Former President Donald Trump told 50-year-old Republican National Committee Chairman Ronna McDaniel to cancel all further GOP presidential debats, citing embarrassing Nielsen numbers, with the GOP audiences turned off to the candidates. After Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) bowed out Nov. 13, it left only 44-year-old Florida Gov. Ron DeSanits [14.5%], former, 51-year-old U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley [10.5%], 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and 61-year-old former New Jersey Chris Christie [2.5%]. Christie say he qualified for the Dec. 4 debate but what possilbe reaon should Christie continue to bless the stage with his company? Christie, as everyone knows, is a fake candidate, only serving Democrats and the never-Trump who bankrolls his campaign. Democrats love to put Christie on liberal TV bashing Trump at every chance.
Trump has point telling McDaniel its time to end the useless debates when Trump leads the field with 59.8% of the vote, a staggering number considering he refuses to participates in the RNC debates. GOP voters have made up their minds well before the Jan. 15, 2024 Iowa Caucuses, the first vote in the GOP primaries. GOP candidates like DeSantis hope that Trump legal problems knock him out of the race. But with Judge Aileen Cannon delaying Trump’s trials, it’s doubtful Trump would be convicted of anything before he winds the GOP nomination. Trump following has only gotten stronger the more the government presses charges against the former president. Voters see Trump framed by a government partisan witch hunt, using the criminal justice system to interfere with the 2024 presidential election. Trump could very well beat all his legal charges.
Even if the RNC goes ahead with its future debates, why should Christie at 2.5% be in on stage, only because he can show he has giver-Trump Republicans funding his campaign. Christie has been a spoiler from Day One, not a serious candidate but someone Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans can use to rip the former president. Complaints about Christie inside the GOP related to the fact that he plays Judas, stabbing Trump in the back after being one of his biggest supporters in 2016. Christie soured on Trump once he was denied a Cabinet post in 2016, because he was under possible indictment for his obvious role in the Bridgegate scandal. Christie flip-flopped on Trump because he wanted the Attorney General job, given to 76-year-old former Atty Gen. Sen. Jeff Sessions. Trump would have been better off with Christie, with Sessions recusing himself in Trump’s Russian hoax.
Voters should recall that the Russian hoax was started by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fake Steele dossier, paid opposition research designed to sabotage Trump’s 2016 campaign. After Trump won office the DOJ, FBI and intel agencies continued to spread Hillary’s pernicious gossip about Trump, with the U.S. criminal justice system used persecute Trump politically. Seven years later, the DOJ, FBI and intel agencies are still throwing the book at Trump over fabricated charges. Democrats and the press are so convinced Trump committed the heinous crimes of planning Jan. 6 Capitol riots or storing worthless old classified docs in moving boxes at his Mar-a-Lago estate. President Joe Biden has been accused by Republicans of a pay-to-play scandal involving his son Huter and brother Jim, both used Joe’s contacts to siphon off millions from foreign governments.
So, it’s no wonder that Republican voters pay no attention to the charges against Trump, knowing how the government framed Trump in the past. Candidates, like Christie, are the first ones to say Trump lacks the moral character to be president knowing the 91 felony charges against him. Christie knows the DOJ, FBI and intel agenices all framed Trump in the past. So, what’s to stop them again in the 2024 election? How could Christie start ripping Trump for all the fake charges when he knows the government spent years accusing Trump of ties to the Kremlin? Christie has no right to be at the next GOP debate because he polls nationally at 2.5%, about the same amount as now dropout Tim Scott. Haley claims she has the momentum with 10.5%, catching up with DeSantis. DeSantis campaign has been in chaos, with many of his donors and campaign staff quitting.
What’s left of the GOP field are a group of neophyte politicians that can’t hold a candle to Trump. Trump is a proven quantity on the cmapign stage, delivering the most entertaining political speeches, maybe of all time. Only Vivek Ramaswamy tends to hold audiences with hi characteristic flamboyance, though he gets under people’s skins. Ramaswamy hold many to the same ideas as Trump but likes going after Haley and Christie for their hypocrisy of backing President Joe Biden’s foreign policy agenda. Ramaswamy opposes the Ukraine War, because he sees through the false promises of Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky. Only Trump has said he would end the Ukraine War in 24-hours after taking office, saving the Treasury untold billions. Trump’s probably right that with his staggering lead in the polls, what’s the point of more debates?
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analxying spi nin national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
