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The post mortems will continue for years to come, on into the uncharted future. In the year 2525, historians on Ceti Alpha V will be holding symposia on how exactly Donald Trump managed to get reelected in 2024 despite being vilified in the most outlandish terms and even saddled with the sobriquet “convicted felon” after bogus convictions in cases designed solely to besmirch his reputation and diminish his electoral chances.
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Hank says
My own thoughts on why more Blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans voted Trump was that people just wanted common sense, family values and manufacturing jobs back. I would think, for example, the last thing Latinos want would be the open southern border with gangs coming in and harrasing them and their businesses. Everyone else would want the flow of drugs stopped which is destroying the middle class.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think the turning point in President Trump’s fortunes was the Butler assassination attempt. That thing changed him profoundly, as well as the country, which no longer saw him as the devil (other than deranged Leftists everywhere). His iconic “fight fight fight” encouragement to his supporters that day, his appearance 2 days later at the RNC w/ bandage on ear, all lent to an image of him almost walking on water
I dunno about others, but I did what I could to ignore all the polls: there couldn’t be a sharper contrast b/w him and her in terms of his personality vs her lack of one. Most telling was that all the opinion polls had 70% say, regardless of the source, that they disapproved of Biden-Harris governance. When those are the numbers, then it’s hard to imagine the same public then voting for the regime that they disapprove of. Frankly, I was expecting some more states – Minnesota, Virginia, New Hampshire – to flip red
I also think that had the Dems not rigged their own primary and allowed RFK to run, he may well have pulled an upset, had Biden been forced to appear in debates against him. The MAHA coalition would have remained w/ the Dems (there are aspects of this movement that I find hard to reconcile w/ normal conservatism, such as government controlling what can or can’t go into food and water), and w/ that, they may well have prevailed against Trump. I do think that Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona would have gone blue in that scenario for RFK, had he w/ Nicole Shanahan been the Democrat ticket
somehistory says
The dems and the mozlums (al jezeera) are still trying to ‘count the 20 million **missing** votes.’
They claim that these are the *votes* which biden got the last time around, but which the hyena didn’t get and are, therefore, “missing.”
Those were the cheated, false, illegal, votes which they were unable to get this time because the repubs were aware of what happened in ’20.
Mr. Trump won because more people voted for him. Many democrats saw how empty was their candidate…a candidate they didn’t pick…and with some measure of honesty, went to Trump.
But, I believe…and any mockers can come and mock…that it is not yet God’s time for America to join the EU and the mozlum nations in killing all Freedoms. Especially the Freedom of Speech which allows us to tell the Truth….about islam and so much more things of vital importance.
The hyena promised to codify infanticide. She is all for mutilation of children to line the purses of dishonest doctors and hospitals; She is also clearly against Israel winning its war with the terrorists. And she and her cohorts, including bo, were working to stop people from telling the Truth about mozlums and their intentions. Giving millions away to millions of illegals was one of her projects, while pretending not.
And she refused to say what all evil things she and bo had in mind for the country.
gravenimage says
OK, Here’s the REAL Reason Why Trump Won
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Even California has been much more conservative this election. There is a tough on crime measure–Measure 36–that passed by a landslide after the insane rise in “smash and grab” crime endangering and bankrupting so many businesses. The appalling crime-enabling “defud the police” Alameda DA Pamela Price is being recalled–also by a landslide. Many congressional seats considered basically eternally Democrat have gone Republican this election. California may, in fact, hand Republicans the House. Not sure many saw this as a possibility.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The thing that strikes me though – if 70+% of Californians voted for Prop 36, how did the state end up voting for Kamala? Who, among other things, was the architect of the deceptively branded Prop 47, that made shoplifting practically legal in the state? I’m glad that more house seats in the state went to the GOP, but how did anyone, who voted for Prop 36, end up voting for Kamala Harris? Who made it a point not to say anything about whether or not she supports it?
gravenimage says
Infidel, there is no doubt that California is still a *very* blue state, and I did not mean to imply otherwise–but even here we are seeing a move away from the leftist fringe.
As from Prop 47. a lot of people just thought that this would mean that people swiping food or small toiletries or something similar would not be heavily prosecuted–never mind that this was not happening, in any case. But *very* few people here would have predicted the violent, gang organized full scale “smash and grabs” that have devastated businesses–especially small businesses–here.
Yes, lots of people here must have voted for both Harris and Prop 36–not really rational. I just noted that things are a bit saner here than a few years ago, when so many have seen the consequences of these crime-abetting policies. Then, there are actually a large number of real conservatives in Californa–we are just so often drowned out by the left.