see url:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/republican-party-cheney-trump-polls.html
see full article...It's all about perceptions within the GOP
really...70% of their supporters still believe that the election was
stolen from them and that Trump got the majority of the votes...Facts
prove different...but facts don't matter that much among Republicans
these days...dreams suffering from the poisoned chalice do...by
excluding their own opponents, they aren't going to change their
policies, just re-inforce them...At some point those they have kicked
out will return to kick them up the bum as disgruntled voters as they
won't be voting for the GOP...The US is changing, there are more ethnics
becoming involved in politics and they will soon be the majority of the
population...
Northern Ireland Conservative Parties tried the same strategies, and we
finished up with "the troubles" and almost a civil war which went on for
years, with lots of people killed and maimed through bombing campaigns.
They had to get round the table in the end. Now, the Catholics are
becoming the majority, and the Conservative DUP has been sold out by
the English Conservatives over the question of Brexit and the placing of
the Northern Ireland border in the middle of the North Sea...so they are
stuck in nomansland...😉 with nowheretogo...but Eire...😉
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Many Republican voters agree with her. Without them, the party risks
disaster.
Two weeks ago, in an interview on Fox News, Sen. Lindsey Graham
explained why House Republicans had to purge Rep. Liz Cheney from their
leadership. “She’s made a determination that the Republican Party can’t
grow with President Trump,” Graham told Sean Hannity. “I’ve determined
we can’t grow without him.” Graham framed this as a choice, as though
either he or Cheney had to be wrong. But what if they’re both right?
What if the GOP, by becoming the Trump party, has trapped itself in a
fatal dilemma? Polls suggest that this is precisely what has happened.
The GOP can’t afford to alienate its Trumpist base, but it can’t afford
to lose anti-Trump Republicans either. By ousting Cheney, the party is
risking electoral disaster.
In the fight between Trump and Cheney over the 2020 election and the
Jan. 6 insurrection, most Republicans are on Trump’s side. Seventy
percent agree (wrongly) that rampant fraud affected the election’s
outcome, that Joe Biden didn’t get enough legal votes to win, and that
his victory was therefore illegitimate. Fewer than 30 percent of
Republicans concede that the Jan. 6 attack was a rebellion or uprising,
and only 17 percent call it an insurrection. Thirty-seven percent hold
Biden or the Democratic Party primarily responsible for the attack; only
11 percent hold Trump or the GOP primarily responsible. In fact, 35
percent of Republicans insist that “the participants who took part in
the events on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol” were “patriots.”
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