"I told them they can't see their grandkids anymore if they vote for him" [View all]

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To get votes, families are cutting deals

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"I told my mom, 'Feel free in four years, vote for a Republican, anyone who is reasonable,' " Dave McDonnell, 44, said about a conversation with his mother, who is one of this election's pivotal voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania.

" 'But just this year, this year's different. I just ask that you don't vote for Trump,' I told her. I think she's under a lot of pressure from my siblings, too," said McDonnell, an engineer in Baltimore.

Amid all the get-out-and-vote cheerleading, postcard-writing and phone-banking, folks are trying to see whether they can make a difference among the people they know best. And they're being ruthless.

"I told them they can't see their grandkids anymore if they vote for him," Sheerie, a 36-year-old mother of four in Roswell, Ga., told me, about her desperation to break through with her Trump-loving parents. "I just don't think they can hold those views and be with the kids."

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/To-get-votes-families-are-cutting-deals-15659568.php

This is the brother-against-brother part of the battle. Families and friends who could once put politics aside over turkey and birthday cake are now firmly cleaved. It's crunch time. And some are using everything they have to change minds.

"Desperate times, absurdist measures," tweeted author and television writer David Simon, in the bargain he is offering to his fans.

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"If you voted Trump, or 3rd party, or sat out 2016 and are now willing to end vile misrule by voting for Biden," he wrote, "send a photo of you in voting line or your mail-in ballot and I'll send a written apology for killing any TV character. #HonorSystem."