That was the answer Donny gave when asked if he would run again….it is sweet music to the ear and mind but is probably all BS.
President Trump didn’t rule out running for a third term in a wide-ranging interview with CNBC‘s Squawk Box on Tuesday. He boasted that he had received the “highest vote in the history of Texas, a record that they say won’t be beaten unless I run again,” prompting the question, “Are you going to run again?” He replied “Probably not,” adding, with a laugh, “Probably not, I’d like to.” Trump has repeatedly mentioned the possibility of running for a third term since he started his second term in January, though doing so would require a constitutional amendment supported by two-thirds of the House and Senate and ratified by three-quarters of the states, USA Today reports.
“I’d like to run. I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had,” Trump said. “You know why? Because people love the tariffs.” Squawk Box‘s Joe Kernen pushed back against Trump’s poll numbers claim, saying, “Overall poll numbers, you don’t have the best you ever had in overall poll numbers.” Trump replied that he was at 71% overall and “94% and 95%” among Republicans. When Kernan countered that some polls had his approval rating down in the 30s, Trump said, “But they’re fake polls, Joe, I had a lot of fake polls.” It’s not clear where Trump got the 71% number, Mediaite reports. Even the pollsters friendliest to Trump haven’t put him above 50% recently. The RealClearPolitics poll tracker puts Trump’s approval rating at average of 45.9%.
He has the ‘best poll numbers he ever has”?
What a delusional POS.
But let’s say he holds true to the lie and does not run again….that would open the door for that massive gasbag Vance…..then the question will be asked who (for now) would be his opponent?
So, what are the results? Well, the Emerson College June poll suggests that Vice President JD Vance is currently the leading contender to succeed President Trump as the Republican nominee in the 2028 presidential election.
Vance is currently backed by 46% of Republican voters — leaving other high-profile names like Marco Rubio at 12% and Ron DeSantis at 9% trailing far behind.
And July’s national poll – conducted by Emerson College between July 21 and 22 – surveyed 1,400 registered voters, and pitted Vance against three possible Democratic candidates: former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
In a hypothetical matchup with Buttigieg, Vance holds a narrow edge with 44% of support to Buttigieg’s 43%, while 13% of voters remain undecided.
Against Ocasio-Cortez, Vance leads 44% to 41%, with 15% undecided. The widest gap emerges in a potential race against Newsom, with Vance garnering 45% of the vote to Newsom’s 42%, and 13% still undecided.
“A key takeaway from the ballot tests is that about 13% of the electorate remains persuadable, while the other 87% have already settled on a party preference,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said.
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87% have already made up their minds on their choices…..that should freak you out because we are 3+ years away from the election in question and already people have decided….I know it is early and things can change on the ground…..but to already have made up your mind this early illustrates to me just how lazy and uninformed the public must be.
Do I have a choice at this early stage? No I do not….I am not really impressed with anyone mentioned.
How about you?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
The public is not lazy or uninformed– they are just feeling “Defeated” sensing that they don’t really have any power or voice. Trump is president for life whether we like it or not.
Sorr5y but lazy says it all….because of it we are where we are today. chuq
considering how badly his mental condition has deteriorated over the last six months, I don’t think he’ll even finish out this term. He’s gotten so bad that even the main stream media hasn’t been able to continue to ignore it.
As for Vance, I don’t think there’s much of a chance he’d win the GOP nomination. I know people in the the party, and he is universally considered to be a sniveling. cowardly, creepy little weasel who can’t be trusted with anything. From what I’m hearing right now one of the lead candidates is…
wait for it…
Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Seriously? That is as scary as Vance. chuq
I wouldn’t call it scary, I’d call it downright terrifying.
Okay, this is going to get a bit long so I don’t blame anyone for just skipping this, but here’s what I think is going on.
The GOP (I’m talking the actual politicians here, not the voters) almost as a whole *hates* Trump and is utterly terrified of him and what he’s doing. They aren’t stupid. They see the same things we do and have reached the same conclusions, that he’s turned the party into a religious cult with himself as the figure of worship and that mentally he’s not fit to run a lemonade stand much less the country. Almost none of them have the spine to go against Trump publicly. They’re all too terrified that he’ll send his goons after them and they’ll lose their cushy jobs and little bits of power.
They’re going to want a candidate who appeals to the MAGA and Q crowd but who, at the same time, is not as much of a loose cannon, who is at least a wee bit less crazy. and who has had the guts to push back against some of the things this administration has been doing. That. believe it or not, puts MTG on the list. She’s pushed back against some of Trump’s policies publicly, which is more than can be said for 99% of the party. And she’s gotten away with it without retaliation by Trump. Plus, surprisingly. she’s shown signs of rationality of late. Either she’s on new medication or the crazy lady obsessed with Jewish space lasers was all an act in the first place to appeal to the Q and MAGA crowd.
Look at who else they have. Pretty much no one. Rubio has proven himself to be a lot like Vance only in a better suit. a sniveling. hypocritical, whining little coward. Speaker Mike Johnson? He’s even worse. Not only is he a sniveling little etc. he also has delusions of grandeur and once proclaimed himself to have been appointed by God to be a modern day Moses leading “his people” out of bondage, for heaven’s sake.
Abbot and Paxton in Texas? both are as crooked as the day is long and in any rational universe both of them would be in prison. DeSatan might try again. Certainly his ego is big enough to push him in that direction, but he’s not making any friends down there in Florida and is up to his neck in investigations into unethical fundraising and disappearing money and I don’t know what all else.
So by the process of elimination MTG is on the list, and I’ve been hearing things that tend to support that. Right now she’s probably ahead of Vance but behind Rubio. I’d think running her for president is a long shot. but within the realm of possibility. I’d think she could be a shoe in for VP however.
On the other side of the coin, the Dems have. well, no one, really. There
s Newsome, the governor of California, but even in his own state he’s widely hated and is considered to be owned lock, stock and barrel by big money interests like PG&E.
Hochul, governor of NY is a possibility. Maybe. She’s proven herself to be tough minded, able to stand up against the Trump administration. My personal opinion is that she’s probably the best of the potential Democratic candidates at the moment. But whether she’s electable or not is something else again.
Gf….I have to admit she has offered a few bills that make sense….but then follows them up with stupidity about the weather, etc….I do not know much about the NY gov….but she bears watching. chuq
I agree about the first paragraph, he can barely finish a sentence and has stopped trying to walk and talk at the same time…
but MTG? oh no no no. Canada is looking better and better. I can watch the demise from a safe place up there…
I have an ‘outsider theory’ that he will try to get his son Barron nominated to succeed him. The son is getting a higher profile these days, and his extreme creepiness even out-creeps Vance, so might well appeal to the ‘good ole boy’ incest-loving voters.
Best wishes, Pete.
Will Barron do as he is told? My money is on Vance the poster child for idiots. chuq
.I am not really impressed with anyone mentioned. Ditto.
It will be hard to find a good Dem candidate….in my book. chuq
He cannot legally run for President again, nor slide in as VP or Speaker of the House, Unless he can reincarnate himself. I think he is just numb enough and arrogant enough to believe that gap in the two terms somehow makes him eligible. No. Just no.
Personally I do not think he was EVER qualified for anything other than a game show host. chuq