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I think this goes too far. As far as I have been following things that Trump said, he has mentioned crypto a couple of times for strategic reasons to gain some more votes as it could become very close, but I believe that many of the Bitcoin people are still skeptical whether he will fully stand behind the Bitcoin industry once he gets elected. I am not convinced to be honest. There wasn't all that much talk about it from his side. He just brought it up a couple of times, but more like a side topic.

The donation itself, well it could be meant in a manipulative way that Trump now makes very clear statements about Bitcoin and its future in the United States. He may think that more money might flow in for his election campaign. We will see how Trump will either honor this donation or just leave it as it is.

By the way, in a couple of days there is the first TV duel between Trump and Biden. I wonder if the topic will be brought up there.

I agree with you that Mr. Trump only mentioned supporting cryptocurrency in a few statements, he never spent much time seriously discussing it. But we also need to know that the cryptocurrency industry is still not a field with a large number of participants, or plays an important role in the economy of a country like the US. It is just an emerging trend and is gradually becoming popular. It cannot be more important than other issues such as promoting the economy, immigration, war...other painful problems in society. So we don't need to be too picky about why he doesn't hold any dedicated discussions on cryptocurrencies.

I feel that Mr. Trump's strategy is to attract and win the trust of minority voters in society, and cryptocurrency is one of them. Just because we are crypto investors we feel dissatisfied but for other voters, they care about other things rather than focusing on crypto like us.

While I don't know how serious this source is, it does state that:

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Cryptocurrency awareness and ownership rates have increased to record levels: 40% of American adults now own crypto, up from 30% in 2023. This could be as many as 93 million people.

Now this is mostly discussing ownership and there is of course much more to Bitcoin than that, like the infrastructure and especially the mining industry, but I guess there is a good number of people that would like a president with a favorable stance on Bitcoin. Given how close the last election was between Trump and Biden, I wouldn't underestimate the effect of getting Bitcoin people on board. But in order for that to happen, I think Trump's stance so far has been too weak and it doesn't make the impression that he is ultimately serious about it.

This could still change though in the next few months. But I wouldn't be shocked if Biden loosens his position a bit to somewhat neutralize Trump's position. At least in terms of communication. As far as I know the Biden administration was trying to pass some laws that were clearly against it.

If this result is correct, I will be quite surprised that the Biden administration is ignoring and has so far not had any impact on this group of voters when they make up 40% of the US population. Although not all 40% of these voters will trust and support Mr. Trump, it is clear that Mr. Trump's public support of cryptocurrency will have a significant impact on this group of voters, while Mr. Biden completely completely ignored.

Meanwhile, I found another result and there is a big difference from what you found. Only 15% of Americans participate and invest in cryptocurrency. Therefore, I still maintain my opinion, the issues that American voters are concerned about today are inflation, economic crisis and war rather than cryptocurrencies.

Source: Triple-A