One in three Republican voters would have preferred a different candidate to Donald Trump for the upcoming presidential election.
In March, the former president won enough primary races to secure the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election.
However, according to a survey of 1,003 Americans by Canadian polling firm Leger, Trump does not command the full support of his base and 33 percent of this demographic would have preferred another politician. Meanwhile, this proportion is higher (47 percent) among Republican voters aged 18 to 34 years old.
Yup, exactly. That’s the question that actually matters. Tons of Republicans were very vocally against Trump in 2016 too, but fell in line as soon as he was named their official candidate. The Republican Party is great at unifying around candidates and messaging when it counts (probably one of their only legitimate strengths.)
Democrats fall in love. Republicans fall in line.
The problem with Democrats is that because it’s a big tent, it’s harder to coalesce around one or two issues. Some Democrats really care about the environment and won’t come out to vote unless the candidate says they’ll do right by it. Other Democrats care about prison reform and won’t vote for a candidate that has a history of supporting laws that put more people into prison.
When the Republican platform is “At least we’re not liberals”, it’s much easier to get your people out to vote.
The whole Democrat approach has been “we aren’t donald trump” for the last 8 years. The GOP base stopped caring about “electability” after 2012 and just started replacing their lukewarm candidates with rabid evengalists who say and push for what the hardliners want. No one at the RNC pre-Trump takeover of it actually liked people like MTG, Bobert, Matt Gaetz, or even Trump. But those people are massively popular with their voters, so leadership has to accept them.
Meanwhile the Democratic party is so opposed to listening to what their base actually wants and are constantly trying to chase conservative voters like Charlie Brown trying to kick a football. Progressives face opposition at every step from the party structure, while people who support those progressives get belittled, ridiculed, and told not to participate. And when by some chance a progressive candidate actually gets elected and starts to get media attention, the Democrats cave to the conservatives criticizing those progressives rather than protecting their own. The only ones who cared about MTG going on about Jewish space lasers were Democrats. Meanwhile when Ihlan Omar made comments about Israeli crimes against Palestinians and Israeli attempts to whitewash those crimes, the Democrats were the ones drafting legislation to censure her in all but name.
What the GOP cares about is power and doing whatever it takes to hold that power. But the Democrats only care about maintaining the status quo at all costs. One has am actual vision, while the other is treading water and wondering why they are going nowhere.
Green energy, student debt relief, likely marijuana reform after rescheduling, infrastructure building, drug price controls, Union empowerment, etc etc but you say they’re not listening opposed to listening to their base. It’s unreal.
Democrats only care about maintaining the status quo at all costs
See above. That’s BS.
The whole Democrat approach has been “we aren’t donald trump” for the last 8 years.
Oh yeah here we go - Tankie Trolls Assemble!
I don’t know if you’ve seen the news in the last few years but there’s been a fair bit of positive legislative and policy changes due to the Democrats having at least some power for now. I’m not going to list them here because I don’t think you care.
Yeah they didn’t give us free energy and cops still shoot people without consequence so it must be the Democrats fault for sucking.
Those of us who were old enough to read the news when Trump was first illegitimately put in power were also super pissed off at the weak response from the Democrats. Their whole “statement of very concerned” bullshit for four years was excruciating. There was room for improvement. Absolutely. And I think we’ve seen improvement.
But shitting on them right now is not. helping. You wanna help sink the boat, GTFO. There you go - open water and batshit nazi sharks. Enjoy.
The whole Democrat approach has been “we aren’t donald trump” for the last 8 years.
Stopped right there because it’s obvious that this whole post won’t be rooted in reality. Biden has almost gone out of his way to avoid mentioning trump. Not that he hasn’t at all, but he has focused primarily on his accomplishments.
only care about maintaining the status quo at all costs
That’s actually the core belief of conservatism, but this bunch has its target at a 1945 status quo for everything they like (pipes, big cars, father knows best) and nothing they don’t (high tax for rich assholes).
Hint: its root is ‘conserve’.
But the Democrats only care about maintaining the status quo at all costs.
Isn’t that the same thing as caring about power and whatever it takes to hold onto that power? The Democrats are representative of the liberal establishment, which controls the bureaucracy, the culture makers, social media, etc.
