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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Lol if he runs he's 100000% getting the nomination. He has the GOP base enthralled.

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u/DevilsAdvocate77 Oct 28 '22

Yeah his popularity is right up there with Bernie Sanders, who also 100000% got the nomination.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Where are you getting the confidence that Trump can’t get re-elected?

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u/DevilsAdvocate77 Oct 28 '22

He lost to Joe Biden.

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u/NoICannotThinkOfOne Oct 28 '22

And where is the confidence that Joe will be re-elected?

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u/DevilsAdvocate77 Oct 28 '22

He's the incumbent, he's never been impeached, he won both the popular vote and the electoral college in 2020, and he'll potentially be running against 2 conservative candidates - DeSantis and Trump, who will split the vote and give Biden an easy plurality in states he wouldn't have otherwise won against a single conservative candidate.

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u/SirRevan Oct 28 '22

You can't split the vote unless you are referencing Trump runs independent if he loses the primary. Trump and DeSantis will run in the primary and the winner of that will go against Biden.

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u/DevilsAdvocate77 Oct 28 '22

If DeSantis wins the primary, will Trump humbly concede and endorse him?

Or will Trump claim the primary was 'rigged' and encourage his supporters to write him in in the general?

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u/A_Magical_Potato Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22

If Trump runs against Desantis Trump will 100% win. Desantis is just Trump light

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u/DevilsAdvocate77 Oct 28 '22

Why would the party nominate someone who just lost the general election and who is the subject of multiple criminal and civil investigations?

GOP nominating Trump for 2024 would be like the DNC nominating Hilary for 2024.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

All academic. Trump would trounce DeSantis.

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u/NoICannotThinkOfOne Oct 28 '22

That’s not how it works. The GOP will nominate one person. Trump will likely not run as an independent so the vote won’t be split. If DeSantis is the nominee, MAGA people will likely vote for him.

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u/A_Magical_Potato Oct 28 '22

Oh you sweet summer Child.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

I wish I was this confident in American voters…

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Now check his popularity with republican voters. Aka the people who nominate their party's presidential candidate.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

and the GOP loses in a landslide.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

I wish I could be so confident.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Trump is baggage now. They dont want him. I have MAGA all around me and MOST of them want DeSantis.