Quote:Your link does nothing to refute JW. He said people are "de-registering" as Dems, not that they are becoming Pubs. In many states Independents can vote in either party's primary, so changing from Dem to Ind could be in order to vote for Trump. Or not, but your link doesn't prove anything.


 

It does refute Trump's statement "millions and millions" but that's just typical hyperbole from a candidate, and a strawman argument here, since that's not what JW said. Every candidate exaggerates while campaigning, and Trump, being a wheeler-dealer, always takes the extreme position in his initial offer. So basically MSN just made a long detailed argument to refute a triviality.

 

1:  The link absolutely refutes JW's own link, and actually specifically names the Boston Herald article he provided as misleading.

 

2:  There is no difference between consistent extreme hyperbole and lying.  And there's nothing trivial about Trump's lying, whether it's about himself or others.  The only strawman argument is your own excusing Trump's behavior, because, y'know, he's a wheeler-dealer.  I don't hate your average used-car salesman, but I don't think any of them I've ever met are worthy of being president.

 

3.  On point, 16.000 Democrats deciding to change to Independent out of 1,200,000 is a drop in the bucket, (less than 1.5%) and not out of the norm.  That's not a "record rate", unless you're Donald Trump.

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