• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Why can’t Joe beat Trump? Because he seems old and confuses things? You think that’s why people are voting for Trump?

    • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Because last time he beat Trump it was because Covid was the top worry and of course people want the party that promotes health care over Trump when their biggest fear is a global pandemic. Now peoples fears are money. You run the same campaign you ran in 2020 and you’ll lose.

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      5 months ago

      Biden only beat Trump the first time around because of historic voter turnout. Voters just aren’t as enthusiastic to keep Trump out this year.

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        5 months ago

        Don’t forget that the actively malicious option is also old and confused as well.

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      5 months ago

      I mean, if you look at track records, Biden already beat Trump in 100% of previous elections.

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      Yes. There’s partisans who vote Trump no matter what, but there’s also a pretty large number of “low information voters”. Rather than being necessarily dumb, many of these are people from all kinds of different walks of life who just don’t follow politics that closely and prefer to follow things like dating reality shows or sports instead. These people are not really aware of what happened on Jan 6 other than that there was some sort of riot at the Capitol. They know Trump was charged with a bunch of crimes, but don’t know if they were real crimes or just politics. And when these people see Trump lying confidently and Joe Biden being barely intelligible in response, they like Trump better.

      It sucks, yes. But it’s reality. Democrats need someone who can answer Trump forcefully. Or they will lose.