In a few short months, primary voters will begin selecting the Republican presidential nominee. The two debates thus far have been underwhelming. A third is approaching on Nov. 8, but it, too, promises to be the kind of unhelpful event that lacks the virtue of at least being entertaining. Yet I’ll be watching — tuned in and deciding which candidate to support. I’m not a Republican, but I’ll play one on Super Tuesday, March 5.
He isn’t though, he doesn’t specifically say who he’s voting for, and unless he votes Trump, he’s not really contributing to radicalization. But I don’t see why an independent would switch parties to vote Trump in a primary.
Right now, in Virginia, Trump is polling at 47% with DeSantis a distant second at 13%.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/virginia/
If this guy wants Trump, all he has to do is do nothing. Trump wins the primary. If he’s interested in stopping Trump, switching parties to vote in the primary is the way to go.
If that very specific situation were hypothetically were true then maybe I guess? But voting for the extreme candidate expecting them to be less ellectible is just wrong. If the Republican party had to pick desantis because Trump died or something similar, the vote count wouldn’t change much. Republican voters all fall in line behind who is picked by the party. All I’m pissed about is the belief that a radical candidate will spoil an election and thinking that voting for a candidate in a primary is somehow not supporting them. It’s hand wavy and normalizes crazy political beliefs.
In the primary, there really aren’t any good candidates because they’re all trying to be Trump. :(
If I thought voting for a non-crazy Republican would help, I’d flip parties too to vote in the primary, but like I say, Oregon is too late to make a difference.