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2020 is Going to be Trump’s Entire Campaign Identity.

Are people going to get sick of it?

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readJun 20, 2023
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Republican politicians are so predictable, it’s literally boring. I and many others have discussed on numerous occasions how the GOP — while simultaneously pretending to be the alphas — will latch on to the narrative of victimhood. Trump, of course, is the poster child for this strategy and it should come as absolutely no surprise that it’s becoming the center of his election strategy for 2024.

That was on full display during a FOX News interview with Brett Baier.

Trump began by saying that he won the 2020 election “by a lot”, and when challenged on this notion he responded that the ballots that came in for Biden were “fake ballots”.

It’s one of those exhausting moments where you sit back, and remember that this is going to be the focus of his entire campaign strategy for the next year and a half. It’s his entire campaign identity.

Honestly, what else is he really running on? Sure he’ll bring up the border from time to time, but this entire upcoming election is going to be centered around 2020 because Trump quite simply will not allow anything else. I’ve mentioned before that the man will be lying on his deathbed still unable to accept the fact that he lost that election, convinced it was…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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