BadMoonRisin said:
Which of the candidates polling sub 20% in their own primary do you think can win the general?
We don't have the ballot printing machine and the half a billion zuckerbucks to control "who counts the votes" that the Democrats do, so you can't just throw a guy up there and not even bother to have him campaign and get the most votes in history.
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But Republicans alone will not determine who can win the general. No doubt Trump has the largest group of core supporters. The problem is he also has an equally large % of the population who hate him so much that they will vote for anyone who is running against him even if they can't stand Biden. See, the % of support Trump gets is only factoring in those who will vote for him in the primary. There's a significant % of the population we will also need to vote on our side in the general that is not among the polling for Republican primary winner. Whether we like that fact or not, it's reality. We have to carry the swing states too to get to 270 electoral votes.
This is about who can possibly get the most votes in the general, not who can get the most in a primary. The demographics are different between those two elections because many people who might vote against Biden won't be voting in a republican primary where they don't really care about that outcome… and thus aren't factored into the republican primary polls.
If we don't win, all is for naught and these discussions about which candidate is best to counter the marxists is all academic. I give Trump credit where credit is due. He did a lot of good things for the country. Unfortunately he failed at a lot of things too.
In the end, we conservatives hopefully all want the same thing - to get the democrats out of power first and foremost. Which candidate will help us accomplish that is anyone's guess. I happen to think there's too much risk and downside with Trump because he didn't play smart politics and committed too many unforced errors that turns off too many moderates and women, whose votes we will need. He never learned the time honored skill of knowing when to STFU.
I will vote for whoever wins the Republican primary. Period. Anything is a vast improvement over the clown show we have now.