Posted on 11/23/2020 8:09:49 AM PST by Kaslin
President Trump suffered no grand repudiation across the country but was dealt a blow in the popular vote by voters dominating the coastal regions.
One of my new neighbors in Denver ended our friendship a few days ago over what I do for a living and my vote for President Donald Trump.
A sign for your front yard. pic.twitter.com/YWBcKsYL7h— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) November 17, 2020
In Denver, however, 71,000 people still voted for the president, a few of whom are probably on my street. They just choose to hide it.
Trump reaped a record-breaking 73 million votes this election, totaling more than any other candidate in American history, coming second only to former Vice President Joe Biden, who drew in almost 80 million.
The Democratic nominee might have captured more votes than the incumbent Republican, but there’s no denying that 73 million is a force within the American population to be reckoned with. This huge number of voters backed the president at the ballot box despite the onslaught of media intimidation endlessly characterizing any and all who might support the big bad orange man as contemptible citizens of a 21st-century Nazi state.
Further analysis of the voter data shows Trump voters are more widespread throughout the country than corporate media depicts. While Biden decisively won the popular vote by 6 million, more than 5 million came entirely from within California, where the former vice president with a Californian running mate took home nearly 11 million votes compared to Trump’s nearly 6 million. The rest of the gap could be made up if the vote totals broke even in Washington and Oregon or even just New York, where Biden beat Trump by more than 1 million votes. This shows Biden’s popular vote win came from a handful of states on the nation’s coasts.
Examining Biden’s projected victory in the Electoral College, pending legal challenges, shows an even narrower victory than Trump’s triumphant win four years ago. Biden is on track to land his first term in the White House thanks to just 45,000 votes across three tipping-point states.
In Georgia, a recount completed this week reported a Biden win by just 12,000 votes. In Wisconsin, where a recount is still underway, the president lost the initial count by 20,000. In Arizona, Biden flipped the state by an even narrower margin of fewer than 10,500 votes.
If Trump captured all three, a tie would occur in the Electoral College, kicking the election to the House, where each state gets one vote. That map favors Republicans, who hold more House members from more states than Democrats, whose members remain more concentrated in a smaller number of states.
In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost the election by about 77,000 votes across three different states spanning the Midwest.
The point is, Trump suffered no grand repudiation across the country. Instead, he was a dealt a blow in the popular vote by voters dominating the coastal regions. This month’s election results not only exposed the reality of the shy Trump voter but illustrated their existence in neighborhoods throughout the nation whether or not they make their presence known. Clearly, they don’t, and given the recent demands by Democrats to seek punishment for those who supported the president, it’s hard to blame them.
Pointing to a post-election survey by Public Opinion Strategies, Federalist senior contributor Kelsey Bolar explained earlier this month that a majority of shy Trump voters could be unmasked as white, college-educated women. The study found that 19 percent of all Trump supporters reported keeping their vote for the president secret from their friends as opposed to the 8 percent of Biden supporters who said the same.
Bolar pointed to the fact that Trump landed more than half of the white female vote in this election, which, Bolar wrote, “is nothing short of astounding compared to the narrative of the past four years: That white, suburban women were leaving Trump and the Republican Party in droves.”
Further, suburban women were more likely than others to conceal their vote for Trump. According to Public Opinion Strategies, 28 percent of these women said they kept their support for Trump hidden from their friends while only 7 percent of those who voted for Biden followed suit.
“I got called a white supremacist and a racist so I kept it to myself so I wouldn’t hear those words,” one woman told the research firm.
“I was afraid for my safety. Because of the way the media portrayed everything … that it was okay to be a Democrat, but not a Republican,” said another.
One woman’s friends were more explicit about the danger that the public disclosure of her vote could pose, saying, “I had neighbors say they would like to kill all Trump supporters. These were people with whom I really got along with well.”
There were clear signs throughout the election that such voters were present, contrary to the media narrative, which the Washington Post encapsulated in its pre-election analysis, declaring, “Shy Trump voters don’t really exist.”
According to findings from a national survey from the Cato Institute published this summer, 77 percent of Republicans felt they held views they were afraid to share. Republicans of all educational backgrounds also said they worried their political views could jeopardize their employment. That number rose higher in conjunction with a voter’s degree of education, supporting the idea that most shy Trump voters were well-educated.
Indeed, a third of Americans said they wanted to “punish” those who donated to Trump’s campaign, an idea that garnered support from 50 percent of strong liberals. Considering the animosity directed at Trump supporters by Democrats, the media, and even supposedly friendly neighbors declaring those who disagree with leftism as ignorant, homophobic racists, it’s not hard to see why so many Americans kept their vote for the president hidden at the ballot box.
These aren’t just Americans at the fringes. They’re your next-door neighbor whose kids go to school with yours, who check you out at the grocery store, who interact with you at the park, and whose lives make the neighborhood a community. If their support for Trump scares you, then you are the one with a problem.
Joe Biden couldn’t get enough people at his rallies to have a volleyball game, but he received eighty million votes?
Yeah.....
Sure.....
That's not going to happen short of a court order throwing the election results out. And so far the success rate in the courts hasn't been...encouraging.
“Now that we live in an increasingly fascist country where roving bands of left-wing Brownshirts will either get you fired, or blacklist you, or physically assault you for supporting Trump, people have become shy about telling pollsters the truth of their Trump support. So…”
How many rallies did Hillary hold in 2016? How was her attendance compared to Trump? What were the vote totals?
I saw black citizens at Trump rallies but NOT ONE at a Biden rally.... and yet...
Yeah, I don’t think Biden won either.
That fact that one of the earliest American Feminists in academia voted for for Trump should give pause to “The Woke”. If one of the giants whose shoulders you stand on to see further votes for the embodiment of opposition to your flavor of “progressive” agenda, maybe the agenda maybe has gone a little too loony for mass acceptance.
“How was her attendance compared to Trump?”
Her report card shows she missed four days of school this quarter and had eight tardies.
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Oh how clever.
“I had neighbors say they would like to kill all Trump supporters. These were people with whom I really got along with well.”
If you like your potential murderers that is.
Snitching,,,,
Of course they did.
“A Neighbor You Like Probably Voted For Trump”
Per voter records here in the Great State of Mecklenburg County (NC), 3 out of 4 voters in the 2016 election voted for Hillary. I’m guessing that ratio held for 2020. I’m surrounded by traitors.
And yes, per voter records, I know how most of my neighbors voted on 2016.
My neighbor stole my Trump sign from my front yard.
When are you going to get the zot?
The truth is you and your favorite neighbor both voted for Trump along with every other decent person in your community.
A Neighbor You Like Probably Voted For Trump
My neighbors voted for Trump! I think my street (8 families) went Trump... I know 7 went Trump and the 8th might have gone with Trump (he was thinking of voting for the Constitution Party).
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