Yes, and he'll keep telling them that even if the rate goes down to zero.

[ShazzieB]

Because that's what he does. He doesn't care what's true, but only what he can get his cultists to believe. And his cultists will believe what he says, because he said it.

However...

There are lots of people who have voted for TSF in the past for various reasons...and not all of those people are ride or die cultists. Some of them can be reached; in fact, many of them are already sick of him. We should not lose sight of that.