A friend of mine asked me a few weeks ago what would I say if I could personally communicate with every swing voter. Below is that result.
Dear swing voter:
I made it in bullet points to reduce the TL;DR potential due to the entire work’s very high importance, so please take away at least one thing: You don’t get a do-over with the “don’t vote for Trump (however that may be)/vote for Trump” decision. The opportunity to prevent Project 2025, threats to Social Security and Medicare, and the tariff plan; will be gone forever, if you currently act on a knee-jerk reaction to vote for Trump rather than thinking the whole picture through. You only get one shot to prevent Project 2025, and that is before the election. I’m writing this because I feel you’re about to make a terrible decision, just like 2016 & 2004, without thinking it through. By writing this I’m doing my best to prevent that.
- I understand you have concerns given the debate performance and I can agree you have a right to the opinion that the concern from your perspective could be construed by others as possibly legitimate. I don’t agree that it is nearly as significant as the potential exists for you to see it as much more significant, but I’m not here to argue that point and don’t intend to. I am here to argue the potential decision you are about to make, completely reflective in polling where the same polling outfits have the Democrat for senate in the same states consistently doing much better, and the senate candidate in NV, AZ, MI, WI, OH, and PA, are ahead mostly outside of the margin of error, and senate candidates only very slightly behind in FL, TX, and MT, but still so much better than Biden’s numbers, so swing voters- you’re making the right decision there, so let’s say why not capitalize on that success “up ballot?” I’d like to learn your current side of the story given the past 9 years of Trump one way or another: What’s not only preventing that, but you immediately choosing Trump, on top of that?
- Now’s the chance to prove me wrong, that you indeed ARE smarter than the brainwashed, “alternate fact-free-universe-dwelling” MAGA faithful, and will NOT choose Trump/Vance just because you have Biden-related concerns not really to do with policy, without thinking the entire picture through first. The swing voters include many in closed Republican primaries that took time off in their busy schedules, to vote for Nikki Haley in a primary despite her being eliminated from primary contention months prior. Swing voters: There are other and better options on the ballot than a Trump vote.
- Republicans that voted for Haley- please don’t “fall in line.” It’s basically the top thing I struggle to understand and frustrates me the most about non-MAGA Republicans and right-leaning Independents. You know deep down in your heart of hears that Trump and MAGA candidates are no good, but somehow you end up “falling in line” anyway. You had it right the first time with your Trump and MAGA candidate skepticism. Why blow it when you actually vote? Please think this through. We had him for 4 years already & been on the scene for 9. What a crap show in so many ways. Swing voters and Haley voters: I implore you with every ounce of my might, please don’t, as a knee-jerk reaction, go back to that and throw the whole country under the bus along with it, which is exactly what your Trump vote will do. Prove me wrong about you NOT being nearly as stupid as the MAGA faithful, and please actually think this through. May I ask out of simple respect why it seems you’re about to make this terrible decision where you got it right in 2012, 2020, and all the abortion measures and special elections, not to mention senate candidates on the same ballot, why you’re getting THAT right, but the POTUS election dead wrong? I’d like to hear your reasoning given Trump in the past 9 years.
- You were smarter than the TEA Party in 2012 & MAGA in 2020, and decided to stop Mitt Romney and Trump, so why are you going backwards now?
- if you hate Democrats or liberals but also do happen to hate Project 2025, opposing Project 2025 is more important. If you vote on your hate towards Democrats, you let Project 2025 decide your future.
- Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, fringe far-right Facebook pages and websites (e.g. Daily Caller, the Blaze) that are quoting quacks and charlatans acting as experts that know better than those with professional credentials and education like medical professionals, right wing Talk Radio (I refuse to call it “conservative”- that normalizes their awfulness/narrow-mindedness), etc… are just AN opinion, and not THE opinion (like the MAGA faithful and a surprising number of non-MAGA Republicans seem to act like). Don’t fall for it like you didn’t when you voted for Dems in the past special elections & 2012 & 2020 POTUS elections, and against the anti-abortion measures in many states. You DIDN’T fall for the right wing propaganda then, and you’re currently NOT falling for right wing propaganda in regards to Senate races and the North Carolina Governor’s race, so please don’t fall for the “anti-Biden/Trump is more normal now” propaganda now in regards to the POTUS race, otherwise you’re amongst all other things, also canceling out your senate votes and all previous Democratic Party votes.
- Given project 2025, opportunity to beat back the Dobbs decision, the tariff plan, and threats to social security and Medicare, you’re about to hand this country over to those that will take that away and do damage, rather than think it all through; so I ask you- please don’t, as a knee jerk reaction immediately go to Trump because of those (by some people’s opinions only, valid) Biden-related concerns.
- The goal is preventing Project 2025 and every other scary proposal like the tariff plan. If you are against that, then a Biden vote is required to prevent that since nothing else exists that could prevent that that is in control of the voter, as it’s very unlikely it can be stopped after the inauguration.
- In any state that Trump carried, you must ignore optics and characterizations of the state, and vote for Biden anyway, rather than not vote. Biden could really use bonus states, so if you’re a swing voter and live in any state Trump carried, please don’t stay home. Project 2025 will affect you and the entire state in question wherever you live.
- If you’re a swing voter that HAS decided to vote for Biden when push comes to shove, please consider sharing your story and doing your best to politely persuade other swing voters in your life to do the same.
- I also must take the time to remind you that your knee-jerk switch to Trump is also about to vote for the party on the POTUS level, with the lone exception of Eisenhower (because back in the 50s he was basically a liberal Republican by today’s standards), that has a track record of making the economy, job market, and wage gap between rich and working class, worse. Now’s the chance to not “go back for more” but instead, bypass that step altogether of forcing a future Democrat, just like in 1933, 1977, 1993, 2009, and 2021, of being forced to clean up a Republican mess. Now’s the chance to make the next Republican mess never happen to begin with and completely bypass that step Democrats that come in must spend so much time cleaning up the Republican mess rather than advance their positive agenda. Imagine how much more we could accomplish if there was never a Republican mess to ever clean up again in the first place? How cool is that! Well, the great news is, you as a swing voter, as an extra added bonus, hold the key to that, just as long as you don’t as a knee-jerk reaction fall in “Republican line” or switch to Trump due to a certain Biden-related non-policy concern you might have.
- Swing voters know in their heart of hearts that Trump and MAGA Republican candidates are no good, otherwise they wouldn’t have opposed Trump in 2020 & Republicans in 2022 & all the special elections between 2017 and the 2024 Alabama house election against an anti-IVF republican incumbent. I must remind you, **in all of those elections, swing voters got it right!!** Let’s say, why not get it right again of the most important race to get it right in, in November on the POTUS line? The trick is to get them to continue that trend in November and not throw away all those correct decisions, with the Republican POTUS-level decision that is worst of all. Deep down you know your instincts are telling you Trump and MAGA candidates are no good. You successfully followed them since 2017. Now’s really a good time to consider staying consistent with following that instinct with the most significant of all MAGA candidates- rejecting Trump himself.
- The Biden camp is a team and an administration. Please don’t lose sight of that when you vote. It’s better to prevent Project 2025 and the tariff plan, than not, and by choosing Biden as a strategically-placed vote you’d be instrumental in preventing that. It’s either Trump’s tariff plan (which many noble-winning economists came out and said it would result in hyper-inflation and a near-depression), Project 2025 (Trump mentioned many times in the document) & Trump’s Agenda 47 (which has many similarities); or the future, and you can’t have the future if you choose Trump, and this knee-jerk reaction to back Trump is what you’re subjecting the whole country to if you fail to think it through.
- By making the correct decision given the stakes and the consequences of choosing Trump/Vance, you hold the key to giving us an election result that shows MAGA that we’re done with their crap and greatly marginalizes them. How cool is that?
- Like in 2000, 2004, and 2016 we wish we all had, You don’t get a do-over with the “vote strategically for Biden/don’t” decision. This is the chance for you NOT to have that regret in 2025 & 2026 and beyond, by making the correct voting decision NOW. If I could tell non-voters battlegrounds and even a few Trump states like Florida the same thing, you bet I would.
- A Biden victory is required to make Florida Amendment 4 work, otherwise Florida voters will be canceling their own votes out, whereas you can’t depend on enough non-Florida states to go the correct way, so you as a swing and pro-Amendment 4 voter, again, have to place a Biden vote (again, strategic if necessary) to get Biden to carry Florida along with Amendment 4. Polling in FL is just outside battleground status, so after NC, on a spectacular night for Biden, is next. Regardless, there are enough pro-Amendment 4 votes to overcome that 5-9% Trump polling lead if voters think and vote strategically. Boy could Biden really use a bonus state or 2, and swing voters nationwide hold the key to help make that happen.
- “Double-haters”: Remember- Biden isn’t proposing elements of Project 2025 (which elements of and similarities to such can be found in Trunp’s own Agenda 47), the tariff plan, and threats to Social Security and Medicare. Trump is. That should alone be the deal breaker. Prove to me that I don’t have to ask “why isn’t it still?” Google search: “Dangers of Project 2025.” A second Trump term isn’t a “Trump term,” it’s a “Project 2025 term.” Please remember that when you vote.
- I know I’m only one person and don’t have all the answers nor know what perfect words that will successfully persuade every swing voter to take that final plunge and cast a Biden vote (strategic if necessary). If I knew what those words were, the letter I’m writing would be written with those words instead, so I figured why not give it my best shot anyway with what I do know.
- There’s this saying “there comes a time where one must come to the aid of their country.” In this case, coming to the aid of their country is preventing Project 2025 and all the other horrible proposals Trump and/or Republicans (like FL Senator Rick Scott) and the only one way that exists, to do that, is a placement of a Biden vote as the only way in existence to block it. If Trump wins, the opportunity to prevent Project 2025 and any other awful proposal is completely gone forever. That will, sadly be the moment, just like 2000, 2004, and 2016, where you wish you could have a do over. Your do-over, based on how our Constitution is written, has to wait an entire 4 years. That’s tons of time for Trump’s plan to run roughshod over the lives of almost every Americans unabated. Your Biden vote could make it so you never have to go through the process again of having that wish to begin with.
- If I could get this letter in the hands of every swing voter and even non-MAGA Republican in the country, you’d bet every dollar to every donut in the universe I’d do so in less than a heartbeat.