Yeah, I know we've talked a lot recently about
the swing state polls, kind of showing a narrowing
of the gap between Trump and Biden Biden,
still pulling ahead, but not by as much as
he had been. And not by as much as Hillary
had been in 2016 and we know how 2016 turned
out, but this week another metric came out
that actually also relates to 2016. You see,
in the 2016 election because of their dislike
of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump,
you had quite a few people, especially those
in swing States, hundreds of thousands in
swing States enough to actually flip a couple
of States. Michigan is one of them, uh, who
voted third party either for Jill Stein of
the green party or Gary Johnson and the libertarian
party. But according to a new poll that has
not gotten the coverage that it deserves,
this new poll says the following. It says
of these Stein or Johnson voters from 2016,
where are they in 2020? Who are they voting
for? 47% say they're voting for Biden. 20%
are supporting Trump. And 33% are unsure or
say they're backing another candidate. So
these individuals who went third party in
2016, only a third of them are saying, they're
going third party this year.
Sure.
Here's the thing. And I think a lot of this,
obviously you have a lot of a disaffected
Progressive's, you know? Yeah. Bernie backers,
Elizabeth Warren backers as well in there,
um, who just a month ago, two months ago definitely
were saying, there's no way in hell. I'm voting
for Joe Biden. I'm not going to do it. And
then he picked Kamala Harris and that didn't
do anything to use our fears, but at the same
time, all hell was breaking loose in this
country. And it's not that they finally looked
at it and said, Oh, Joe Biden's Joe Biden
can fix this. No, none of us think that, uh,
what we are terrified of, however, is what
Trump has done in response. You know, kidnapping
people off the streets with his non uniformed,
random military commandos that he sent out
there and throw people in windowless vans
to disappear them off our streets. Um, the
fact that he is openly encouraging and not
admonishing his supporters who were traveling
to other States to go and cause chaos at the
protest, which leads to riots,
Kind of the straw that broke the camel's back.
I have seen a lot and I'm talking like hard
core, even left than me. People on social
media, very popular people on social media.
Uh, that again a month ago were saying, I
will never vote for Biden. I will never ever
vote for Biden no matter what, uh, this weekend
I saw or this past weekend, I saw them say,
dammit, I have to vote for Biden. It's not
because they like him. It's not because they
have faith in him, but it's because what is
at stake is so real and so dire that we have
no choice now. And I think that is what these
kind of third party voter poll right here.
I think that's what it's showing us. Nobody.
I mean, I'm sure there's a couple of people,
but most people aren't even voting for Biden
because we think he's a good person. Or because
we think he'll be a good president or because
we think we'll fix anything we're voting for
him because we're afraid of what's going to
happen. If Trump gets another four years,
if that guy suddenly doesn't have to worry
about re-election homeboy, that's a terrifying
thought not to mention the fact that eight
years of him is going to lead the four years.
At least of one of his kids. Hopefully not
the dumb one.
I'm not even gonna say which one that is.
I think we all know. And if you don't know,
then it's all of them. Whatever I don't care.
The point is what's at stake in November is
too great. And even these people who were
able to cast their protest votes in 2016,
they're looking at the situation right now
and they're saying, I'm not willing to do
it again. We have a lot of work to do within
the democratic party. If we want them to be
where they need to be, where they can actually
help American citizens. But if we let Trump
have another four years, those ideals, those
goals that we have as Progressive's another
four years of Trump will make those even harder
to reach than four years of Biden would.
