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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by drdrek on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @09:17AM (#42062630)
> Biden came after Trump.

Exactly, Yeah! He was the white man not in mental decline that said that everything is going to be alright.

> What motivated people is inflation and border crossings.

Yes, these are some of the issues that needed to be addressed instead of gender politics and foreign policy.

What is the disagreement?

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by Capricorn2481 on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:27AM (#42064708)
The disagreement is that Fox News focused on gender politics, but it was largely absent from both Biden and Kamala's campaign.

I guess congrats to Fox, because focusing on it all day every day worked. The average joe thinks that's all the Democrats care about. It's extremely transparent when someone says "gender politics" what media they're consuming.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by mtswish on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:03PM (#42066465)
Yeah man, the only people talking about gender politics at this point are Republicans.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by dead_gunslinger on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:07PM (#42066522)
Have we been following the same campaign? These were at least in the top-5 messages from their campaign:

- Kamala is not only black, but she is ALSO a woman! Please vote for her otherwise you won't only be a racist but a misogynist too.

- If you are a woman your rights are in jeopardy and Trump will put you back in chains or something. If you are a woman and not voting for Kamala you are doing what your husband is telling you to do obviously.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by Capricorn2481 on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:14PM (#42066629)
Interesting, those are two things I heard on Fox but not from Kamalas campaign. Weird how that works.

I did however hear some gender politics from the Trump campaign, whether it was accusing boxers of being men or railing against childless cat ladies.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by dead_gunslinger on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:19PM (#42066726)
Well you must not have been paying much attention then. It's straight from Kamala's ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaCPck2qDhk

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by Capricorn2481 on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @06:55PM (#42071482)
It literally says at the bottom of this ad this is not authorized by either candidates campaign. Nor does the ad even say the things you pointed out. But amazing try. I see you just made an account for this thread
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by mrguyorama on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:57PM (#42066353)
So, when the democrats finally said "hey, we were wrong, here's a boarder bill to limit entry into the US", and Trump said "don't fix the boarder",

Why did Trump then get votes?

Nobody is confused as to why people SAY they support Trump, people are confused that you can show someone who supports Trump objective evidence that he hurts them, works against his wishes, etc, and they will support him harder.

The "backfire effect" doesn't replicate, but boy IDK if we can call two elections anything more than an adequate sample size.

If Gender politics is such a nothing-burger that the president shouldn't care about it, why did they vote in the party who is enthusiastic about hetero-normativity? Why did so many republicans devote airtime and debate time to talking about the double digit number of trans people in sports?