Posted on 06/13/2024 8:05:57 AM PDT by bimboeruption
And I wouldn’t trust anyone DeWhiner replaced him with.
How so?
OMG you sound like Mike Murphy
I wasn’t referring to JD. I was referring to Trump.
Trump had 12% of blacks last time. If he gets 25% of blacks this time, that will be NEW VOTERS. He will have plenty of votes to win assuming they don’t steal it again. It really comes down to that.
They are either going to steal it again or Trump is going to win. Period.
I want him to win with the best VP possible behind him.
If you think there are women who wouldn’t vote for Trump and JD BUT WOULD vote for Trump and Sanders, you are really not paying attention. If it was Romney or McCain or Bush and it was 2004 again, maybe it would make a difference but not Trump. The women who are against him are polarized to the extreme. They will make fun of her looks and her beliefs and Christianity, etc... There is no woman VP he could run with that will increase his vote among women.
The same with blacks. Having a black guy on the ticket will do nothing. The ones that don’t like Trump will just call Donalds an “Uncle Tom”. The ones that do like Trump think he is a bad ass. Pandering doesn’t make you look like a badass.
I like Donalds and wouldn’t mind him being the VP pick as an insurance policy against the deepstate taking Trump out but I don’t think he will do as good a job defending Trump in the media as JD will.
“but not Trump. The women who are against him are polarized to the extreme”
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While there are women (and men) who are polarized against him, there are also many women for him. And, like any demographic, there are many in the middle who can be persuaded.
It would be a mistake for Trump to not reach out to the middle. Biden is an embarrassment to anyone with two neurons to rub together. The middle is wide open. There are good conservative candidates who aren’t necessarily white males. This is the perfect time to be “The Big Tent”.
If he picks JDV, the middle is going to say “same old, same old, just two more angry white guys who have no idea what I’m going through”, and Trump will lose by 100 EVs.
The middle will decide this election, and Trump needs to appeal to them.
The times are changing. We no longer have 1/3 Republican, 1/3 Democrat and 1/3 Independent and both sides fight over the middle. People have picked their sides and they aren’t moving unless they are convinced through persuasion that they were wrong.
The younger demographic which is now deciding which side to pick and has always been solidly Dem is wide open....but not by pandering to them.
By reality-maxing.
By being “based”.
By being a gender/race/sex/crime/immigration/culture REALIST. People are yearning for authenticity.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/11/politics/gender-gap-2024-election-analysis/index.html
This is where we get more votes. Not from women who can’t decide between the abject failure of Biden and the common sense of Trump. Pro life women will always be for Trump. Pro abortion women will always be against Trump. It wouldn’t matter which woman he picked as VP. THEY WOULD NOT SUPPORT HIM.
First, it’s CNN. Don’t believe a word they say.
Second, the world is just not that black and white. Lots of grey out there.
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