechen war. Yet that's not likely to happen. — ssu
But I do know some conservatives who deeply believe in him to this day. — Marchesk
Hel-lo-oo! There are limits. And I am under the impression that killing babies in the US is murder. .ABORTION: It's not unreasonable for people to wish to place limits on the killing of babies. We don't kill senior citizens when they become inconvenient, right? — Hippyhead
Three: 1) "traditional" "mainstream" = oxymoron. 2) What do you imagine the mainstream to be?, and 3) What oddballs have the Democrats presented?Both Dems and Repubs have shown considerable interest in candidates far outside the traditional American political mainstream. It's not just the other fellow who is doing this. — Hippyhead
He has a pathological condition in which any mention of Russia sends him into a bloodthirsty frenzy. — jamalrob
Besides, the Russians I've met were very nice and warm people. Judge individuals, not people — ssu
It's fun to parade around in our supposed moral and intellectual superiority, but one of the price tags for that is a Supreme Court stuffed with conservatives for the next generation. — Hippyhead
and the gist of it seemed to be that conservatives have good points that we should all be able to agree about — Pfhorrest
Nearly half of the voters have seen Trump in all of his splendor—his infantile tirades, his disastrous and lethal policies, his contempt for democracy in all its forms—and they decided that they wanted more of it. His voters can no longer hide behind excuses about the corruption of Hillary Clinton or their willingness to take a chance on an unproven political novice. They cannot feign ignorance about how Trump would rule. They know, and they have embraced him.
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