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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,190 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 02:03 PM 8 hrs ago

'We're going to have a problem': Republicans want Trump to move on from 2020

President Donald Trump is bringing back 2020. Many Republicans wish he wouldn't.

Conversations with nearly a dozen GOP state and county chairs and strategists reveal a party largely eager to move on from relitigating Trump’s election grievances, which they’re worried may detract from an economic message that actually motivates voters. But the president won’t let it go, subpoenaing 2020 election records and putting pressure on lawmakers to pass legislation to overhaul voter registration laws.

As Republicans stare down a treacherous midterm landscape, there's a growing view inside the party that focusing on “stolen election” claims and voter fraud will kneecap them in the general election: That messaging might play well with the MAGA base in the primary, but it could alienate moderates tired of rehashing an election from nearly six years ago.

“I’m always one to believe you should look forward, not backward,” said Charlie Gerow, a Pennsylvania-based GOP strategist and Trump convention delegate who hosted a meeting of fake electors in 2020 at his Harrisburg-based public affairs firm. “It would be better if the midterms focused on the recovery of the economy and all the good things the Republican administration and Congress are doing to move the economy forward.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/going-problem-republicans-want-trump-094000866.html

Trump is already a problem. The GOP has had their collective faces between his butt cheeks for far too long.

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'We're going to have a problem': Republicans want Trump to move on from 2020 (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 8 hrs ago OP
If only Republicans had a constitutionally proscribed way to rein him in, or even get rid of him. tanyev 8 hrs ago #1
Yes, let's talk about an economic message instead durablend 8 hrs ago #2
They know that they have nothing concerning Hey Joe 5 hrs ago #3
I find it absolutely hilarious D_Master81 5 hrs ago #4

tanyev

(49,173 posts)
1. If only Republicans had a constitutionally proscribed way to rein him in, or even get rid of him.
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 02:07 PM
8 hrs ago



😒

durablend

(9,217 posts)
2. Yes, let's talk about an economic message instead
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 02:09 PM
8 hrs ago

"Don't believe your eyes at the gas station and the supermarket. Prices are really down sharply!"

Hey Joe

(576 posts)
3. They know that they have nothing concerning
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 05:04 PM
5 hrs ago

proof that the 2020 election was stolen.
If they had to prove it or die, they would all be
dead.
This just keeps revealing how stupid and dangerous this craven fuckwit is.

D_Master81

(2,518 posts)
4. I find it absolutely hilarious
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 05:08 PM
5 hrs ago

The only election of the last 20+ years that Trump and the GOP have any problem or question about is the 1 election that Trump lost. The man baby cries about it to this day. No one says a word about 2016 or 2024. Yet we have to have all these election law changes because of an election multiple cycles ago that his fragile little ego can’t entertain the thought he might’ve lost.

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