A Telling Moment: Trump's Re-Election Plans
Ben Carson says Trump knows he won't get many black votes "the first time around."
by Rod D. Martin
August 23, 2016
This is interesting, but not for the reason you think.
Ben Carson says Trump knows he won't get many black votes "the first time around." So why is he going after them?
Because he means to win them the second time. As in, re-election.
So let's consider that tidbit in another light. I keep being told that Trump isn't running "for real", that all of this is collusion with Hillary, or that he's hoping to set up a newer, bigger Apprentice, or even a network with Ailes, or something. I've been hearing this since more than a year ago, with a certain drop-out date of next Tuesday every time.
No, people: he's running to win. You can't have it both ways: he either has the biggest ego on the planet or he doesn't, and you say the former, so guess what? There's nothing Hillary can give him that he would want, or that he can't take for himself.
He's running. And he means to run again.
So the real point to me isn't this effort at a realignment (though I've been writing about the potential for a Republican realignment for some time now, and long before Trump). It's that Donald Trump's coalition cannot possibly work without Evangelicals. And no one seems to know that better than Donald Trump, who makes a big point of it at every opportunity. He won a majority of us in the primaries, and he means to continue doing so, at least through November 2020.
Ergo...if you're wondering about how serious he is about giving us our Supreme Court justices? Well, this is almost certainly the answer. At least until January 2021. Then I have no idea.
But I will always bet on someone acting in their own self-identified self-interest over their acting according to any stated principle. And I almost never get that wrong.
