US Democratic Senator Mark Kelly has said he will “seriously consider” running for president in 2028 as he battles the Trump administration over a video in which he urged military personnel to refuse illegal orders.

The Arizona senator, who was accused of “seditious behaviour” by Donald Trump over the November clip, said he and his wife, Gabrielle Giffords, received “many” death threats after the president’s comments.

“We get them on a weekly basis now,” he told BBC Newsnight. “We had to get security to protect us 24 hours a day.”

Asked if he was considering a White House run, the retired Navy captain said he was considering it “because we’re in some seriously challenging times”.

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    Dude, you’ve shown that some counties that voted Biden flipped for Trump.

    No one is disputing that.

    Now show the evidence, e.g. exit polls, study, some form of empirical evidence that backs your claim that it was hated of women that caused these places to flip to support. You’re still right at Charlie Kirk correlation equals causation territory. Again, I saw people say that they hated Harris for her being black and these electoral maps can easily prove my theory that racism was the main cause of why she didn’t win via zip codes by your logic.

    I can also point out that Dearborn Muslims, a crucial demographic to one of those flipped zip codes you croon about, voted Trump because they felt slighted by Harris and had a large abandon Harris movement and was one outsized factor of why she lost. That same place is also represented by Rashida Tlaib, vagina owner, would you still say that the movement and loss of support is due to hatred of vaginas?

    As for your second point, my theory that’s also backed up by exit polls, Harris followed the Biden plan and she was deaf, like with the example above, to the concerns of the voters and that was a bigger cause of her losing those state vs her having a labia. The people had four years of Biden, didn’t like the economy even though he and his administration did a good job of avoid economic collapse due to Trump COVID stupidity, she wasn’t listening to Americans daily economic concerns while she continued to talk about the economy in the abstract and she also walked away from her original plan of going after price gougers which is what people were actually resonating with and conceded that ground to VP couch fucker and his eggs prices. Also, Deerborn again for not fucking listening to your constituents and that not a simple hating clitorises was her downfall.

    You offer no proof, no actual supporting data outside of your feels that misogyny was the leading cause of Hilary and Harris’ election loss and this is not worth furthering this dead end debate on your feelings.

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      You are never going to get someone in an exit poll saying “I will never vote for a woman for President”. So the exit polls will never tell the story. There will always be other reasons cited that don’t tell the whole story. Maybe if the exit polls was in the bar next door, during Happy Hour, and we can get them sufficiently lubricated first, then you might get the true story.

      I know it is convenient for me, because it means that I can ignore all data, because it is all flawed. But I still know I’m right.