One in three Republican voters would have preferred a different candidate to Donald Trump for the upcoming presidential election.
In March, the former president won enough primary races to secure the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election.
However, according to a survey of 1,003 Americans by Canadian polling firm Leger, Trump does not command the full support of his base and 33 percent of this demographic would have preferred another politician. Meanwhile, this proportion is higher (47 percent) among Republican voters aged 18 to 34 years old.
Stopped right there because it’s obvious that this whole post won’t be rooted in reality. Biden has almost gone out of his way to avoid mentioning trump. Not that he hasn’t at all, but he has focused primarily on his accomplishments.
Absolutley correct. Let’s watch those downvotes pour in from the tankie brigade.
Idiots to the left of me Fascists to the right Here I am stuck in the middle with you
Democrats have been funding the most extremist and crazy of their opponents in political races for years now because it’s a lot easier to run on the policy of “At least I’m not that guy” than it is to actually convince people to vote for you based on your policies and agenda. Hell, some lady wrote a book about how she did it to win a seat, only to lose to that same guy in the very next election.
It’s one of the oldest and most effective campaign strategies there is, but it keeps biting Democrats in the ass and they keep trying it anyways. Democrats seem to think that moderate Republicans will vote for them over the extremist candidate, but Republicans don’t care about who the candidate is so long as they’re a Republican.
Cool! I’m not voting Biden because of his support for the genocide of Palestinians.
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Good for you and you’re vanity vote. Really working to make a difference.
Vanity has nothing to do with it. I’m not voting for him because I don’t like what he’s doing, simple as that.
It doesn’t do anything, making it pointless. It just makes you feel like you’re doing something, without actually doing anything.
It’s absolutely 100% vanity.
An individual vote doesn’t really affect the outcome regardless of who you vote for. From that perspective, sure, all votes are just about vanity, I suppose.
But personally, I think it’s worth the time to go out and try to promote politicians I support. To each their own, I guess.
That’s not the perspective I’m coming from.
That’s the thing: voting third party doesn’t really do anything to promote a candidate.
If you want to change the system to promote candidates you want, go out and actually do something so you can vote for who you truly want in a presidential election. That’s how you actually promote politicians you want to support. Voting third party is just, as I said, pure vanity.
Really? Why not? You’ve said this several times now with zero explanation.
If a party reaches 5% of the vote, they’re eligible for federal campaign funding. I believe 15% is the threshold for TV debates. Bringing them closer to that goal really seems like it’s promoting them. Parties tend to get more attention as they get more votes.
Either way, I have no interest in promoting a candidate I’m opposed to. If voting for someone I support doesn’t do anything, I’d just stay home.