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spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
everyone is kind of giving snarky answers with a couple helpful tidbits in between but the true answer is:
trump is polling well. current polling indicates that trump is doing good enough at what is expected of him, which at the moment is simply running a campaign that will beat the democratic candidate.
people only really start calling for dropping out en masse when polls start to significantly falter because it’s an indication that the candidate is no longer running a competitive campaign.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
I can’t believe how far down I had to scroll for a genuine answer. Thank you. Have my only upvote in this thread.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah but the polls didn’t significantly falter, they’re still statistically tied with only a margin of error shift since the debate.
This isn’t an organic moment of partisan reconsideration. It’s being pushed by the same folks who were already loudly and obnoxiously telling us about how they don’t like Joe and threatening to vote protest or skip voting because, shock of shocks, nobody primaried the sitting president and risk sowing division right before an election where the other candidate is Hitler’s inbred pet mango.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People are pretty divided and strongly set in their beliefs. Most of the things that come out of Trumps mouth mean I’ll vote for a shrubbery if it is the only other choice
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m decently confident that if we don’t see it with Biden we’ll see it with the candidates who come for 28. I’m crossing my fingers for Whitmer right now, plenty of progressive bonafides, runs a solidly blue government in a swing state quite well, and the Redcaps literally plotted to kidnap her and do a lot of other nasty shit I won’t write out to her so we’re hardly gonna have to worry about her not taking the threat seriously.