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Independents: Can He Win Them Back? Former President Donald J. Trump is riding high—at least in the GOP.

Even after getting indicted (with many other indictments in the offing), his support among likely Republican voters in the 2024 presidential election has only increased.

Unless Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis can mount an effective challenge to the forty-fifth president’s reelection campaign, Trump will likely walk away with the GOP nomination, where he will face off against President Joe Biden.

Winning the Republican primary, though, is the least of Trump’s problems.

Who cares about winning that if he is just going to lose in the General Election as he did in 2020?

Under present conditions, sadly, Donald Trump will likely lose the General Election.

The reason that Donald Trump is slated to lose is because he doesn’t poll well with independent voters.

Sure, this was the case with his unlikely election bid in 2016.

There is a difference, though, between then and now.

One of These Things Is Not Like the other.

Back in 2016, people wanted someone different—someone from outside the political class who might be able to solve some problems. What’s more, they wanted a businessman.

With no real political record and with his tough-as-nails, brash business persona cemented in the minds of the public, Donald Trump fit the bill. People were willing to take a chance on him in 2016. Plus, Trump spoke differently from most other Republicans.

He merged the most popular talking points of the Republican with those of the Democrats. That’s how he was able to break the vaunted Blue Wall in 2016 that ultimately defeated Hillary Clinton.

Since that time, though, many voters have soured on Trump—notably independents, college-educated women, and minorities (although it should be noted that Trump in 2020 got more minority votes than any previous Republican president in decades).

In 2018, though he was not on the ballot that year, the midterms were a referendum on Trump. Trump’s preferred candidates and the overall GOP did poorly in that election.

Following that loss, Trump went into the 2020 reelection campaign hobbled by the novel coronavirus, which emanated from Wuhan, China.

Whereas before the pandemic, Trump was likely coasting to reelection, the moment the pandemic hit the United States, voters soured on Trump. This is particularly true for independent voters. Independent voters were never sanguine with Trump’s mad Twitter habit or with his seemingly volatile and intemperate behaviour.

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They tolerated it because the economy was doing well. COVID-19, though, brought about a massive economic downturn. That fact, coupled with his uneven public response to COVID-19, turned off many voters. It made it that much easier for the Democrats to galvanise their own base and then combine those voters with the disaffected independent voters.

The reason that Joe Biden appealed to independent voters was because, if you can believe it, he came across as the stabler of the two candidates. He was America’s friendly grandpa figure, whereas Trump was supposedly America’s crazy, racist uncle.

Trump is Delusional About 2024

The Trump Campaign believes that they can override the factors that contributed to Biden’s victory in 2020 from being advantages for the Democrats in 2024 because COVID-19 is no longer a factor and because the economy is likely to be in the doldrums when voting takes place.

Yet, the Trump Campaign is playing a dangerous and desperate game. The American electorate today is decidedly more left-leaning than it was the last time that a successful candidate made the basis of their presidential campaign predicated on “it’s the economy, stupid!”

Today, we have the rise of chic voters who place a premium value on electing the cooler, more popular candidate. Pop culture loathes Trump much more than they has resented previous Republican presidential candidates.

Because the Trump brand has been so badly sullied by his enemies over the last six years and by his own unforced errors, Trump is not going to be able to reverse his unappealing nature to most independent voters.

Trump is Not the Man of the Hour Any Longer

The only real hope that the forty-fifth president has on breaking through resides in the fact that the election will be a binary choice between himself and Joe Biden. If that’s the case, Trump’s team reasons, independents will be forced to choose—and they will likely vote with their wallets after having endured the last four years of Biden’s presidency.

If the GOP nominated Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, these calculations would work well in favour of the Republicans. But Trump is a different kind of Republican nominee. He can get the nomination but unless the country is literally a smouldering pile of manure in 2024—and unless enough voters blame Joe Biden—he’ll lose to Biden, no matter how weak or pathetic Biden’s leadership has thus far been.

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