• sub_ubi@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Most low income people were materially better off under Trump, whose pandemic policies resulted in the lowest childhood poverty rate since the 90s. (These welfare policies were cancelled or expired under Biden.)

    Dems will still assume 3rd party and non-voters have a strong Biden preference.

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      11 months ago

      If not for the pandemic, he wouldn’t have done any of it. It wasn’t a particular position of Trump’s to give that money, he just was in the position to do so at a time of crisis.

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        The intent doesn’t change the reality. If your kid only had food to eat because of a Trump policy and you’re presented with a choice between him and a nigh-identical ancient piece of shit, which one do you think you’re going to pull the lever for?

        • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          Nigh identical ancient piecee of shit that let the expanded child tax credits expire putting you back to where your kids couldn’t depend on having food*

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          I agree 100%, people won’t understand why things happened, they’ll just know that they got money from one old weird fucker and got that money taken away by another old weird fucker.

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        But how many people are going to see it that way vs just “Trump instated these programs that helped us, Biden took them away.”?