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It’s been well established that Trump’s supporters were more focussed on race than those of any candidate in the Republican primary, by a considerable distance. This is really basic stuff and you still don’t get it, and one can only presume that’s entirely deliberate.

Comparisons between how Trump fared among minorities compared to McCain and Romney are irrelevant, and if you can’t see why, you’ve no business commenting on this thread.

Compare how he did among minorities to how George W. Bush did.

Bush fared significantly better among minorities than Trump.

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:smile:

This is the lad who is an immigrant in a state where the police regularly commit extrajudicial killings and the overwhelming terrorist threat is domestic. You literally couldn’t make it up.

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While mild ribbing and calling posters a cunt are welcome, let’s continue to play the ball and not the man.

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What’s that got to do with anything? Does the fact I am an immigrant disallow me from having an opinion?

The number of questionable police killings are roughly the same as police killed in the line of duty. It’s a violent country and cops here get shot at regularly. Would you prefer if they didn’t police ghettos where most of the shootings happen? I’m sure they would be fine with that as would their families.

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Cunt

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No, you’re the one missing the point. If Trump is the racist the left claims he is, why would minorities vote for him at all? If he is such a woman hater, why did women vote for him?

For the 100th time, the election had nothing to do with race or gender. Trump won (according to the largest Democratic superpac) because independent voters switched from democrat to Trump and millennials stayed at home. The sooner Dems absorb this message the better for their chances. They won’t though.

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He also won because he was up against an utter, utter mass murdering cunt in Hilary Clinton.

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Did you just try to argue for rights for immigrants?

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All legal immigrants have the same constitutional rights as citizens pal. Any kind of visa and you’re covered by the constitution.

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You’re a grand immigrant but immigrants that are different to you are not grand? :rollseyes:

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Isn’t that the reason why Trump’s immigrant ban was overturned?

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Correct, you cannot discriminate against people who have legal status to enter the country.

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Such as illegal immigrants? Ya, I’d say that’s his point.

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That’s particularly dumb even from you. I have no problem with anyone entering my country as long as they respect the laws and culture of the country. That includes most Muslims, just not the radical elements.

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Bullshit. A hike ago you said letting Muslims in was insanity. This is boring now.

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Are you high? I said letting in large populations of Muslims without some way of filtering out the radicals is madness, and not providing education and integration to those that do enter is asking for problems down the road.

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Great. Let in immigrants, provide education. Agree.

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People vote against their interests all the time.

You do understand this, yes?

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Did it ever occur to you that they might have voted in their own interests?

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That’s the trick.

Make them think that.

Republicans are good at doing at that.

Jews voted for Hitler. Was that in their own interests?

If that happened, why do you have a problem comprehending that people might vote against their own interests anywhere else?

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