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Kaleva

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29. In MI, about 75% of TFG voters live in urban or mostly urban counties

Reply to Samrob (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2022, 07:44 PM

Apr 2022

TFG got as many votes in Wayne County (metro Detroit) as he did in all of rural Upper Michigan and much of northern Lower Michigan combined.

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So, if 79% of rural voters voted for Trump in 2020, what did Trump do for them from 2017 - 2020? [View all] Samrob Apr 2022 OP

He gave them 3 judges that will for decades Tree Lady Apr 2022 #1

He validated their racism, bigotry, misogyny, misanthropy, backwardness, provincialism, Aristus Apr 2022 #2

+1 Irish_Dem Apr 2022 #4

It's exactly what I see where I live. IA8IT Apr 2022 #10

+1 nt. andym Apr 2022 #34

Yup he gave them what they voted for JI7 Apr 2022 #35

He owned the libs every damn day. Voltaire2 Apr 2022 #36

SCOTUS seats to their liking, legitimized racism and misogyny in political conversation 0rganism Apr 2022 #3

Owned the libs and said the mean hateful things they wanna say. SoonerPride Apr 2022 #5

Trump voter: 'He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting' Celerity Apr 2022 #27

Trump voter: 'He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting' Celerity Apr 2022 #28

HE OWNED THE LIBS usonian Apr 2022 #6

But he did a fab job of FAKE Owning the Libs Achilleaze Apr 2022 #11

Cheer up, I hear that there are snakes in the pipes in Florida. nt. usonian Apr 2022 #19

+1, he was in the fight WITH THEM against their threat to their mental world uponit7771 Apr 2022 #18

He hated, badmouthed , and hurt the people they hate, badmouth, and want to hurt. RockRaven Apr 2022 #7

He fucked them over with agricultural tariffs that continue to hurt them... keep_left Apr 2022 #8

Trump doled out huge farm subsidies to keep rural voters Devilsun Apr 2022 #9

Yep. Forgot about that. Bribe (some of) the farmers, and the rest of us pay double... keep_left Apr 2022 #13

Hardly anyone is actually a farmer. Voltaire2 Apr 2022 #37

It's a waste of time to try to influence cultists. Their destruction politically and abqtommy Apr 2022 #12

+10000000000000000 Celerity Apr 2022 #26

And most of them live in urban counties Kaleva Apr 2022 #30

I think Biden should make the Dept. of Rural Development cabinet level nuxvomica Apr 2022 #14

He let the fascist out of the closet and demanded the media treat them as normal. onecaliberal Apr 2022 #15

He told them that racism is perfectly acceptable Novara Apr 2022 #16

She was far too kind. I'd be banned if I said what I think they are. onecaliberal Apr 2022 #17

+1, he was their champion uponit7771 Apr 2022 #31

He created caricatures and cherry-picked people on our side for rural folks to resent gulliver Apr 2022 #20

Jesus and Freedom budkin Apr 2022 #21

Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2022 #22

He vocalized their putrid racist and xenophobic beliefs... EarthFirst Apr 2022 #23

"Do Dems ask them these questions?" What does that mean? betsuni Apr 2022 #24

He allowed them to say Tickle Apr 2022 #25

In MI, about 75% of TFG voters live in urban or mostly urban counties Kaleva Apr 2022 #29

Trump promoted their "values" which are often biased and narrow-minded andym Apr 2022 #32

he hates brown people Skittles Apr 2022 #33