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Beautiful Disaster

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46. The rural folks are the only reason the GOP is even competitive in these states.

Wed Jan 4, 2023, 08:34 PM

Jan 2023

This isn't really hard to understand. Sure, there are Trump voters that exist in urban areas but they're a very small minority. Trump won 5% of the vote in Detroit.

That still netted him nearly 300,000 votes but it's such a paltry amount overall compared to the amount who voted that they don't make a dent in Detroit politics.

There's hardly any Trump support in urban America. The more you move out of urban America and into the suburbs/exurbs and then the rural areas, his support grows significantly. But at the end of the day, rural voters overwhelmingly support Trump. Like, to extreme numbers. That's not up for debate.

People talk about rural folks because they overwhelmingly support Trump - to the tune of 70-90%. His pulling in five-percent in Detroit is irrelevant. Absolutely irrelevant.

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Totally agree. Sky Jewels Jan 2023 #44

Then why are most Trump voters in MI from urban or mostly urban counties? Kaleva Jan 2023 #30

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That's such a disingenuous stat, tho. Beautiful Disaster Jan 2023 #36

Trump would be a complete non factor in MI Kaleva Jan 2023 #45

The rural folks are the only reason the GOP is even competitive in these states. Beautiful Disaster Jan 2023 #46

It's the urban folks who make Trump competitive in these states Kaleva Jan 2023 #47

Trump won only 5% of the vote in Detroit. Beautiful Disaster Jan 2023 #59

Where did the majority of Trump's votes come from? Kaleva Jan 2023 #60

Trump in 2020 did as well in the Detroit region as Romney. Beautiful Disaster Jan 2023 #61

Look at the numbers and not the percentages Kaleva Jan 2023 #62

Na'. Beautiful Disaster Jan 2023 #63

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Trump would not have won Michigan in 2016 if he had similar rural numbers as Romney did in 2012. Beautiful Disaster Jan 2023 #65

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