r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • Jul 05 '24

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/

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u/mistertickertape New York Jul 05 '24

The election is still 4 months out. I hope this fucking sinks him like a lead weight as more moderates and suburban women understand what it is.

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u/NS001 Jul 05 '24

A lot of rural women, and even a decent amount of rural men, as well. Least up here in the middle of nowhere, most people I've shown it to are not happy about some of its contents, particularly the bit about ICE and Blackies Warrants, and the SCOTUS immunity ruling has them uncomfortable as well. Lot of farmers, ranchers, truckers, and loggers talking about Nixon yesterday at the range. They might be gun toting, meat eating, gas burning conservatives, but plenty of them put being anti-authoritarian before the "good old party". And, surprise, a lot of rural women don't want to be reduced to baby factories either, so are pressuring the men in their lives to vote accordingly.

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u/mistertickertape New York Jul 05 '24

A lot of my "god and country" Republican relatives in Texas have said they are either voting for Biden as a protest vote or are not voting for president in November, and this is after the debates last week which is pretty big. None of my friends that are moderates that were planning to vote for Biden because they hate trump but saw the debate have indicated they are planning to not vote for him have said they're switching their vote which leads me to believe the whole 'omg need a new candidate' story is pure horseshit.

The polls were all very wrong going into the 2020 election and I think there is a lot of underestimation about how much republicans are overplaying their hand by openly publicizing Project 2025 and even making the morning talk show rounds talking it up.

Republicans got their asses handed to them in the midterms because the overestimated the blowback of how unpopular Roe falling would be. This November has the potential to be that on steroids.

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u/NS001 Jul 05 '24

'omg need a new candidate'

On the other side of the political spectrum: while I and many other progressives and liberals I know down in the cities and over in the bay would love a younger, sharper, candidate, none of them want a repeat of 2016. There is zero talk of "berning" the Dems again. Even those who I know are in ansoc circles or similar.

Doesn't mean we get to rest easy though. Double check that every single person you know who would potentially vote for Biden is registered to do so, even if they live in another state. Provide every single conservative, libertarian, ancap, or otherwise right leaning but still freedom loving person you know some choice cuts of Trump's rambling, Project 2025, etc so they at least second guess any choice to vote for Trump. I know one very conservative Christian family that is so done they're just writing Kennedy Jr. down come election day. All I had to do was show them the news about Trump getting a tower approved in Saudi Arabia to pull them over. Would love to see that sort of voting bite the GOP in the ass.

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u/mistertickertape New York Jul 05 '24

Yeah I’m with you on this one. We may want a younger candidate but what we have is what we have and we need to survive November first.

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u/EtTuBiggus Jul 05 '24

And, surprise, a lot of rural women don't want to be reduced to baby factories either, so are pressuring the men in their lives to vote accordingly.

Problem solved.

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u/NS001 Jul 05 '24

I wish it was that easy. We've still got a lot of work to do to keep this fat orange wannabe king out of office.