Posted on 07/31/2020 10:15:44 AM PDT by chiller
..."Not only are they overwhelmingly with Trump at this point, upon reflection, these voters who voted Obama and Trump would now vote for Trump over Obama in a hypothetical match-up, according to Thau."
..."Beyond the numbers, though, it’s critical to understand why so many of them continue to support Trump.
They think a businessman is best suited to turn the country around economically. They feel Covid-19 was not Trump’s fault, and he’s doing the best he can to contain it. They conflate the Black Lives Matter protesters with the rioters attacking federal buildings and retail shops. They don’t want historic monuments torn down. And they dismiss defunding the police as ridiculous."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Why his 2016 voters continue to support Trump:
<><> They think a businessman is best suited to turn the country around economically.
<><> They are patriots and don’t want historic monuments torn down.
<><> They dismiss defunding the police as ridiculous.
<><> They feel Covid-19 was not Trump’s fault, and he’s doing the best he can to contain it.
<><> Black Lives Matter cut its own throat-—now seen as protesters with the rioters attacking federal buildings and retail shops.
Redstate has the story
The daytime protesters and the nighttime rioters are the same people. Prove me wrong.
It’s past time to call out Fauxi, push HCQ hard, again. Call ‘em for what they are.
It’s past time to call out Fauxi, push HCQ hard, again. Call ‘em for what they are.
“Goodness gracious. So now CNN is getting worried? But Joe Biden is comfortably ahead in all the polls. What are they worried about?”
Yes, and after Biden selects Kamala Harris as his VP, he’s “Home Free”!
/sarc (snicker, hee, hee, hee)
The voters still backing Trump are all of those who voted for him last time, only with a lot more enthusiasm plus everyone they have converted. He got my vote last time for 2 reasons. The witch and supreme court. He will get it again because he has delivered like maybe no one in history and in the process has revealed the left as the shrieking demons currently going over the cliff while trying to drag the nation down with them. I know several who did not vote for him in 16 who will vote for him now. I know zero who voted for him in 16 who will not vote for him again. I wish he would just say, when the mediots are babbling about mail in ballots “Look, we know why the dems are pushing this. Even they know they cant win an honest election. Cheating is the only chance they have.”
I know a lot of people who didn’t vote last time because they didn’t like Trump or the hildabeast. They are now strong Trump supporters. They have seen what the dimrat party will turn this country into and they don’t want anything to do with that.
And Trump hasn’t started campaigning seriously yet.
Add:
(from the article):
‘people whose lives don’t revolve around breaking political news.”
They do not realize that they and the progs have made sure that _everything_ is now *breaking political news*.
For those aware of my informal poll of Trump supporters randomly encountered in daily life, we are now (after about a week) up to 8 out of 9 and the 9th is someone who supports mask mandates because his mother died of COVID. I assigned him to the not-Trump tranche just to include _someone_. I really don’t know for sure and we simply tally what people volunteer and do not ask any leading questions or declare ourselves first.
Add me as another who knows some independents who voted Libertarian or sat out the election last time who are all in for Trump this time.
This is largely true but not entirely true for me. I think Trump is much better suited than Biden on the economy. Covid-19 is definitely NOT Trump's fault but he's also made mistakes (and I'm sure we'd disagree what those have been).
Rioters, looters, "BLM protesters" use each other are shields and weapons. That's what I hear from listening to random African Americans who all tell me they've had their eyes opened. They are "woke" alright but not in the usual way. BLM is the latest in anointed Leftist "community" front organizations that have damn little to do with the quality of Black Americans lives but want personal power and fundamental transformation that is not about saving and improving lives.
We do not bury history, even history we might "disagree" with. That's revisionist, it's what fascists and dictators do. A conservative like me isn't afraid of history, only defending it from revisionists. I'll watch "documentaries" and spot all manner of bad facts, some just sloppy and others clearly designed to support a bias, a narrative. I'm not shy about calling them out.
Defunding the police is absolutely ridiculous. It's hilarious how the Clintons (and Biden) were all about "community policing" in the '90s which formed policies that ruined a generation of black families, which is now widely seen as "systemic racism," when they weren't even trying to hide their corrupt motivations back then and we were bringing light to their statements. It took Trump to start making reforms with First Step Act.
I find folks who tend Left are hyper-judgemental, hypocritical, prone to bandwagoning, heavily revisionist (to put it politely), censoring, gossipy, trouble-making, conspiratorial, hand wringing and love to foster conflict and deflect blame. I see it in their work, I see it in their politics, I see it in their personal behavior. It was the same thing when they were school children trying to get away with something and usually did by leveraging their social skills. Pretty eye opening.
....a COVID mistake was denying his instincts and allowing Fauxi’s persona and reputation to rule the day. Aides probably convinced him Fauxi was too beloved to trash.
It’s still not too late.
bump
Case in point: Charleston, SC. There is virtually no Antifa here in Charleston. No one hear knows what Antifa is except for news junkies. When the BLM "peaceful protesters" began to riot, and the liberal democrat mayor ordered the police to stand down, the BLM rioters cleaned out the Apple Store and numerous businesses without any need of Antifa or White Supremacist coaching. This is complete self serving CNN B.S.
BLM protesters *ARE* the rioters and looters.
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