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captain queeg

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6. The rethugs are all about staying in power. If trump continues to lose support they'll vote

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Mon Jan 18, 2021, 04:22 PM

Jan 2021

To convict. Trump had an iron clad following, and a large part of it were people that wouldn’t normally vote for R, or maybe even vote at all. He thought that as long as they supported trump they wouldn’t have to campaign to lock in that voting block. As those voters abandon trump the rethugs will free to do so. Of course many Rs support most of his ideas anyway so it’s not going to be a huge migration away from the rethug party, but it will be significant. Also I’m sure most of them can’t stand trump personally.