Key Points

  • The presidential campaign of Donald Trump said it raised a record $34.8 million from small-dollar donors in the hours after his criminal hush money case conviction in New York.
  • Trump was found guilty by a Manhattan Supreme Court jury of falsifying business records related to his scheme with Michael Cohen to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
  • The Republican is set to face President Joe Biden in November’s election, in a rematch of their 2020 contest for the White House.
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      8 months ago

      Honestly, I still wonder if I am having a really long bad dream. It just doesn’t add up. In the past elections have been close. This fucking asshole is despised by every democrat and a good deal of ex-republicans but he still is ahead in the polls. How does that square up?

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    8 months ago

    presidential campaign of Donald Trump said it raised

    The word “said” in that sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting. They can say they raised eleventy brazilian dollars. It doesn’t make it true. The media is doing a heck of a job amplifying Trump’s lies.

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      8 months ago

      Do you have reason to think they are lieing? Edit: other than the rack their lips are moving.

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    8 months ago

    What was the record?

    What was the old record?

    Was it adjusted for inflation?

    Who’s recording and measuring these records?

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    8 months ago

    This makes me think of the sunk cost fallacy. I figure they are so heavily invested at this point that they are doubling down. If they don’t have Trump to back their views, they might realize being a bigot isn’t cool.

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      It’s a lot like his businesses back on the day. He tried the well being of something larger to him personally, so that a lot of stakeholders are desperate to bail him out specifically lest their larger concern is tanked. When his properties were in trouble in the 80s, investors/creditors helped boost his reputation because that was the only hope to salvage their money.

      Here he made it so the entire Republican party will succeed or fail according to his personal situation. So desperation to mitigate his personal mess for the sake of their precious Republican party.

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    8 months ago

    You can’t buy more voters this election.

    You actually haven’t been able to buy voters in a while.

    People are locked in. It’s all about driving your base at this point.