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Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Polls do not win elections--but Republican dirty tricks do, and they have in the case of every Republican presidential victory since Eisenhauer. Here is my list of "How to Win Elections When You Don't Have sufficient Popular Support." 1) Continue Gerrymandering, throwing people off the rolls, and making it difficult for Blacks, the young, and the old to vote; 2) Get the Saudis to raise oil prices so as to cause inflation that can be blamed on Biden/Harris administration (this is already occurring); 3) Encourage Putin's election interference; 4) Stage an additional "assassination attempt on Trump with the collaboration of the corrupted Secret Service; 5) Encourage Netanyahu to keep himself out of jail and also help get Trump elected by continuing the Gaza genocide to the point when the surrounding Arab nations declare war on Israel to protect the Palestinians. (This would inevitably drag the U.S. into the war to defend Israel and allow Trump to blame the Biden/Harris administration for warmongering); 6) If all this fails, stage a terrorist attack on U.S. soil sometime in October. (We must assume that based on Trump's current constant rants about how terrorists are now streaming across the "open" U.S. border--a border Trump worked to keep open by blocking legislation to tighten it--that such a staged, terrorist attack is planned); 7) If all this also fails to scare people away from voting for Harris/Walz, resort to having county officials refuse to certify the election results, thus throwing the election into the House of Representatives where Trump would win because each state would have one vote; 8) And of course, the current Speaker of the House can always refuse to seat the newly elected Democratic representatives, throwing the election into the House where again, Trump would win. Eight paths to victory if you lack sufficient popular support to win fairly. Polls do not win elections, but Republican dirty trucks do and have historically.

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