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A fraying coalition: Black, Hispanic, young voters abandon Biden as election year begins (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I mean, when push comes to shove, enough bodies in swing states are going to hold their nose and vote for Biden just because of the threat of Trump to keep the race close.

I do wonder if enough Republican voters will stay at home because they're kinda tired of Trump and his shenanigans or will they embrace their Id and vote Trump for no other reasons than to make the libs cry... thonk

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

What if it isn't Trump? That is actually my biggest concern. Most of the Republican party agenda is just as bad as Trump would do, they are just smart enough to not say the quiet parts out loud.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It'll be Trump.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Trump might not even be alive. The guy lives on trash food and thinks exercise is unhealthy. It's a statistical fluke that he's lived this long.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a statistical fluke that he's lived this long.

You'd have to generalize that statement to almost all white American boomers man.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Most of the white American boomers I know are dead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Dude lives on spite and adulation, so long as he can keep getting attention he'll pull a Kissinger and get close to outliving us all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

He'll be alive

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

No one else in the Republican party has any popular support at all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah, a competent fascist is definitely an issue.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Those mythical principled Republicans who will refuse to vote Trump are outnumbered by orders of magnitude by the MAGA faithful who will ONLY vote for Trump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But that just makes the "principled Republicans" the spoiler for that side of the ticket... It'll be the die hard Trump voters who will be out on TikTok or YouTube trying to shame the rest of the conservative voter base into voting for Trump.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's about which of the two contingents the GOP brass will find more valuable. As much as many of the old guard Republicans loathe Trump as a person, they value winning above all else. Donor money is already flowing out of the other candidates and back to Trump as they realize he is their best chance at securing the White House.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well, yeah, the money will flow to whoever is likely to win the Republican primary.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Maybe some exurban McMansion McCain voters will stay home, but I expect the MAGA flock to stick with their deity