Definitely a possibility. I try to remain optimistic that it is become more unlikely, but the fear that it could happen remains. It doesn't help that Trump can have a hundred bad days and it affects his polling less than if Biden has one bad day. There's hope, but it's still scary.
Absolutely. A lot of people who voted for Biden last time aren't going to vote for either candidate this time because of Biden's funding of Israel. Also, since the last election, Republicans have made a lot of new voter-restriction laws under the guise of "securing" our elections. There are also more election-denier Republicans in office. Remember how Brad Raffensperger and Ryan Germany refused to "find" votes for Trump? Well, this time there will be more trumpian Republicans in office who will be more likely to "find" votes, or just throw out votes for Biden.
Now it's not all doom and gloom. The economy is booming, which is good for Biden, and Trump lost a lot of support after 1/6 and the whole attempt at stealing an election. Basically, either guy can win, so we all need to vote for Biden.
@missyann [quote]Saying Trump supporters are a cult is the pot calling the kettle black. You can’t tell me that there aren’t Democrats in the I hate Trump cult.[/quote]
The reason I say Trump supporters are a cult is because they have blind loyalty to Trump based entirely on his personality. There are few, if any, Democrats who hate Trump without reason. Trump is hated for his crimes, his failure as president, and his threat to democratic values.
He's still the same guy who got all those votes in 2016 and 2020, and I'm not writing it off.
We all should vote, anyway, but the stakes, imo, are much higher than usual with candidates with dramatically different visions, priorities and values, notwithstanding opinions on competence.
Well, I gave him no chance in 2016, but I didn't realize how much people hated Hillary. Trump got plenty of "I don't know much about Trump, but I have seen him on TV, and I know I hate Hillary" votes. Yet Hillary still won the national popular vote - by a long shot.
I'm surprised, and scared, that Trump still has as many supporters as he does. And from what I see the complaints against biden come from two places:
1) Bleeding butthurt Trump supporters - Biden is simply evil because he beat trump. 2) Liberals upset over Israel support.
Category 1 will vote Trump no matter what. Category 2 may abstain or protest vote, but unlikely will they swtich to trump.
So the way I see it, the main factor in who wins has to do with how many 2020 Biden voters decide to stay home or protest vote. Trump is not expanding his base.
@trollslayer it feels so strange to me. The Israel issue is big, I get that. But Biden has done far better than I had imagined throughout his entire presidency. I felt I was holding my nose to vote for him in 2020. But this time around I actually want to vote for him because he's done so well on everything but Israel.
@ViciDraco I'm the same way. He has done better than I expected. And even on Israel - even though the Biden administration has backed Israel in the UN, he has still called out the Netanyahu government and the way they are waging war as well as the actions of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. That may not be good enough for some folks, but is WAY more than any other administration has done. I think his israel policy is appropriate considering both current circumstances and the USA's historic foreign policy.
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I give him zero chance of avoiding all four convictions. I cannot see a convict getting enough votes, and Biden is already closing the gap among registered voters. Trump has a fairly good chance of avoiding prison. The likely outcome is loss of his empire, a permanent gag order and house arrest.
I finally had to block that "Sporter," too much antisemitism for me.
And yes, I believe Trump will win, but in America, everything is by design. We are being set up for failure.
Two Examples:
1: DeSantis is loud and proud saying "Where woke goes to die," and then during the debates, he's as quiet as a church mouse and looking very weak.
2: Then, is it no surprise that Trump won the Republican nomination against a woman? I guess they all thought we had forgotten that many of his votes back in 2016 were not votes for Trump, but votes against Hillary.
@Rolexeo if the main stream media reported fairly. Americans would know that all the laws they changed in the swing states without the legislators.. have been reversed and hardened.. the amount of votes that had no signature varification or chain of custody.. will not be getting counted this time.. no matter how big a planDemic they throw for mail ins.. also republicans plan on having lawyer observers this time.. so there will be no bullshit busted water pipes or sending republican voters home so they can count votes unsupervised thru the night..
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout So 100's of 1,000's of Americans were complicit in the rigging of 3 straight Nat'l elections in a row without the entire GOP figuring out how we did it or how to stop it and [u]we're[/u] the nut cases?
Sure he can, he just needs to keep reminding the public that [i]he[/i] was the one who got rid of [i]Roe v. Wade[/i], and this week? (Or was it last week?) he’s all for a national ban on women’s health care decisions
Definitely possible. There's a big enthusiasm gap between 'lesser of two evils Biden' and 'perennial victim cult leader Trump.' Don't get complacent; take nothing for granted.
@JSul3 the electoral college is the only fair way to represent the states with lower population. As long as there are states that have lower population, the electoral college will never disappear.. These states deserve to be recognized. I.
@Aidankenny23 I think there’s more of a chance, then people want to believe. We Will have to see what kind of dirt Republicans bring forward right before the election.
@jshm2 Agreed. In Trump world any election that he doesn’t win is a corrupted one and any election that he does win had the best most amazing people voting for the best candidate.
