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In reply to the discussion: Donald Trump Suffers Huge Vote Against Him in Pennsylvania Primary [View all]Pretty Fly
(66 posts)Trump barely did worse than Biden in his primary and yet everyone is jumping for joy in this thread like it somehow means he's bleeding out support.
The reality is that if we're setting parameters on what constitutes bad showings, we're also adding Biden to that list because there have been a handful of states - including some important ones - where he's faced a fairly sizable opposing vote.
My point? I think people are reading too much into the primaries. They're not relevant. They don't prove anything. Trump likely winning Pennsylvania with 84% means nothing more or less than Biden winning it with 88%.
And if you think Trump received a huge vote against him, you've got to concede Biden kinda did too. 123,757 Democrats so far have voted for someone other than Biden. 157,136 Republicans voted for someone other than Trump. Not that dissimilar. If it's a problem for Trump, it's a problem for Biden.
But I don't think it's relevant either way.
That's it. And using primaries as 'gotcha' kinda narratives I think can go both ways. Trust me. I didn't like it when the media ran up the flag pole this idea that Biden was dead to rights in Michigan because 145,000 Michigan Democrats voted for someone other than Biden.