Did you feel sorry for any of Trump’s primary opponents in 2016?
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« on: July 12, 2021, 03:43:35 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2021, 04:12:09 PM »
Nope.  There was only one actually better than Trump, and he ended being a total coward with only one DNC speech to his name.
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2021, 04:14:20 PM »
I am shocked this isn’t a BRTD thread.
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« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2021, 09:40:40 AM »
No, because most of them sold out to him.
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« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2021, 10:53:13 AM »
I couldn't help but feel sorry for Jeb!

Between "Please clap" and the way Trump bullied him in the debates, and just a lot of cringeworthy and sad moments in general, his campaign was just extremely pitiful.
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« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2021, 10:57:03 AM »
No, I don't feel sorry for Republicans.
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« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2021, 01:18:26 PM »
Why would we feel sorry for a party whom won't give us a fourth stimulus check but give Giant tax cuts to Corporations
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« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2021, 09:10:41 AM »
Quote from: beesley on July 13, 2021, 09:40:40 AM
No, because most of them sold out to him.

Cruz, Rubio, and Carson are the most notorious examples of this. Kasich and Fiorina, of course, went on to endorse Biden in 2020.
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« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2021, 09:42:45 AM »
Not at all. Many of them helped make the conditions necessary for Trump to win, endorsed him or pretty much supported everything he did, and king OC is absolutely right as well.
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« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2021, 09:31:16 AM »
Yes, probably Jeb and maybe Pataki.

I do wish that Cruz wasn't such a chameleon so he could've lost his seat, though.
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« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2021, 12:09:12 PM »
I'm of the opinion that Trump's appeal ultimately ended up overlapping with that of Bush and Christie the most, so they ended up standing the most to lose from his candidacy (and they did.)
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« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2021, 01:44:25 PM »
Quote from: Del Tachi on July 19, 2021, 12:09:12 PM
I'm of the opinion that Trump's appeal ultimately ended up overlapping with that of Bush and Christie the most, so they ended up standing the most to lose from his candidacy (and they did.)

I can see Christie but I don't think Trump and Jeb! had much overlapping appeal at all. Trump was railing against exactly the kind of "establishment" politics Jeb! and his family represented, explicitly campaigning against the Bush legacy even. Not to mention Jeb! went out of his way to try to appeal to Hispanics and was a moderate on immigration, which obviously was the total opposite of Trump's approach. If anything I think it was Kasich who Trump might have taken more votes from, in that both were perceived as less socially conservative than typical Republicans in recent years and both had a certain appeal to the blue collar Midwest/rust belt. Jeb! was more in the same category as Rubio I think.
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« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2021, 01:45:30 PM »
I pity Jeb! and The Republican Savior for their sad performances. I don’t feel sorry for any of them.
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« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2021, 01:47:32 PM »
No, though I like John Kasich. He would have made a fair president but that's only possible in another universe with a sane Republican Party.
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« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2021, 06:53:30 PM »
Just Kasich, that's it. I agree with Raymond.
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« Reply #15 on: August 01, 2021, 07:39:07 PM »
I remember feeling that it must have been pretty humiliating for Marco Rubio to lose the Florida primary to Donald Trump. 
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« Reply #16 on: August 01, 2021, 08:22:03 PM »
I don’t feel sorry for people way better off than me.
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