Trump tried to bypass Nancy Pelosi and negotiate with members of her caucus. None of them showed up.

of course you're not. rarely are empirical arguments universal. the arg is a generalization from the base, grounded in statistical analysis:

"While the economic variables in our models were significantly associated with vote choice,those effects were dwarfed by the relationship between hostile sexism and denial of racism and voting for Trump," the researchers report. "Moving from one end of the sexism scale to the other was associated with more than a 30-point increase in support for Trump among the average likely voter. The relationship for the denial-of-racism scale was nearly identical. Moving from the highest levels of acknowledgement and empathy for racism to the lowest level was associated with about a 30-point increase in support for Trump."

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