As a narcissist Trump has one big Achilles heal. If you cross him he will want to do anything in his power to bring you

[Quixote1818]

down, EVEN if you might bring him votes if he courts you. Nikki Haley for example, he just thinks he has her voters and doesn't have to do anything. So I am very curious to see what he will do to the Libertarians now!!!! If he starts attacking them and then loses them he's fucked!


Editing because I just saw a bunch of comments like this in the Facebook comment section covering this story on CBS:

Rick Lane
Trump don't need these Libertarians and their BS !!

[Arne]

1. It seems he did and I think he is.

[onecaliberal]

2. He doesn't have them.

[Quixote1818]

4. Well, not the hardcore ones, but there are a lot of more moderate Libertarians who would consider voting for him

and they don't like Biden or Trump so he's playing with fire if he's going attack them, causing anyone on the fence to move to Biden.


Editing to add this and the thing the jumps out to me here, is most don't vote but if you piss them off, they might be driven to the polls:

In 2016 about 8 million voters, or 6 percent, voted for candidates other than Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party nominee, got more than half of that, about 4.5 million votes. Jill Stein of the Green Party got 1.5 million. This year it looks like “other” votes will amount to only about 3 million, or just under 2 percent. So about 3.7 million people who voted Libertarian, Green, or for anti‐​Trump conservative Evan McMullin didn’t do so in 2020.

So where did those votes go? We do have some polling evidence.

In 2016, a CBS exit poll asked Johnson supporters who they would have voted for in just a two‐​candidate race. Twenty‐​five percent said Hillary Clinton, 15 percent Trump, and 55 percent said they wouldn’t have voted at all. (Hat tip to Matt Welch for rounding up all these polls.)

https://www.cato.org/blog/did-libertarians-spoil-election

[H2O Man]

3. Recommended.

A significant number of her supporters -- both during the primaries, and after she was through -- made clear they will not vote for the defendant. Indeed, that was why she had as much support as she did.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. He's not a smart man....but he thinks he is. We all know people like this. But the people we know are not running

for POTUS.