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The blue wall is 235-ish EV due to 2020 census changes. DeSantis needs to win Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania or he has no chance.

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[–] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

DeSantis needs to win…

In what possible universe will DeSantis be the Republican candidate over Trump? DeSantis has record high disapproval numbers. Every time he speaks, people like him less. His whole platform is hurting gays and blacks. Plus, they could use his whiny, nasally voice in Gitmo as a form of torture.

[–] jscummy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

So that's what he did at Gitmo

[–] AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The republicans will cheat as usual so ya.

[–] CheeseAndCrepes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

They do and don’t DARE let anyone tell you different. They want us on the left thinking they’re done, that they have no chance. But in reality if we don’t get out and vote in a big way there will be a massive red wave instead and we’ll all be standing around wondering what happened.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They've been busy disenfranchising voters, gerrymandering, removing polling stations, and rigging the system in literally any way they can.
They not only have a chance, but an advantage. We almost took the Senate and House last cycle but despite record voter turnout, a HUGE number of people still stayed home.
Thinking for a second that the Left has 2024 in the bag is essentially handing the election to the Right.

[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Exactly. We all saw how "Hillary has this locked up, there's no way Trump wins" worked out in 2016. Even if the Democrats are leading by a landslide in every poll leading up to election day, we should still act as though it's a 50-50 race with every vote potentially tipping it one way or the other.

[–] markr@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are a lot of very stupid angry white people.

[–] Turkey_Titty_city@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

and latinos. and a minority of blacks and asians. That forms a plurality.

crazy conservative people are not defined by race.

lots of immigrants voted for Trump because the funny thing about immigrants is that they HATE new/future immigrants.

a lot liberal smart white people need to get their heads out of their asses about the political reality and stop making stupid assumptions about other groups.

Getting smart, liberal, white people to pull their heads out of their asses and come down from their egos is just about as impossible as getting dumb, conservative, rednecks from not voting against their interests.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Funny enough, if the GOP could just stop being so goddamn racist, they'd win every election in the white house and congress for the rest of all time. The only real thing uniting the various democratic groups is the racism of Republicans.

Black voters don't like the fact that gay or trans people exist.

Latinos don't like social welfare programs.

Asians don't like equity programs.

College educated whites don't like seeing any of the previous 3 groups in their neighborhood, bringing down property values.

Young people don't like voting.

There's really not a lot of common values bringing these groups together. Except the general "let's not be racist assholes, at least openly in public" thing.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

College educated whites don’t like seeing any of the previous 3 groups in their neighborhood, bringing down property values.

This isn't a thing, at least I have never seen that. Most College educated whites look for diverse neighborhoods to live in.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You've never even heard of the suburbs?

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Suburbs can be very diverse these days, especially older neighborhoods. The barriers to home ownership is largely income based not racial based. Also a college education isn't part of that equation.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What a strange, wonderful fantasy world you live in.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok, can you show some evidence to refute my point? I'm sure there must be something in the red states that backs your statement. Please share.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I refuse to provide sources for obvious statements. Either your experience in the world is so limited it's warped your view of what's normal, or you're asking for evidence in bad faith. Either way it's impossible to convince you of anything until you do a little maturing.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sealioning-internet-trolling

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Chcc_Ci36Vw

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So you admit you are wrong and based your comments on an assumed position and not one based on facts. Thank you.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

The sealion politely demands evidence for even the most mundane or self-evident statements and insists that you justify your opinions until he's satisfied—which he never is, since he's asking questions in bad faith.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social -4 points 2 years ago

Cheaters always have a chance.

p.s. You're extra delusional if you think DeSantis will be the nominee. DeSantis is on track to lose the Florida primary.