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A unified Republican Party gears up for November 5

Jul 17, 2024

By Dave Andrusko

“Donald Trump has been demonized. He’s been sued. He’s been prosecuted, and he nearly lost his life. We cannot let him down, and we cannot let America down.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

What is the “mainstream press” to do? The first two days of Republican National Convention have been a lovefest. Even the rivals of pro-life former President Donald Trump—Nikki Haley, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Sen. Marco Rubio—lauded his talents and record and his toughness.

Sure, there were reporters looking for dissent. They scoured for any hints that the GOP was not unified but for all practical purposes came up empty.

I’d like to take chunks of Lisa Lerer’s and Rebecca Davis O’Brien’s story written for the Trump-hating New York Times.

The headline tells it all: “In Milwaukee, a G.O.P. Transformation From Dysfunctional to Unified On Tuesday, Republicans effectively took a victory lap in the middle of the presidential race, expressing a sense of invincibility at their convention.”

Yet even before a single balloon has dropped at their national convention this week, Republicans have united — seemingly without reservation — behind the man and his message. Across downtown Milwaukee, delegates, officials and lawmakers appeared to be taking a victory lap in the middle of a race that many believe is breaking their way, galvanized by a would-be assassin’s bullet and the chaos gripping the rival party.

We’ll get back to the utter chaos surrounding a Democratic Party frantically trying to dump President Biden in a moment. Clearly, their bedlam is boosting Republican spirits, especially the role played by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi in easing President Biden out the door.

Now, the shift in mood was striking: It has been decades since those at any Republican convention felt quite so confident — even optimistic — that they had the right candidate, the right causes and the right moment.

Whatever the opposite of the perfect storm is, this Convention had it in bulk. I was not there, but even hostile media outlets (and there are many) grudgingly conceded the atmosphere in Fiserv Forum was electric.

Lere and  Davis O’Brien continue an account that must be anathema to the readers of the Times

As Democrats debated whether President Biden should be their party’s nominee, Republicans were a party unfettered by doubt. They presented a united front, and many rounds of I-told-you-so’s. Republicans had been proven right, they claimed, about the border, about Covid pandemic lockdowns, about inflation, about Mr. Biden’s mental acuity, about antisemitism on college campuses.

I-told-you-so’s” is a bit harsh, wouldn’t you say? Judging by a multitude of polls, Republicans in general, Trump in particular are on the right side of virtually all the major issues of 2024. Why wouldn’t they be a party “unfettered by doubt”?

One other devastating quote:

As Democrats continue to struggle to unify around Mr. Biden, broad swaths of Republicans are rallying around the former president. Polling conducted by The New York Times and Siena College after the debate showed that 83 percent of likely Republican voters wanted Mr. Trump to remain their nominee, compared with just 48 percent of likely Democratic voters who said the same about Mr. Biden. [Emphasis added.]

The walls are closing in. And Democrats know it.

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