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Garrett78

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11. Without fraud, nobody with Trump's numbers can win, even with the electoral college in place.
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 04:45 PM
Nov 2019

His "strongly approve" number is in the 20s and his "strongly disapprove" number is almost twice as high.

It takes a lot of foreign interference and voter suppression to make a Trump re-election even remotely possible.

And consider all of the factors in his favor in 2016. His opponent was a polarizing figure who had, sadly, been under relentless attack for 25 years (a quarter of a century!). There was the last minute Comey announcement. Trump had the newness factor going for him, meaning Trump fatigue was not yet a reality and the media was more enamored with him. He was a massive underdog, so there were undoubtedly a lot of ignorant and overconfident people who basically said, "I'll give him a shot; he can't win anyway." Or, "I'll just stay home, because I know Clinton will win and I don't really like either candidate." All of that is why, if not for the prospect of election fraud, I'd be extremely confident in a landslide (where we take MI, PA, WI, FL, NC, GA, AZ, etc.).

But it all comes down to the bolded sentence above.

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