Quote (ThatAlex @ Aug 11 2016 04:36pm)
True, I think Gary Johnson is probably going to get more than 3% (maybe around 5-6%), but I was just pointing out that Trump is likely to get around 40% of the vote or more. And even if he loses in a landslide, that amount is still disturbingly high for me.
Hell, even if Trump was running 3rd party on a similar platform and got just 10% of the vote, that would be disturbing to me. I can't wrap my head around why people think this man is the best option to be our next president. I suppose a lot of his support is simply from party loyalty, but still.
Not a lot, most. Almost all. He didn't actually bring new voters into the process, he simply got Republican GE voters to come forward and vote in the primary. 77% of Republicans are still "unsure" of whether the president is a U.S. citizen. Their party has become so disgustingly radicalized and detached from reality that literally anyone under their banner can manage 35% because these people have been sulking in an echo chamber for 30 years and they'll believe anything.
I'll say this though: people have no earthly idea how much risk Trump is at of losing this election
big. And I'm not talking losing it by 6-7%, he could get triaged by the RNC by Labor Day and become the 21st century Goldwater. He currently has
one office open in Florida right now, their Sarasota HQ, and this is after their campaign has bet it all on a strategy of being able to hold NC and then flip FL/OH/PA and sneak into the White House. They are so, so vulnerable to falling into the death spiral right now. He needs to get his act together and to get to the debates and then reassure the country that he can be presidential. He could still win this, but he is at serious risk of getting blown off the field.
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