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That's the important part. Only 5% regret their vote. Most people in this thread who are celebrating and laughing, only read the headline.

This kind of "told you so!" stuff and thinking they were untouchable is what led to the Democrats loss. And will again if people aren't careful. People need to stop thinking "Not Trump!", because that doesn't win elections. Dems need to come up with some good candidates who are more than just "not Trump."

Yes but it's actually 16% that would vote differently. These people are just incapable of admitting having done the wrong thing and admitting regret.

When given a chance to recast their 2024 votes, in fact, just 84% of Trump voters said they would vote for him again — compared to 91% for Harris voters.

So while some might prefer to not call it “regret,” 16% would apparently do things differently with hindsight.

That's a pretty weak headline tho. \s

It's possible that some of them don't want to admit to a stranger that they'd change their vote.

But, most of it is probably choice-supportive bias or post-purchase rationalization. They believe they're smart, right-thinking people and that they couldn't have made a horrible mistake, so they look for reasons to feel like they made the right choice, despite all the evidence against it. They're supported by a whole group of propaganda networks that explain away every bad thing that Trump does and shift the blame to democrats, liberals, trans people, immigrants, non-whites, women, etc.

That's still a massive loss of support. In a free election, that would mean one of the worst election losses in history.

What a sad bunch of simple minded morons

I bet it's even higher than that in actuality. There are people who know they should be embarrassed by it, but still support him anyway.

Nothing is actually real until it adversely affects them.

It's cult, and Trump knew what he was doing. He said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any support. Now he literally admit to and rape kids and they still blindly follow him. Hell they probably offer up their own children.

YTs in the imperial core are not even close to being rational actors. They've lived their whole lives inside the bubble.

They control the release of these polling numbers. They control information. Anything you are hearing from a "source" is curated.

But you see, when JD Vance takes over it'll be all kinds of different and the Republicans will finally fix everything the Deep State Democrat Trump broke.

High gas prices are a pittance if we can bring Jesus back! (I wish this were a joke).

There was an article a few weeks ago where folks were interviewed at a gas station in Pennsylvania. Two of the Trump voters who was fine with the higher prices said it was an acceptable price to pay to keep the nation safe. They really thought Iran was going to attack the US, possibly with nukes.

I have no hope of changing the minds who fervently believe in that crap

Some of his supporters will accept anything with a smile as long as it's their side doing it. Some are so drowned in right wing media bullshit that they might as well be living in a parallel universe. And some will just be so averse to criticizing Trump (particularly in a poll which is likely to have political remifications) that they'll defend or ignore almost anything bad, even if they do hate it.

Imperial media obscures the connection. I heard NPR talking about higher gas prices with ZERO mention of trump/iran. And, if they do mention it, they usually blame Iran at least implicitly but often explicitly.

Most of the ones I know are unapologetic about their support for him, when asked. They're definitely less vocal than when he started off his 2nd term, though.

They’ll vote again for him and his ilk.

Ofc there's no other option. They're all of his ilk.

Not that I put anything past this administration, but in order for him to “win again” we would need to rewrite the constitution as the 22nd amendment specifically bans more than two terms of a presidency. I’m not saying he won’t try because they are indeed deplorable monsters.