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 listeningopposed to listening to their base. It’s unreal.See above. That’s BS.
Funny, because i live in a state that decriminalized marijuana and i just lost my job for testing positive for marijuana on a drug test. Meanwhile the Democratic senator is running ads about his bills that Trump signed. Nothing about any of those things you just listed off. He mad appearances at the UAW strikes last year, but there hasn’t been any actual legislation or policy change to support unions, just photo ops and tweets.
Decriminalization is not legalization. That you don’t even know this…
Then you have to limit actions to a specific dem senator, about not running ads about the things I listed. Holy mental gymnastics.
And then the final: But but but it’s not being done fast enough!1!
It’s unreal.
Not only is decriminalization not legalization, even if something is legal your employer can prohibit it as a condition of employment.
I can guarantee you, even if marijuana is completely legal tomorrow and available in every 7-11 I’ll be fired for testing positive, and for good reason. At least the reasons are good for me, for a lot of other jobs drug testing is bullshit.
Yup, just like you can’t show up drunk, you can’t show up high. Anything requiring uhh sober operation will be an issue. The long time frame of marijuana staying in your body is an issue, I think the airlines said you can’t use it 28 days before your shift (lol effective ban).
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Maybe at some point in the future someone will come up with a test that determines if you’re high right now instead of our current test that only determines if you’ve used it in the past couple weeks. But until then prohibition for any safety related job is the only option.
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That sounds to me like you violated the terms of your employment agreed upon by you and your employer when you entered into an employment contract with them. The federal government has little-to-no control over stuff like drug testing at non-governmental jobs.
Alcohol is legal, but if you test positive for alcohol in a piss test or breathalyzer there’s a good chance, depending on your employer, that you won’t be working for them.
You ought to be cognizant of your own habits with regard to your employer’s drug testing policy. Marijuana can show up in a piss test for weeks if you’re a heavy or frequent user. If you know you regularly or randomly get tested, don’t partake or find a different job.
That’s not the Democratic party’s fault, that’s between you and your employer. Stupid? Sure. Unfair? Absolutely. A useless policy that pushes people out of jobs for no good reason? You betcha. Doesn’t change the contract you entered into when you took the job.
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.
I’m not trying to sink the boat. The boat is sinking and the Democrats are trying to remodel the dinning hall instead of patch the holes in the hull.
Every thread about Biden’s support of Israel is bombarded by liberals saying “Trump will be worse!” and “we need Biden to stop Trump!” Which is not an actual policy.
Yeahhh there we go. “BiDen GeNoSiDe”. Classic. That’s the stuff.
Hey good luck throwing the world into chaos. We’re all counting on you.
The world is already in chaos. You can cover your eyes all you want, but things aren’t going to return to how they were.
Cover our eyes? Hardly. How do you think anything gets addressed? Performative outrage on the interwebs? HA!
I’ve stopped believing it’s the Democrat’s fault for sucking and started believing that it’s America’s fault for sucking.
Technically correct.
It’s the best kind.
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.
Absolutley correct. Let’s watch those downvotes pour in from the tankie brigade.
Idiots to the left of me Fascists to the right Here I am stuck in the middle with you
Democrats have been funding the most extremist and crazy of their opponents in political races for years now because it’s a lot easier to run on the policy of “At least I’m not that guy” than it is to actually convince people to vote for you based on your policies and agenda. Hell, some lady wrote a book about how she did it to win a seat, only to lose to that same guy in the very next election.
It’s one of the oldest and most effective campaign strategies there is, but it keeps biting Democrats in the ass and they keep trying it anyways. Democrats seem to think that moderate Republicans will vote for them over the extremist candidate, but Republicans don’t care about who the candidate is so long as they’re a Republican.
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In a presidential election? Uh, yeah. It’s relevant. Ok? Ok.
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Yeah that danged liberal media establishment
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Well, considering he is the de factor leader of the Democratic party right now, it’s enough to point out that it is not “the whole democratic approach.”
Oh and look you found someone who shares your opinion. But not even really because they aren’t saying it’s their whole strategy, but a pitch that doesn’t work, nor certainly it’s not referring to the entire last 8 years.
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Cool! I’m not voting Biden because of his support for the genocide of Palestinians.
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Good for you and you’re vanity vote. Really working to make a difference.
Vanity has nothing to do with it. I’m not voting for him because I don’t like what he’s doing, simple as that.
It doesn’t do anything, making it pointless. It just makes you feel like you’re doing something, without actually doing anything.
It’s absolutely 100% vanity.
An individual vote doesn’t really affect the outcome regardless of who you vote for. From that perspective, sure, all votes are just about vanity, I suppose.
But personally, I think it’s worth the time to go out and try to promote politicians I support. To each their own, I guess.
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HAHAHA - shit Dmitry, you need new material man. The culture makers? FFS.
Here - in America, where we live - the “liberal establishment” makes approximately 10% of the “culture” in most of the southern and midwestern states. (A state is like a small country here.)
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If you’re equating culture with movies and . . . Broadway? Then, uh, yeah I guess? To a large extent movies and Broadway and televised advertisement appeal to and thus reflect some liberal positions, sure. In a necessarily very non-threatening, centrist kind of way.
But that manufactured media of movies, tv, Broadway shows and the rest is an input to the actual culture in which humans usually live, and it ain’t liberal in a lot of the swing states. Turns out, there’s plenty not-liberal movies, tv, and . . . okay maybe not Broadway, ya got me there.
Liberal elite media establishment - thats some Russia Today language, man. Or Fox News. Same thing, I guess.
Also the south is where all the music came from, and the midwest made it possible. So, culture production ftw.
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lol. Glad I didn’t read it. Gonna leave you to it now.
Hmm.