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USA Election Day 2022 Megathread

Tuesday November 8, 2022 is Election Day in the United States of America. In addition to Congressional "midterms" at the federal level, many state governors and other more local offices are up for grabs. Given how things shook out over Election Day 2020, things could get a little crazy.

...or, perhaps, not! But here's the Megathread for if they do. Talk about your local concerns, your national predictions, your suspicions re: election fraud and interference, how you plan to vote, anything election related is welcome here. Culture War thread rules apply, with the addition of Small-Scale Questions and election-related "Bare Links" allowed in this thread only (unfortunately, there will not be a subthread repository due to current technical limitations).

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So what do you guys think was up with trumps big announcement tonight? The music started playing, he looked off in the distance in contemplation for an uncomfortable minute, made a pretty good soliloquy speech then announced that he will make a big announcement at Mar Lago on the 15th. Stating that he did not want to detract from the candidates running for election tomorrow.

  • Did he change his mind on a run for presidency at the last minute?

  • Did he personally change his mind last minute to move his presidential announcement?

  • Was he told to stand down by someone in the party?

  • Was this all some scripted thing to get the MAGA vote for tomorrow?

I think it must have been something last minute because making a half-ass announcement like that is burning some credibility, as well as a wasted opportunity to be the first to maneuver and scare off his political rivals in the GOP. I'm really confused by the political strategy for this blown announcement thing.

Trump was never going to announce his run at a random rally in Ohio.

People talk, still, about the moment that he came down the escalator in trump tower. Of course he’s going to make a huge show of his announcement by doing it at mar a lago.

I know this is off-topic for an election thread, but what happened to all the "Trump is going to jail for sure this time" due to the top-secret documents he took without permission investigation? That seems to have quietly gone nowhere, like all the impeachment enthusiasm.

Is he going to be arrested? Or was this just more of the same?

The /r/politics consensus is pretty much that Trump obviously deserves to go to prison, but nothing will happen to him because he's rich / Democrats are too scared of the Republican backlash to do the right thing.

(Other replies capture the facts on the ground; I'm talking about the feelings from the anti-Trump side of the Culture War.)

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