Opinion By year’s end, Trump will likely realise he’s had his last dance
Two years since he incited an attempted coup and just 12 months out from the US election primaries, Donald Trump is more likely to end up in prison than back in the Oval Office.
Against a highly beatable Joe Biden, whose approval rating is anchored around 40 per cent, fed up Republicans are desperate for a presidential candidate who can appeal to swing voters and deliver what Trump has long and loudly boasted but quite clearly can no longer deliver: victory at the ballot box.
“Today is not the end, it’s just the beginning!” the president bellowed to his furious supporters, before the madness began.In the early hours of the following morning, watching the National Guard erect a fence around the US Capitol Building through tear-gassed, bloodshot eyes, I was convinced it was, in fact, the beginning of the end of Trump. His die-hard fan base was unhinged enough to scale the walls of the Capitol, but it’s a long way from an electoral majority.
“There were people around Rasputin who said he can never be killed, until they brought a big enough gun,” Murphy points out.Murphy, who advised John McCain, Jeb Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger, predicts Trump will realise he can’t win a general election by the end of 2023, and will instead try to dictate who wins the Republican Party nomination.
Twice impeached – facing a raft of investigations into his family business, alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election, and potential criminal prosecution for his role in the Capitol insurrection – it seems reality might finally be catching up with the TV star.Murphy likens the American legal system to lava: slow moving, but “fundamentally unstoppable”.
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