greggerypeccary wrote on May 11
th, 2023 at 11:38am:
...Nobody - not a single person - is saying his cult members won't continue to vote for him.
He could rape his own daughter on live TV and then shoot Jared in the head, and he'd still not lose a single cult member's vote.
But as you pointed out, he's not popular among the general voting population. i.e. sane people.
Not popular in 2016: he lost by 3,000,000 votes to the most unpopular candidate the Dems have ever put up for election.
Not popular in 2020: he lost by 7,000,000 votes to possibly the second most unpopular candidate the Dems have ever put up for election.
Since then many of his cult members have died (from COVID) or gone to prison.
Thus, he needs to find new cult members.
Where's the sexual abuser gonna find them - among the female voters?
Among the younger generations?
What independent/undecided voter will say to themselves: "Sure, this serial sexual abuser who steals money from cancer charities was the worst President this country has ever seen, and he's directly responsible for the deaths of 500,000 Americans, but I reckon I'll give him another chance anyway"?
Trump remains a favorite among many GOP voters. It’s early, but
polls tell us he is ahead of every GOP rival, potential candidates or
the few who have actually announced. And his recent indictment in
Manhattan only made him
more popular with some Republicans and
arguably (at least for now) more likely to win the GOP nomination.
This is where trouble kicks in for the Republican Party. Trump may
still have his GOP fans,
but he is wildly unpopular among Americans
in general.
A recent ABC News/Ipsos poll shows Joe Biden with a dismal
34% favorability rating—but as bad as that is, Trump’s numbers are
worse:
Only 25% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the
failed former president.
And an NPR/Marist poll found only
38% of adults hoping the failed
former president is elected in 2024.
And so, if the polls are right, a lot of GOP voters are rallying around
the man who said we’d get tired of winning—but is responsible for
a whole lot of GOP losing.
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Excerpted from THE HILL, 13 April 2023.