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I think he will, but there might be a real primary challenge.

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"almost" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I think she never got more than 20%, which is insane for any challenger to someone "incumbant-like", but she didn't come close to almost beating him.

I suspect that if he loses again, maybe the republican party gets actually serious about rebuking him, like they kind of did after January 6th for a minute, and then maybe a bit more after their embarrassing 2022 results.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

She won 40% in some states

She wasn't going to win but she actually did far better than expected. Though she did notably have a ton of AIPAC funding behind her.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Ok, I didn't recognize that in some states she did manage to only lose by a 20% margin, which is still a huge margin and I still wouldn't call that "almost".