Trump moving to Alaska
Bully plans to go all the way from Florida to Alaska, without Air Force One at his disposal, in order to bully a woman he doesn’t like.
Trump is making official his plans to target Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, vowing to travel to Alaska to campaign against her ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
Campaign against her meaning what? Running for the senate? Or just throwing his weight around.
In a statement to POLITICO on Saturday, Trump said: “I will not be endorsing, under any circumstances, the failed candidate from the great State of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski. She represents her state badly and her country even worse. I do not know where other people will be next year, but I know where I will be — in Alaska campaigning against a disloyal and very bad Senator.”
Spoken like a petulant illiterate, as always.
But if he’s going to be in Alaska all next year that’s fine. He’ll hate it.
Seems like a lot of work.
Doesn’t sound like the Trump I know.
Hey! I’ve got an idea. I mean, Alaska is a good start. But maybe he could go just a little bit farther. Say, to Siberia. Trump in Siberia. Works for me. We could start a GoFundMe for his plane ticket.
Eh, I doubt he’ll *go there*. He will bluster, and tweet, and fundraise, and badmouth Murkowski, but he won’t actually ever set foot in Alaska.
Maybe he’ll be in jail by then…hey, we can dream, right?
Yeah, Trump ain’t flying that far. Also, Murkowski is fairly safe from Trumpista challenges given Alaska’s new top-four primary systems. It’s a non-partisan “jungle” primary, where the top four finishers advance to the general election, which is decided by ranked choice voting. It’s one reason why people are keeping an eye on her as a possible “gettable” vote on some things.
Screechy, we do that non-partisan thing here, too. Of course, almost all the candidates are Republicans, so it doesn’t matter much.
There are no federal prisons in Alaska. If Trump was to do a spell of porridge there, it would have to be in a state prison.
Alternatively, Siberia is just over the Bering Strait. But Trump is on good terms with Vlad Putin. Perhaps the Chnese could help with a suitable facility in Inner Mongolia. Perhaps as the years passed, Xi Jinping might even stop by to pay hime the occasional visit, and to have a talk about old times.
I’m not a fan of “jungle primaries.” I think parties should get to choose their nominees. It also creates weird possibilities, like if Party A has 2 major candidates, while 4 viable candidates from Party B run, then even if Party A only has about 40% support while B has 60%, the primary results look like:
A1 ~ 20%
A2 ~ 20%
B1 ~ 15%
B2 ~ 15%
B3 ~ 15%
B4 ~ 15%
And if it’s “top two” like California, then Party A gets both candidates in the general election despite being the “less popular” party. That threat, in turn, encourages party insiders to pressure some of B1, B2, B3, and B4 to stay out/drop out of the race — which runs counter to the supposed point of the jungle primary.
I’m ok with ranked choice voting, though I don’t think it will make as much difference as its advocates usually claim.
He should travel to the Mariana Trench, one way, taking along his Tinkerbell wand of course. :P
I was going to mention a gilded 55 gallon drum, then thought better of it. :P
Oops. :P
Screechy, I don’t like it much here. I like knowing what party a candidate belongs to, because that gives me at least a starting point. It doesn’t absolve me of actual research on their views, but it does help me get a beginning sense. Of course, we do have party primaries for federal positions, just not state and local.