Subj : Re: TRUMP
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Tracker1
Date : Thu Jan 13 2022 07:12:20

On 1/9/22 09:12, Dumas Walker wrote:
>> Isn't that how many elections are ran worldwide?
> 
>> People voting for candidates they dislike because they want to keep the other
>> candidate away, no matter the cost?
> 
> Overall, yes, but I think it was really prevalent then.  I know a lot of
> folks who did that.  I usually vote third-party when in that situation, but
> she even drove me to Trump.
> 
> In 2020, despite Trump rubbing folks the wrong way, I thought he was the
> better candidate vs. someone I suspected might be senile.  If Trump had
> been running against, say, Tulsi Gabbard, the choice might not have been so
> easy.
> 
> In 2020, Trump never had the votes of the hard-core Democrats, but I think
> he also lost votes from folks who chose him as the lesser of two evils in
> 2016.  Why they would think Biden was better, I don't know, but I think it
> was just because he "wasn't Trump" and they were either tired of listening
> to Trump all the time and/or thought Joe would at least not be in the news
> as much.

If Trump hadn't spent so much time badmouthing elections as rigged 
before the election, he probably would have won.  How many people did 
he, himself disenfranchise from voting?  A positive campaign would have 
worked better against the basement strategy Biden's side was using.
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