2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

[heyitsmike]

Yep. This election also has an unusually small number of undecideds, which means it's a turnout game.

I completely agree. I saw your post after I saw Mollie Hemingway's tweet and now the "screw the independents, turn out the base" strategy is all I can see.

Apparently Dan Bongino talked about this on his show today too. It also reminded me of a tweet I saw last night during the debate from the tankie Krystal Ball.

She's so close here to realizing what Mollie/Dan have: the people in the Fox News world are what he's doubling down on. He's not really trying to win people over outside that bubble; everyone's mind is made up. It's all about turnout. Joe Biden's crackhead son getting paid under the table is red meat for the base, not independents.

And his strategy of getting Biden to crush the Bernie Bros' dreams is how he wants to bring down turnout from the far left. The court packing exchange from last night, if Biden had rejected it, would also do that. If he said he would consider it, that would turn off those few swing voters. Not necessarily win them over, just get them to stay home. Because he know his base will turn out no matter what. When he brings up Biden's 47 years in Congress, it's as if to say, "What's the point of showing up to vote for a guy who hasn't done anything in that time?" It's not even a case for Trump, it's a case for why even bother.

Apparently ratings were way down this year. No one is watching to decide who to vote for. Everyone knows who they will vote for by now, it's just a case of who's actually going to go out and do it.

I think when we look back, once again Trump's political instincts will look golden in hindsight.

Neither party are your friends.

Well, like, duh. That's why the GOP is now Trump's party. Those voters are his, not the GOP's.

 

[It's HK-47]

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Six mayors in the Iron Range of Minnesota (A notoriously blue area) just threw their weight behind Trump for the 2020 election. All of those towns are in the "arrowhead" of the blue region, meaning that Trump jumped deep into the Democratic territory to pull support from the mayors in these towns. It's not as impressive as taking Duluth, but that's definitely interesting.

Oh. Well, there went that complaint.

 

[Someone Awful]

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Oh. Well, there went that complaint.

I don't know if it's necessarily the Duluth mayor endorsing mayor, but it's exciting to see Trump finally visit the Iron Range.

 

[deeplyhigh]

Duluth rally looks like it has several thousand waiting, still 15-20 minutes until Trump speaks.

 

[CrippleThreat]

I don't know if it's necessarily the Duluth mayor endorsing mayor, but it's exciting to see Trump finally visit the Iron Range.

That's not all, pal! He'll be in Sanford, Florida on Friday, and on Saturday, it's a double in Wisconsin (La Crosse and Green Bay). It's October crunch time, baby!

Duluth rally looks like it has several thousand waiting, still 15-20 minutes until Trump speaks.

I'm betting right now, he'll get up on stage and say that Joe did pretty well, but he destroyed him. All to the roaring applause of the crowd.

EDIT: Orange Man heading to the stage.

 

[Boobie Bomb]

Good luck with that. Ask Kayne West about it

 

[Someone Awful]

That's not all, pal! He'll be in Sanford, Florida on Friday, and on Saturday, it's a double in Wisconsin (La Crosse and Green Bay). It's October crunch time, baby!


I'm betting right now, he'll get up on stage and say that Joe did pretty well, but he destroyed him. All to the roaring applause of the crowd.

RSBN stream is already at 104K views and Trump hasn't even spoken yet (any minutes now).

If Trump isn't bragging about his debate, we know he's lost his marble.

Right Side Broadcasting Network: 116K Views
Fox News: 59K Views
Diamond and Silk: 16K Views
Bloomberg QuickTake: 53K Views
Donald J. Trump: 7K Views
The Sun: 3.2K Views
The Patriot Hour: 1.3K Views
PBS NewsHours: 2K Views
Fox 9 News / KMSP-TV Minneapolis-St. Paul: 64 Views

 

[Doctor of Autism]

RSBN stream is already at 104K views and Trump hasn't even spoken yet (any minutes now).

If Trump isn't bragging about his debate, we know he's lost his marble.

He's bragging about it now and bragging about how he built the wall.

 

[Someone Awful]

He's bragging about it now and bragging about how he built the wall.

As he should. Already a better than normal rally for him.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

I still think Trumps got a hell of an uphill battle.

Bidens shitty numbers don't surprise me at all as he's as engaging as wet cardboard and about as usefull honestly.

But this election isn't between Trump and Biden, it's between Trump and the entire left leaning liberal media apparatus.

 

[Someone Awful]

NEW RECORD FOR RSBN STREAM:

Right Side Broadcasting Network: 119K Views
Fox News: 79K Views
Bloomberg QuickTake: 57K Views
Diamond and Silk: 15.7K Views
Donald J. Trump: 8.4K Views
The Sun: 3.7K Views
The Patriot Hour: 1.5K Views
PBS NewsHours: 3.8K Views
Fox 9 News / KMSP-TV Minneapolis-St. Paul: 101 Views

Is this the most watched rally since Tulsa?

Also Trump is really hitting on issues regarding Iron Range. Fucking amazing. He's going to flip the Iron Range. I'm going to say that outside of Ohio and Iowa, Minnesota is the most likely state to flip to Trump.

Edit: Finally hit 120K for Right Side Broadcasting Network.

Right Side Broadcasting Network: 120K Views
Fox News: 86K Views
Bloomberg QuickTake: 59K Views
Diamond and Silk: 15.8K Views
Donald J. Trump: 8.8K Views
The Sun: 4K Views
The Patriot Hour: 1.5K Views
PBS NewsHours: 4.5K Views
Fox 9 News / KMSP-TV Minneapolis-St. Paul: 113 Views

Total: 299,713 Views

And I'm rounding down. Has to be a bit over 300K by now.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

There enthusiastic for Trump because of cold hard green, don't fool yourself that they think otherwise.

The only difference between a democratic and a republican is how hard they'll fuck you over at the end of the day. Neither party are your friends.

You mean that the economy is a big issue for voters? My goodness, how horrible!

Trump's economy has been the best one in years ... And you're possibly implying that his voting base is selfish for it? How dare regular people want more jobs and opportunities.

 

[XYZpdq]

But this election isn't between Trump and Biden, it's between Trump and the entire left leaning liberal apparatus.

yeah as much as I understand people thinking that gops might get complacent, the sort of people who would normally be "incumbent has this in the bag, he's so kewl" also are perfectly happy to imagine boogymens of nothing less than AOC using santeria to summon up the corpses from the cemeteries and have them march into polling places to vote D, then a big scoop of bullshit counts on top of that, so they're all jumping at the bit to vote as soon as they possibly can

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

There enthusiastic for Trump because of cold hard green, don't fool yourself that they think otherwise.

The only difference between a democratic and a republican is how hard they'll fuck you over at the end of the day. Neither party are your friends.

Get fucked, smelly, dumb centrist scum.

You aren't some galaxy brained "both sides are dumb" genius. You're a fence sitting faggot.

Edit: I forgot, coward.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

I still think Trumps got a hell of an uphill battle.

Bidens shitty numbers don't surprise me at all as he's as engaging as wet cardboard and about as usefull honestly.

But this election isn't between Trump and Biden, it's between Trump and the entire left leaning liberal apparatus.

Nothing is a guarantee, and I'm glad that Trump is certainly campaigning like it. Dude is working his ass off.

One thing that Biden has working against him in a lot of these battleground states: A lot of these states that Trump won in 2016 remember the Obama years, and how he wreaked havoc against many jobs in the name of "going green." Last night, at the debate, one noteworthy moment amid all of the shitshow was Biden admitting to promising an eternal amount of "green jobs." He fully plans to do what Obama did ... And I think that states like Pennsylvania heard that. Trump really needs to speak about this moment on the campaign trail constantly.

On the other hand, one huge advantage that Biden has right now: He's not Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a very hated political figure, as we found out in 2016. To quote Norm Macdonald, "America hates Hillary so much that they voted for a guy that they hate even more." lol.

As much as a lot of us would hate to admit it, Biden does have more of a likability factor among normie voters than Hillary ever did. Personally, I think that 2016 Hillary comes across as shockingly more likable and viable than Biden does right now (much to my shock) ... But I know that's simply not how a lot of people feel.

 

[Harvey Danger]

I just got an interesting Trump ad on YouTube today.

The corresponding video has been on his channel for a month, but I hadn't seen it anywhere before. The ad cut off the first 15 seconds (which referenced voting in the Florida primary), and focused on explaining why absentee ballots were good, urging people to get one today and vote.

It's only got 15k views, so I guess they weren't pushing it very hard before now. I've been getting Trump ads for the last 2 months but never this one. So I wonder if he's going to try and make this a focus for GOTV going forward, which the media will use to muddy the message about mail-in voting.

Or maybe he just targets it to his base that he knows will vote absentee, so they aren't scared off of voting completely.

 

[RedStorm]

I didn't give two shits about any of this in 2016, didn't vote for Trump, and yet in the middle of October I'm going to be there for the first day of early voting.

There definitely seems to be an assumption that Trump's voters are less motivated...why? Because he's the incumbent? That's it? Doesn't make sense at all. If the screeching behavior of Trump's enemies don't make Trump voters motivated, nothing could. The fear that all the people with the knives out for Trump who tried to sandbag him with bullshit for four years might succeed? That should motivate anybody on that side to make sure it doesn't happen.

Exactly. It's the Democrats who are most damaged by the kinds of voters who may not turn out to vote -- they're younger left leaning types and minorities (and lots of young minorities) who don't care about politics. Even if they're all 'fuck Trump' they often view voting like many people would view the idea of going to a short 30 minute seminar of how to knit a raggedy t-shirt - possibly could be justified as a useful investment of time but there are too many other things on their mind to even show up.

Trump supporters are the kinds of people whose 'overconfidence' won't prevent them from voting. It could theoretically prevent them from being effective campaigners - that is, rather than spending a lot of effort on donating/knocking on doors/persuading/etc they spend their time being overly relaxed - but the actual work of political campaigning isn't for everyone anyway. It won't matter that much if a boomer thinks Trump has it in the bag as long as he votes, because maybe being a door to door knocker isn't something he's cut out for anyway.

 

[Wulfpack Legend]

After the debate, what would be the strategy for each candidate to raise their numbers?

 

[Doctor of Autism]

As much as a lot of us would hate to admit it, Biden does have more of a likability factor among normie voters than Hillary ever did. Personally, I think that 2016 Hillary comes across as shockingly more likable and viable than Biden does right now (much to my shock) ... But I know that's simply not how a lot of people feel.

I think Biden's "likeability" factor more stems from he's not as bad as Trump, and depending on how things go forward that can slip away with how he jumped into the mudslinging in yesterday's debate by trying to insult Trump. Trump insulting people works since Trump embraces that he's an asshole and isn't ashamed of it which lowered mainstream expectations for how Trump can act in a debate, Biden ran his campaign on bringing decency back and the soul of America back which backfired the moment he called Trump names.

If Biden wants to win he has to keep his calm and not get rattled easily. He has to look back and look at what made Obama a capable speaker. If Biden can keep a calm and composed look which he sticks to from this point forward then he will probably do great in the election since a voter likes someone who is composed and has leadership qualities. His handlers also need to not use twitter talking points for Biden's campaign since twitter is one of the most terrible places for any political discussion.

 

[TyrasGuard]

After the debate, what would be the strategy for each candidate to raise their numbers?

Double the dose of Biden's adderall and mix it with cocaine so he can focus better and stutter less. His only somewhat "good" moment in my humble opinion is when he told the POTUS to shut up which is an awful thing to do no matter who the president is, though i can see some people liking that because of who he said it to.

Trump just needs to be Trump, his bickering was annoying but he drove Biden into the corner multiple times and it could've been a disaster had the moderator not stepped in to save him.

Looks like an easy win for Trump honestly but this debate, despite being sometimes funny, was also awful. I don't think anyone "won" last night, i just think Trump was the least worse of the two.