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Melania Trump passionately defends abortion rights in upcoming memoir
(www.theguardian.com)
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I do when it totally goes against her own husband's campaign.
Nah the campaign has released this prior to the book release because they think it makes trump look more balanced on women's rights.
Remember, they're not trying to win your vote, but "low information" swing voters who will decide who to vote for based on whatever meme they happen to remember.
I agree... the fact that you have people arguing about it instead of talking about Trump wanting to literally shit on democracy is a good thing for him. He believes in all publicity being good.
I don't see how this makes Donald Trump look more balanced on women's right's. Not when it's already well-known that there's a rift between him and her.
You're not one of the idiots who's vote they're trying to win.
Who are those idiots? The MAGA faithful who's votes they already have? Because who else will this sway?
Low information voters who feel guilty about voting for trump because of women's rights.
How would those low information voters even hear about this?
in the same way they hear about anything else.
So... they wouldn't? Because they're low-information voters?
I don't understand this scenario where someone is both a low-information voter and aware of what Melania Trump says in her memoir. That makes no sense to me.
Maybe they say to someone more knowledgeable, "well I would vote for trump but he doesn't support abortion rights", and now a devout trump supporter can respond "well that's not really true, his wife is a strong supporter of abortion rights, I'm sure trump is too, it's just that he has to keep the rest of the party happy. You'll see once he's president"
That's quite the "maybe" for something that also makes Trump look like even his wife isn't on his side to anyone who is not a low-information voter and possibly plenty who are and hear about it the same way.
So if that's the sort of stupid tactic they're going for, sounds like they're headed for failure. Good.
On the other hand, Occam's Razor would suggest she just isn't on the same page with her husband who she hates.
Nonsense. She may hate him bit she sure as shit wants him to be pres. Why do you think she releasedbthis information at this time?
Why would she want him to be president this time when she didn't want him to be president in 2016?
Do you really honestly believe that Melania Trump has written a book, scheduled publishing for after the election, but then released these specific comments, in order to undermine her husband's election chances? That's pretty much a nutty conspiracy IMO.
It's not a conspiracy. She hates him. That's not a secret.
I'm not disputing that, but hating him, and actively trying to undermine his candidacy with a leak from your memoirs are two very different things. That's a nutty conspiracy.
Or maybe she just doesn't give a shit what he thinks. Because she hates him.
Repeating the same thing doesn't make it any more likely.
So you're saying that, despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary, she doesn't hate him?
And, despite the fact that she "cried in despair" when he won in 2016, she wants him to win in 2024?
None of that is rational. At all.
This is what I actually said. I don't really have much more to add.
This is so tedious. Feel free to have the last word and continue believing your nutty theory but I'm done.
Wasn't that in response to what would have been a "nutty conspiracy" about how she did it to help his campaign through some weird hope that low-information voters would somehow decide that means Trump is pro-abortion and change their vote?