• atrielienz@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I think you’re reading things into what I said that you probably shouldn’t be, and that’s skewing how you read what I wrote. I am fully aware of how close polls are to how many votes he’s likely to get. But overall what I’m pointing out is that he does not have half of the eligible voting population at his back. There’s a significant number of registered voters who do not vote and therein lies the reason the polls are currently showing him as competitive with Harris. If more people vote that gap widens. I went with the numbers for the last time he won to illustrate the point of what happens when people don’t vote in the election.

    You’ll note that I said specifically that this is why people are urging everyone who can vote to vote.

    This is worded the way it is to illustrate to outsiders that it’s not half the country supporting Trump because that’s been a really big assumption I have seen repeatedly.