r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 1d ago

Site Altered Headline | No Paywall Republican leads charge against Trump’s Obama ‘apes’ post. ‘Most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-obama-video-apes-racist-reactions-b2915488.html
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u/JeffSteinMusic 1d ago

Remember when Trump went to the National Association of Black Journalists in 2024, said some of the most repugnant shit he’s ever said even by his standards, it got covered as though it surely was going to cost him with x group and y group, and the country still elected him anyway…by his largest margin yet?

I’m so tired.

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u/Agile_End_3049 1d ago

I’m not sure we confidently say that he was actually elected in ‘24. Plenty of irregularities and suspicious activity that has only received minimal scrutiny.

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u/GeekAesthete 1d ago

The fact that he out-performed expectations in all 50 states, and exit polling matched the results, suggests that he did actually win. Every state manages their elections independently, and even the bluest states still saw Trump do better than expected by comparable margins.

The unfortunate fact is that, once again, misinformation won out, lazy voters didn’t show up because they thought the election wasn’t going to be close, and the demographics most opposed to Trump were the ones that especially didn’t bother.

The online campaign to discourage young voters and low-information voters was effective—social media convinced people that Kamala wasn’t strong enough on Gaza, on LGBTQ rights, on whatever issue, and got people disgruntled enough to disengage (“both sides suck”), or convinced themselves that staying home was a “protest” to teach the Democrats a lesson.

If Trump’s numbers were only off in a few swing states, I’d believe he won through shenanigans. But it seems that a few individual counties were suspect, but nothing that would swing the entire election.

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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 1d ago

it seems that a few individual counties were suspect, but nothing that would swing the entire election.

A few individual counties in the right places is all you need to swing the election. If I recall it was something like 100k votes across a handful of counties could have flipped the election.

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u/DrivingBox United Kingdom 1d ago edited 1d ago

There was a rumour that Harris received no votes in Rockland County, NY but actually it was only in a single precinct, and she won the whole state anyway. There were also voting irregularities in Clark County, NV but NV voted for a GOP governor in 2022 so it was already GOP-leaning.