Well, it was the state Haley was governor of and lived in her entire life. She still couldn't win. She didn't even meet her own goal, I think, but I can't remember if it was winning or only losing by single digits. A lot of Trump primary voters could also be staying home, because he's believed to be locked in. Not sure if Haley was the Koch's hope for the "hopefully Trump gets arrested" billionaire faction, but I think they've done the same calculus that I have. He's not going to prison, and being found guilty in civil cases is a plus, actually. But I will be interested to see the results from Michigan tonight.

Not sure what you mean by "this unpopular". The fact that Trump isn't politically dead and buried means OK, maybe Biden does beat him and we make it through everything OK a year from now, but we'll simply have another younger and just as demented figurehead of Trumpism in 2028. In my understanding of history, once this much of a culture is this far gone, there is no shaking it off without some violent, near-cataclysmic reckoning.

The ads do write themselves (love those ideas, btw), but the net effect from the dems' ongoing restraint (relatively) might be enough to give MAGA the edge. Like, the full, deserved treatment of how utterly fucking moronic some of these MAGA chuds are requires sentences like these, not banking on Dobbs to drive everyone to vote dem and staying quiet becuase ya don't wanna get death threats from Trump's cult. Most of the dems are extremely reserved, for whatever reason.