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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 04:55 PM Feb 2020

Trump Encourages New Hampshire Supporters to Vote for 'Weak' Dem Candidate

President Donald Trump repeatedly encouraged his followers in New Hampshire to cross party lines and vote for the "weakest" candidate in Tuesday's Democratic primary during a rally on Monday night.

Trump was appearing in his first rally since being acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday. He at least twice appeared to advocate for "party raiding," the process of sabotaging an opposing political party by voting for a suitably "weak" candidate in their primary election.

"You have crossovers in primaries, don't you? I hear a lot of Republicans tomorrow will vote for the weakest candidate possible of the Democrats," Trump told the crowd. "Does that make sense? My only problem is I'm trying to figure out who is they're weakest candidate, I think they're all weak."

Trump touched on the topic again later in the rally, suggesting that the crowd choose whoever they thought was the weakest candidate.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-encourages-new-hampshire-supporters-to-vote-for-weak-dem-candidate/ar-BBZRAmX?ocid=msn360

Because rat fucking is the only way Trump can be reelected.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Trump Encourages New Hampshire Supporters to Vote for 'Weak' Dem Candidate (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 OP
Naw - OhZone Feb 2020 #1
Some GOP voters might be registered unaffiliated Wabbajack_ Feb 2020 #4
The goal is discord. Voltaire2 Feb 2020 #2
If Pete somehow wins again squirecam Feb 2020 #3
Not unless there is a clusterfuck. Voltaire2 Feb 2020 #6
If you are going to be run over by a bus squirecam Feb 2020 #7
At a phantom toll booth of course. Voltaire2 Feb 2020 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author redqueen Feb 2020 #5
trump really wants to run against sanders Gothmog Feb 2020 #8
 

OhZone

(3,212 posts)
1. Naw -
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 04:58 PM
Feb 2020

Registered Republicans can't cross over, only unaffiliated, from what I understand.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Wabbajack_

(1,300 posts)
4. Some GOP voters might be registered unaffiliated
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 05:04 PM
Feb 2020

Those that know the rules could have planned ahead.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

Voltaire2

(13,017 posts)
2. The goal is discord.
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 05:00 PM
Feb 2020

Nobody has to actually do anything. NH is not really an open primary, Republicans can’t vote in the Democratic primary. But by making statements like this the intention is to get us to think the results are not legitimate. It is a troll.

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squirecam

(2,706 posts)
3. If Pete somehow wins again
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 05:02 PM
Feb 2020

Won’t there be the same questioning of the results anyway?

I fully expect Sanders to win tonight though.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Voltaire2

(13,017 posts)
6. Not unless there is a clusterfuck.
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 05:14 PM
Feb 2020

Iowa was a disaster because of the halfassed app that got foisted on them.

NH has a pretty good system that uses optical scan paper ballots. We have never had a legitimacy issue, except in rightwing mythology where phantom bus loads of Massachusetts voters somehow convince the (typically) little old ladies who volunteer to check the rolls that they are residents of the town.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Undecided
 

squirecam

(2,706 posts)
7. If you are going to be run over by a bus
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 06:32 PM
Feb 2020

It should be a phantom bus.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Voltaire2

(13,017 posts)
9. At a phantom toll booth of course.
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 07:15 PM
Feb 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided

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Gothmog

(145,130 posts)
8. trump really wants to run against sanders
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 06:35 PM
Feb 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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