I don't really keep up with what is going on with Trump and the lawsuits against him but from what little I have seen it appears as if that dude is just being kept in court non-stop. To me it seems as though most of these suits are excessive and spurious but to be fair to anyone out there that actually does follow them, I don't really read into them very much because I already know that various news agencies are going to put their spin on it in order to get their viewers to believe what they want them to believe.
One thing that even the most liberal outlets have stated though is that these lawsuits, if they were intended to diminish public support for the guy, it seems to have backfired big time or "bigly."
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Polls can't really be trusted either because they only sample a certain amount of people and of course, they can alter the numbers to make the results whatever they want them to be as well. Despite that being the case, the polls show that Trump is actually gaining in popularity and in particular, among minorities.
Here's the thing: I believe that there are 3 kinds of voters in the USA right now: There are the people that have extreme hatred for Trump and would vote for a rock before they would vote for him, then there are the people who love him and would do the opposite, and then there are the Independents like me who rarely vote for a major party's candidate but can be swayed to do so if things are just right.
Well right now, things are very WRONG in this country and almost everyone agrees with that. I don't know very many people who think that they are better off now than they were 4 years ago and while it isn't fair to blame all of that on Biden, he certainly isn't helping. With tensions rising overseas between various nations that are on the brink of war, it is easy to agree that if Trump was in office, he would brashly tell the smaller nations to sit down and shut up as he has done many times before.
The number one issue right now in America (according to polls) is immigration and I don't think that anyone would argue that Biden is going to be tougher on that than Trump would be.
But I digress. The main point of what I brought this up for was to address the lawsuits that are going on against Trump right now and the timing, although it could be just a coincidence, is very suspicious when it is an election year. Whether it is true or not is not for us plebs to know but when people say that the timing of the lawsuits are designed to thwart Trump's ability to campaign with both his time and money, it is very easy to agree with that. Again, whether or not that is actually the situation doesn't really matter. Various "experts" are able to make it look like it was a coordinated strike and they are also able to make it look like it wasn't. I believe the word they use is "optics." As far as most of the public is concerned, people look at this and think that yes, the powers that be are intentionally trying to derail Trump's campaign.
I recall many years ago there was a guy named Ross Perot that was making a real run for the Presidency as a 3rd party candidate. For the first and only time in my lifetime, there were 3 podiums on the stage at the debates.
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Although I was very young in 1992 and don't clearly remember, there was a lot of talk about how Perot actually might be able to pull this off and win the Presidency. Yet, out of nowhere, he abruptly dropped out of the race and there are many theories as to why this was but one of them was that Perot was suddenly being inconvenienced and harassed in every aspect of his life. It was almost as though the political machine was going to do whatever was necessary to keep him out of the White House and disrupt the balance of power. I'm not one for buying into all conspiracy theories, but the idea that the real masters of the world don't actually live in D.C. is one that I definitely can buy into. I believe there is a core group of very powerful people that are the real rulers of the planet and their power supersedes even the Commander in Chief. Therefore, the idea that there is a group of people that will do whatever it takes to keep someone that is not "one of us" out of a position of power is something that I find to be very possible.
In the case of Trump or more specifically the legal cases against Trump, A lot of people are looking at this situation and starting to believe that yes, the government is evil, and yes, they are abusing their power in order to eliminate him at any cost. The Independents look at this situation even if they don't necessarily like the guy and start to see that the same power that is potentially being abused to attack one of the richest and most powerful people in the world, can and is used against all of us as well.
Recent polls are showing Trump leading in almost every state that were previously considered "Swing states" including North Carolina, where I live. NC is very close to being taken off the list of swing states because it is now in double digits in favor of Trump. So why is this happening?
Well the fact that Biden doesn't know how to talk doesn't help but when we look at what is happening to Trump it kind of takes the "swing" out of the state. Anyone who is Libertarian hates government overreach more than anything else so even the notion that a justice system is being abused is reason enough for us to not want whoever is currently in power to not have it anymore. I harp on about how our Democrat Governor didn't even try to enforce Covid lockdowns out of fear or appearing too authoritarian whereas other parts of the USA towed the line and capitulated. I know my state better than people that don't live here and while we do elect people from both sides of the aisle, they are not at all like the representatives with a certain letter next to their name that exist in other states that lean much more to one side than the other.
I believe that North Carolina is very sensitive to abuse of power. Whether it is real or perceived doesn't matter. The more they throw lawsuits at Trump the more likely we are to side with him, and I don't believe that we are alone in this feeling either.
I believe it is too late for this strategy to be abandoned as well, if it is in fact a strategy on the part of the left at all. They've gone too far to turn back now. The bottom line is that if this was a ploy to make Trump less popular, it isn't working.
I think everything is playing out exactly as intended by tptb. They do whatever it takes to keep our elections 50-50, and not just here, but all over the world. I said earlier today that I would not be surprised if Trump were both elected, and found guilty of something enough to be in prison. Surrealism is very much in vogue these days, and folks believe the darndest things.
You leave out that the lefties who would vote for a rock before voting for Trump (which they did in 2020) believe that anyone who would vote for Trump is a white supremacist, homophobic, racist, with multiple firearms and a penchant for opening fire in schools. They fear that the country is being overrun by hateful, murderous, mostly white folk who are out to get them and everything they hold dear. The right feels the same way when they look at the witch hunt going on against Trump. This entire thing is clearly being managed, and managed very well, but not by the left or the right. I believe that Trump is knowingly playing his part, as written by the real rulers. All of them are.
You make me wish I lived in NC, or at least had a bug out home there. Sanity seems to still be a thing there.
This could very well be the case. I feel like I just want to check out of politics altogether because the situation in most places is that it is too far corrupted to be repaired.
Trump and his sycophants keep claiming that the timing of these cases is election interference while simultaneously completely ignoring the fact that much of the timing is Trump’s own fault. Again, and again, and again he’s used every delaying tactic he could come up with. Without those constant delays, all this could have been adjudicated a year or maybe even two years ago.
Why wouldn’t an innocent man want the courts to rule swiftly so that he could head into the election cycle as a vindicated man?
Where are you seeing double digits? RealClearPolitics.com (a right of center source) shows Trump up by 4.2% in NC. A decent lead, but not a blowout.
It is from the Bloomberg/Morning Consult swing state poll that was done in April. It's a really long and exceptionally boring document but you can look at it here if you want to
https://pro-assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2024/04/Bloomberg_2024-Election-Tracking-Wave-7.pdf
Its really long :)
I wish there was someone else because the USA cannot afford to have another 4 years of Biden because of how may migrants are flowing into the country. The entire country has been severely weakened security wise and it needs to be fixed.
It's alarming to me that USA is so concerned about what is going on in other countries but seems to not GAF about what is going on inside its own.
Yes it is like they don't care or they know and it is part of the bigger plan which is even more worrying. There is an agenda taking place and it needs to be stopped. Controlled immigration is fine but not what we see now.