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Does this make voters come out for Trump....to me everyone knew that RBG was going to get replaced by the next POTUS anyway, so how does this really change anything?
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)disgusted with Trump are still disgusted and this may turn them off even more and the bankruptcy of hypocrisy with Republicans. They didn't plan to vote before and I see no reason the SC would be their reason to go back to him, when it did not matter this morning.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)rockfordfile
(8,709 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,819 posts)The descent republicans will never vote for trump. His cult, if you ask them about SCOTUS, they wouldnt have a clue. So nothing changes there
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,947 posts)If anything I think Democrats will be more energized than ever. I'm watching on TV the huge crowd gathering in front of the Supreme Court building, evidence of how much RBG meant to so many people. This has never happened at the death of any other Supreme Court justice.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)MFM008
(19,827 posts)women
undecideds
democrats
period.
Under The Radar
(3,406 posts)Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)And are already likely voters
Under The Radar
(3,406 posts)especially with the Pope saying that Trump isnt a Christian and the Mormons not able to swallow Trumps vulgar ways.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)and get out the vote. The focus is going to become razor sharp.
Sure it is going to motivate the women haters, but there are a LOT more women than there are women haters.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)Who would like it
liskddksil
(2,753 posts)fight like we are down 10 points every moment between now and when Biden and Harris have their hands on the bible on 1/20.
sheshe2
(84,005 posts)radius777
(3,635 posts)in a way that Biden himself could not. This would be seen as the ultimate insult if McConnell/Trump could shove through a right wing anti-woman justice - violating the 'McConnell rule' that we should 'let the voters decide' in an election year.
The soccer moms and independents were already trending Dem/Biden and this should accellerate that trend, imo.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)Yeah she would be a right wing crazy, but wouldnt any attack on her seem like an attack on woman and hurt with the soccer moms
radius777
(3,635 posts)and pro-choice and respect RBG and what she stood for.
Trump and McConnel's thuggery has shifted some conservative male Dem voters in the Midwest to the GOP. But in politics every action has an equal but opposite reaction. And many liberal/moderate Repub women since then have been moving in our direction - making the 2018 Blue Wave possible - and shifting states like AZ and NC as possible Biden wins this time.
crickets
(25,989 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,253 posts)This race was going great. Biden is heavily favored to win. Anything new in the mix is unwelcome. So I dont know.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)I don't see how it can increase Republican turnout? Since they have now got the SC Justice they would have been voting for?
That will no longer be the primary reason many Republicans go to vote.
It's a complicated question but I do not see this helping Republicans in this election.
0rganism
(23,984 posts)my hot-take sense is telling me for every additional voter swayed to Trump there's at least one undermotivated voter who'll be pissed off and vote against him.
DirkLerxst
(32 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)Its shaking everything up
roamer65
(36,748 posts)The blue tsunami just got bigger.
Rice4VP
(1,235 posts)replace her. Their base is already rabid and obsessed with the courts and abortion but maybe this will energize the liberals and women...even some republicans