How Swing Voters Reacted to the Debate

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How Swing Voters Reacted to the Debate

September 11, 2024 at 5:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 160 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/11/how-swing-voters-reacted-to-the-debate/

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Sara Longwell: “I conduct focus groups with voters every week, and I’ve heard one theme come up again and again: They often worry about Harris’s ability to stand up to dictators such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.”

“Last night, Trump was, in a certain sense, a stand-in for strongmen like Putin and Xi, and the voters I spoke with right after the debate said that Harris held her own. They appreciated her ability to bait Trump, counter his lies, and look calm while doing it. Her decision to point out how easily foreign despots use flattery to influence Trump also did her a lot of good.”

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[SoFlaBro]

1. MAGA shit the bed last night and Orange Fucking Bastard ate it all up like a fucking piss-soaked animal.

[Beartracks]

4. You seem to be hesitant and withdrawn. Tell us how you really feel.

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[SoFlaBro]

5. That fat ugly Orange Fucking Shitstain is about due for another unhinged rant on that shitty Truth antiSocial site.

[GB_RN]

14. That's Something That Happens...

At least daily, if not every few hours. Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent has not one iota of self control. His impulsivity, combined with ego, narcissism and need to play the victim card, result in his projection-based, unhinged, delusional and self destructive rants on LIES Social.

[Beartracks]

2. "how easily foreign despots use flattery to influence Trump" - A very important fact.

I'm glad Harris brought attention to that on national TV with all those eyes watching, because I'm not sure people at large have really glommed on to the sad fact that Trump the narcissist is a huge sucker for flattery from bad actors who want to hurt the U.S.

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[BOSSHOG]

3. Irony

Fear VP can’t stand up to strongmen, dictators. So they’ll vote for the guy who bows down to dictators and gives them our secrets.

They arent swing voters, they aren’t Patriots. They are idiots.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Joe Biden framed his 2020 campaign as Truth over lies

We understand Trump better now, after the J6 insurrectiion, after the indictments, the court cases, the 4 additional years of bloviating. It's still the same in many ways, QAnon's pedophile pizza, Jewish space lasers and bamboo ballots are now childless cat ladies and Haitian microwave cat meals, but Trump is also crazier now, more extreme, and without the office of the presdency to give him legitimacy and cover. If swing voters begin to understand and act rationally upon their realizations and awakenings. we are making progress.

[FrankBooth]

8. He's been getting high on his own supply for too long now

And surrounded himself with cranks, kooks, racists, and idiot yes men like Lindell for so long he's totally exposed when he ventures outside the cray cray bubble. He literally cannot distinguish reality from RW 'alternative facts' fantasy anymore.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Absolutely true /nt

[Warpy]

7. Women who are shirnking violets or who try to make nice with assholes

don't become big city DAs. Or big state AGs.

If Putin thinks she's going to be any kind of pushover, he's the one who will get flattened.

[WarGamer]

10. Sara Longwell, big Anti-Trumper founder of the Bulwark.

Joined at the hip with Bill Kristol... just in case anyone curious.

[Justice matters.]

11. The malignant narcissistic felon is not strong, he's weak like a snowflake.

As soon as KH baited that fake bully with his lousy crowd sizes, he started to melt and never recovered after. He left the stage with the same look he had after his private meeting with Putin.

[mdbl]

12. "They often worry about Harris's ability to stand up to dictators"

Seriously? So they would rather vote for someone who kisses dictators' asses? George Carlin was right - America is full of really stupid people.

[Historic NY]

13. He never denied it,

[msfiddlestix]

15. These were "undecided voters"? I'm finding that to be rather hard to take in at face value, given their responses.

[Jspur]

16. I have always viewed undecided voter as idiots who are desperate for

attention. They know who they are voting for but just like the attention they get by being independent.

[msfiddlestix]

17. Right? I had been thinking a little about it this morning, it seems to me a so called undecided voter in a focus group

is getting paid for their participation. It's not that anyone is undecided in this race, this is a paid gig, with the added benefit of attention seeking. I could sort of see a bonafide undecided voter in one or two past presidential campaigns, but not this one.

[Jspur]

18. There was this one dumb undecided voter I saw

on either CNN or MSNBC, the other day. She was a middle-aged white woman and said and I'm paraphrasing "I didn't like how Trump came across in this debate and he did a poor job in this debate but he's not one of those people that comes across as likable, but he does get stuff done. I did better economically when he was president." That signaled to me this woman will still vote for Trump and is trying to find a way to justify it.

[msfiddlestix]

19. Right.. I infer from her comment that she has decided because she financially benefited (apparently) in his term.

which if I inferred correctly, she is not an "undecided" voter. It's all about her financial gains, not about democracy, our country, stability, security , the rule of law, and certainly not about Women's rights. It pains me to see Women of means prefer a psychotic lunatic over someone stable, strong, compassionate and intelligent among many other superb qualities shining bright for all to see, yet she claims to be undecided. Poppy Cock!!