How badly do Republican voters want to lose?
Zachary Faria
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The question being posed to GOP voters ahead of the 2024 election has been, remains, and will continue to be a simple one: How badly do you want to lose another presidential election?
Another set of polls has shown just how unyielding the political reality is. An NBC News poll has President Joe Biden with a -10 point approval rating. Vice President Kamala Harris, who will feature heavily in the campaign given how likely it is she will take over for Biden if he wins a second term, sits at -17 approval. That is the lowest number for any vice president in the poll’s history. On top of that, 68% of voters have “major” or “moderate” concerns that Biden does not have “the necessary mental and physical health to be president.”
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In that same poll, former President Donald Trump leads Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) among GOP primary voters 60%-36% in a head-to-head matchup. In head-to-head matchups with Biden, Trump is trailing the ancient, unpopular Biden by four points. DeSantis and Biden are currently tied.
In a May poll from a Democratic pollster, the lay of the land is even more clear. Biden leads Trump in a head-to-head general election matchup by two points while he trails DeSantis by a point. In swing states, Trump is even with Biden. DeSantis leads Biden in swing states by 11 points.
Again, those are swing states that Trump has already lost. He lost Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Biden in 2020. He then lost in all of those states again as his picks in the 2022 midterm elections flamed out. Do Republicans really want to take the coin flip chance in those states when it is clear the coin will be weighted against them?
Over the last three election cycles, Trump has done nothing but lose. He has empowered Democrats both through his own failures as a candidate and through his handpicked nominees in high-profile races. He is the only candidate who is as unpopular as Biden. He is the only candidate who is as old as Biden. He is the only candidate who has lost to Biden already.
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Trump is the only candidate who can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Biden’s Justice Department is targeting Trump, in part, because Biden and his team want GOP voters to rally around him. Everyone knows that Trump is the most likely candidate to get Biden and Harris back into the White House. He wouldn’t be protected from the Deep State (that he didn’t dismantle) or from indictments. He would be a loser, again.
GOP voters need to ask if this is worth it. Is “loyalty” to Trump worth letting Biden and Harris run roughshod over the country for four more years? Is it worth it to put Supreme Court vacancies on the line in the matchup that Democrats desperately want? This is a catastrophic self-inflicted defeat waiting to happen. So, how badly do you really want to lose?