In current polls of Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump currently has a lead of about 40 percentage points. Only Ron DeSantis had any hope of becoming a serious challenger early this year. But now the ‘Trump with brains’, as the governor of Florida is also known, is clinically dead, or as Americans say: he is ‘toast’.
The remaining candidates all have to make do with single-digit percentages in the polls and only manage with great difficulty to even be admitted to the debate. So why should I bother with these clowns according to Trump? He will therefore not participate in the second primary debate. It takes place next Wednesday on Fox News. As a bonus, Trump could irritate the Murdochs again.
Unfulfilled promises
However, Trump’s blaséness is also intended to distract from the fact that he has good reasons to stay away from the debate if possible. Chris Christie, one of his challengers, pointed out the ex-president’s sore points on Sunday during the political show “Meet the Press”: he had not kept his promise to undo Obama Care, Christie said. The length of the new border wall he built is only about 50 miles, and by the way, Mexico didn’t pay a dime for it. And he increased the budget deficit by about $8 trillion – more than any other postwar American president.
The Wall Street Journal also recently listed the ex-president’s weaknesses. These are:
The most painful of all Trump’s sore points, however, is the abortion issue. Since the Roe v. Wade ruling, which protected abortion nationally for more than fifty years, the issue has become a crucial factor in American politics. Because Republicans want to massively restrict abortion, and in some cases even ban it altogether, last year’s midterm elections were very disappointing for them.
In fact, Biden’s poll numbers may be in the basement. However, at the moment they are of little significance. Much more important are the replacement elections that take place in the individual states. The Democrats are currently doing well above average there, probably mainly because of the abortion problem.
Trump plays Hamlet on the abortion issue. On the one hand, he points out that “Roe v. Wade” could only be overturned because he had appointed two conservative justices and one conservative justice to the Supreme Court. No Republican president before him had achieved this. “They couldn’t get the job done. I did it,” Trump boasts.
But at the same time, the ex-president also knows how vulnerable the Republicans are in this issue; after all, the vast majority of Americans, and especially American women, want the right to abortion. That’s why Trump criticizes DeSantis, who took a tough stance in Florida and passed a law banning abortion after just six weeks. “This is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake,” he said in an interview with ‘Meet the Press’ a week ago.
At the same time, however, Trump refuses to announce a deadline for legal abortion. “We will come up with something that will please everyone,” he explained in the aforementioned interview.
This weak attitude is not universally welcomed by the Grand Old Party. For example, Georgia Governor and secret presidential candidate Brian Kemp stated, “It’s not terrible at all to be pro-life.” Several evangelicals, still a key Republican constituency, have also expressed disappointment with Trump’s comments.
The abortion issue will also be a central and potentially decisive factor in the upcoming presidential elections. The Democrats will play this card until they become stupid. Trump will have to comment on this again and again. Vague promises won’t be enough.
Soource :Watson
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