GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan – Before Election Day, President Donald Trump stoked concern about chaos and “rigged” elections and warned that he may never legitimately lose. He said that even a delay in effects in a state could simply “induce violence on the streets. “
He argued that a defeat wouldn’t even make sense. ” It puts a lot more pressure against a guy like this, you know,” Trump said at Grand Rapids shortly after midnight on Monday, his last rally before the voting ended. “You know, you lost to someone who was approved, can you believe the concept of waste with this guy?You better, you better pass and vote tomorrow, I’ll be so angry, I’ll never go back to Michigan, I’ll never come back. I’m going to tell Japan to bring all those plants.
But in the final rallies of his re-election crusade across the nation’s states, most Trump supporters told BuzzFeed News they anticipated chaos or chaos would erupt if Trump lost; instead, they see themselves moving on with their lives.
Edward Valera in Miami, Miami
“Most Conservatives, we’re not going out on the street,” Edward Valera, 38, told BuzzFeed News about the option for Trump to lose. He added: “If he loses, he loses. That’s what it is. “
Valera and thousands of Florins visited the grounds of Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on Sunday for a MAGA rally in los Angeleste, where the salsa music of the band Los 3 of the Angels Havana preceded the president’s speech and on a night at the end of such in a weighted election, other people danced (and drank) in what looked like a big outdoor party with some speeches and chants in small teams ” four more years” in the middle. Limited choice anxiety.
“My life wouldn’t be much longer,” Patrick Hill-Tarves, 20, said of Trump’s defeat at the Miami rally. He described his first MAGA occasion as “interesting” to see other people of other ethnicities and backgrounds combine into the Same Cause: Donald J. Trump. Si lost, Hill-Tarves said, “Surely there are safe teams from other people who would gain advantages and some segments that would be angry. “
“I expect the most productive thing here,” ChristyAnne Bare, 24, also from Florida, said when asked about the option that her candidate would not win. Bare said she needs Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to be smart leaders if they’re elected, but she’s not sure “what’s going to happen. “
Mara Young, who is from Panama but now lives in Miami, feels the same way.
“Well, let’s move on, ” said Young, 46, to BuzzFeed News. “We’ll move on and see what happens. But I hope he wins.
BuzzFeed News met with more than 3 dozen Trump supporters in four decisive states in the last week of re-election demonstrations for this article. They don’t expect you to lose, even though the surveys imply that this result is entirely possible, if not likely.
“I probably wouldn’t lose,” Rayza Rodriguez, 56, told BuzzFeed News in Miami, where she and thousands of supporters applauded the president at the same rally in Miami that took a position well after midnight. “We’re going to win another. 4 years. “
Rayza Rodriquez in Miami, Miami
Christina Nordet is equally confident that the president will win, depending on the number of people in the polls and the experts. And then Nordet, 49, made the ultimate bet: “I can literally bet my life that you may not lose. Look at this participation. “
In Hedry, North Carolina, where the president visited Monday, Chuck Parrish, a retiree from Marion, North Carolina, is in an “overwhelming” Trump victory.
“I think every single state will go through Trump, adding California,” said Parrish, 62.
At the same rally, Ioana Childers, an immigrant from Romania, said she was also convinced that Trump’s victory would reflect her victory in 2016, when the most indicated by a Hillary Clinton presidency. “It’s going to be a landslide. ” The polls “are fake, as in 2016. “
Helen and Bob Miller, a couple of Hickory retirees, felt the way.
“I don’t think they’re true, ” said Helen about the polls. “Four years ago they said he wasn’t going to win, and he did.
If Trump doesn’t win, he thinks Kamala Harris would be president because “Joe probably couldn’t take care of it” and the country will be “socialist or communist. “”That would be horrible, ” said Helen. The country would pass through the tubes. “
“Our country will fall, ” Bob.
Bob predicted violence after the election, but only if Trump wins. “If Trump wins, there will be all sorts of riots and uprisings in Democratic-ruled states that will allow this to happen so that other people know, ‘Hey, you haven’t let that happen. ‘First, take those protesters and lock them up.
But there is a cohort of less positive supporters who count on Trump to save them from a Biden presidency doomed to failure, who say it is destined for socialism. It is a lie that the president has repeated to color Biden-Harris’ imaginable management and resonates with his supporters.
“Well, if you don’t win, socialism will have more powerful control in this country,” Todd Hurley, 61, told BuzzFeed News at the Miami rally. “To be fair, I’m not satisfied to think you’re not winning. with you. “
In Lansing, Michigan, last week, supporters stayed for hours in the bloody rain during a rally near the beginning of the president’s last crusade. Both believe that a Biden administration would repair policies in Michigan that he says have stifled the state’s auto industry.
“If he loses, a lot will happen,” Bothwell said. ” We’re going to take CAFE’s needs back to the automotive industry. “
Some simply couldn’t stand the concept of a Trump loss. Kumiko Newman, 56, an immigrant from Japan, who, as she says, is at least as patriotic as some Americans of all time, even addressed the issue.
“I don’t need to think about it,” he says.
Others in Michigan have promised that the motion will not lose strength in the next four years.
“We’re just going to have to paint and make sure our voices are heard,” Meyers told BuzzFeed News. He added a little caveat: making sure that “the other aspect is not looking for mischief. “
Trump’s crusade has spent most of his final days bombing states with rallies, especially in Pennsylvania, where the president or at least one of his surrogates made consecutive stops last week. Last Monday in Allentown, thousands of enthusiasts showed up in the rain in the parking lot of a locally produced plant.
“If he doesn’t win, well, we’re back to our general lives,” James Rubin told BuzzFeed News. “But the explanation for why we’re here is because we need it to win. “
The president made four stops last Saturday in Pennsylvania, adding one at a more intimate pickup at Headquarters Farm in Bucks County. There, the president warned that there would be “chaos” if the effects of the election extend beyond Election Day, a very likely situation for the state after electoral law was adjusted due to the coronavirus. His audience, however, did not bite.
“Well, I mean, this is America,” said Michael Donohue, Republican president in Cape May, New Jersey. “We have choices. Someone wins and loses and you settle for the outcome of the election. You may not like it for a while, however, there will be other choices».
Steve Britt of Ambler, Pennsylvania, who had attended three demonstrations before Bucks County, suppressed the concept that the state is besathed by chaos.
Steve Britt in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
“I think he’s going to win, ” said Britt, 30. “I don’t even think I want Pennsylvania. No I think there’s nothing to worry about. “
And despite their confidence, participants in Pennsylvania rallies also accepted the perception of a Biden-Harris socialist administration.
Britt warned that if Biden wins, it would only serve as an area reserved for Harris, who said he embraced socialism, imitating a lie used through the president.
Bucks County resident Laura Kushner expressed the same urgent desire for a Trump victory.
“You’ll have to win, ” he said. He’ll have to win for us, for me, for you, for everyone. He wants to win.
So did Michael Surmann, a retired USPS worker who came to the occasion with his son.
“I think I’m going to worry about America,” Surmann told BuzzFeed News as he and a few hundred more were waiting for the president at Headquarters Farm. “I will care about our children, our grandchildren and what will be the long term. “
Cindy, who refused to give her last name, was more direct about her considerations if Trump lost, but never advised violence.
“It’s going to be an unhappy world,” he said of Trump’s loss. “We will be like all other socialist countries. There will be illegal immigrants and we will have to pay for them.
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