Don't get me wrong, I love absolutely everything about DeSantis - except raising salaries for teachers and his foreign policy (except for his support for Israel).
Now, the question is not whether we would pick DeSantis or Trump if there were no history. There is. And it's a fact that if Trump loses the primary, he will refuse to endorse the GOP candidate and perhaps run as a third party.
DeSantis should be the nominee in 2028, insofar as I get any say in the matter (as a European subject of the American empire, I get even less of a say than Americans).
Are we not falling into the trap of assuming fraud every time elections don't go our way?
My far worse fear is that the regime doesn't even need to rig elections because the population is so pliant and institutions are so corrupt that even the election of a Trump is no threat to the regime.
That isn't clear at all, considering the number of outstanding ballots. Yes, there do seem to be some shenanigans going on there.
Focusing on 'voter fraud' (which does exist, of course, but not nearly to the extent as is claimed by people here) distracts from the other ways in which they have gotten quite good at rigging elections legally. Like with Zuckerbucks, mail-in voting, that sort of thing.
The problem is that for a presidential race, you only need fraud in a couple swing states, and the evidence suggests that that should be very manageable.
I'd worry more about the ballot harvesting and the mail-in voting than about the fraud. Unfortunately, with the Dem victories, election integrity legislation is DOA in states like Pennsylvania.
Don't get me wrong, I love absolutely everything about DeSantis - except raising salaries for teachers and his foreign policy (except for his support for Israel).
Now, the question is not whether we would pick DeSantis or Trump if there were no history. There is. And it's a fact that if Trump loses the primary, he will refuse to endorse the GOP candidate and perhaps run as a third party.
DeSantis should be the nominee in 2028, insofar as I get any say in the matter (as a European subject of the American empire, I get even less of a say than Americans).
Are we not falling into the trap of assuming fraud every time elections don't go our way?
My far worse fear is that the regime doesn't even need to rig elections because the population is so pliant and institutions are so corrupt that even the election of a Trump is no threat to the regime.
That isn't clear at all, considering the number of outstanding ballots. Yes, there do seem to be some shenanigans going on there.
Focusing on 'voter fraud' (which does exist, of course, but not nearly to the extent as is claimed by people here) distracts from the other ways in which they have gotten quite good at rigging elections legally. Like with Zuckerbucks, mail-in voting, that sort of thing.
I'd worry more about the ballot harvesting and the mail-in voting than about the fraud. Unfortunately, with the Dem victories, election integrity legislation is DOA in states like Pennsylvania.