Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
It was knowable in advance that Trump’s illegal immigrant crackdown was not going to involve just criminals. People have no excuse for not knowing this and are part of the reason this is happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0D1z6V_B6o
Big Trump supporter regrets her Trump vote after she is fired under false pretenses from her government job. She says she got the highest possible rating on her previous review, yet was fired for poor performance.
Trump team thinks workers like her would be more productive in the private sector, and wants to get rid of any impediments to their often illegal and unconstitutional agenda and methods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr6_qL17ryY
Farmer Who Voted For Trump Gets Screwed By Musk’s DOGE Chaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxBGMtfrc24
“while Americans are generally supportive of abortion rights, there was little evidence to show that abortion was going to end up mattering more than other issues, like the economy and immigration, and even less evidence that it would be a more motivating issue than it was in the 2022 midterms, which took place just months after the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Generally speaking, Americans are supportive of abortion rights. When asked a standard polling question about whether abortion should be legal in all cases, legal in most cases, illegal in all cases or illegal in most cases, majorities of Americans typically say that it should be legal in all or most cases. And we saw that support show up in the 2024 election results: Six states* passed ballot measures that enshrined abortion rights in their state constitutions, and these measures significantly outperformed Vice President Kamala Harris in every state they were on the ballot.”
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“Polling before the 2024 election did seem to show an increasing share of voters saying abortion was their top issue — on average, even more than in the months preceding the 2022 midterms. According to YouGov/The Economist’s weekly tracking survey, there was a slow but steady increase in the number of registered voters choosing abortion as their top priority over the course of the campaign, from around 5 percent in the summer of 2023 to around 10 percent before the election.
But 10 percent is still relatively low compared with other major issues in the election. The percentage of respondents choosing an issue related to the economy*** in the same surveys averaged 39 percent in polls conducted in October 2024, much higher than the percentage saying abortion was their top issue, which averaged 9 percent in October.
And the increase in Americans prioritizing abortion may be an artifact of a well-known quirk of political polling: partisans forming their political opinions based on what trusted elites are saying. In other words, the Harris campaign’s focus on abortion may have made Democratic voters more likely to say abortion was an important issue to them. Indeed, if we break down the YouGov/The Economist polling numbers by party, we see that abortion’s increasing prioritization as an issue in 2024 was driven almost entirely by self-identified Democrats.”
https://abcnews.go.com/538/abortion-lead-democrats-victory-2024-election/story?id=116880480
“Trump’s share of the Black and Latino vote increased by 8 points each between 2020 and 2024.
Analysts have proposed several different explanations for those shifts, including sexism within communities of color, pessimistic views of the economy and inflation, disinformation, social class and the ongoing ideological sorting of nonwhite conservatives into the Republican Party. While there’s probably merit in some of these, my analyses suggest that one of the biggest factors behind Trump’s growing support from nonwhite voters may be opposition to immigration.
There are two main reasons for this. First, nonwhite Americans’ attitudes about immigration moved sharply to the right during President Joe Biden’s term. That resulted in a much larger pool of Black and Latino voters who were receptive to Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Second, voters of color with conservative immigration attitudes were especially likely to defect from Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024 — even after accounting for other plausible reasons for these changes.”
https://abcnews.go.com/538/immigration-swung-voters-color-trump/story?id=116016407
A lot of the public were Googling if Biden dropped out right before the election. Maybe a primary would have helped informed the public about Democratic candidates’ positions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0qV-mFhn2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkXJiEzWxFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO0nPjB9Gww
Some grandparents of young black voters today were alive before the Civil Rights Act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8eUheS9GaU
“While 3 percent of seniors get their information from social media, 46 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds do.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/09/social-media-traditional-news-elections-00188548