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.
The whole Democrat approach has been “we aren’t donald trump” for the last 8 years. The GOP base stopped caring about “electability” after 2012 and just started replacing their lukewarm candidates with rabid evengalists who say and push for what the hardliners want. No one at the RNC pre-Trump takeover of it actually liked people like MTG, Bobert, Matt Gaetz, or even Trump. But those people are massively popular with their voters, so leadership has to accept them.
Meanwhile the Democratic party is so opposed to listening to what their base actually wants and are constantly trying to chase conservative voters like Charlie Brown trying to kick a football. Progressives face opposition at every step from the party structure, while people who support those progressives get belittled, ridiculed, and told not to participate. And when by some chance a progressive candidate actually gets elected and starts to get media attention, the Democrats cave to the conservatives criticizing those progressives rather than protecting their own. The only ones who cared about MTG going on about Jewish space lasers were Democrats. Meanwhile when Ihlan Omar made comments about Israeli crimes against Palestinians and Israeli attempts to whitewash those crimes, the Democrats were the ones drafting legislation to censure her in all but name.
What the GOP cares about is power and doing whatever it takes to hold that power. But the Democrats only care about maintaining the status quo at all costs. One has am actual vision, while the other is treading water and wondering why they are going nowhere.
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.
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.