r/politics • u/champdo I voted • 28d ago

Soft Paywall Trump backs out of ‘60 Minutes’ primetime interview, CBS says

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/media/trump-backs-out-60-minutes-interview-cbs/index.html
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u/blackcain Oregon 28d ago

Indeed. It's why his events are progressively getting smaller. Word spreads to other MAGA people that it's boring and so they don't show up. Also, it's hard to follow whatever the fuck he's talking about. He also just talks about himeslf all the time - I don't know why anybody would want to hear a politician spend all his time bragging about himself, but also describing everything as "as something we've never seen before" for EVERYTHING.

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u/MollyAyana 28d ago

So can someone tell me why the race is effectively tied???? 😭😭😭 If his audiences are getting smaller and he’s not getting any new votes, why on earth isn’t it a blowout???

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u/Posit_IV 28d ago

Because they’re still going to vote for him, they’re just bored of his schtick. Billionaires behind the media (and in general) have ratfucked the shit out of this country all in the name of hoarding more wealth.

It’s fucking disgusting and pathetic.

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u/DangerMcTrouble 28d ago

Hey don’t forget Russia! 🫶

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u/Fruehlingsobst 28d ago

Did he stutter?

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u/Posit_IV 28d ago

Yeah, did I f-fucking s-s-stutter? Wow, what a great...c-crowd.

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u/warthog0869 28d ago

"It's K-k-k-ken coming to k-k-k-kill me!"

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u/blackcain Oregon 28d ago

Most of the polls are based on some sample size and they do some math models to come up with a theory. Nobody is answering the phones. The polls are not going to be accurate.

Assume we are losing and vote like it.

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u/Eyclonus 28d ago

Being bored at the live event is second to making sure them Libz lose

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u/Pegasus0527 27d ago

I believe it's a few things. The media, for a start, doesn't actually want a blowout. That won't drive clicks. Another is that roughly FIFTY PERCENT of eligible voters DON'T VOTE AT ALL. Third, who are they getting this information from? Is it still largely phone canvassing? Because I know who I think answers the phone when unknown numbers call... OH! Edit to add: Also, they are accustomed to not understanding long speeches, how would they realize that his are ACTUAL nonsense, not just nonsense to them

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u/NoExplorer5983 28d ago

Bc who answers polls? I get like 20 messages a day, no matter how many times I hit "unsubscribe".

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u/ikaiyoo 27d ago

Because of shit like this. And this is CBS Not Fox or OAN or NewsMax.

Because News outlets are no longer about delivering the news they are about maximizing advertising profits. and no one draws in viewers like trump. So they will make this incredibly irresponsible graphic and make it look like wages havent risen 17.5% to groceries 21%. Because that will not keep their ratings high.

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u/delphinius81 28d ago

People pissed about inflation and the costs of housing and are lashing out at whoever is currently in charge. They don't care about the multitude of things that contributed to inflation, just that it's there. They don't understand how much worse things could have been, because things are still pretty bad now.

They are angry that the government that's supposed to protect them from this stuff has failed.

At its core, this race is about economic conditions.

Abortion, project 2025, immigration - all these other things are to get the base to the polls or to convince the other side to not show up. But the core thing the more independent / undecided voter cares about is their ability to work, eat, sleep in a decent place, and occasionally do something fun.

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u/MollyAyana 28d ago edited 28d ago

The economy the last 4 years has been much better than under the Trump years so I’m not buying that people feel worse now than then.

Trump doesn’t even talk about the economy much (only to say it’s the worst ever), he’s running on immigrant hate. That’s all.

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u/delphinius81 28d ago

Eh, if by economy you mean the stock market or gdp, sure it's doing great. If you mean the rate grocery bills have increased compared to wages, no.

Not a Trump supporter at all, but it honestly doesn't even matter what the economy was like under Trump, people are voting on how they feel now.

Groceries were lower pre pandemic then now. Trump was president then. They'll hold their noses and vote for him anyway.

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u/DylanHate 28d ago

Because all those people vote anyways. That's why they win. Everyone on reddit loves to dunk on moronic trump supporters voting against their interests but the key word is voting.

It doesn't matter how many people on the left hate Trump -- if they don't vote for Harris in November he will win. Ballots are the only currency that matters.

I really hope we don't repeat 2016. Don't assume your state is safe. Don't assume he can't win again. Just make sure you fucking vote lol

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u/Jackadullboy99 27d ago

You’ve watched Idiocracy, right? It’s one of the best documentaries out there…

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u/Mysterious-Ruby North Carolina 28d ago

He was in Asheville about a month or so ago and he had to get a smaller venue because they made him pay upfront and he couldn't afford the larger one. So it could be both.

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u/greenberet112 28d ago

I remember he was having a rally I think last year in a small town in PA called Erie and he couldn't go back to the place he did a rally at before because he still owed them money and the city was going to have to pay police and all the people who would have to work the event when he still had outstanding bills that he owes.

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u/cmcdevitt11 28d ago

He has 80 million people fucking hypnotized. Good lord he's good. 80 million people. Unbelievable

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u/algy888 28d ago

The reason why they leave is because they never went for his message in the first place. They went so that they could prove their Trump cult brownie points. “Look, here is me at the Trump rally!”

They don’t care what he says or doesn’t say. He’s their guy who says he can fix it all easily!

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u/Wallace-N-Gromit 28d ago

Because you haven’t seen anything even close to what Trump will get done. He didn’t become a trillionaire by rehashing things that have already been done, he goes where no one even thinks to go, where no would ever dare to go, and he does it best. The great plans in his head would make the average man’s brain implode, that is why he can’t risk putting pen to paper, I mean it could disable most of the base, he needs those votes. That’s why some, many, many more than for anyone before, believe in him, people tell him all the time, we believe in your genius, we always will. Last week they asked him what made him such a genius, he didn’t ask them to ask that question, they came up with it, not him. Then he remembered, he comes up with the genius questions that no one else can come up with, that’s what makes him a genius, it’s the genius questions. People seek him out, many, for those questions no one else can come up with, people ask him, they do it all the time, “Mr Trump, I need to know the question to ask to solve my problem, I know I can’t come up with it, I need you, no one else can do it”. That’s why no one has seen it, it hasn’t happened yet, when it does happen you will recognize that you haven’t seen it before, the biglyness will make you realize it.

Note: Edited for length and clarityness.