Well, she's not beating Trump unless lightening strikes and Fatso Gets the F out, but I don't see what "hole" she's in with gopers over slavery. I mean, seriously, there's no way in hell I'd vote for Biden unless Trump is the nominee, and even then it won't matter in the electoral vote. But the gop's been denying slavery as a cause since Reagan, and Nixon didn't care much either.Republican politicians continue to stumble on race, twisting themselves into knots trying to avoid offending the racist right.
If Hailey had simply told the truth that the treasonous insurrection of 1861 was about preserving slavery, she wouldn’t be in this hole.
YEs, slavery was the cause because economically the south had nowhere to put slave babies unless new states "went slave," so to them, even Lincoln's promise to not do anything about slavery in existing slave states, was a deathknell to their economies.