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No. No, they won't. These are people intellectually incapable of admitting they are wrong. It's hard even for most people, but in his base, it's a pathology, and I very much doubt the existence of the hypothetical swing voters.
Trump didn't win because of swing voters; he won because a bunch of idiots stayed home.
I think the difference is that you're an intellectually capable person. I remember reading that a person of very low IQ is simply unable to imagine anything different than their perceived reality. If you asked a very low IQ person how they would feel right now if they hadn't eaten breakfast, they wouldn't be able to provide an answer beyond "What do you mean? I did eat breakfast."
I think about this a lot when I see people parrot talking points from Fox News without being able to intellectually explain any nuances or create any new information from what they've heard.
There's a reason why white men without college degrees are the largest Trump-voting demographic. The more educated a person becomes, the less likely they are to support Trump.