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Then please explain how trump will escape this "burden" (talk about minimizing a big issue) and win the swing states?[/quote]
Let's hope he doesn't. I'm rooted in the DC metro area. Like most others from this area, the things that are primary motivations in my voting decisions are different from a large portion of the people living in states that are very important to the 2024 election such as Michigan and Pennsylvania. I am fortunate to live in an area with an abundance of high paying jobs and financial opportunity. I've seen a generation of people that bought 1200 sq ft colonials for 75k in the 1970s go on to realize appreciation that has taken those values to the 700k to 1mil range in many local areas and 500k to 600k in the less desirable areas. People from that same generation stuck in many parts of Pennsylvania and Michigan paid 75k for that same home in the 1970s and now those homes have market values in the 125k to 150k range. It is doubtful that any recent presidential administration could have done something to lessen this inequity [b]the dems tried to bring "green" jobs to western PA and West VA, but the voters there didn't want them[/b] but many voters in those states will continue to vote for the promise of "change" until they see the same improvements in quality of life and opportunity that other parts of the country have experienced in recent decades. Most of these people aren't "deplorables" [b]of course they aren't, and hillary didn't label them as such, if you read her whole quote, rather than just the part Fox played incessantly, she was very specific about targeting these exact people as needing help and compassion, yet they all voted against her because reasons[/b]. They simply have different priorities when it comes to the primary motivations behind their voting decisions[b] sure, bible, guns, freedoms - you get what your vote for[/b]. The costs of a gallon of gas and a gallon of milk matters more to them than many of the things we are currently fired up about when going to the polls[b] true, and those costs are about the same as they were 6 years ago[/b]. Trump won Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in 2016 after those states were won by Obama in 2008 and 2012. Those three states decided the 2016 election. The 2016 results in the other 47 states were pretty close to predictable. I'm afraid Michigan and Pennsylvania are truly 50/50 swing states again[b] not really, Michigan is solidly blue now and PA is tending more blue than purple[/b] regardless of how ridiculous that sounds to most of us living in the DC metro area. Trump will campaign the heck out those states and many will once again fall for the promise of change [b]and he will have the cloud of lawsuits and convictions hanging over him while voters are reminded of his authoritarianism and abortion abortion abortion[/b]. If either or both of these states are swung back to red in 2024, Trump's path to victory will be much easier. [/quote][/quote]

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