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The decision was made via focus groups.
Their team would be silly to do anything else. They measured risk of Dearborn, MI Muslims not voting with a Jewish Shapiro vs a Minnesota guy’s impact on those voters.
The numbers said net favorable. And FAR FAR more significant to the woman/man voting ratio was the quiet sexual harassment issue in Shapiro’s background. That ratio generates many more numbers than the veteran total of currently 8% of the population.
It’s all about numbers. Always.