Hemotep
Well-Known Member
This really depends on the state when you're talking about primaries. Some are closed to the party, others are open. It's not worth voting for Biden at this stage since he has no competition, so it's strategic for Dems in states with open primaries to vote for Haley. Even though she's a racist she's a shade less pro-facism then Desantis as a Trump alternative. And the evangelicals only didn't flock to Trump in the primaries, they mostly went to Cruz, but they did overwhelmingly support him in the general election.I just heard something that concerned me on Meet The Press.
Basically, polls are showing that 53% of Nikki Haley supporters are registered democrats. Her campaign is targeting independents, but the majority of her voters are actually coming from Democrats.
Not sure if this is democrats voting for her as to try to get someone other than Trump in an off election season, or if it's a sign that democrats have had enough of their own party and are looking for someone / something different.
Another concerning fact is back in 2016, Trump did not have the majority of evangelists supporting him. He by far does today. Why is that? What changed?
Another interesting thing that polls show are that if Ron Desantis dropped out, his supporters would move to Trump. Where as if Nikki Haley were to drop out, her supporters would move to someone other than Trump.
I think Sanders hit the nail on the head when he praised the few domestic wins that Biden has but that his team is doing a horrible job messaging them, he's behind the game because they aren't primarying in terms of getting to the independents who have had nothing but Republicans for months in their face. And he needs to pivot hard to convincing working class folks that he has their back before the general. Failing to do that and they're hosed. I don't think it'll have anything to do with Dems jumping ship or the evangelicals vote which is always Republican. It'll be getting some Hispanic support back, actually trying to court the youth vote, and going for working class independents. The fact that the Republican party is crushing the Dems with the working and middle class is a major failure of Dem policy, but even we could argue more so of their messaging.