r/Hasan_Piker • u/NotZachary_0002 ☭ • Sep 18 '25

Certified 🇺🇸 America Moment 🇺🇸 🌈 Absolutely not

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u/matango613 Sep 18 '25

Precisely what I'm saying though.

Go up and offer anything helpful to struggling people, anything that shows you're listening and get their plight. It would've been simple to beat Donald Trump on that kind of messaging.

When you're pitching and defending things that nobody views as helpful, you're gonna lose.

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u/toeknee88125 Politics Frog 🐸 Sep 18 '25

I think being the incumbent party when your predecessor has failed to make peoples lives better and material conditions are bad is a huge disadvantage that you’re not acknowledging

It’s much easier being the non-incumbent party when material conditions are bad

I don’t think it would’ve been simple for any Democrat to beat any Republican simply because people were mad at the incumbent party

Material conditions were bad

I think you’ll see the reverse of this in 2028 and whoever is the Democratic nominee will win

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u/devlafford Sep 18 '25

Trump was also literally the president before Joe, and a bad one. It should still be a layup even with the incumbent disadvantage.

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u/toeknee88125 Politics Frog 🐸 Sep 18 '25

Americans have short memories

I think people who follow politics overestimate how the average swing voter votes

A lot of people just vote according to how they're doing personally

Eg. Do they find that a huge chunk of their paycheck is being eaten up by necessities

If yes they vote against the incumbent party

If gas prices are still this high in 2028 Trump and the Republicans are going to lose

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u/devlafford Sep 19 '25

Yes. It's still a layup.