Donald Trump Threatens DC Republican Voters

Even after having lived through these past eight years of Donald Trump and his clown car insanity, we all have to admit his most recent campaign stunt has surprised even us.

Tomorrow is the Washington, D.C. Republican Presidential Primary and for all his talk of wanting to “drain the swamp”, Trump is scared that he might lose the DC Primary.

Politico last night reported on Trump’s latest temper tantrum:

Donald Trump’s campaign wants Republican lobbyists in D.C. to know: If they don’t vote in this Sunday’s primary, they won’t get access should the former president end up back in the White House.

“If you don’t bother voting, don’t bother calling,” said one Trump campaign official, who was granted anonymity to speak about campaign strategy. 

Bryan Lanza, a Washington, D.C.-based Republican lobbyist who served on Trump’s 2016 campaign and his White House transition team, said that “The Trump campaign is very cognizant of who makes up the GOP primary voters in DC.” He added, “The worst thing for them would be not showing up.”

The ultimatum constitutes a blunt threat toward the influence-peddling community, one that is highly unusual for a presidential campaign but fits the more publicly hardball model that Trump has often applied to governance.

Under D.C. law, campaigns are unable to know which candidates individual voters cast ballots for. But campaigns can access voter rolls from the District of Columbia’s Board of Elections to see who voted in the primary and who didn’t. A Trump campaign aide said they would be looking at the rolls when they were made available.

After reading this report our thoughts are that Trump and his campaign are clearly afraid of losing the DC primary, and that they don’t have nearly the confidence in themselves that they claim to have. So far Donald Trump has won every primary and caucus so far. However apparently Nikki Haley’s primary challenge has him more scared than he likes to let on. A Haley win in DC tomorrow could give her a boost leading into the Super Tuesday contests two days later.

Although it’s most likely at the moment at least that Trump will be the nominee, should she win a few primaries on Tuesday or keep it much closer than expected that will only continue to undermine Trump and grow the cadre of Republican voters who will not vote for Trump. Ambassador Haley had this to say about Trump’s latest outburst:

Do we seriously have a presidential candidate threatening retribution if people don’t vote for him? #SinkingShip https://t.co/CLDGMBaOHH

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) March 2, 2024

It also occurred to us another thing that could be upsetting the Donald is that Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine have both come out and endorsed Haley ahead of Super Tuesday. Since Trump cannot stand women standing up to him, it stands to reason that the man baby is so bent out of shape. Here’s to hoping that DC Republicans give the finger to Trump on Sunday!

On Tuesday we recommend keeping an eye on Vermont, Virginia, Massachusetts, Maine, Utah and Colorado. Some interesting things might be on the horizon. 

Nikki Haley Troll’s Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live

Even though the New Hampshire Republican Presidential Primary took place almost two weeks ago, and Donald Trump won, his remaining rival former South Carolina Governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has continued to serve as a thorn in Trump’s side. She has (finally), started attacking Donald Trump’s mental fitness to be President.

In an unexpected move Governor Haley appeared as herself on the opening segment of Saturday Night Live. In the skit Haley pokes fun at Trump’s failure to carry his home state of New York, his spending $50 Million dollars of campaign contributions on his legal fees, and his delusional belief that she was in charge of security in the Capital on January 6th. Like some other Never Trumper’s we are not exactly fans of Haley’s, but we have to admit this appearance on SNL was pure genius and is quite funny!

Nikki might not win the nomination, but it’s extremely gratifying to see her taking some bites out of Donald Trump! 

Checkout the skit for yourselves:

UPDATE: Nikki Haley just posted the following on message on Twitter about her appearance tonight:

“I see dead people.” That’s exactly what voters will think if this race is between Trump and Biden in the fall.

Had a blast tonight on SNL! Know it was past Donald’s bedtime so looking forward to the stream of unhinged tweets in the a.m. pic.twitter.com/W43LlPOoi2

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 4, 2024

The always enlightening John Podhoretz, writer, host of “Commentary” podcast, and co founder of the late, great Weekly Standard, had this to say about Haley’s guest appearance: 

Nikki Haley showing she can play on SNL and Trump and his psycho followers can't exactly complain since he hosted the thing.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) February 4, 2024

As much as it irks us to admit, we really like how Nikki is needling Donald! No doubt Trump will, if he hasn’t already go apeshit on Truth Social! 

Donate to Nikki Haley and Be Banned from MAGA World

We know we promised a follow up about the New Hampshire primary, but we wanted to bring you something more interesting and perhaps more important at the moment. 

Last night Nikki Haley did better than most pundits expected and came within 11% of Donald Trump.

Now instead of being magnanimous in his victory speech last night Trump proceeded as he is prone to doing to be a total ass and even threaten Haley to try to get her to leave the primary race. 

Showing that his stupidity knows no bounds, this evening he posted on Truth Social that anyone who donates to Nikki Haley would be permanently banned from the MAGA camp.

Checkout the insanity for yourselves:

Even though we will suffer the ignominy of being barred from Donald Trump’s presence we donated to Nikki Haley’s campaign:

Please whatever you don’t go to https://secure.winred.com/nikki-haley-for-president/home-debate?utm_medium=homepage and donate to Nikki Haley! Whatever you don’t also encourage everyone you know to donate to her! That would be wrong! It would absolutely drive Donald Trump and his supporters crazy! Please don’t do it!!!!

Indy Republican’s New Hampshire Primary Preview

In less than forty five minutes the final polls will close in the Granite State. Tonight former South Carolina Governor and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley squares off against former President Donald Trump. Trump is widely expected to win the primary tonight however in New Hampshire turnout has been reaching record highs, to the extent that the New Hampshire Secretary of State has had to issue extra paper ballots. 

MSNBC’s political reporter Steve Kornacki posted this map showing what numbers Nikki Haley would need to hit to make the primary competitive:

So far with only 2% in Haley is hitting her targets in several cities. Trump doing well in Laconia so far. The only prediction we feel comfortable making is that this primary will not be a blowout win for whoever winds up the winner tonight. We will try to post more tonight and hopefully have the results posted sometime tomorrow or the next few days. 

This is Darius saying we will be back later and we wish you all a good evening.

Indy Republicans Iowa Predictions

Good afternoon everyone! Darius from the IR newsroom here. The Iowa Caucuses are scheduled to end this evening and hopefully the results will come in quickly. Here’s our rough prediction for the Caucus results tonight:

Trump: 40-45%

Haley: 20-25%

DeSantis: 14-20%

Ramaswamy: 2-10%

The above predictions are a combination of observations and just pure guess work on our part. If Trump gets 45% or less of the vote that could be a danger signal to his campaign. If DeSantis doesn’t come in second tonight his campaign is over. We have been convinced it’s been over for awhile and he is just hoping to postpone dropping out until next week in New Hampshire. Nikki Haley should be able to make it to New Hampshire, if she gets 20% that would help, if she gets 25% or higher than she will get more momentum going to New Hampshire. As for Vivek Ramaswamy stick a fork in him he’s done! On Saturday Trump threw Vivek under the bus, but being the boot locker he is he just said to Trump: “Thanks for the beating, please give me another!” Would be funny if he drains enough from Donald to humiliate him!

As political strategist Mike Murphy has said on his “Hacks on Tap” podcast one factor tonight is since the Democrats for all practical purposes aren’t really having a caucus there will be a lot of democratic and independent voters in Iowa with nothing to do. Some will switch their voter registration to republican to vote in Iowa could have an impact. Question is will it be 5,000 or 35,000 crossover voters in Iowa?

We will wait and see. We will be back maybe later tonight, but hopefully in a day or two with some review and analysis on Iowa. Take care and be safe, and we will catch you all later!