One in three Republican voters would have preferred a different candidate to Donald Trump for the upcoming presidential election.

In March, the former president won enough primary races to secure the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election.

However, according to a survey of 1,003 Americans by Canadian polling firm Leger, Trump does not command the full support of his base and 33 percent of this demographic would have preferred another politician. Meanwhile, this proportion is higher (47 percent) among Republican voters aged 18 to 34 years old.

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    Biden has almost gone out of his way to avoid mentioning Trump.

    Unless you want to pretend that Joe Biden is the whole of the Democrats, that hardly seems relevant. As a counter example, this writer for the San Francisco Chronicle seems to think Biden is running on “at least he’s not Trump.”

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      Unless you want to pretend that Joe Biden is the whole of the Democrats, that hardly seems relevant.

      In a presidential election? Uh, yeah. It’s relevant. Ok? Ok.

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        No, it’s really not. In any election, there are a multitude of voices on either side. Joe Biden isn’t the only person in America carrying water for Joe Biden. That’s just absurd. Would you say the same about Donald Trump? The whole liberal media establishment is backing Joe Biden, and a lot of them are using the “anyone but Trump” argument. I was convinced to vote for both HRC and Biden by exactly that reasoning. It’s just ridiculous to pretend that isn’t an argument being made by Democrats.

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          The whole liberal media establishment is backing Joe Biden

          Yeah that danged liberal media establishment

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            Sarcasm is a poor substitute for thinking. Taken literally, you appear to be agreeing with me. Your tone suggests otherwise. But what are you actually saying? That there is no such thing as the liberal media establishment? That would be absurd. MSNBC, The View, etc. all definitely exist. So then what can you possibly mean? And why obscure your point behind sarcasm?

            Could it be because you don’t actually have a point? I think it just might be.

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              “The liberal media establishment” is a right-wing meme pushed by fox news, talk radio, and, yes, Russia Today for almost thirty years now.

              The “media establishment” such as it can be recognized as singular, and with specific regard to political reporting, is conservative. Not liberal.

              Broadway, is liberal. Except for maybe Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark. Or Cats. But anyway.

              Sarcasm is the inevitable result of hearing right-wing talking points unendingly.

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                The “media establishment” such as it can be recognized as singular, and with specific regard to political reporting, is conservative. Not liberal.

                lol. Who told you that? The liberal media establishment? In a UCLA study of the 20 major media outlets, 18 scored left of center, with CBS’ Evening News, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ranking second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news pages of The Wall Street Journal. Only Fox News’ Special Report and The Washington Times scored to the right of the average U.S. voter.

                Sarcasm is the inevitable result of hearing right-wing talking points unendingly.

                No, you’re sarcastic because you’re absolutely terrible at making arguments, you don’t actually understand your position, and you’re a self-righteous bigot who thinks you’re so intellectually superior to anyone with a different worldview that you don’t even have to bother to actually engage, you can just mock, deride and dismiss. You’re an NPC. That is exactly how NPCs act.

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                  with CBS’ Evening News, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ranking second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news pages of The Wall Street Journal.

                  The WSJ is the most left of center of all of them? Really. You totally buy that don’t you. That’s - yeah. Wow.

                  No, you’re sarcastic because you’re absolutely terrible at making arguments, you don’t actually understand your position, and you’re a self-righteous bigot who thinks you’re so intellectually superior to anyone with a different worldview that you don’t even have to bother to actually engage, you can just mock, deride and dismiss. You’re an NPC. That is exactly how NPCs act.

                  I disagree. And your understanding of an NPC comes from tankie 4chan world which just cements the impression that you’re a kid who is in the stage of knowing everything and will get fooled again.

                  Everybody goes through it; growing up is a difficult and thankless task that takes way too long. Hopefully you’ll get to do things you like doing with people you like soon. I’m guessing you wouldn’t appreciate some rando you think you’ve been arguing with saying good luck, so y’know. Uh. Live long and prosper? In a good way, that is.

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      Well, considering he is the de factor leader of the Democratic party right now, it’s enough to point out that it is not “the whole democratic approach.”

      Oh and look you found someone who shares your opinion. But not even really because they aren’t saying it’s their whole strategy, but a pitch that doesn’t work, nor certainly it’s not referring to the entire last 8 years.

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        I think OP was obviously being hyperbolic and didn’t mean that it was literally the entirety of their strategy, but if you want to claim victory through pedantry, you do you.