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And the Veterans for Trump organization of course had this to say on the matter:
I love how Bonespurs is campaigning so hard for Kamala Harris. It's good to see him doing something useful for a change!
How the hell is he winning so much of the Black and Hispanic vote? Like... any percentage at all?
A higher percent of the Hispanic support than any republican nominee in history (as high as 45%) with closest next being George W. Bush.
...and as low as 29% - depending on which polls you look at. The important thing is to make it seem like a close race so people will keep looking at ads.
That only counts Latino RV in swing states, excluding Georgia. And it's 31% not 29%. That means it's not counting the vast majority of Latino voters in the states with the largest Latino populations, notably California, Florida, Texas, or New York. That's hardly a representative sample. This is the definition of selectively cherry-picking data to support your point.
Do they just not know that he's trying to kill them?
Surely this leopard won't eat MY face!
Apparently not, otherwise they have some serious delusions going on…
Because most people don't follow politics that closely and are simply unaware of stories like this, but are vulnerable to the forces of nostalgia and false memories of the first Trump administration, plus lingering fondness from the character he played on the Apprentice.
If Harris loses, I know the fact that they didn't constantly run ads showing the Pandemic of 2020 asking "Do you really wanna go back to THIS?" is partially to blame
He's not, he had higher polling with African Americans in the last two elections than actual voters, he had extremely low voting numbers with African Americans, slightly higher with men, but not by that much, it's really common in politics to have a lot of people doing shady bullshit to see if it will sway elections, also the population nation wide is low enough that getting a sample size that's actually representative is not likely, even some trusted unbiased polling was using the opinion of one single person to represent all polling numbers in a whole state and the poll was pretty old by that point as well, so with African Americans you see a lot of really strange lookin poll numbers, but believe me, Trump going after Haitian refugees with racist tropes about ''savage'' and voodoo bullshit made him quite vile to antiracists of all stripes, I don't think those numbers are going to pan out at all.
Now Hispanics, that's a whole different story, being Hispanic myself I can tell you, it's not a solid voting block. We aren't as good at consistently voting in our own interests. There's light skinned people who think they're white enough to be in the whites only club, racism isn't hard to find among Hispanics, many do hate African Americans and others, so the white identifying crowd can be pretty similar to racist whites in a lot of ways, you also have Hispanics that are very concerned with hyper mauculinity and want the strongest man, and only think in terms of displays vs substance, and there's deeply religious Hispanics who can get drawn in with the evangelical rhetoric. So your not going to see a big percentage on one vote or issue with Hispanics, it's always going to be a mixed bag even with Trump's promise too deport more Hispanics from the US regardless of legal status, or his call backs to ''operation wetback'' or this bullshit, you just won't see big sweeping numbers from Hispanics it will always be slip up.
There’s light skinned people who think they’re white enough to be in the whites only club
Bro I'm whiter than sour cream, I'm actually grateful for global warming because everytime it snows no one in my family can find each other anymore, and I'm STILL not white enough to be in the Whites Only Club. You need white skin AND approval from a lot of guys named Ben, Franklin that is, if you get what I'm saying....
Money you need a lot of money.
Hispanics have a very high population of religious voters and many of them don't believe in abortion. For many religious people, even if they disagree handily with everything else the Republican party does, they will not vote Democrat because of the abortion issue.
There was a pretty large research study and a bunch of podcasts on it.
This! My guess is that being religious and conservative is at least 75% of the reason why Hispanics would support Trump. My father was a Colombian born immigrant who in my memory always supported the Republican party and the majority of the years after he got his citizenship I'm certain he never voted Democrat. He did come around though before passing in 2023 and I'm pretty sure he did not support or vote for Trump. >
well you have Cubans for one...
He's not, the media just wants it to look like a super-close race so people will keep watching ads.
See, at this point... I'm either convinced Harris has pretty much got this in the bag and the media is lying to get people to doomscroll because money, or there's a Copium Leak and when it's fixed I'll see that Trump is coming to kill us all.
The former feels weirdly more valid...
Still VOTE, I ALREADY HAVE! MY STATE HAS EARLY VOTING, FIND OUT IF YOURS DOES TOO!
I desperately want to believe that about the media, but Tim Miller and the folks at Pod Save America (whom I trust to be brutally honest) are also constantly talking about how close the race is. I'm so fucking depressed about this shit. We are this close to having a literal fascist as President.
This fucking son of a bitch had to ask John Kelly who the good guys were in WWI.
FUCK.
Nate Silver's said he's already calling it for Trump, which doesn't feel good to know, because the last time he said that Trump won.
Trump was reportedly still irked by the bill later that same day, with him claiming that Guillén’s grieving family was trying to take advantage of his wealth.
“Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “F---ing people, trying to rip me off.”
So this is rather telling, him thinking that the "money of the US government" is "my money"
This is because he desperately is clinging to the ancient ideal (and I mean ANCIENT. Like early Middle Ages ancient) that everything in the kingdom is the direct and personal property of the king.
So in that sense, the billions of dollars allocated to the military every year is actually his money.
Considering how he treated Ivana's grave I'm really not shocked that he'd be an asshole about someone he doesn't know at all.
Morbidly Addled Geriatric Assnuggets
Poetry
Just one more thing that should absolutely torpedo any political career, that won't hurt him at all. His MAGAt cultists probably think that was "speaking the truth" or some stupid shit like that. Anyone who would be bothered by his comments has abandoned him ages ago.
Trump reportedly complained later in the day that these “fucking people” are “trying to rip me off.”
He thinks it's his money.
He had his wife buried for a fraction and stuck her on his shit golf course
Somehow, some way, this orange clown makes me angrier everyday, even when I thought I'd seen the worst of him.
Oligarchy 101.
Treat public expenses like it's coming out your own pocket.
Treat the public purse like it's your own personal bank account.
'I can't believe someone is trying to rip me off'
Is anyone surprised by this?