No need to panic just yet...with these numbers, we would likely prevail in the Electoral College...but...
The Biden campaign/DNC has been running rings around the Trump campaign all year, just like they did in 2020 - crushing and outmaneuvering them at every turn, while the base has mostly abandoned Trump and other candidates while the Dem base forks over the cash to support their candidates. Other than right after Trump’s bogus conviction, the base has been asleep at the switch...and even with that infusion of cash, you can’t catch up to the effects of several months of marketing/advertising and setting up of infrastructure Biden/Dems have been purchasing with what had been a consistent and enormous cash advantage for most of this campaign season.
Biden performing very poorly in the debate did not improve what people think of Trump...a year of consistently negative news coverage with this completed by Biden’s barrage of negative ads is not negated by Biden’s own negatives increasing. Trump has an amazing story to tell - Abraham Accords / peace breaking out instead of war, economy, lower utility prices from the tax cuts, bonuses, etc...so, so much accomplishment, and a compare and contrast on all of these things with Biden - that would skyrocket Trump’s positives. But that story was not told in 2020, and it hasn’t been told this cycle, either. Biden’s story is all many people are seeing - both his own story, and his story about Trump - they don’t attend rallies, they don’t listen to talk radio, they don’t visit Free Republic...they are at home living lives, watching the evening news and TV shows with these ads airing in heavy rotation to affect their perceptions.
If our side continues to be asleep at the switch, we may very well lose even in this kind of environment. That’s it. We cannot give the Democrats every advantage and then expect to have victory. Most fraud / irregularities will be on their side to begin with...we should not consistently allow ourselves to be outraised, outworked, outorganized, out marketed...but that’s what our side been doing for years.
Yes. Trump has become toxic. People here don’t understand that.
Trymp just raked in Hundreds of millions of dollars. Some of you here just get off on this wow is me crap. It drags the site down. Stop it!
He is more toxically popular at this moment than ever.
The pearl clutchers were telling me that the debate was a trap just a few weeks ago.
Biden was 5/2 at 8:59 on June 28th and 8/1 at 9:05 on June 28th while President Trump went fr a 3/2 fav to almost a 2/1 fav.
We don't have many institutions representing us.
We have the middle class. Mostly blue collar workers. Business owners on Main Street, USA. A minority of Professional Class may support us (they're in the closet).
Now we have Elon Musk on our side. That's huge.
So that's about it.
Now the Left. They have Hollywood, Big Tech, MSM, The Deep State, The University System all supporting them.
That's why we're outgunned.
During the Bush Era, we had some Country Club Elite support us, but now they're all Democrats.
Dubya is probably a Democrat now.