My quiet hunch was correct

[RandySF]

There is a large chunk of voters who will show up for Trump and don't gibe a shit about other elections, and that's why we were so much more successful in 2018. What they do in 2022 and 2024, I have no idea.

[Mike 03]

1. K&R

[cilla4progress]

2. Makes

Sense

[Vogon_Glory]

3. We'll have to see how tanned, rested, and ready Donnie is in 2024

I have my doubts. Now if Donnie was to embark on a body-building regime so he’d have a body like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s, I’d worry. But he isn’t going to.

[bullwinkle428]

4. This was absolutely the case in Iowa. Please check out this assessment from

on the ground here:

Rural counties in Indiana and Ohio were seeing not just improved or stable margins for Donald Trump, but increases in Trump’s raw vote by 10 to 15 percent. Here in Iowa, poll workers in rural precincts said they were seeing many new young first-time voters — in small towns, those aren’t young progressives.

It will take time to sift through all the data, but the biggest takeaway seems clear: a massive wave of new voters came out to support Trump and down-ballot Republicans on Tuesday. Yes, Joe Biden and Democrats improved their vote totals in some areas — he’s currently winning 754,000 votes statewide to Hillary Clinton’s 653,000 in 2016. But Trump right now has 890,000 votes, compared to his 800,000 four years. He’s winning by about eight points at the moment.

Trump appears to have turned out an even larger contingent of angry, frustrated new voters that are mad at the world and want to burn things down. Whether it was due to blowback to COVID restrictions, outright racism in response to racial justice calls, or just anger at the so-called “elites” that Republicans attacked in campaign ads, Trump once again activated a new electorate that didn’t use to engage in politics.

https://iowastartingline.com/2020/11/04/trump-turnout-hands-iowa-dems-another-blowout-loss/

[njhoneybadger]

7. tRump train people who maybe wouldn't have voted got jacked up on fanaticism.

[SheltieLover]

5. Makes sense

Their crude, loud mouth dear leader.

[awesomerwb1]

6. They are the very definition of FANATICAL

Unless he avoids financial ruin and jail and decides to run again in 2024, I do not see anyone ever moving masses like dump does in this country.

[world wide wally]

8. Hopefully this one will take some wind out of their sails

[onetexan]

9. In their view, the Libs are coming as the Con has told them - to take away the way of life you have

the streets will be violent, your beautiful suburbs will be overrun by dark skin people, and what other nonsense he's been screaming into their heads the past 4 years. They are brainwashed and have been spellbinded by the cult of trump. This twisted idea of Libs are what they're afraid of most.

In a midterm election of course turnout w/ not be as high. In a general election you will have a higher turnout.

[octoberlib]

10. They just clicked the button for the straight line party vote. It's how Ernst etc

got re-elected.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. It's flabbergasting to me, but you might be right.

Maybe he's like an openly abusive guy who still finds numerous female victims?

I had a manager who was a Republican, but he would not vote for Bush Sr. only because he turned "wimpy" and talked about a "thousand points of light" and such.