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An analyst whose job it is to measure the effect of government actions, police’s laws etc, determined that voter suppression cost Kamala 3.5 million votes in total.

Republicans passed those laws for a reason. Using Trumps claims of voter fraud in 2020 as an excuse, and having lost that election, they basically “rigged” the 2024 election by suppression

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Great answers, well though out. The issue of why people support Trump despite getting little in return is an age old conundrum. From a personal level, he is everything they are not. Lives like a king, has more money than he knows what to do with and has unlimited power to make more. Gets away with stuff, the average person would go to jail. Hate to say it, but he is a perverted form of Robinhood.

My thinking is they just dislike the alternatives to him more. Most people live simple, uncomplex lives, just getting by. The Democrats represent the "intelligencia", the elite. Those who think and talk like they are smarter then everyone else. In most cases they are better educated and live in the upper rungs of society. The tipping point was the Democrat push for racial equality. This told whites they were evil for historic injustice to blacks and need to atone. This issue for reparations is a "stick it in the eye" to Trump supporters who also have face severe economic challenges and no one is coming to their aid.

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