A Florida fundraiser for President Joe Biden had a succinct estimate of President-elect Donald Trump’s talents, calling him a “f***ing genius.”
A POLITICO report revolving around disaffected Democrats wondering if they should stop calling themselves Democrats and look for another label, featured politicians now calling themselves independents, including Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and two Democratic senators who already did so: Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona,
John Morgan, the Florida Biden fundraiser who is mulling running for governor as an independent with a new party called the “Capitalist Party,” commented vis-à-vis Trump, “I don’t know if Trump is a stable genius, but he’s a f***ing genius. He tapped into something the Republicans never saw, which was anger and populism on that side.”
“I reached the conclusion that if you call yourself a Democrat, all the Republicans automatically line up against it. You call yourself a Republican, all the Democrats automatically line up against it,” Duggan stated. “And I really don’t think there’s a path forward for this state if you don’t get the reasonable folks in both parties to work together.”
Dan Osborn, who ran unsuccessfully as an independent Senate candidate in Nebraska but still outpolled Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, stated of candidates running as independents: “That’s really what the country needs.”
Trump’s political genius amply displayed itself with his phenomenal success in 2024 with groups heretofore aligned with the Democratic Party. “Voter surveys from the Associated Press show that the president-elect won 43 percent of the overall Latino vote. That’s an eight-point increase from 2020. And, this year, 48 percent of Latino men voted for Mr. Trump,” PBS noted.
Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, explained, “You can’t let 10 to 15 million illegal entries into the country. No other nation has ever done that. And you would assume Latinos are in favor of open borders. Guess what? We’re not. And we proved it that we’re not. We want people to come here legally.”
“Trump about doubled his share of young Black men – which helped him among key Democratic voting group. About 3 in 10 Black men under the age of 45 went for Trump, roughly double the number he got in 2020,” AP reported.
“A larger percentage of unmarried women voted for President-elect Donald Trump in this year’s election than in 2020 despite a major voting gender gap predicted, an exit poll shows,” Newsweek pointed out. “A CNN exit poll shows that fewer unmarried women voted for the Democratic nominee.”
