In addition to the blizzard in North America, the biggest political news during Christmas in the United States is that immigrants from Texas were taken to the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris by a "refugee bus". The "political human ball" in the (Celsius) cold weather continued the border immigration political propaganda game spearheaded by Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott.
On the other hand, Donald Trump, the only Republican presidential candidate and former president who has announced his candidacy, took the opportunity of Christmas wishes on his social media Truth Social to change from a "radical left-wing Marxist" to a just The special counsel appointed to lead the Justice Department's Trump-related investigation has complained.
The content of which is familiar to everyone.
Even if Trump were speaking on Twitter instead of the less-visited Truth Social, such clichéd complaints probably wouldn't attract much attention.
Trump wished "everyone" a Merry Christmas, pointing out "the radical left-wing Macronists who are destroying our country", "the FBI who are illegally coercing and buying off social and rotten mainstream media..." and even "appointed A wife and family who hate Trump's special "counselor" more than anyone on the planet and send them "love".
Among them, he praised himself for no reason for being extremely smart, foresight, etc...
Trump's Christmas "wish".
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When a figure who has ascended to the US presidency by relying on his self-promotion ability begins to feel more and more dull, his political power will gradually flow from his fingers.
Recent polls reflect this.
A poll conducted by Suffolk University in Boston between Dec. 7 and Dec. 11 showed that 56 percent of Republicans and conservative independents believed they would be defeated by Democrats in the midterm elections. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (Ron DeSantis) should run as the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, compared with 33% of respondents who think Trump should be elected.
Among the overall voters, a poll conducted by Quinnipiac University from December 8 to 12 also showed that Trump's favorability fell to the lowest level in seven years, only 31%.
And its favorability among Republican voters has also dropped to 70%, which is also the lowest in seven years.
At the same time, as many as 70% of registered voters expressed their unwillingness to see Trump represent the Republican Party as the next president.
The poll conducted by The Economist and YouGov from December 10 to 13 also showed that only 46% of Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican Party believe that Trump should run for the 2024 presidential election. The other is 37%, and the two groups of figures have shown a downward trend and an upward trend in recent months.
While Morning Consult's 2024 Republican primary tracker poll still shows Trump with 48 percent support ahead of DeSantis' 33 percent, that presumably just reflects the plethora of non-Trump candidates, If you look at these figures together, their support in the Republican Party has slightly surpassed Trump.
Moreover, the Mourning Consulting survey also showed that nearly half of the potential Republican primary voters said they had received positive information about DeSantis in the past week, while Trump only got 32%. This probably reflects the trend of public opinion. change.
Of course, if Republicans can't put out a single "non-Trump" candidate, it's still possible for Trump to win with less than half of the crowd.
But judging from today's public opinion, even if Trump insists on running for the election, this fact in itself does not constitute an inevitable obstacle for other Republicans to try.
I don’t know if it’s because he knows that his political appeal is fading. Trump recently seems to hope to use his “sunset” to make money from his supporters.
In mid-December, Trump once pretended that there would be a "major announcement". People once speculated that he would announce the candidate for the vice president, which may have a major impact on the future situation of the Republican primary election.
Unexpectedly, Trump's "major announcement" turned out to be the launch of NFTs (non-homogeneous tokens) with his own avatars placed on various superheroes. More than 4 million US dollars fell into Trump's personal pocket.
Regarding this low-level profit-seeking behavior of "not doing business properly", Steve Bannon (Steve Bannon), who was once a Trump campaign strategist and is still an opinion leader on the American right, also said that he could not stand it, and believed that anyone involved should also be immediately arrested. fried.
In addition, a small right-wing online celebrity (named "Baked Alaska" on Twitter) who has pleaded guilty in the prosecution related to the Congressional riots and is awaiting sentencing said that he can't believe that he is being asked to do so because of an "NFT salesman." Suffering from prison.
Trump's own behavior, as well as the departure of his original loyal supporters, have reflected that Trump is experiencing the slow process of political death.
However, the political death of Trump does not mean the political death of Trumpism.
From Texas Governor Abbott’s refugee bus, to DeSantis’ culture war against Disney’s big business, we can see elements of Trumpism’s right-wing political performance.
Trump's scourge to American politics will not disappear because of his own exit.
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