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Trump rally shooter Thomas Crooks was registered as a Republican (eu.usatoday.com)

submitted 4 months ago by MrMakabar to c/pleasantpolitics

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok. 60% still isn’t ‘everybody’.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. What I should have said was "Frequently, voters register in the dominant party to vote in the primary for the party that is presumed to win." Everybody is an exaggeration.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Thank you. I don’t like the hand waving that they are using to somehow blame this on their ‘enemies’ and that kind of exaggeration feeds into it.