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PFT CommenterMike Ditka would have beaten Obama in a debate by pulling out a Super Bowl ring
To be a fly on the wall at those debates would have been all time. There's no way that Ditka loses. No chance at all. Obama starts talking about mumbo jumbo about how vouchers destroy inner city schools. And Ditka just pulls out a Super Bowl ring and sticks it in his face and lights a cigar. And maybe Mike Ditka would be president of the United States now.
Hypothetical political debate. Ditka was considered as a Republican Senate candidate against Obama in 2004 and later said not running was his biggest regret.
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PFT CommenterDitka's would-be supporters went on to root for Donald Trump
Instead, I guess he's got all of his supporters that would go on to root for Donald Trump after they had a stroke or something.
October 2015, months before Trump won the GOP primary. Connecting Ditka's hypothetical conservative base to Trump supporters was prescient about the populist overlap.