# How will Trump fight in the general election?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [March 3, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trump-fight-in-the-general-election/747787 "2016-03-03T03:00:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oedipus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oedipus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oedipus)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trump-fight-in-the-general-election/747787/41 "2016-03-03T21:57:44Z")

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Believe me or not, I firmly think that he will attack Hillary by saying she’s anti-woman. Follow me here - in addition to trying to reform the establishment behind him and reframing himself as a pragmatic business man, an outsider in the starkest of contrast with the insider Hillary. Furthermore, he could, in so many words, characterize Hillary as woman who not only lets her husband have affairs but works to silence the women as well.

Take that, putting American lives at risk with the email servers, voting for Iraq, voting for a border wall between us and Mexico, being a (IMO) ineffective SoS, being beholden to bankers, being establishment, and so much more, then you have a pretty well-thought-out attack on HRC.

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**Author:** ![Oedipus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oedipus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oedipus)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trump-fight-in-the-general-election/747787/42 "2016-03-03T22:08:05Z")

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> [@Nonsuch](#):
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> candidates who secure their party’s nomination without securing its united support tend to go down in flames; it sends the message to low-information, non-committed voters that the candidate is a risky bet.

IMO the establishment will be forced to (and are already doing this) gather behind Trump if they want the White House at all. I think you also think that you underestimate 1) people want to vote anti-hillary to keep her out and 2) that there’s really that many non-committed voters even a few months out from a Presidential general.

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**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trump-fight-in-the-general-election/747787/43 "2016-03-04T00:38:01Z")

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> [@Thing\_Fish](#):
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> That’s because GOP voters don’t actually view bigotry as a bad thing. In this way they differ from regular Americans.

[Found my cite for that.](https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/xDhMaguKyoIcinekceCEzMRHZiI=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6128155/Screen%20Shot%202016-03-01%20at%2012.48.59%20PM.png)

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