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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For the past 8 years, we have seen a lot of progress, and I feel like nobody has really appreciated it or even acknowledged what was done and is still being done. The last governor race was almost lost, but we got 4 more years. People really hate him, though, and as someone who was not a fan of him at all at the beginning, he really came through. This years race scares me a lot since the R are running a complete maga nut... his commercials don't even beat around the bush with them literally telling everyone he will follow trumps rules and also abolish us as a sanctuary state. The scariest part to me is that I believe he will win. If he does not only does all that maga stuff happen but there goes all the progress we made and I'm sure a ton of corruption added in on top of it because there's no way this person is going to care at all. Our country is absolutely wild, and I really don't fit in anymore, which i thought I did at least in my home state.

[–] cornshark@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

sanctuary state, hard R influence, I'm gonna guess Minnesota.