• @3volver
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    -56 months ago

    That’s probably why he won’t win again. It would be amazing to have a convicted felon as president, he’d go from being a distraction to being the thing that causes serious unrest.

    • Flying Squid
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      136 months ago

      I said he wouldn’t win in 2016. I was wrong.

      • @3volver
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        16 months ago

        Okay so I’ll say he will win in 2024 so then I’ll be wrong as well. It would be crazy if he won as a convicted felon, after being impeached twice, after losing in 2020 by a landslide.

        • Flying Squid
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          126 months ago

          He did not lose in 2020 by a landslide. That’s just not true.

          Biden won the election with 306 electoral votes and 51.3% of the national popular vote, compared to Trump’s 232 electoral votes and 46.9% of the popular vote.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_elections

          So suggesting he has no chance of winning when he came that close four years ago and he’s likely not lost a huge number of fans is a little premature.

          • @UnderpantsWeevil
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            86 months ago

            Numbers are even worse when you consider swing states. AZ, GA, and PA swung Biden’s away by a net 40,000 votes. Razor thin margins, for any Dem candidate.

            People fixate on the popular vote, but California going Blue by an extra million votes doesn’t change anything

          • @kelargo
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            56 months ago

            It was only like 43000 votes across several swing states. Not by much at all.

            • @btaf45
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              16 months ago

              Convicted Felon and Sex Offender Treason Trump did however lose the popular vote in a landslide and the electoral vote in a landslide.

              • @UnderpantsWeevil
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                36 months ago

                The EC swings hard because it’s winner take all. A few thousand votes can account for dozens of ECs in deference.

        • @RunningInRVA
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          106 months ago

          I agree with the Squid. We should all be worried. He came ridiculously close last time. Remember the electoral college is not helping. It was basically thousands of votes in 2020 that saved us.

        • SaltySalamander
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          66 months ago

          Trump got the 2nd most votes of any presidential candidate in history in 2020. It wasn’t a landslide.

        • @[email protected]
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          16 months ago

          Trump is currently favored in polls and in betting markets. Few people care about the convictions. People who would vote for him definitely don’t care about impeachments. The far-right has a very effective and expansive propaganda machine (old media, alternative media, and social media) that can counter any negative (“fake”) news. Biden is a very weak candidate because of his physical and mental health, and the Democrats are ineffective at “controlling the narrative” compared to the Republicans. I think it’ll probably be a close election, and if I was forced to bet, I’d bet on Trump winning.

    • @Cryophilia
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      46 months ago

      That doesn’t sound amazing at all, that sounds totally horrible

      • @3volver
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        26 months ago

        Yea, amazing wasn’t the right word choice. Probably should have used “absurd”, “ridiculous” or “bizarre” instead.

        • @[email protected]
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          36 months ago

          Amazing - causing great surprise or wonder; astonishing

          Nah you were all good imo lmao people just attribute amazing to positivity