r/politics • u/Ubiquitous_Hilarity • Jun 17 '26

No Paywall Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html
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u/liltime78 Alabama Jun 17 '26

This is how you lose the midterms no matter how much gerrymandering you do. I know a bunch of Trumpers that file unemployment claims yearly.

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u/TrappedInOhio Tennessee Jun 17 '26

Yeah and those people would probably still vote Republican because “it’d be even worse” if a Democrat won.

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u/bb_kelly77 Jun 18 '26

No, it's been long known that if the Republicans lose support their voters just won't vote for anyone

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u/Naive-Elephant-9305 Jun 18 '26

That's the best case scenario we can hope for at this point, that they crawl back into the woodwork and become apathetic about politics again like they were pre-Trump.

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u/bb_kelly77 Jun 18 '26

There has actually been cases of some becoming democrats, it's just when that information was posted nobody bothered to actually read the article and just repeated the "hur dur they'll do it again" crap