Now that we see the kind of election it took to beat Hillary do you think anyone else could have beat her?
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Could anyone else have beat Hillary?
- Thread starter Revmitchell
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I personally don't think so. The fact that she was a woman would have crippled most of the candidates. They would have been so PC they'd get crushed. And there's no way they would have been able to rally a populist movement to take PA.
I think just about any of the final contenders for the GOP nominee could have beat Clinton. In fact, I suspect the GOP would have had an even better turnout had they chosen someone a little more to the middle. But we'll never really know.
That's an interesting point. All Republicans did well, and you have to wonder why. I believe that Trump sucked up so much media attention, none of the others were targeted nearly as much as they could have been and would have been had they been the nominee. Had Rubio won the nomination he would have been pulverized, and the way he treated Trump (both took heavy shots at one another) may have alienated support he would have needed.
In the end, I think only Trump could have handled what was thrown at him. He's an extraordinarily tough individual.
That said, who knows. All conventional wisdom is out the window.
I don't think so. Trump took a beating worse than any candidate ever endured. But he never flinched. No other candidate could have done that. Even my preferred candidate, Ted Cruz, quit when the going got too rough. Trump just stayed in there and took the beating and kept right on going. I am still not a great fan, but I have to admire his steadfastness.
Yea that is always the claim yet every time we put strong conservative people up we do very well.
The GOP didn't choose him. In fact the party did everything it could to stop him. It was the grass roots of middle America that chose him. Chose him over all the GOP contenders.
This is EXACTLY what I was going to post, so I'll just repost it.
It was the grass roots of middle America that chose him, I agree. But they were also the GOP (they were voting in that primary for a candidate to represent the Republican Party). I hope that this election changes the Party for the better (makes it more "grassroots").
I will also be happy to see a President that is not a career politician.
I agree. I had already decided what platform I was going to support long before Trump was chosen to represent that platform. The platform was a given, but looking at those willing to represent that platform, I am not sure only Trump would have pulled it off.
I personally believe that this is a "GOD" thing simply because of all the "stuff that was" gonna kill the Trump candidacy but instead seemed to fuel his campaign.
IMHO we have been given a second chance to get our house in order.
Let's not blow it folks!
IMHO we have been given a second chance to get our house in order.
Let's not blow it folks!
I agree, but we need to remember also that our nation needs to turn to God and this cannot happen without revival - that is, a reviving of those who are saved, who constitute the Body of Christ. God works through His people.I personally believe that this is a "GOD" thing simply because of all the "stuff that was" gonna kill the Trump candidacy but instead seemed to fuel his campaign.
IMHO we have been given a second chance to get our house in order.
Let's not blow it folks!
Looking at the "popular vote", I think that perhaps this election is more a call to our churches than it is to our nation. It is time we are "salt" and "light". God has determined a government for our nation, but it is a secular government over a very secular nation. If this is indeed a second chance, it is one for our churches and I pray for revival.
Yes. Cruz.
Right. The media turned every molehill into a mountain, and threw it all at him, and he just shrugged it off. No career Republican politician would have been able to absorb so much damage.
Eerily, he was almost Clintonian in that respect.
Yes.....My bulldog would have ripped her to pieces. See most people like dogs & my dog is adorable. Not so much for the wicked witch.
OORAH Bella!!!
OORAH Bella!!!
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