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13% of 2020 Swing State Biden Voters Won’t Be in 2024 Because of Gaza: Polls (scheerpost.com)

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[–] robinnn@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

but in 2020 there was no way I was going to give up even one vote against Trump.

Democrats support Trump and the like in the GOP to have propped up extreme opposition and make you think it's your own idea to vote for them as the "lesser evil."

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428

So to take [Jeb] Bush down, Clinton’s team drew up a plan to pump Trump up. Shortly after her kickoff, top aides organized a strategy call, whose agenda included a memo to the Democratic National Committee: “This memo is intended to outline the strategy and goals a potential Hillary Clinton presidential campaign would have regarding the 2016 Republican presidential field,” it read.

“The variety of candidates is a positive here, and many of the lesser known can serve as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right. In this scenario, we don’t want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more ‘Pied Piper’ candidates who actually represent the mainstream of the Republican Party,” read the memo.

“Pied Piper candidates include, but aren’t limited to:

Ted Cruz

Donald Trump

Ben Carson

We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to [take] them seriously."

...

An agenda item for top aides’ message planning meeting read, “How do we prevent Bush from bettering himself/how do we maximize Trump and others?"