In an interview with Punchbowl News, Donald Trump said straight out that his voters just might not show up for GOP candidates this fall. That’s a striking admission of one of the thorniest problems the GOP faces. But it gets worse. Trump also declared that “a lot” of his voters are “not angry at me,” but “are very angry at Republicans.” That will likely be read by his supporters as a declaration that Republicans are failing Trump, and as encouragement to stay home. Meanwhile, polling shows MAGA voters turni…

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    Don’t fall for this shit. Get out there and fight. Vote. Take a day off work if you have to. Don’t cave into intimidation by Trump’s armed fascist thugs. Don’t fall for these false-hope narratives manufactured by neoliberal/AIPAC-controlled media, designed to create a false sense of confidence, that gives people an excuse to wave away their responsibility to exercise their voting rights.

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      Yep, Punchbowel News founder is affiliated with with Politico and a long time Washington insider

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      Oh, absolutely. ✊

      Still, this is one I wanted to hear for myself, in context. My stomach gets easily upset from listening to Trump speak, so this doesn’t happen more often than once a week.

      the video

      Yeah no need to watch this, the quotes in the blurb above are enough. The rest is his usual stammering about how everybody likes him and there’s tremendous amounts of this or that…

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        Some people falsely think Trump is even ruffled by public opinion or what the voting public thinks of him. Highly likely he’s “unraveling” about anything. Next week he’ll be back to his old antics when it comes to Iran.

        He does whatever TF he wants with impunity.