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Some Democrats Want To Help Nikki Haley As A Way To Mess With Trump (www.huffpost.com)
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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That would be the most Dem thing Dems have ever done. Play games and get Haley elected when Biden would have just cruised over trump.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't suspect Biden will just cruise over Trump. Look at the polls, Trump leads in swing states. I hope Biden can win, but it won't be easy.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    If he's lost the Muslim vote, hopefully he has, he's gonna lose by enormous numbers. The numbers from 2020 support this.

    Georgia won by 11k votes - has 120k Muslims Arizona won by 10k votes has 109k Muslims Wisconsin won by 20k votes - has 68k Muslims Pennsylvania won by 80k votes has 150k Muslims Michigan won by 150k votes - has 241k Muslims

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Haley isn’t getting elected. She has virtually no path towards the GOP nomination. If she did, MAGATs aren’t going to vote for her unless he was on the ballot, and then if she did put him on the ballot, she’ll lose the moderate votes.

    Trump has a chance to cause chaos by losing another general election. He could also do even more damage by winning another general election. Haley, if she somehow won the primary and general, would be so much less destructive.

    So yeah, voting for Haley in the primary is the fucking move and it’s why I didn’t vote for Biden in the SC primary.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Nikki Haley's Sudden Wealth Rooted in Weapons Industry, Pro-War Advocacy Network.

    The former U.N. ambassador went from virtually no savings in 2017 to a small fortune in part from defense contracting and war advocacy ties.

    https://www.leefang.com/p/nikki-haleys-sudden-wealth-rooted

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Look, no Democrat is saying she'd be great or even close to being better than Biden.

    But she'd certainly be better than Trump. And if she can split the Republican votes in the general election, even better.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No, she wouldn't be. Trump at least has value from an accelerationist POV, Haley's going to do all things Trump would but as less of a publicly shitposting moron.

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  • [+] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Man - you were ON POINT until the final paragraph.

    Removed, rule 6. 24 hour ban.

    "No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning"

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think Biden is the accelerationist candidate. Why? Bc if Trump wins, the system will just roll over and enforce his whims. The Dems will just accept it, and there likely will never be any more democracy. It will be much harder to force change. However, if Biden wins, the right will not accept it. Either the republicans will attempt to disrupt the election results, or the right will escalate domestic terrorism, etc.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don’t care if she sucks. She won’t beat Trump in the end. The longer she stays in the race, the more angry he’s gonna get at his own party

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    People said the exact same shit about trump in 2016 and tried to do the same meta gaming shit you're trying to do, and look how that turned out. Ffs just admit you don't know what the fuck you're doing and vote like a normal person instead of big braining us into fascism again

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    She wins the primary if SCOTUS rules that Trump is an insurrectionist, and she polls well against Biden precisely because she appeals to "enlightened centrists."

    The question is not whether Trump should be barred as insurrectionist. The question is what candidate the leash holders of certain Justices want.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Jesus Christ when are you gonna learn that these stupid 4d chess moves don't fucking work? You're gonna be literally supporting republicans, and when that gets a republican in office again you're probably gonna blame 3rd party voters and leftists and young people and Russia and literally everyone other than yourself for republicans winning. This shit backfires all the time, don't fuck us all over with this "big brain" bullshit again please

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Don’t be fucking stupid. Trump is an existential threat to the Republic and Biden is unpopular.

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