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Originally Posted by opendoor
The Republicans who are supporting Trump just for political reasons aren't doing it to represent their electorate; they're doing it to avoid losing in a Republican primary where the rabid base has an outsized influence. It's the same reason why Conservative candidates in Canada court social conservatives even though they make up a pretty small slice of the overall electorate.
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Trumpists don't have outsized influence in the primaries, they have quite proportional influence.
Recent polling puts Trumpists at somewhere between 50-60% of the Republican base. You're not going anywhere within a party if half your base thinks you're soft or a sellout.