• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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        That’s cool, cause they seem to be losing elections in red states. The swing appears to be such that short of screening for voter intentions at the door would still have them lose. Not that I have much faith they won’t adjust the results after the fact.

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          Yeah, they don’t need to worry about red states because god emperor Trump will just order the Republicans in power in those states to cook the books and give them the win no matter what.

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            That’s evidently untrue, given that two dozen districts Donald won in 2024 have flipped this year. The simple fact here is that they cannot adequately deduce where they have enough strength to win at this point. Donald has become that unpopular.

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      They do not, which is why Miller, Bannon, Rubio et all are begging Donald to invoke the Insurrection Act. With the US military they could do some real damage to the next election.

      The problem, though, is that they’re so vastly unpopular that it may not even matter. They stopped the extreme gerrymandering attempts because the evidence mounted fairly quickly that they’d destroyed the coalition they built to win the 2024 elections, so all the gerrymandering was really accomplishing was making them even more unpopular. That has been evident by the two-dozen districts that have flipped in the elections since, all of which were won by Donald in 2024 and most won by Donald by double digits.

      I expect that Donald will escalate wildly in the coming months, because even all of the abundant evidence that his politics and aggression so far are losing him the 2026 elections hasn’t been enough to make him stop. He lives by the Roy Cohn doctrine, which means never giving up and never admitting defeat. Ever.