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Question: What will be the top issue of the 2024 Republican primary?
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Abortion
 
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Immigration
 
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Jobs/Economy
 
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Stopping "socialism"
 
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Electability
 
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Cancel culture
 
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Loyalty to Donald Trump
 
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Covid-19
 
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Something else
 
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« on: May 04, 2021, 06:47:15 AM »

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« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2021, 08:42:38 AM »
« Edited: May 06, 2021, 05:48:08 PM by Lone Star Politics »

But what if the top issue hasn't arrived yet? Wink


Remember in '08 it was the recession, in '20 it was covid. We didn't see those coming early in the election process.

But assuming nothing major/bad happens, it'll probably just be jobs/economy, or the GOP will not learn their lesson and focus entirely on "muh socialism sucks" TPUSA talking points like they're treating the entire country like Miami.

Oh and loyalty to Donald Trump. If they’re not loyal enough and Trump doesn’t like them, the MAGA base won’t vote for them, therefore they won’t be the nominee.
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« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2021, 08:47:41 AM »

Cancel culture followed by immigration. Perhaps with a streak of "blue lives matter" stuff and QAnon idiocy. These are the stupid culture war issues GOP candidates try to score points off.
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« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2021, 09:50:16 AM »

1. Economy/China
2. Loyalty to Trump
3. Electability
4. Immigration/Cancel Culture
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« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2021, 09:53:38 AM »
« Edited: May 04, 2021, 09:58:06 AM by MR. KAYNE WEST »

Loyalty to Trump, that's a good one because any average person would have been thrown in jail for inciting riots BLM protesters get thrown in jail all the time for inciting riots which is a misdemeanor and what Trump did is considered a felony against Congress

We know Biden is compromised from Indicting Trump due to fact they both took Russian and Ukrainian money, that's why Biden Justice Dept was concerned about a Laptop with Hunter Biden probe not about Trump

Trump or Pence would never be Prez due to ads would be played over and over again over riot

Haley or DeSantis, are gonna be nominees but DeSantis is losing by , 17 pts to Biden and Harris 12, I know it's exaggerated but Afro Americans not Latinos are in WI, PA and MI which DeSantis does poorly with that's why he almost lost to Gillium
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« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2021, 10:00:34 AM »

Loyality to Donald Trump.
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« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2021, 10:38:30 AM »

Loyalty to Dear Leader followed by cancel culture and owning the libs.

Lol to the responses of policies in this thread. The Republican Trump Party Cult has shown that it doesn't care about any policies other than the deportation of brown people. Wouldn't be surprised if we hear #BuildThatWall again.

Basically, the top issue will be who can outcrazy Qtip Taylor Greene and Batcrap Boebert and all the other fascist deplorables.
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« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2021, 01:58:15 PM »

1. Loyalty to Donald Trump

2. Who can spew the most vile attacks on Kamala Harris

Basically a repeat of 2016. Every single question in every debate was either a response to something Trump said or attaching Hillary Clinton jeez

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« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2021, 02:00:19 PM »

Hot take/write in: War on Big Tech and their alleged "censorship" of "true conservatives".
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« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2021, 02:56:15 PM »

The Republicans may have something if, for one, they make a key issue censorship—and that the establishment Democrat types are for it while the Republicans are opposed.
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« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2021, 10:53:52 PM »

#4 I feel.
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« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2021, 05:29:51 AM »

No issues will matter that much because they will all boil down to 'repeating talking points'.
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« Reply #12 on: May 09, 2021, 10:06:43 AM »

Trump
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« Reply #13 on: May 09, 2021, 11:30:27 AM »

Without question -- Donald Trump. If he does not run in 2024, then the GOP is so configured that the test will be on who best takes his mantle... which means who is most like him and most loyal to him as a person. The Democrats do not have such a concern with who was most loyal to Obama.

The personality cult surrounding Trump will remain intact. Every Democratic pol will abhor Trump, if in different ways and for different reasons (and probably multiple reasons. 
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« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2021, 12:28:25 PM »

1. Loyalty to Trump
2. Cancel culture
3. "Stopping socialism"
4. Immigration
5. Other (tough on crime)
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« Reply #15 on: May 09, 2021, 02:34:52 PM »

Hot Take: Loyalty to Trump won’t be as much of a factor in 2024, though it will still loom.
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« Reply #16 on: May 09, 2021, 02:48:18 PM »

But what if the top issue hasn't arrived yet? Wink


Remember in '08 it was the recession, in '20 it was covid. We didn't see those coming early in the election process.

Not to dispute that those were the main issues of the general elections, but the primary happens much earlier in the year and most of the discourse around it is set more than a year before the election. The top issue in the 2008 Republican primary was not the recession, and in the 2020 Republican primary it was not COVID. Inasmuch as primaries have "top issues" -- a questionable suggestion -- the top issue in the 2008 Republican primary was still foreign policy and support for the War on Terror (see the fairly long-lasting lead for foreign-policy-emphasizing Rudy Giuliani and an eventual victory for McCain); Romney and Huckabee both ran on messages with more of the 2010s in them but were unsuccessful (though both did quite well). In the 2020 Republican primary the top issue for Weld's challenge of Trump was just Trump's personality, with maybe immigration as a secondary issue.

Since I've been paying attention to US politics -- so, since 2007 -- the narrative for a primary has usually been set in the summer before a general election year (summer 2007, summer 2011, summer 2015, summer 2019). Presumably the narrative for the 2024 primaries will be set in the summer of 2023.

This creates discontinuities, by the way: neither Obama nor McCain really wanted to run in a recession-focused election. Extremely lengthy campaigns create their own dynamics which change the zeitgeist in odd ways: Romney was a better candidate for November 2011 than November 2012, and Hillary better for November 2015 than November 2016.

Global health ending up as the main issue of our first (...but certainly not last) campaign between two septuagenarian candidates feels, if anything, weirdly appropriate.
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« Reply #17 on: May 09, 2021, 04:08:33 PM »

But what if the top issue hasn't arrived yet? Wink


Remember in '08 it was the recession, in '20 it was covid. We didn't see those coming early in the election process.

Not to dispute that those were the main issues of the general elections, but the primary happens much earlier in the year and most of the discourse around it is set more than a year before the election. The top issue in the 2008 Republican primary was not the recession, and in the 2020 Republican primary it was not COVID. Inasmuch as primaries have "top issues" -- a questionable suggestion -- the top issue in the 2008 Republican primary was still foreign policy and support for the War on Terror (see the fairly long-lasting lead for foreign-policy-emphasizing Rudy Giuliani and an eventual victory for McCain); Romney and Huckabee both ran on messages with more of the 2010s in them but were unsuccessful (though both did quite well). In the 2020 Republican primary the top issue for Weld's challenge of Trump was just Trump's personality, with maybe immigration as a secondary issue.

Since I've been paying attention to US politics -- so, since 2007 -- the narrative for a primary has usually been set in the summer before a general election year (summer 2007, summer 2011, summer 2015, summer 2019). Presumably the narrative for the 2024 primaries will be set in the summer of 2023.

This creates discontinuities, by the way: neither Obama nor McCain really wanted to run in a recession-focused election. Extremely lengthy campaigns create their own dynamics which change the zeitgeist in odd ways: Romney was a better candidate for November 2011 than November 2012, and Hillary better for November 2015 than November 2016.

Global health ending up as the main issue of our first (...but certainly not last) campaign between two septuagenarian candidates feels, if anything, weirdly appropriate.

I must've misread the topic then. More than likely it will be loyalty to the Donald that determines who will get the nomination, as whoever wins cannot win without the MAGA vote (for better or for worse).
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