The problem runs a lot deeper than who’s running, but if the DNC was the kind of party that would let someone like Walz run for president then yeah Trump wouldn’t be president.
Nah, their election fraud strategies flipped the top race from the Dem candidate to Trump, in all the swing states. That’s how we ended up with MILLIONS of ballots with a straight Dem ticket, except Trump at the top. Ever talk to one of those voters? Ever see one on TV? Ever even HEARD of one? And yet there are MILLIONS of them? And they only live in those 7 swing states?
It didn’t matter who was at the top of the Democratic side of the ballot, that name was going to get flipped to Trump.
There were a lot of people who voted for AOC and Trump. AOC went out and talked to some of them, I think she posted video of some of those conversations but she talked about it a bit on social media and iirc a big refrain was it was working class uneducated people who wanted change and something other than the status quo and felt that both Trump and AOC were both something other than the status quo. Well, they were right, in an awful way.
AOC is a charismatic style politician like Trump, and votes for politicians like that defy all logic. They will always have odd voting patterns, both for and against. I’m not talking about those types of candidates.
I’m talking about a voter who goes into a voting booth and votes entirely Democratic, but sticks with Trump at the top. I don’t doubt that there are few, but they are as rare as white squirrels. Also, they seem to be totally located within the seven swing states.
So, if there are millions of them,.as MAGA insists, let’s talk to a few. Put a panel together, and let’s hear from people who want Democrats operating our government, but thinks that the person to be the boss over them should be Trump. If there are millions of them, they shouldn’t be hard to find. Let’s start with ONE.
This podcast (arc) has an absolutely fascinating interview with a Latino Trump supporter who used to vote for Dems because he wanted them to give amnesty to undocumented immigrants but when that never happened he became disillusioned, and in the meantime businesses in his neighborhood were illegally dumping their trash and the Democratic city government just picked it up and never tried to ticket the owners owners, so this guy convinced himself that we needed a Republican government because he believed they were a tougher political party that would hold those businesses accountable.
You might be right, but when I lived in Minneapolis I thought Minnesota was pretty much 100% blue. I’d pretty much never met a local Republican. Now I live about 30 minutes out of the city, and in the 3 years I’ve been here, I’ve yet to meet another local non-Republican.
Funny story, in that week between Biden dropping out and Harris getting the nomination, in a Lemmy thread wondering who other than Harris could be a decent presidential nominee, I mentioned Walz. I got a lot of “who?” and people commenting that he really didn’t have the name recognition to carry the ticket with that short of a time frame.
If the ticket had been flipped Trump wouldn’t be president.
The problem runs a lot deeper than who’s running, but if the DNC was the kind of party that would let someone like Walz run for president then yeah Trump wouldn’t be president.
Nah, their election fraud strategies flipped the top race from the Dem candidate to Trump, in all the swing states. That’s how we ended up with MILLIONS of ballots with a straight Dem ticket, except Trump at the top. Ever talk to one of those voters? Ever see one on TV? Ever even HEARD of one? And yet there are MILLIONS of them? And they only live in those 7 swing states?
It didn’t matter who was at the top of the Democratic side of the ballot, that name was going to get flipped to Trump.
There were a lot of people who voted for AOC and Trump. AOC went out and talked to some of them, I think she posted video of some of those conversations but she talked about it a bit on social media and iirc a big refrain was it was working class uneducated people who wanted change and something other than the status quo and felt that both Trump and AOC were both something other than the status quo. Well, they were right, in an awful way.
AOC is a charismatic style politician like Trump, and votes for politicians like that defy all logic. They will always have odd voting patterns, both for and against. I’m not talking about those types of candidates.
I’m talking about a voter who goes into a voting booth and votes entirely Democratic, but sticks with Trump at the top. I don’t doubt that there are few, but they are as rare as white squirrels. Also, they seem to be totally located within the seven swing states.
So, if there are millions of them,.as MAGA insists, let’s talk to a few. Put a panel together, and let’s hear from people who want Democrats operating our government, but thinks that the person to be the boss over them should be Trump. If there are millions of them, they shouldn’t be hard to find. Let’s start with ONE.
This podcast (arc) has an absolutely fascinating interview with a Latino Trump supporter who used to vote for Dems because he wanted them to give amnesty to undocumented immigrants but when that never happened he became disillusioned, and in the meantime businesses in his neighborhood were illegally dumping their trash and the Democratic city government just picked it up and never tried to ticket the owners owners, so this guy convinced himself that we needed a Republican government because he believed they were a tougher political party that would hold those businesses accountable.
You might be right, but when I lived in Minneapolis I thought Minnesota was pretty much 100% blue. I’d pretty much never met a local Republican. Now I live about 30 minutes out of the city, and in the 3 years I’ve been here, I’ve yet to meet another local non-Republican.
Funny story, in that week between Biden dropping out and Harris getting the nomination, in a Lemmy thread wondering who other than Harris could be a decent presidential nominee, I mentioned Walz. I got a lot of “who?” and people commenting that he really didn’t have the name recognition to carry the ticket with that short of a time frame.