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chrome agnomen's avatar

I don't kid myself that any of those right wingers leaving trump's rallies early will vote democrat, but it's enough that they lack the enthusiasm to vote at all.

sometimes I think that a not insignificant number of right wingers don't even care if Trump is actually elected. in the upper echelons of his campaign, I imagine many of them are lifetime grifters who are looking for the maximum payoff, and then will simply move on to the next grift post Trump. and many of the base constantly live in a state of barely contained rage anyway over concepts they can't begin to articulate, and are only using Trump as a vessel for that rage. they'll go on raging no matter who, right or left, is in the White House.

I feel confident of a win, and always held to the belief that had we stayed with Biden, we still would have won, though the road would have been n=much more fraught.

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Peter Goldstein's avatar

Logic:

1) This election was winnable for Harris. Not easily, but winnable.

2) Campaigns can influence voters.

3) If Trump wins legitimately, Harris' campaign was not flawless OR Trump's campaign, despite being much worse, was good enough to beat a flawless campaign, in which case maybe the election wasn't all that winnable.

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