Michael Moore warns that Donald Trump is on course to repeat 2016 win

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Film-maker says enthusiasm for president in swing states is ‘off the charts’ and urges everyone to commit to getting 100 people to vote

Michael Moore warns that Donald Trump is on course to repeat 2016 win

The documentary film-maker Michael Moore has warned that Donald Trump appears to have such momentum in some battleground states that liberals risk a repeat of 2016 when so many wrote off Trump only to see him grab the White House.

“Sorry to have to provide the reality check again,” he said.

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Moore, who was one of few political observers to predict Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, said that “enthusiasm for Trump is off the charts” in key areas compared with the Democratic party nominee, Joe Biden.

“Are you ready for a Trump victory? Are you mentally prepared to be outsmarted by Trump again? Do you find comfort in your certainty that there is no way Trump can win? Are you content with the trust you’ve placed in the DNC [Democratic National Committee] to pull this off?” Moore posted on Facebook late on Friday.

Moore identified opinion polling in battleground states such as Minnesota and Michigan to make a case that the sitting president is running alongside or ahead of his rival.

“The Biden campaign just announced he’ll be visiting a number of states – but not Michigan. Sound familiar?” Moore wrote, presumably indicating Hillary Clinton’s 2016 race when she made the error of avoiding some states that then swung to Trump.

“I’m warning you almost 10 weeks in advance. The enthusiasm level for the 60 million in Trump’s base is OFF THE CHARTS! For Joe, not so much,” he later added.

He continued to voters: “Don’t leave it to the Democrats to get rid of Trump. YOU have to get rid of Trump. WE have to wake up every day for the next 67 days and make sure each of us are going to get a hundred people out to vote. ACT NOW!”

Moore cited CNN polling of registered voters this month to assert that “Biden and Trump were in a virtual tie”, including a poll that showed the pair tied at 47% in Minnesota. Moore said that Trump “has closed the gap to 4 points” in Michigan.

A national CNN poll this month showed that Biden’s lead over Trump has narrowed nationally, 50% to 46%, while a survey from the Republican-leaning Trafalgar Group found Biden and Trump statistically tied at 47% in Minnesota, and Trump narrowly leading Biden in Michigan. The margin of error for the poll, which surveyed 1,048 people, is 2.98%.

Moore, a vocal supporter of Bernie Sanders’s leftwing candidacy, warned in October 2016 that “Trump’s election is going to be the biggest ‘f*** you’ ever recorded in human history – and it will feel good,” even as Clinton appeared to be sailing to victory.

“Whether Trump means it or not is kind of irrelevant because he’s saying the things to people who are hurting, and that’s why every beaten-down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump,” Moore warned at that time.

Moore’s latest warnings come as Trump said at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Friday night that he supported seeing the first female president of the United States, but recommended his daughter over the Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

“They’re all saying ‘we want Ivanka,’” Trump told his supporters. “I don’t blame them.”

truth__bomb on August 29th, 2020 at 22:33 UTC »

2 people. Get 2 people to vote and hold their hand through the entire process. I’ve done hundreds of hours of get out the vote work. Committing to getting 100 people to vote is committing to get 100 shallow promises.

People will tell you “10/10. Definitely going to vote.”

And then they don’t. The data is there. I promise you this is how it goes.

Get 1 or 2 people — preferably unlikely voters — and be their voting advocate. Follow up, read the ballot with them, develop a beat-by-beat game plan for getting to their polling place or mailing/dropping off the ballot.

Here’s an unusual but very interesting way to get unlikely voters to vote and data to prove it works.

I didn’t believe it, but then I tried it. I’m convinced that it is absolutely the best way to get people to the polls.

Edit: left out word

Edit 2: thanks for the awards y’all. Put that gusto and energy to helping 2 people vote. Biden might be your perfect candidate. Likely he’s not. Hell, he might even be a bad candidate for you. But 186,000 dead and “I take no responsibility“ is unacceptable for our leader.

Edit 3: y’all trump voters keep commenting “wHaT iF i BRiNg 2 tRuMp VoTeRs?!?! HAR HAR!!!”

Um. Okay? Do it..? I’m well aware I posted this comment in a place you might see it. I understand how the Internet works. By all means, continue along a path with your political North Star being “I like pissing people off!” to wherever it may lead you. I really could not care any less. See you in November.

wingaersheek09 on August 29th, 2020 at 20:48 UTC »

The Trump supporters are at a fevered pitch here in central Pa. The amount of homes and businesses that have not just one or two Trump signs but their whole yard decked out or Huuugggeee billboard type signs or flags and posters with him as Rambo and a machine gun with f-16 fighter jets is insane. We are aghast and worried. These people are fanatics.

moshittyinbred on August 29th, 2020 at 17:20 UTC »

I am live in the south now and I am terrified. People openly talk about how much they hate liberals and how they want to kill them.