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kentuck

(115,615 posts)
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 07:09 PM Jul 2024

Just a week ago, Trump supporters were confident he had the election in the bag.

Today, they are not so confident.

If Trump loses, it doesn't mean the election was rigged. It means that Kamala Harris and the Democrats kicked his old, weird, and lyin' ass.

Today, they are running scared.

After Joe faltered at the debate, after Trump was almost assassinated, after their "unity" Convention, they haven't moved at all. Normally, each of those events would have shown a jump in the polls for the Republicans. Even FOX Propaganda is on the verge of panic.

After the Democrats hold their Convention and Kamala is nominated, it is expected that the polls will go even higher for the Democrats.

Then, the only way Trump can win is if he tries to rig the election.

To quote Dr Martin Luther King, Jr: "We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."

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Just a week ago, Trump supporters were confident he had the election in the bag. (Original Post) kentuck Jul 2024 OP
Yeah, they were also confident he won the last election. Think. Again. Jul 2024 #1
Today they are freaking out. honest.abe Jul 2024 #2
want to use much stronger words but cant. AllaN01Bear Jul 2024 #10
"if he tries to rig the election" -- He tried before. He and Republicans would certainly try again. n/t Beartracks Jul 2024 #3
He sure did. Twice. ShazzieB Jul 2024 #8
Actually, it should be "WHEN he tries to ...." FoxNewsSucks Jul 2024 #9
Good catch! ShazzieB Jul 2024 #13
Their accusations that Democrats cheat is a broadcast of their own intentions. Beartracks Jul 2024 #19
The fact that he says to people, I don't need the votes, we have hired lawyers Bev54 Jul 2024 #4
I wanna believe bucolic_frolic Jul 2024 #5
We have to win big DownriverDem Jul 2024 #6
Trying to rig the election BOSSHOG Jul 2024 #7
I'd like to think Democrats could see a complete rout of all republicon scum FoxNewsSucks Jul 2024 #11
The election Meowmee Jul 2024 #12
It never was "in the bag" for him. n/t valleyrogue Jul 2024 #14
Agree with you kentuck. Trump is now looking very old and tired. And he and his magat's are getting nastier then ever debm55 Jul 2024 #15
This whole election cycle has been a rollercoaster. I'm taking everything with a grain of salt. PeaceWave Jul 2024 #16
Tries to RIG?! VBNMW Jul 2024 #17
MAGA thought process: Dems cheat by expanding voting hours, Dems cheat by making voter registration easier BlueWaveNeverEnd Jul 2024 #18

Beartracks

(14,653 posts)
3. "if he tries to rig the election" -- He tried before. He and Republicans would certainly try again. n/t
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 07:16 PM
Jul 2024

FoxNewsSucks

(11,913 posts)
9. Actually, it should be "WHEN he tries to ...."
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 09:58 PM
Jul 2024

They already know they can't legitimately win anything, so the cheating and stealing are always underway.

ShazzieB

(22,873 posts)
13. Good catch!
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 10:54 PM
Jul 2024

Last edited Mon Jul 29, 2024, 06:24 PM - Edit history (1)

Because it is absolutely a foregone conclusion that he is going to try. No doubt about it!

Bev54

(13,517 posts)
4. The fact that he says to people, I don't need the votes, we have hired lawyers
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 07:16 PM
Jul 2024

to be at all the polling sites, tells me they are certainly preparing to challenge people's votes. This is one of likely many schemes afoot.

bucolic_frolic

(55,804 posts)
5. I wanna believe
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 07:16 PM
Jul 2024

I have difficulty seeing any upside for Trump-Vance.

We have upside. If we falter, not all our disaffected will go to Trump. Many will stay home.

People vote for various reasons. Anger is usually a change or occasionally a watershed election.

But there is also panic. Fear. Americans who are informed are terrified at Trump playing Hitler 2.

The stars are aligning. Democrats need to bring them home.

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
7. Trying to rig the election
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 09:05 PM
Jul 2024

Done deal, regardless of polling data, but the law and order folks, ya know the good guys, will work for a free and fair election. If Japan had advertised months in advance that they were going to attack Pearl Harbor with planes from aircraft carriers there WOULD have been a different outcome.

FoxNewsSucks

(11,913 posts)
11. I'd like to think Democrats could see a complete rout of all republicon scum
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 10:04 PM
Jul 2024

I'd so love to be confident.

But then I remember how much of the American public ignorantly and inattentively follows the corporate media.

And no matter what, the MAGA side has 100:1 or more people working on winning. No matter how. No matter the cost. They shouldn't have won anything for decades, but they do.

I fervently hope that Dems have finally learned this and are working to overcome it.

Meowmee

(9,212 posts)
12. The election
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 10:18 PM
Jul 2024

Is not “in the bag” for anyone. Behave like you are behind, and do what needs to be done to win. Anything else is folly. I hope d win and win big. Then I can hopefully finally forget about a threat from the monster. Except that he and his crew will most definitely try to challenge it and the so called SC will I predict be on his side. This time he is not in power so he can’t do another J6 so easily.

debm55

(61,671 posts)
15. Agree with you kentuck. Trump is now looking very old and tired. And he and his magat's are getting nastier then ever
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 11:10 PM
Jul 2024

PeaceWave

(3,689 posts)
16. This whole election cycle has been a rollercoaster. I'm taking everything with a grain of salt.
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 11:15 PM
Jul 2024
 

VBNMW

(67 posts)
17. Tries to RIG?!
Sun Jul 28, 2024, 03:39 PM
Jul 2024

The fix is already in! Just like last time. Complete with a rerun at the capitol if he loses.

He lost his shit losing to Biden. Imagine the tantrum that will be thrown when he loses to the first Black Woman President!

I hope the good guys are ready? Because I'm not hearing a plan, other than, we'll call in the Guard.

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,972 posts)
18. MAGA thought process: Dems cheat by expanding voting hours, Dems cheat by making voter registration easier
Sun Jul 28, 2024, 03:44 PM
Jul 2024

Dems cheat by advertising voting, Dems cheat by having more ballot boxes, Dems cheat by not making voting hard for anybody but old white people.

they truly consider the above cheating... I hear it on talk radio.

Now - Dems cheat by swapping candidates.

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