Smartasses like OP like to make these types of statements — and they’ll refuse to acknowledge anything because they’ll always appeal to a literal claim which, by construction, cannot be. In this case, a vote for X is not literally a vote for Trump; it may be effectively, mathematically, or implicitly a vote for Trump, but because it is not literally voting for Trump they just smile like an inebriated donkey and say “nuh-uh not the same lol XD.”
Smartasses like OP like to make these types of statements — and they’ll refuse to acknowledge anything because they’ll always appeal to a literal claim which, by construction, cannot be. In this case, a vote for X is not literally a vote for Trump; it may be effectively, mathematically, or implicitly a vote for Trump, but because it is not literally voting for Trump they just smile like an inebriated donkey and say “nuh-uh not the same lol XD.”