General Election 2024 Harris vs Trump (2 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.

 

[not2rich]

Oh, and besides all the racism aimed at Harris, congratulating Putin on the prisoner swap, and attacking the most popular member of the GOP in GA (Kemp) - Trump also announced tonight that he is now all in for electric cars because Elon is supporting him and he doesn’t have a choice, he has to support electric cars now.

Just says he and all his so-called positions are for sale right out in the open.

Since SFL is highly concerned about politicians not changing position for expediency, I'm sure he'll be very angry that Trump flat out said he'd base his policies on who gives him money.

But seriously, Trump couldn't say one word to express gratitude that American prisoners were finally coming home the day it happened or even yesterday. And when he finally says, "Well, yeah, I'm glad they're home, but..." It has to be as a preface to congratulating the leader of a terrorist, enemy state. THAT is a definition of a scumbag, human piece of garbage. And that is also your GOP nominee for President. We should be oh so proud of this guy.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Similar to previous images of Trump with black people or black people wearing MAGA gear, the Trump campaign is using AI-generated images.

does it get more pathetic?

 

[not2rich]

does it get more pathetic?

I think you're selling that crowd short.

 

[MT15]

Support from one of Uber’s executives for Harris. Edit: he is her brother-in-law, evidently.

 

[Saint Jack]

does it get more pathetic?

He’ll be bragging about his girlfriend in Canada soon….

 

[LA - L.A.]

I saw this comment on a friend’s Facebook post. The trolls have their talking points down.

Yeah, the only thing that all Harris supporters say and agree on is that Trump, his minions and Republicans are just plain old weird. Outside of that, we all have our unique perspectives, rationales and wish lists.

 

[MT15]

I could see this yard sign catching on in my area.

 

[efil4]

Pay attention to the crowd.

 

[faceman]

Pay attention to the crowd.

There are many reasons Trump should never be President. Number one and most important is we need to be in NATO and
we need our European allies. Trump wants us out of NATO and to let Putin do as he pleases. I don't care what side of the aisle
you're on. Trumps belief is very dangerous. I cannot stress that enough.

 

[SamAndreas]

This article of today's seemed notable. It talks about Beshear and that Fancy Farm kind of jambing them together. They don't go together. It's kinda in southorn code:

Kentucky Republicans ridicule Beshear's efforts to land spot on national Democratic ticket

Prominent Republicans in Kentucky have ridiculed Gov. Andy Beshear's efforts to land the No. 2 spot on the Democratic presidential ticket. U.S. Rep.

apnews.com

 

[SamAndreas]

It's hilarious that the Democrats think the weird narrative has driven people on the right mad.

It's obvious that whatever Democrat consultant came up with it didn't think about all the crazy people that Democrats tell us are normal.

Oh deer. I watched that using full screen and that way I was able to figure out what those four boxes and the cup in front of each stack of two boxes was.

Delicious & Easy-to-Drink | Happy Dad Hard Seltzer & Tea

Easy drinking, great tasting, fun with friends & family all in a can!

happydad.com

JD Vance is hawking a low budget medisinal drink beverage there. Happy Dad it's called. He's of the old hillbilly patent medicine kind of con man. There have been many before him.

The same kind of con man who started Mormonism. If you have a problem believing that I would suggest you read the first part of the Book of Mormon. That part where his relatives say they saw the gold plates and are the persons testifying as to the proof of his story. It's not hard to find, it's the first three pages.

They are clearly hillbilly, patent medicine waggon kinfolk.

Google's AI says:

"Patent medicine wagons were horse-drawn wagons that sold "patent medicines" and other products in frontier towns and small towns in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Traveling salespeople would promote their products from the back of the wagons, often with some kind of entertainment to draw a crowd first. These traveling acts were called medicine shows and developed from European mountebank shows. Some medicine shows continued into World War II."

Here's a photo example:

Con-men of old!

 

[Optimus Prime]

Of all the lessons Kamala Harris’s campaign will have learned from Hillary Clinton’s botched run for president eight years ago, among the most important is that it’s better to talk about jobs than guns in the three rust belt states that hold the key to the White House.

The peculiarities of the US’s electoral college will almost certainly see November’s presidential election decided by voters in just seven states. Four – Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia – lie in the southern sun belt.

But it is the three to the north – the rust belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – that Democratic strategists are focused on. They are, in many ways, the real battleground within the battleground.

Shortly before Joe Biden dropped out the presidential race two weeks ago, his campaign team wrote a memolaying out victory in the rust belt swing states as the “clearest pathway” to defeating Donald Trump.


If Harris, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate, can win the “blue wall” alongside the states that can be relied on to support her then that should deliver the 270 electoral college votes required to take the White House whatever the outcome in the sun belt. But while some of the early signs are good for Harris, the rust belt can be tricky electoral ground, as Clinton found……

Hoping to avoid Clinton’s 2016 mistakes, Harris courts three ‘rust belt’ states

‘Blue wall’ states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin could decide the outcome of November’s election

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

While Kamala Harris cleared her campaign diary this weekend to finalize her choice of running mate ahead of a swing-state presidential campaign blitz next week, political spouses were hard at work.

The vice-president’s husband, Doug Emhoff, and Chasten Buttigieg, husband of the US transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg – a potential running mate for Harris at the top of November’s Democratic ticket whose candidacy has been strengthening in recent days – were on New York’s Fire Island on Friday for a sold-out event that raised $321,000.

According to reports, the total was a record for the Pines, part of the narrow barrier island that runs south of Long Island, famous as an LGBTQ+ summering spot second only to Provincetown, Massachusetts.……

Democratic politicians’ husbands rake in record haul during New York event

Doug Emhoff and Chasten Buttigieg’s success spurred talk about transportation secretary’s veepstakes chances

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Absolutely striking a nerve with a healthy helping of pearl clutching on the side

Now grade school name calling has no place in presidential politics?

 

[Optimus Prime]

For what it’s worth
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There’s a well-documented partisan divide in pet ownership: while dogs are more popular overall, liberals are disproportionately likely to own cats, while conservatives tend to be dog people.

There’s been some debate over what’s behind the split — urban/rural differences? Household income? Gender?

New peer-reviewed research points to another cause: conservatives hold strong anti-cat biases, likely stemming from cats’ disregard for social hierarchies, their general lack of loyalty, and their refusal to submit to authority. Those characteristics are at odds with certain principles conservatives tend to hold dear……

They found that differences in pet preferences were driven primarily by conservatives’ views toward cats: it’s not that conservatives like dogs, per se, but rather that they don’t like cats. These findings held for both stated and implied preferences.

“Although people across the political spectrum show a greater liking for dogs overall, the authors explain, “those who tend to be more conservative show less of an explicit liking for cats and have a stronger liking for dogs relative to cats.”

They found some evidence that the trend is particularly pronounced among authoritarian conservatives: those with a preference for “law and order” and an intolerance for deviance had especially negative views of cats, who are famously dismissive of rules and authority.…….

Why conservatives don't like cats

The nexus between politics, personality and pet ownership

thewhyaxis.substack.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Former President Jimmy Carter says he hopes to cast his ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming election.

As Carter nears his 100th birthday, beating former President Trump is one of the only things on his mind.

“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip, his grandson Jason Carter told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Carter’s 100th birthday is on Oct. 1. He first entered hospice care in Feb. 2023 and has outlived his wife, Rosalynn Carter, who died last November.

Jason Carter said his grandfather has been “more alert and interested in politics and the war in Gaza” in recent days. He previously updated the public in June that Carter was no longer awake every day.

The former president’s grandson said Chip asked Carter if he was trying to make it to his 100thbirthday. For the former president, it’s less about making it to the century mark, and more about being able to cast his ballot for Harris, the outlet reported.

Early voting in Georgia begins on Oct. 15, so Carter won’t have to wait too long after his birthday to cast his historic vote for Harris.……

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4809249-jimmy-carter-vote-for-harris/

 

[Optimus Prime]

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is relying on a cluster of loosely coordinated outside groups to run turnout operations traditionally performed by the campaign itself, an approach that takes advantage of new leniencies in campaign finance rules but comes with the risk of untested outfits duplicating efforts or working at cross purposes.


With fewer than 100 days before the election, local GOP officials in battleground states have raised alarms about the scant presence of Trump campaign field staff. For the large armies of paid and volunteer door-knockers and canvassers who typically drive turnout in presidential elections, the campaign is largely relying on outside groups such as America First Works, America PAC and Turning Point Action.


The Trump campaign’s shrunken in-house operation resulted from its takeover of the Republican National Committee in March, when Trump secured the nomination. The RNC had been planning an extensive field program, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Those now-discarded plans included 88 staff members and 12 offices, and goals to knock on 3 million doors and make 2.4 million phone calls, in Pennsylvania. In Arizona, the RNC’s plan called for 62 staffers and seven offices, aiming for 558,000 voter contacts……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/03/trump-allies-ground-game/

 

[Optimus Prime]

For weeks, Senate Republicans delighted in the misery of their Democratic counterparts.

The political story of the summer — whether President Biden would back down from his run at a second term — left GOP senators smiling and away from the media’s glaring spotlight on their foibles.


But the tables quickly turned. Their party’s presidential nominee recently returned to his natural form and lashed out against Vice President Harris in divisive terms that had little basis in truth.

Republicans went right back into the political PTSD of the Donald Trump era, mouthing the same platitudes that they grasped onto during his presidency.


“He needs to focus on the policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) told reporters Thursday morning.


Was she comfortable with Trump’s rhetoric? “He needs to focus on the Biden-Harris policies. That’s the successful pathway to November,” Capito said.


If that’s the path to success, why does Trump instead dive right into attacks on race instead of policy?

Capito let out a roaring laugh that lasted six whole seconds, incapable of answering the question — or unwilling to share her honest answer.


“I’m a really good mother and grandmother. I can’t answer that one,” she said.


Senate Republicans have always had the strangest relationship with Trump. The traditional Reagan-Bush ethos remains strong in their caucus even as the populist, nativist elements have come to dominate the House Republicans.


Republicans remember how Trump’s grievance-filled stumping for their two candidates who lost in the early 2021 Georgia runoff elections handed control of the Senate to Democrats. Many blamed Trump for inciting the Capitol riot — although just seven voted to convict him in the February 2021 impeachment trial.


After growing tired of constantly responding to his crazy tweets or wild statements during his time in the Oval Office, Senate Republicans were reluctant to endorse Trump’s campaign last year…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/03/trump-senate-republicans-race/