General Election 2024 Harris vs Trump (5 Viewers)

[SamAndreas]

Today it begins, Kamala has reached the point that she's the Democratic Party nominee:

There's video from today. this link has video from her first public appearance since Biden endorsed her:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/22/live-updates-harris-democrats-biden-drops-out-trump-campaign.html

She spent yesterday on the telephone for most of the day. I read that yesterday that she called the party leaders in all 50 states. That would take me three days.

She's renamed her YouTube channel, that's the where to go for video: https://www.youtube.com/@kamalaharris

This is her video on her channel from two hours ago:



To play it, start it, and then move it up to 5:47. This was one of those live videos which don't start at zero.

I've named this thread General Election 2024 Harris vs Trump

Trump needs an introduction post as well, a MAGA suporter ought to write it: @Farb, @SaintForLife , @Others, calling for someone to please introduce your GOP candidate for this 2024 general election thread.

 

[fooferdoggie]

here is a 7min clip of his answer to "what is your parenting style"

well in his defense I doubt he has ever done any paretning at all.

 

[J-DONK]

so some early voting numbers ( by party ) starting to come out of PA

i like the trend

Early mail in ballot voting heavily favors Democrats. I would want to do know if she is outperforming Biden in 2020?

 

[MT15]

Promise everything and deliver nothing…

 

[SamAndreas]

That's Julia Roberts!

 

[efil4]

Early mail in ballot voting heavily favors Democrats. I would want to do know if she is outperforming Biden in 2020?

Says in tweet (original one) that she is overperforming in areas Biden barely won.

Again, it's the trend, not the final numbers I look at. Young people will vote in person.

 

[CoolBrees]

I hadn't seen this posted. This is solid

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-overtakes-trump-among-suburban-voters-reutersipsos-polling-shows-2024-10-10/

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Obama's on the trail and he's getting trolling help from the audience:

No doubt that Dumb Donald will be rage posting once he hears this.

 

[MT15]

well in his defense I doubt he has ever done any paretning at all.

lol this actually came up in PA where Obama was campaigning.

 

[MT15]

I think this is only the 4th or 5th time The Atlantic has ever endorsed a presidential candidate.

 

[J-DONK]

Says in tweet (original one) that she is overperforming in areas Biden barely won.

Again, it's the trend, not the final numbers I look at. Young people will vote in person.

Meh, it would be a story if she is/was outperforming Biden's mail in ballot totals at this same point in 2020. The early voting favored Biden as well.

I still don't know why Trump bags on early voting, esp while courting less frequent voters. That seems like a horrible strategy.

 

[MT15]

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Obama's on the trail and he's getting trolling help from the audience:

No doubt that Dumb Donald will be rage posting once he hears this.

Trump probably hates Obama more than anything in this world and I love it.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Donald Trump’s campaign has seen a more than 10-percentage-point drop in the number of “small donors” this presidential election cycle compared to the 2020 election cycle.

So far this year, and with just 25 days until election day, only 31.7 percent of campaign donations have come from small donors – classified as people who give less than $200, according to OpenSecrets.

In 2020, nearly half of Trump’s campaign donations came from small donors.

The decrease in donations from average Americans means the former president must rely more on wealthy donors or political action committees backed by wealthy donors. But that also means Trump must deliver a message that appeals to his wealthy donors – which can often be at odds with average voters.……

Fewer ‘everyday people’ have donated to Trump’s campaign than in 2020

Nearly half of Trump’s 2020 campaign donations came from small donors, in 2024 it was approximately one third

www.independent.co.uk

 

[MT15]

One man’s opinion:

 

[Optimus Prime]

PITTSBURGH — Former president Barack Obama on Thursday made a direct, impassioned plea to Black men to support Vice President Kamala Harris — a key demographic she is struggling to mobilize — admonishing them for thinking about sitting out the presidential contest as well as suggesting sexism might be at play.


During an unannounced stop at a Harris campaign field office in Pittsburgh, just hours before he was set to appear at his first campaign rally for the Democratic nominee, Obama said he wanted to “speak some truths” and address Black men specifically, making his most direct remarks about their hesitancy in supporting Harris to date.


“My understanding, based on reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities, is that we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running,” Obama said, adding that it “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.”


Obama questioned how voters, and Black voters specifically, could be on the fence about whether to support Harris or former president Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.

“On the one hand, you have somebody who grew up like you, knows you, went to college with you, understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes from those experiences,” Obama said, ticking off a list of Harris’s policy proposals.

In Trump, he added, “you have someone who has consistently shown disregard, not just for the communities, but for you as a person ... And you are thinking about sitting out?”


The former president then spoke about what he thought might be contributing to Black men’s soft support of Harris: the discomfort of some with the idea of electing the first female president.


“And you’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses, I’ve got a problem with that,” he said. “Because part of it makes me think — and I’m speaking to men directly — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”


Obama’s comments created a remarkable moment: The nation’s first Black man to serve as president urging others like him to rally behind potentially the first woman of color to ascend to the White House. Harris is Black and Indian American.

The “women in our lives have been getting our backs this entire time,” Obama said. “When we get in trouble and the system isn’t working for us, they’re the ones out there marching and protesting. And now, you’re thinking about sitting out or supporting somebody who has a history of denigrating you, because you think that’s a sign of strength, because that’s what being a man is? Putting women down? That’s not acceptable.”………

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[MT15]

Pretty much sums up Trump and his campaign - fraud all the way up and down the line.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

PITTSBURGH — Former president Barack Obama on Thursday made a direct, impassioned plea to Black men to support Vice President Kamala Harris — a key demographic she is struggling to mobilize — admonishing them for thinking about sitting out the presidential contest as well as suggesting sexism might be at play.


During an unannounced stop at a Harris campaign field office in Pittsburgh, just hours before he was set to appear at his first campaign rally for the Democratic nominee, Obama said he wanted to “speak some truths” and address Black men specifically, making his most direct remarks about their hesitancy in supporting Harris to date.


“My understanding, based on reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities, is that we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running,” Obama said, adding that it “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.”


Obama questioned how voters, and Black voters specifically, could be on the fence about whether to support Harris or former president Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.

“On the one hand, you have somebody who grew up like you, knows you, went to college with you, understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes from those experiences,” Obama said, ticking off a list of Harris’s policy proposals.

In Trump, he added, “you have someone who has consistently shown disregard, not just for the communities, but for you as a person ... And you are thinking about sitting out?”


The former president then spoke about what he thought might be contributing to Black men’s soft support of Harris: the discomfort of some with the idea of electing the first female president.


“And you’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses, I’ve got a problem with that,” he said. “Because part of it makes me think — and I’m speaking to men directly — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”


Obama’s comments created a remarkable moment: The nation’s first Black man to serve as president urging others like him to rally behind potentially the first woman of color to ascend to the White House. Harris is Black and Indian American.

The “women in our lives have been getting our backs this entire time,” Obama said. “When we get in trouble and the system isn’t working for us, they’re the ones out there marching and protesting. And now, you’re thinking about sitting out or supporting somebody who has a history of denigrating you, because you think that’s a sign of strength, because that’s what being a man is? Putting women down? That’s not acceptable.”………

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I have had long conversations with some friends who unfortunately believe some of the crap about Harris that's out that, especially the stupid shirt Janet Jackson spewed. It's just crazy.

 

[MT15]

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