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Feb. 10, 2021 - Epoch Times
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If You Think Trump Is 'Finished', Think Again | Larry Elder
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For those of you who believe that Donald Trump is finished, I've got two things to say.
Please.
Four years is an eternity in politics.
Do you remember Richard Nixon?
President Richard Nixon?
He lost a very close election in 1960 to John Kennedy.
We're trying to settle here so far without any success or without enough success.
The closest, one of the closest elections in the history of the United States.
It was a cliffhanger.
Senator John F. Kennedy had edged out his Republican opponent by just 118,000 votes out of almost 69 million that were cast.
And then ran for governor of California two years later and lost that.
And people assumed he was done.
Remember his famous press conference?
I leave you gentlemen now.
And you will now write it.
You will interpret it.
That's your right.
But as I leave you, I want you to know, just think how much you're going to be missing.
You don't have Nixon to kick around anymore.
Hell, ABC even did a special called The Political Obituary of Richard Nixon, hosted by Howard K. Smith, in which they argued that Richard Nixon was done.
Here I come, right back where I started from.
I shall not be a candidate for president of the United States in 1964.
I shall not be a candidate for president of the United States in 1964.
I shall be a candidate for governor of the state of California in 1962.
But Nixon had been out of touch with his home state for too long.
The campaign against incumbent Governor Pat Brown was bitter and exhausting.
Nixon was soundly defeated.
Reporters in Los Angeles were told the losing candidate had left and would not make a statement.
Oh, they were doing everything but shoveling dirt on this man.
An angry, resentful Richard Nixon strode from the Beverly Hilton on November 7th, 1962, seemingly bound for political oblivion.
Barring a miracle, said Time Magazine, Richard Nixon's political career was over.
Oh, and the election of 1972 was all teed up for Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts until...
At midnight last Friday, Senator Edward M. Kennedy drove a car off a narrow bridge and into a pond on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
A young woman in the car with him was drowned.
Kennedy survived but failed to report the accident until ten hours later.
Today, police moved to prosecute the senator on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing bodily harm.
ABC's Mal Good reports from Edgartown, Massachusetts.
At 9.30 in front of the Dukes County Courthouse, Chief of Police Dominic Arena faced newsmen in a crowd estimated at 400 townspeople and vacationers.
Filing a complaint with the county clerk, Arena charged the senator with leaving the scene of an accident after having done bodily harm.
My investigation is completed.
Mr.
Steele and I will be prepared to go into the hearing and we'll just present our facts and then if the complaint is issued, then a summons will be issued for the senator and then we have to go to court.
The senator will not be required to be present when a formal hearing is held next Monday.
He will be represented by local attorney Richard McCarron and longtime friend and advisor of the Kennedy family, Burke Marshall.
Mal Good, ABC News, Edgar Town, Massachusetts.
So far the tragedy on Martha's Vineyard has raised more questions than have been answered, but the questions are muted by compassion for the last male member in this generation of a family that is at once the luckiest and unluckiest in the nation.
And that election year, 1972, one of the odds-on favorite on the Democratic side, Senator Ed Muskie of Maine.
His candidacy went supernova when a newspaper publisher made some allegation.
He was so angry about it.
He had a statement and apparently was crying in the snow, or some people thought he was crying in the snow, or whether he was crying or not crying became the issue, and his candidacy was gone.
By attacking me, by attacking my wife, he has proved himself to be a gutless coward.
I hope that the people of Manchester Find a way to say to the pride of Pride's Crossing that they don't like his kind of journalism here in New Hampshire and that they say it in a way that they can make it stick.
That's the only way he'll understand that here in northern New England we respect each other.
That's something I don't extend to him.
Election year 1976.
Who the hell ever heard of Jimmy Carter, a former governor of Georgia?
This tremendous crowd at 4 o'clock in the morning represents hundreds of millions of American people who are now ready to see our nation unified.
And I want to congratulate the toughest and most formidable opponent that anyone could possibly have, President Gerald Ford.
And of course in 2016, all Hillary had to do was breathe and she would coast to victory, right?
This isn't exactly the party I planned, but I sure like the company.
It was a poignant end to a historic candidacy.
Flanked by her family and cheered on by supporters, Hillary Clinton suspended her presidential campaign and endorsed former rival Barack Obama.
All right, here's the debate.
Is the media just simply recovering what Donald Trump has done and his missteps and his mistakes, or have they crowned a winner early?
Have they been too quick to say Hillary Clinton?
Is the winner of the presidential race.
It looks like that's what happened in various morning news shows today.
Even the Associated Press reporting that Clinton is in a commanding position to get to 272 electoral college votes.
It's two more than necessary to win in November.
What I'm saying to you is we don't know whether Hillary's going to win or whether she's not going to win, but they always hype the Democratic angle.
So yes, today's spin is she's going to win.
Let's go on to talking about how the Democrats will take the Senate next.
Let's discuss Hillary's transition team.
Isn't that a refreshing take?
And nobody says, whoa, whoa, whoa, maybe that's a little cocky to start talking about a transition team at this point.
And, of course, few really thought Donald Trump had his shot to win, except maybe Donald Trump.
I am officially running for President of the United States.
Could he actually win?
No freaking way!
Which Republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election?
Donald Trump.
There's not going to be a President Donald Trump.
Trump will not be president.
Trump will never be elected president of the United States.
You're not going to be president.
A man who will never be president of the United States.
Donald Trump is not going to be president of the United States.
Take it to the bank.
He will never be president.
Donald Trump is not going to become president of the United States.
She's at plus 19.
Do you think the tapes made a difference?
Of course!
They made all the difference!
This race is over.
Hillary Clinton has raised more than double Donald Trump, vastly outspending him.
The presidency at about 89% for Hillary Clinton.
Your analytical model has never been wrong.
Now projects Hillary Clinton to win the presidential election.
100% chance.
You still think she has 100% chance of winning the election?
I do.
And what would Donald Trump have to do to turn things around?
Prayer and hope for a Festivus miracle.
This is CNN's coverage of election night in America.
The fight for the presidency.
We don't care.
Okay, have Kentucky.
Who cares?
Kentucky.
We don't care about Indiana.
Don't care.
Indiana with West Virginia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming with its vote.
North Dakota and South Dakota.
Texas.
Up and down the middle of the country, all red.
Arkansas, Louisiana, the state of Montana, Missouri.
Yes, it was at 80% an hour ago for Clinton.
What is it now?
68%.
Okay, goddammit, I'm nervous.
Ohio.
Oh, hold, hold.
Ohio, gone.
Idaho.
Okay, yeah, I don't see a fucking landslide here.
I don't see it at all.
North Carolina.
Goddammit, if we need Florida, are you shitting me?
Florida.
It is fucking panic time.
Georgia.
Donald Trump, now the favorite to win the president's.
Iowa.
New York Times now has it at 95% chance.
Utah.
And still win, but in order to do so, she has to win Wisconsin.
Wisconsin.
God damn a fuck.
Arizona.
Alaska.
Pennsylvania.
Michigan.
What a night!
How did this...
So don't expect Mr.
Trump to go away anytime soon.
And it won't be the first time the man has been underestimated, you know.
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I'm amazed it took them so long.
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That's all, because we've got a country to save.
I'll see you next time.
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