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Maddening New Poll: Voters Are Unaware of Trump “Dictator” Threats
A small percentage of voters surveyed are familiar with Trump’s most overt authoritarian outbursts. That’s frightening. But it’s also an opportunity.
President Biden’s brain trust appears confident that he will ultimately prevail over Donald Trump due to the threat Trump poses to our constitutional system. By November, the election’s “focus will become overwhelmingly on democracy,” one top Biden adviser told The New Yorker, adding that “the biggest images in people’s minds are going to be of January 6th.”
Some new polling from a top Democratic pollster finds mixed news for Team Biden on this front: Large swaths of voters appear to have little awareness of some of Trump’s clearest statements of hostility to democracy and intent to impose authoritarian rule in a second term, from his vow to be “dictator for one day” to his vague threat to enact “termination” of provisions in the Constitution.That’s maddening for obvious reasons. But it also presents the Biden campaign with an opportunity. If voters are unaware of all these statements, there’s plenty of time to make voters aware of them—and the polling also finds that these statements, when aired to respondents, shift them against Trump.
The survey—which was conducted by veteran Democratic pollster Geoff Garin for the group Save My Country and shared with The New Republic—did something novel. It polled 400 voters in each of three swing states—Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—and weighted them in proportion with each state’s Electoral College votes. It omitted respondents who voted for Trump in 2020 and also said Biden didn’t legitimately win.
Going to lay this at the feet of the MSM, which has refused to cover Trump as the threat that he is. But, now knowing this, the Democratic Party needs to be willing to make the ads and show the people, from his own mouth, of what Trump intends if he gets back in. Don’t sugar coat it. Make it absolutely plain.
This isn’t trying to scare people. It’s showing them what’s going to happen and telling them to make an educated choice.
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 6:30 AM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
This is maddening: New polling conducted by Dems finds that an alarmingly small percentage of voters surveyed are familiar with Trump’s most blatant authoritarian threats, such as his “dictator” quote.This is bad. But it’s also an opportunity. 1/
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 7:02 AM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
The poll found that only 31 percent of non-MAGA voters in PA, MI, and AZ have a lot of awareness of Trump’s most explicit authoritarian threats. The poll tested 10 of these.The survey is by veteran pollster @geoffgarin for the group Save My Country. 2/
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 7:08 AM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
The good news is that when these voters were presented with Trump’s authoritarian outbursts, negative impressions of him jumped substantially. They saw him as “dangerous” and “a dictator.” 3/As Garin told me: “This is an opportunity to move voters.”
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 7:17 AM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
People obsessed over NYT finding Biden down while 53% say he committed serious crimes.Here’s one explanation: If this Dem polling is right, many voters may see Trump’s criminality for now as theoretical, not a harbinger of a lawless presidency. 4/
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 7:29 AM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
It’s sometimes said Trump’s negatives are “baked in,” so Ds shouldn’t obsess over his authoritarianism. This polling debunks that.“Trump’s negatives are not baked into the cake at all,” pollster Geoff Garin tells me.
It’s actually new information! 5/5
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 0:53 PM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
Related and important point from @brianbeutler: If Dems are going to remind voters about Trump, and correct for the memory deficit that is clearly a real problem, that will require “looking backward,” something Ds are congenitally uncomfortable with:
https://t.co/zLFKzGQmww
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1765088370911334478?t=f1r5DH-QI3O76cyFhx9gCg&s=03)
They are not hiding their intentions.
They are telling you the hell that they want to unleash upon this country.
We need to make it plain as day to those who do not know.
We need to spread it far and wide so that people can enter that voting booth with as much knowledge as possible. What that ballot choice means to their lives.
You best leave her alone….
She did not hesitate.
She did not stutter.
Leave her be😒😒
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLRqBRcG/
The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) posted at 11:32 AM on Thu, Mar 07, 2024:
Breaking news: The U.S. military will build a temporary port and pier on Gaza’s coastline to provide a new route for humanitarian aid, President Biden is set to announce in his State of the Union address Thursday, according to administration officials. https://t.co/nM82RjBFNX
(https://x.com/washingtonpost/status/1765792692255044044?t=qMW3RBU8q7TepShMboFt-w&s=03)
chris evans (@notcapnamerica) posted at 7:21 PM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
Mark Robinson has just won the Republican nomination for Governor of North Carolina.
Robinson is a Black Trump supporter who says not only are Black people not owed any reparations, but in fact WE OWE reparations to white people as thanks for bringing us here as slaves. https://t.co/7m3e8F9zL6
(https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1765186010277695632?t=AtkgkIqB2dEXohuI1srAFw&s=03)
Jay Bookman (@jaysbookman) posted at 8:04 AM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
MAGA is not and never was about “making America great again.” It’s about making MAGA members feel great again, about regaining the dominance they think is theirs by birthright, and as long as that goal is achieved they don’t give a shit about the impact on the country.
(https://x.com/jaysbookman/status/1765378025862938764?t=3mwS39YSF8cCO_nIYUK7Xg&s=03)
Jay Bookman (@jaysbookman) posted at 8:04 AM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
Put another way, MAGA is motivated by pure selfishness, not patriotism, so it is no surprise that it is led by the most cartoonishly selfish character I’ve ever encountered, in reality or in fiction, someone to whom the common good is a concept fit only for suckers.
(https://x.com/jaysbookman/status/1765378026978648152?t=MEw4dk18LLQ6bLN5guMDfw&s=03)
Lindy Li (@lindyli) posted at 0:45 AM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
Why did Washington Post do a glowing profile on Lauren Boebert?
Why did they crown Marjorie Greene “Queen” & the “ultimate insider”?
Why is Axios downplaying Trump’s election lies?
Why is Univision sucking up to Trump?!
1) Trumpism sells
2) Their owners LOVE Trump’s tax cuts
(https://x.com/lindyli/status/1765267435291078882?t=tmrR_ZOZLco4oDoCCsD-xg&s=03)
pure-D clown
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 9:51 AM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
Johnson: We also advanced cuts to some of the agencies that have been turned against the American people. We are going to cut 3% from DOJ, 7% from the ATF, 6% from the FBI, and 10% from the EPA. https://t.co/RzKKPiLD73
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1765404826144522538?t=937QOI86e6ga2BRktPKjsg&s=03)
Portia ♍️ McGonagal Same On 🐳 (@PortiaMcGonagal) posted at 9:00 AM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
When the evil that you do comes boomeranging back.
Texas GOP sounds alarm after voter roll purge hits Republicans on Super Tuesday
https://t.co/TgDFXisL0e
(https://x.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1765392116665155870?t=A7ztk1acgmNh-w16DpKpTA&s=03)
Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) posted at 8:25 AM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
It was @CoCoGauff’s dad, Corey, who encouraged her to work with Brad Gilbert (ESPN commentator and former world No. 4) just 42 days before her win at the #USOpen. In Vogue’s 2024 April cover star, Gauff opens up training and about chasing perfection. https://t.co/4fHjJAah0I https://t.co/zQDsNpOFcd
(https://x.com/voguemagazine/status/1765383249964986640?t=LJFGFQBNo1St8-qWhmR3fg&s=03)
Salome Strangelove (@salstrange) posted at 10:48 AM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
Every single day Elaine Chao and Heidi Cruz wake up, look in the mirror, and try desperately not to think about how they are married to evil, pathetic cowards that lick the boots of a deranged con man who denigrated them for kicks.
And I love that for them. https://t.co/ArbnpEd3NX
(https://x.com/salstrange/status/1765419149101048059?t=ypgPJqt_OsDtNgvKaEUOLg&s=03)
David Darmofal (@david_darmofal) posted at 7:55 AM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
Have said it before, but I wish white liberals cared as much about Lauren Underwood’s legislation she’s enacted as they do about Katie Porter’s white board.
(https://x.com/david_darmofal/status/1765375663102366186?t=zKIFYJ-zJgjDhR4aSyvKcg&s=03)
Ray D’Antuono (@rpd158) posted at 9:16 AM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
Mainstream media is beginning to hit the panic button as an implosion in President Biden’s campaign fails to materialize, and a series of polls, court cases, and indictments suggest Trump is weaker than he was four years ago.
(https://x.com/rpd158/status/1765396109038629337?t=k31s9xgdt81wKIWdLgFsyQ&s=03)
Atlanta Community Press Collective (@atlanta_press) posted at 0:25 PM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
Friday morning, around 20 Black women and femmes protested outside the Collier Heights home of Mayor Andre Dickens.
The group demanded that Mayor Dickens drop the City of Atlanta’s court appeal against the referendum that would put the ‘Cop City’ project up for a city-wide vote. https://t.co/RkX1CAL2Xe
(https://x.com/atlanta_press/status/1765081148953395467?t=tYZdaf-caU4SqIXNhbU5Eg&s=03)
The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) posted at 0:46 PM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
Mitch McConnell is the reason why the United States hasn’t passed a renewed Voting Rights Act. He is the reason why the United States hasn’t passed democracy reform. He is the reason why Donald Trump is still able to run for office (he had the opportunity to end this nightmare but didn’t).
Mitch McConnell is the reason why Roe v. Wade was overturned, and why IVF is now illegal in Alabama.
McConnell is responsible for turning the U.S. Senate into the House of Representatives.
McConnell has never been a friend to labor, the environment, or responsive to climate change.
History, if it remembers him, will remember him for the things he did, and the things he prevented.
He put his own ambitions before the needs of the United States whenever he could.
(https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1765448848166572240?t=QAUyyEXQ7VUUnwZrHYxQSw&s=03)
Jason Garcia (@Jason_Garcia) posted at 1:28 PM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
By a 77-36 vote, the Florida House of Representatives just passed a bill expanding a notorious union-busting law that targets teachers and other public-sector workers in Florida.
Bill goes to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign it. https://t.co/GfSiLYtfEG
(https://x.com/Jason_Garcia/status/1765459422313066903?t=gmuLkeoeAWo3vRAldzNEqw&s=03)
Jason Garcia (@Jason_Garcia) posted at 1:28 PM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
“This bill IS about worker protection. It IS about rights,” said bill sponsor Rep. Dean Black (R-Jacksonville), just before the bill passed.
Which is weird….because he keeps making sure this law doesn’t apply to workers he likes – like cops, firefighters and prison guards
(https://x.com/Jason_Garcia/status/1765459424313741813?t=n7UkghvqScBm2Br13koW4g&s=03)
BWA HA HA HA AH AH AH AH HA HA HA HA
Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) posted at 9:22 AM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
Angela Stanton King, who runs RFK Jr’s outreach program ‘Blacks for Kennedy,’ is questioning why so many black Republican politicians have white wives.
https://t.co/tvxzif2GT1
(https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1765397569243410794?t=aOvcE9XLqbYjynXP8MB6Aw&s=03)
Shadow and Act (@shadowandact) posted at 3:47 PM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
Denzel Washington is returning to Broadway, and he is set to portray William Shakespeare’s tragic African general, ‘Othello,’ in a new production opposite Jake Gyllenhaal. https://t.co/fal6hhOAnN
(https://x.com/shadowandact/status/1765494405408960632?t=vEkZeCIroDCCt4xZTy2xVA&s=03)
I remember Generations.
philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) posted at 3:30 PM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
CBS developing the first Black daytime soap opera in 35 years https://t.co/PMwGbM4SpH
(https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1765490216725282911?t=OCFczj–N1m3ZBFpZ5oq_A&s=03)
Errol Lewis (@ErrolLewis) posted at 2:01 PM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
BREAKING NEWS: CBS Studios/NAACP Venture Developing New Daytime Drama Series for CBS Titled ‘The Gates’ With Michele Val Jean Set As Writer/Showrunner/Executive Producer #TheGates #CBS #Drama @MicheleValJean @CBS @NAACP
https://t.co/DQ7ABu6fd7
(https://x.com/ErrolLewis/status/1765467731804262413?t=qo-vupiQyHeuXXWLsiWzKA&s=03)
shut up, josh (@ChiefJosheola) posted at 2:45 PM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
After spending almost a century in Congress and even on his way out the door this dude can’t grow a spine and tell Donald Trump to go fuck himself.
Watching grown men embarrass themselves to appease a con man never gets any less wild.
(https://x.com/ChiefJosheola/status/1765478892284911803?t=i5SogtsUNaKYb7_d6MvhvQ&s=03)
18 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 11:37 AM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
I hate state polls for Senate or governor in which the polling is forty something vs. fortysomething vs. “in the teens” “undecided”
mothaf*ckas are lying about secretly wanting to vote for the Republican
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1765431620817863136?t=_VD842ugVK7uXdncfKgTPQ&s=03)
Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) posted at 4:21 PM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
Before I took office, student borrowers had to pay 10% of their discretionary income on a monthly basis.
Under my SAVE Plan, we’re cutting that in half.
No one with an undergraduate loan will have to pay more than 5% of their discretionary income starting in July.
(https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1765502871057908180?t=OgN6t9yxszc7Qpijhwc2XA&s=03)
18 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 0:14 PM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
A tale of two Congresspeople, Abigail Spanberger (VA-07)and Katie Porter (CA-47):
Spanberger waited until her district was redistricted to become more blue (and therefore much safer to find a suitable Democratic replacement) before running statewide.
Katie Porter did not.
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1765440724823158805?t=HelqNZ8f5ud9iG0IcPp_HA&s=03)
Democrat, Environmentalist, & the establishment (@BlueSteelDC) posted at 10:01 AM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
I don’t understand complaining that you faced a tough opponent. That is par for the course.
Katie Porter didn’t have a record to run on -she passed no bills
None of her house colleagues endorsed her
Her brand was that she is “politically capable”
Way to squash your brand
(https://x.com/BlueSteelDC/status/1765407397474918432?t=PiBnQfVT_gffdPxUrPvR4g&s=03)
Lorraine Evanoff (@LorraineEvanoff) posted at 2:39 PM on Wed, Mar 06, 2024:
It seems she’s doing the same things she’s accusing Schiff of doing?
My impression is that Schiff took out $ millions in ads attacking Garvey was smart. He didn’t attack fellow democrats, which would have looked worse IMO.
But pundits and Porter herself are spinning it as a…
(https://x.com/LorraineEvanoff/status/1765477396520796242?t=FqxZv7-cG5ARbMzoswkJYg&s=03)
It seems she’s doing the same things she’s accusing Schiff of doing?
My impression is that Schiff took out $ millions in ads attacking Garvey was smart. He didn’t attack fellow democrats, which would have looked worse IMO.
But pundits and Porter herself are spinning it as a tactic by Schiff to beat the dems.
You can’t have it both ways.
This is the Blackest thing I’ve seen all day 😂😂😂
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLRB56gf/
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊