Preclusion is a powerful thing. If people like someone, and want them to "win", they will overlook reality in order to agree with them on principle. We all have inherent biases, but not all of us can spot them.
I mean, yup. Trump has just done a whole ton of things that are bad to the point we don't remember all of them. He's on tape saying "Grab 'em by the p*****," lost a civil lawsuit related to that (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll_v._Donald_J._Trump ), and then there's the whole criminal thing in New York case he lost. He said he would trade
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/former-president-trump-wanted-trade-puerto-rico-greenland/ Puerto Rico for Greenland, nuke hurricanes, and the list of stupid bad stuff just goes on and on. He is saying January 6th was somehow ok, when it just was not.
Somehow his supporters don't care. They've made some sort of fictional character out of him that simply does not exist.
The truth is simple. He is a 78 year old man who has done a lot of intentionally bad things and is going to do a lot more (why would he stop now). He claims not to know what project 2025 is, but he does and his VP pick wrote parts of it. Trump's name is all over it.
https://imgur.com/gallery/312-times-trumps-name-is-stated-this-proposal-Hq1REZiIf Biden, (or anybody else really) did any of that, he would have been gone immediately and Biden just got exhausted during a debate so you know it's true he would have been out sooner if he pulled this stuff. Same for any other politician. When Biden is exhausted (because surprise surprise he's 4 years older than last time at 80), it's a huge deal and even Trump went after him politically for it, but when Trump is exhausted it's just fine, according to him:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/campaign-official-admits-trump-refusing-152354332.htmlAt least some republicans are starting to understand he is just too far out there.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-questioned-trump-pet-eating-014919196.htmlThe only way for republicans to get a halfway respectable candidate in the future is for them to vote against trump, so people see this type of extreme candidate is just not viable to elect. George Bush seems pretty tame by comparison, even though I didn't agree with him on a lot of things. Basically, Trump has taken over the republican party, turned against other republicans, and is flat out saying he will install loyalists and be a "dictator on day one."
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-reiterates-dictator-for-one-day-wisconsin-rally-1235127435/Basically, any republicans have only 3 options. Support him (vote for him), Voluntarily not vote (because they find him distasteful), or vote for Harris (his opposition). If they support him, then the republican party is now MAGA. A lot of republicans have realized that sitting it out isn't enough because he has no problem going after anyone who isn't personally loyal to him above all else and at any cost to person or country.
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-republicans-endorsing-kamala-harris-trump-1960937