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In reply to the discussion: We Are Watching the Probable Demise of Trump's Reelection in Real Time [View all]paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)The number of people who voted for him and then became disillusioned is not a huge percentage of the population, but it is a significant number of swing voters, plus some old-style republicans. On the other hand, people who didn't like him before but do now are practically nonexistent.
Some will argue that there'll be a lot of vote suppression and other cheating, but I say that they already had those about as fully deployed in 2016 as they do now. Trump won Wisconsin by just ~23k votes when ten times that number had been suppressed, and he won Arizona by ~91k when three times that number had been suppressed. I don't think he has any path to getting those close states back now.
But there's always the worry that our party will once again find a way to lose, so having him screw up so badly on this issue in such a public and quotable way is definitely reassuring electorally (though not for our health, of course).