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by might be in play i mean Trump will lag by like, a million as opposed to 3

he got on the ballot in all states I'm pretty sure, but I don't understand the in/out thing he's doing

so hes pulling his name from swing states and red states iirc

he's out in the swing states but in otherwise to try to hit the 5% of votes necessary to be a recognized party

so staying on the blue states to bleed democrats (where trump wasnt going to win)

it's strategic in a stupid way, because who is going to vote for someone who is not in the race

and has openly endorsed another candidate

(likely in exchange for a political appointment)

because hes got a lot of supporters regardless

illinoisans should vote RFK over Trump becase it doesn't make a difference

I think he comes behind the lolbertairians and greens now Dolf

trump has floated him as CIA director, and or FDA i believe

I disagree

idk anyone who would vote for someone

who dropped out

it's not even a sign of endorsement

it's a "oops I clicked the wrong button" thing ig

its the classic from youtube of "use my post as the dislike button"

yeah no one does that though, they stay home

which is why voter turnout is so low in America

which is why hes telling them to still turn out

you have to be pretty fucking retarded

to show up

but either way, like 70% of his supporters prefer trump so

to vote for someone who has dropped out

thats like 3-4% point bump

and not in a symbolic or died while running kind of way

seeing he was polling about 5-6%

Spooky i think you underestimate the power of the Kennedy name

I think he would have gotten ~10%, had he stuck till the end

because he's a protest vote if he's in

if he's not running

no one is voting for him

if he gets above 1% in a single state

I'll laugh

go out to vote along democrat party lines while supporting the guy who left the democrats

you don't have to vote for president

and if you want to, it's more likely you'll vote Liber or Green

when just checking a box

if you're informed enough to want to vote, but not for Trump/Kamala

you're not voting the guy who dropped out

i didnt understand the move at all

i mean, not like it'll matter at all, but

its dumb

^

if he stayed in, his voters would have bled from trump

just drop out entirely

I wish we got one debate with him

he just wants the 5% popular which won't happen

even if it was just Trump/him

why the hell would he not just drop out entirely

He wants to see how well he'd do.

no

thats not true at all

he slaughtered himself by supporting trump fully

tbh, I feel like his supporters would prefer that he just dropped out that's on-brand with his message

his numbers will be in no way representative

backing Trump, yeah ok, reality of wanting influence or w/e

but trying to have it both ways, feels like the brain worms got to him

Joe Biden to endorse Trump

impending battle of uniparties

probably Manchin

Trump's on-track to win by a considerable margin, I think some of the moderate democrats (like Manchin, Webb, etc.) think that they have a better shot trying to win as a centre republican next cycle

i mean Manchin and Sinema both dropped from the democrat party

esp since it seems like the Democratic party is going to be a mess after Kamala loses

(which i dont understand how schumer is still majority leader after that but alright)

Manchin wants to run

i guess they still caucus with them

Dolf remember, once they get elected, they can all just be uniparty

because most congressmen are fairly centre

the republican party now is the democrat party of 30 years ago. we should just kill the communists off and get a new right wing party at this point

and just compaign on bullshit and wedge issues

the reality of it is, we're going to have an economic recession and China war during the next 4 years nothing will really improve domestically, we've been in a holding pattern where nothing's gotten done since 1st term Obama

make the left wing party actually be the ones that freed the slaves like they pretend today

and eventually that unsustainable governance is going to break-down

and hopefully by then enough states have a working model that we can just apply it federally and salvage something together

the functional issues can be patched, but really unless there's an active effort by elected officials to get stuff done, we're going to keep circling

nothing ever happens, nothing ever happens

true!