Whether a thing is true or not, is not dependent on qualifiers or attributes.
If it is true in 1992, it is true in 2016.
Failing to support one candidate, does not mean a person supports another. You even agree, in the first part of your reply.
“If it is true in 1992, it is true in 2016.
Failing to support one candidate, does not mean a person supports another. You even agree, in the first part of your reply.”
1992 was a 3-man race, so being against one person did not default to being for either of the other 2.
2016 was a 2-man race. There is no way to be against someone from the party you’d normally vote for and not hurt that candidate, and when one candidate is hurt, the other, BY DEFAULT, benefits.
At the time that Trump needed Levin’s support (and as far as I know, Trump never attacked Levin), Paul Ryan and most of the GOP was doing everything they could to kick Trump off the ticket (that was May 2016 to Sept 2016, after Trump had the delegates to be the candidate against Skunk Cabbage)...and the only thing that saved Trump were people on the ground who made it perfectly clear that they would NOT vote for Trump’s replacement, or any other Republican, if Trump were removed. Trump’s replacement in 2016, and the rest of the Republican ticket, would have been CRUSHED...although Levin would have been happy to have some other Republican to vote for.