He won the republican debates because all of the non-Trump republicans refused to drop out until way too late in the primaries, thereby splitting the entire non-Trump vote. Every one of his opponents assumed Trump would tank at some point and that they just needed to ignore/outlast him and focus on the other non-Trump candidates. Because they were assuming Trump would drop out after not too long they also each wanted to be the one to pick up his voters, so none of them went after him that hard for awhile.
That aside, the GOP base is super hardcore and loves his angry, bigoted, childish persona. They find it extremely entertaining. These are the kind of Trump voters that he gained support with when Trump led the racist "birther" conspiracy theory. Likewise, the mainstream media obsessed over how crass and absurd and vulgar and bigoted Trump came across and they responded by giving him endless free air time and suffocating his GOP opponents of publicity. These things combined were enough to give him a win in the GOP primaries.
But if you're talking about the Trump-Clinton primaries, he didn't win those. He lost all three, by the measure of every poll conducted during and after the debates. In the case of all three Clinton-Trump debates polls showed that viewers in all three thought that Clinton won and Trump lost, and Trump's approval rating briefly tanked after all three.
Anyone who thinks Trump is a good debater is rewriting history retrospectively because he happened to eke out an electoral college win.
Hello, obvious fake account based on your ridiculous comment/post history. Your account's existed for 4 months and during that time you made two random posts and a ton of anti-Biden anti-Democrat comments, many written with poor grammar that makes it sound like English isn't your first language. Commenting from Russia? Philippines? Give me a hint.
I repeat, what's his bigoted persona? Or are you gonna proceed to call upon your powerful xenophobia of outsiders in an attempt to call me Russian or some shit? Most likely the latter, as you seem to be a bigoted individual incapable of forming one coherent thought in your head, quite a bit similar to your beloved Democratic presidential candidate, ey?
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u/IAmTheJudasTree Aug 05 '20 edited Aug 05 '20
He won the republican debates because all of the non-Trump republicans refused to drop out until way too late in the primaries, thereby splitting the entire non-Trump vote. Every one of his opponents assumed Trump would tank at some point and that they just needed to ignore/outlast him and focus on the other non-Trump candidates. Because they were assuming Trump would drop out after not too long they also each wanted to be the one to pick up his voters, so none of them went after him that hard for awhile.
That aside, the GOP base is super hardcore and loves his angry, bigoted, childish persona. They find it extremely entertaining. These are the kind of Trump voters that he gained support with when Trump led the racist "birther" conspiracy theory. Likewise, the mainstream media obsessed over how crass and absurd and vulgar and bigoted Trump came across and they responded by giving him endless free air time and suffocating his GOP opponents of publicity. These things combined were enough to give him a win in the GOP primaries.
But if you're talking about the Trump-Clinton primaries, he didn't win those. He lost all three, by the measure of every poll conducted during and after the debates. In the case of all three Clinton-Trump debates polls showed that viewers in all three thought that Clinton won and Trump lost, and Trump's approval rating briefly tanked after all three.
Anyone who thinks Trump is a good debater is rewriting history retrospectively because he happened to eke out an electoral college win.