Hungry Ojos said:
Joes said:
Rapier108 said:
Trump *might* be ahead in the polls (sorry, I don't trust polls in general), but for the sake of the thread we'll assume they're correct, Republicans are getting crushed down ballot in most swing states. This actually does not bode well for Trump because there is a good chance a lot of people voting against Biden but down ballot for the Democrats, as of right now, will end up voting for Biden when they actually cast their vote.
Biden facing uphill battle in key battleground states as down-ballot Dems lead: poll | Fox News
Yeah, I'll hope for the best and I'd rather have good signs than bad but regardless of what the polls say right now or to what degree cheating happened last time or whatever, the bottom line is that I followed the election threads here closely in 2020 and 2022 and tons of people said Trump had it wrapped up, with many confident of even a landslide, in 2020, and then in 2022 we were promised a red wave in revenge for 2020. Neither happened. So I'll remain justifiably skeptical until I actually see him being sworn in. There's a lot of time left.
Do you think Biden would have won the 2020 election if there were no mail in balloting?
I don't know, I don't personally have enough proof of the exact numbers to know either way, maybe he wouldn't have been. I have no problem accepting that some cheating went on last time, but I also think the extreme claims of tens of millions of fake votes is ridiculous. So was it tens of thousands of fake votes in strategic counties or 40 million fake votes blanketed everywhere. Who knows, I assume something in between.
But your question only proves my point further, whether Trump loses legitimately this time, or gets cheated out of it, or wins but then gets assassinated the day after the election, or whatever, I think I have every reason to be skeptical he'll ever be sworn in again, and that's all that matters.
So, I see what you're trying to say, but "We were actually right in 2020 but they cheated" doesn't change the fact that Biden has been in the White House. If your team loses a championship game that everyone knows and saw was because of a criminally blatant bad call and it turns out the ref was an alum of the other school it doesn't change that fact that the other team will still be holding the trophy at the end.
No one wants to hear fans chant "We're the real champions!" while the trophy is sitting in your rival's case. If the Dems cheated and won and got away with it then I guess we better up our game because a moral victory is not going to save this country at this point and I'm past the point of exhaustion hearing excuses from our party about how we'd be winning if the other side wasn't so mean. So, I'll believe it when I see it.