While millions will still vote for the Republican candidate, perhaps hating immigrants more than they love reproductive rights, the only certainty at this point is that many millions more will vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. In the latest ABC News/Ipsos national poll, the Democrat enjoyed a 14% advantage with women over Trump; among women with a college degree, that number rose to 23%; among women voters under 40, it rocketed to 34%.

That, in turn, is causing some MAGA commentators to break from their usual posture of feigned confidence to outright panic.

“Early vote has been disproportionately female,” Charlie Kirk, head of Turning Point USA and helping to lead the Trump campaign’s get-out-the-vote effort, posted on social media. “If men stay at home, Kamala is president. It’s that simple.”

  • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    Well if early indicators are correct, not only will Kamala win, it’s possible to retake congress.

    To state the obvious… Go Vote, bring your friends, every vote counts. Especially when it comes to down ballot.

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      Here’s a harsh reminder that Trump is farther ahead in the polls than he was with Hillary at this same point in the election. The polls showed a landslide win for Hillary by this point, but that obviously didn’t happen. Now the polls show a much closer race for Kamala, which means (if the same thing happens again) then Trump has a very real shot at winning again.

      Though to be fair, it looks like Kamala has learned from Hillary, and avoided the “we’ve got this, no problem, don’t even worry about it” attitude that Hillary had early on in the race. Hillary wanted to exude an air of confidence early on, like she had been working towards the presidential race for decades. That ended up being her downfall, because it meant a lot of democrats just fucking stayed home. Because if the person is saying not to worry about it, why do I need to bother voting? The issue is that when every person told themselves that same thing, it meant Hillary lost a lot of votes due to apathy. If you go back and look at her campaign, there was a very drastic shift in Hillary’s messaging a month or two before Election Day, when her team realized that democrat voters had become apathetic. It suddenly shifted from “we’ve got this” to “oh holy fuck please fucking please vote

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      Well if early indicators are correct, not only will Kamala win, it’s possible to retake congress.

      Don’t do that. Don’t give me that kind of hope.

      • @ikidd@lemmy.world
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        The Democrats will manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, never fear.

        • @fine_sandy_bottom
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          God I’m so worried about this.

          Like Trump will go through the predicable steps of election fraud as perpetrated in 2020, and Dems will say “oh fiddlesticks he tricked us, oh well”.

      • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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        Don’t worry, even if dems grab a trifecta they still won’t undo enough damage for us to actually progress.

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          Even if they get in, they’ll undo very little and change even less unless it serves their corporate and billionaire owners.

          The goal is to ensure Trump doesn’t win to make things worse, that doesn’t make the Dems a force for positive change.

        • @nomous@lemmy.world
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          They’d need consistent wins for the next 50 years to undo the last 70 years of republican policies.

          • @Serinus@lemmy.world
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            Depends on the margins. There’s a huge difference between a 50 seat senate win and a 56 seat senate win.

    • I had to down vote you for providing me with hope which could lead to mental breakdown if it doesn’t occur. Thank you but no thank you.

      I rather be on the edge and hope people do as well and go vote.