https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6124669-trump-xi-mamdani-gop-concerns/President Trump’s appearances with Chinese President Xi Jinping, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and leaders from Silicon Valley risk turning off his political base just as Republicans are seeking to turbocharge turnout ahead of the midterms, say GOP strategists. The president has always loved meeting with the powerful, even if they are dictators or democratic socialists, as it makes headlines and highlights his own stature.Trump was the first president to meet with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un, and he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin last year. He had a memorable buddy-buddy term in the Oval Office with Mamdani last November, even as his party sought to vilify the liberal mayor.To many Republicans, the latest meetings are a danger.“Frankly, it’s inexplicable,” one unnamed Republican strategist said. “Not because as president you shouldn’t meet with the Chinese president or event the mayor of New York, but given their toxicity with the base that you were desperate to try to turnout at higher than normal levels to try and offset your vulnerabilities with every other layer of the November turnout populace.” “You need to fire up your base and instead you’re kind of deflating them in the homestretch,” the strategist added. Trump hosted his Chinese counterpart last week for a lavish state visit at the White House. That meeting came after Mamdani hosted Trump at Gracie Mansion in New York City. On Tuesday, Trump invited several tech leaders to the White House for a luncheon on artificial intelligence before appearing with them on the White House North Lawn for an impromptu news conference.Polling shows that the president’s base views China with skepticism.
A July public opinion survey released by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs found that only 36 percent of MAGA Republicans said the U.S. “should undertake friendly cooperation and engagement with China” and that 63 percent said the U.S. should “actively work to limit the growth of China’s power.” Influential MAGA figures such as former Trump adviser Steve Bannon have referred to leaders in Big Tech as “oligarchs” and have warned against unchecked artificial intelligence and data centers. As for Mamdani, MAGA and non-MAGA Republicans have sought to make the New York City mayor the face of the democratic socialist movement as they seek to paint Democrats across the board as far left and extreme. The GOP effort has made Trump’s publicly warm relationship with Mamdani more eyebrow raising. Still, polling shows there is somewhat of a populist overlap when it comes to both leaders’ bases.Nine percent of 2024 Trump voters in New York City who voted in last year’s mayoral election said they backed Mamdani, according to NBC News exit polling.Trump’s longtime pollster and adviser John McLaughlin noted the base has not warmed to Mamdani and Xi and views the tech industry with skepticism but said the president’s voters acknowledge the meetings are a part of his job. “Trump voters absolutely don’t like Mamdani or Xi and they don’t like it when Big Tech censors us or the way they bias their news against Trump,” McLaughlin told The Hill. The pollster described the base’s views of the president’s meetings with Xi and Mamdani as “a necessary evil” and noted the base views tech leaders differently.“As for Big Tech, some leaders they like, for example Elon [Musk]. Others like [Mark] Zuckerberg, who censored us in 2020 and helped [former President] Biden with drop boxes and mail-in ballots, they still don’t trust. However, the base remains rock solid in their support of President Trump and his goals,” McLaughlin said.
Others have described the base’s view of Trump’s meeting with the leaders as purely strategic.“The base sees this as Trump putting his personality to use to try and win people over, and get them to come to his viewpoint,” said Brendan Steinhauser, a Republican strategist. “They don’t trust those folks. They don’t believe that the president should give any ground to them generally, but they do sort of think that he’s putting on a charm offensive,” he continued. Steinhauser also noted that Trump has a history of charming some of those he disagrees with, noting that Trump invited Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei to dinner at the White House Sunday evening after the tech leaders had voiced concerns about deregulating artificial intelligence. When asked if there are concerns about how the president’s base views the meetings, a White House official said Trump “is always working on making good deals for the American people.” Polls show Trump remains popular with his base.An NBC News Decision Desk poll released last month showed Trump’s approval rating with MAGA supporters at 93 percent. Meanwhile, an Economist/YouGov poll released last month showed Trump with a 91 percent approval rating among MAGA voters, 79 percent among Republicans, and 75 percent among voters who supported him two years ago. “No one can dispute the fact that President Trump has created one of the most robust coalitions in political history with the MAGA movement, and the President understands how to communicate with them,” said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, referring to Trump as the “the unequivocal leader, best messenger, and unmatched motivator for the Republican Party.” When asked whether his meetings with Xi, Mamdani and the tech leaders would depress the base, Steinhauser said Trump’s meetings with Big Tech could potentially be a drag on the base.
“The base knows and dislikes those Big Tech companies and leaders. That can be tied more directly to policies they don’t like,” Steinhauser said. “There’s just a different, visceral reaction because the tech stuff is so tied to specific concerns that they have right now about the data centers, the financial bubble related to all of that, threats to their own jobs and well-being in a much more direct way,” he said.
Trump is on his last fuck, which has a shelf life of exactly one monthThe second midterms are over, he's going to show the MIGA cattle who have worshipped him for a decade how little he thinks of themOf course, they'll still love him anyway, even as they do now while he actively fucks them over.But the humiliation ritual will reach its final form.
>>1540650Not like the democrats, they really care.Trump may have promised a $5000 rebate, but the dems promised $10,000 in student loan forgiveness, $20,00 with pell grants. They really care about the american voter
>>1540650He won the popular vote.
>>1540652After three tries Against the last minute sub in candidate And he still couldn't get a full 50% of the vote
>>1540654>>1540657And despite that, he won the popular vote.
>>1540657>and all of his campaign promises were liesYou guys keep doing this thing where you complain about him doing what he said he would, and also brag that he isn't doing what he said he would.
>>1540658> And because he was handed the perfect set of circumstances, he barely squeaked in the popular vote with less than 50%FTFYPersonally, I think the fake assassination attempt was unnecessary, but what are you going to do?
>>1540660>We're so inept he won the popular vote Yeah.
>>1540658You spent 8 years squealing and shitting your pants about how the popular vote doesn't matter. This is hilarious.
>>1540662It doesn't matter, because it's not how we choose our President. However, you argued for the entirety of his first term that anyone who does not win it is illegitimate, hence our revelling in him winning it :)
>>1540663I remember him promising some other things too.
>>1540666Yes, I miss the Biden admin with rampant inflation, millions crossing the border, and higher gas prices
>>1540668You're ban evading?
>>1540667The things you name it mainly happened because of covid. Inflation and gas. The border happening was because of massive hurricanes in the fall of Guatemala's government happening at the same time of covid which caused a huge snowball effect. That and Jewish aid groups went down there helping many travel safely and healthily. You do love the Jewish people of this country and especially Israel don't you? You vote for their party after all.
>>1540684I've never been banned. You got banned two days ago.
>>1540684they're projecting
>>1540643GOP here. Were fine!
>>1540709You're also ESL, GOPredator.
>>1540659He’s doing what we said he would. He’s not doing what he said he would.
>>1540714Go go team predator. All the kids are safe with us!!!
>>1540652>He stole the popular vote with starlinkFixed.So where's the audit of the 2024 election?
>>1540766Good. I hope he hacks the midterms with Starlink.Just put that shit on overdrive and replace Dems with Green party and Republicans.I'm sick of the Demomafia.
>>1540773I appreciate the honesty. More MAGAs should be open about not wanting a democracy.
>>1540782As if Dems want a democracy.Democracy with a 50/50 choice isn't really a Democracy is it?
>>1540787If you were serious, you'd support ranked choice voting.But for some reason conservatives hate the idea of every vote counting and removing spoiler candidates.
>>1540794Can we literally just burn all the Democrats in a nice warm fire, or will it smell like rancid bacon from too much liggeral piggy fat?
>>1540841you're not fooling anyone, esl shill
>>1540841It’s crazy that you people get offended at being called fascists while authentically believing this
>>1540658That says a lot more about the American '''people''' than it does about him.
>>1540841Can you literally just come out of the closet so you don't have to keep shutting out the gay thoughts with impotent, violent fantasies?>>1540787>democracy with a 50/50 choice isn't democracy>Openly fantasizing about murdering the opposition.See, yeah, you would support ranked choice voting if you were serious about the lack of choice. Instead you're arguing for less choice, you want a one-party system you stupid fascist faggot, and you're too much of a fucking brainlet to understand the inherent contradiction or hypocrisy.>Democracy with a 50/50 choice isn't a democracy.Also, as an American voter, you... well you clearly aren't American. I have more than a '50/50' choice, I vote for politicians at the local state and federal level. The ones that perform well move up.Way to get BTFO at every level of your argument connie closet case.
