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gulliver

(13,885 posts)
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:15 PM 13 hrs ago

Did Iran get Trump elected?

Iran is the probably the main state backer of Hamas. They probably even knew about or even backed the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7th. That produced Israel's response, which Hamas obviously was trying to provoke.

I remember some usually key Dem constituencies saying they were going to sit out the election. Also, there were "less-than-helpful people" anti-selling the Palestinian cause by blocking traffic, taking over buildings, bullying Jews, etc. Those two things hurt Harris and Walz (who I voted for) pretty badly I would argue. It might have been enough to elect Trump.

(In my crazy way, I saw the whole thing as Putin working through Iran to try to help himself with his aggression against Ukraine. I posted about that. But I digress.)

It would be ironic if the Iranian tyrant Ayatollahs' own attempts to destabilize the United States resulted in them putting Trump in office.

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Did Iran get Trump elected? (Original Post) gulliver 13 hrs ago OP
Iran got Reagan elected, so yes Easterncedar 12 hrs ago #1
No, people wanted any excuse to vote for Trump JI7 12 hrs ago #2

JI7

(93,450 posts)
2. No, people wanted any excuse to vote for Trump
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 04:21 PM
12 hrs ago

yes. there are many things which can have some influence. But in the end people still decided what to vote for.

It didn't matter to them that Kamala Harris had a record of being tougher on Israel.

They wanted Trump and they got him. And they have never been hateful towards him the way they were towards Biden and Harris.

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