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If Trump is actually ahead in the popular vote, and if the Republicans actually play smart and harvest ballots even half as well as Democrats do, then Trump will win. It's simply not going to happen for Biden.
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This entire article is one big tank of copium. Simply given population centers' tendency to vote Democrat, there is almost no chance that a Republican earns the popular vote but loses the election. That seemingly only happens to Democrats for a reason.Quote:
There's a whole industry out there engaged in spinning polls and shifting expectations to show that Donald Trump is going to win by a massive landslide, sweeping godless woke liberalism out of power in Washington and instituting his long-promised era of vengeance and vindication. Presumably some of this is harmless hype designed to attract MAGA eyeballs and keep Republican enthusiasm high. The more sinister possibility is that spinmeisters are creating the foundation for another Trump challenge to the outcome if he loses; after all, if you've been hearing for months that he's far ahead then any adverse vote count has to be "rigged," right?
Beneath all the noise about Trump riding high is some actual empirical evidence that's he's improving on his 2020 performance. That's most obvious in national popular vote estimates: Trump lost by 4.5 percent in 2020 and is leading, albeit modestly, in 2024 national polls. But it's also evident in particular states where he didn't do well at all last time around. Lately there's a lot of buzz about Trump being competitive in supposedly deep-blue Virginia, as the Wall Street Journal reports:
If Trump is actually ahead in the popular vote, and if the Republicans actually play smart and harvest ballots even half as well as Democrats do, then Trump will win. It's simply not going to happen for Biden.