• Flax
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    -14 months ago

    I feel like he was just registered republican as he really wanted to vote against trump, even to get him out of the nomination

    • @kevindqc
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      134 months ago

      His classmates said he was definitely conservative.

      • @whoreticulture
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        104 months ago

        He could have been a conservative who didn’t like Trump though, they do exist, as rare as they seem…

    • @EnderWiggin
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      4 months ago

      This has been pretty thoroughly debunked by now. The kid was a conservative through and through. Why he’d shoot the presumptive nominee of his own party is a mystery though, and we might not ever find out.

    • @chiliedogg
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      It’s pretty common for people to vote in the other party’s primary (which is what registers you in most states) when they’ve got an incumbent from their own.

        • @chiliedogg
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          14 months ago

          If they view their own primary as unimportant, they can register with the other party and vote for the least-objectionable (or, more nefariously, the least-electable) candidates.

          I registered Republican this year because the Dems in my primary were already locked in. So I’m technically a registered Republican even though I’ve never voted Republican in the general election.