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Originally Posted by miked
You could run Ronald Reagan against Trump and the right would paint Reagan as a socialist who wants to let illegals rape your wife and collect your tax refund. Herschel Walker took 49+ percent of the vote in Georgia running against Warnock, a fairly vanilla candidate who has done 10000x more good than Walker for the world. If you think Newsome or Whitmer would be running away with the election, you are not very smart.
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I read a study a while back that showed that the right tends to align their views with their political leaders while the left tends to be more consistent in their views regardless of party leadership.
That's what kills dems when someone like Trump comes along. The right has no problem getting behind their leader because they've been conditioned to fear the left more than anything else on this planet. The left tends to want someone that checks every box for their own, personal beliefs and either don't vote or reluctantly vote if their candidate doesn't win a primary.
We're trending toward another 2016 where a good portion of the left wanted someone other than Hillary and after seeing how bad Trump was blamed those that voted for her for Trump winning.
Over 81 million people voted for Biden in the last election and, considering the hand he started with, he's checked a lot of boxes. I doesn't bother me to see people complain that he's too old or they'd prefer another candidate, but it's ridiculous to ignore his accomplishments coming out of the Trump Presidency, a pandemic, a nearly split Senate, and not having control of the House to close out his term. Compared to 2020, other than age, what makes him such a bad candidate now? He's not my ideal candidate and wouldn't make my top or even top 10, but I'm voting for him without hesitation. I'd prefer the person not actively trying to make my life worse not be in office.