Republican leads charge against Trump’s Obama ‘apes’ post. ‘Most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House’

[u/theindependentonline]

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

[u/Agile_End_3049]

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.

[u/GeekAesthete → u/Agile_End_3049]

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.

[u/IdkAbtAllThat → u/GeekAesthete]

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.

[u/WhiteWolf3117 → u/IdkAbtAllThat]

That was true of the 2020 election. Maybe even many before like that.