Nothing matters anymore. A new poll from Auburn University Montgomery proves that point. At least as far as Alabama voters are concerned, there’s nothing that a Republican can say or do — short of allegedly molesting young girls — that can swing the vote from R to D.
That poll from AUM showed President Donald Trump with a 20-point lead over former Vice President Joe Biden and shows former Auburn coach and current Florida resident Tommy Tuberville with a solid 12-point lead over current U.S. Sen. Doug Jones.
So, see? Nothing matters.
Slap an R out beside the name of an actual tree and 60 percent of Alabama voters would slog into a voting booth and declare that the tree best represents them.
It’s pathetic.
I mean, really, at this point, what would it take to sway voters in this state? Because this polling was done after more than 200,000 COVID-19 deaths and after the president was caught on tape lying about the seriousness of the virus.
So, lying to the point of killing the population of Birmingham isn’t a deal breaker for Alabama voters.
Nor is lying about pretty much anything.
Because Trump has done so nonstop from the start. In fact, it’s hard to think of a single thing that he hasn’t lied about.
Remember when he said he was going to save the coal industry? Nope. Didn’t do that. It’s actually much worse now.
Remember when Mexico was going to pay for the wall? Nope. Didn’t happen. As a matter of fact, we stole money from military housing to pay for a portion of it.
Remember when he was going to have a beautiful, wonderful health care plan to replace Obamacare? Nope. Despite fighting all the way to the Supreme Court, neither Trump nor congressional Republicans have even an imaginary health care plan.
Remember when he said he’d protect pre-existing conditions? Nope. The thing that actually protects them is Obamacare, and Trump is currently suing to kill those protections.
Remember when he said in April that the coronavirus was basically like the flu? Nope. Turns out that in February, he told Bob Woodward that the virus was much worse than the regular flu.
Remember when he said … you know, I could go on and on and on like this. Because the list of nonsensical, hyperbolic, ridiculous things that this president has said is almost endless.
But what’s the point? You know these things are untrue and you’re voting for him anyway.
And you’re also going to allow the most ignorant U.S. senator in modern history to tag along. Because that’s who Tommy Tuberville will be if you elect him — the dumbest.
Dumber than Ted Cruz. Dumber than Kelly Loefler.
Tubs will stroll in on day one without knowing what the Voting Rights Act is. Without a position on climate change. Without a position on the economy. Without a stated position on COVID relief.
The Montgomery Advertiser’s Brian Lyman sent basic questions to both the Jones and Tuberville campaigns, asking them both straightforward questions about climate change. It was the second round of such questions, and both rounds got the same response.
Jones sent detailed answers. Tuberville ignored them.
Why? Because you don’t give a damn.
Tuberville hasn’t answered a single question about anything so far. Not one.
He’s up 12 points and you know — YOU. KNOW. — that he is by far the less qualified candidate in the race. You don’t have to say it out loud. Everyone knows it. And we all know you know it too.
That’s a sad state.
And I fear that there is no bottom. Because, really, what would it be?
If 200,000 dead Americans doesn’t do it, even as you’re listening to the president admit he’s lying to people about it, what would be the catastrophic event that actually did turn Alabama voters?
I’m not sure I want to find out.
