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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:


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.
 
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DaveXA said:
I totally would sign up, but alas, I don't have X. And I ain't setting up a new account to do it.
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They got you covered, this will sign you up for their zoom call and put you on their mailing list, lol.

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Republicans for Harris

Republicans are putting country over party to support Kamala Harris for president in 2024. Sign up to get alerts about a Republicans for Harris kickoff zoom and other activations.
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A story put on Twitter by Jason Kander, who was in politics for a while and may be making a comeback, about Harris.

“A quick personal story about our next POTUS:

I became friends with @KamalaHarris and @DouglasEmhoff in 2015 when she and I were both preparing to run for Senate. She won her race and I didn’t but we remained friends and I would visit her sometimes during trips to DC.

We were friends, but not super close, which is pretty common for friendships in politics.

In 2018, after I dropped out of the 2020 presidential mix and then out of public life for a while to go to the VA for PTSD therapy, she called and checked in on me regularly.

She would sometimes call just to catch up, or sometimes she had a big speech or meeting coming up with a veterans or national security group and I’d be a sounding board.

I don’t know how much she actually needed advice about that stuff when she asked for it, and I don’t know how much I helped, but her asking made me feel valuable at a time when I’d sort of given the world permission to forget about me, and I appreciated that gesture a lot.

I remember once in 2020 I was standing in Costco when she called. She had her veterans policy person on the line because she wanted to run some language by me. Once that was done, she thanked that person and then politely asked they go ahead and drop off the line so she could catch up with me.

She wanted an update on how I was doing and we talked for a couple minutes, then I told her I was thinking about doing some TV surrogate stuff for the campaign.

It was kind of a big deal decision for me at the time because I’d been out of the mix almost 2 years by then. She then spent a couple minutes describing in great detail how to set up my home office to make cable hits easy and comfortable.

I still use the ring light she suggested.

Anyway, my point in sharing this admittedly uneventful and humdrum anecdote is that I’m excited about her not just because she’s smart and capable and hard working and believes in the right things. I’m also excited because - in my experience - she’s a downright decent person who shows people respect and makes sure they feel seen.

And I’m not trying to do some humblebrag flex either because I’ll be the first to tell you we’re not close friends. We’re friendly acquaintances. But that’s my point.

She is the type of person who is thoughtful enough to treat a peer like a peer even when they’ve tapped out and are - professionally - no longer really a peer.

And that’s the kind of everyday decency I believe she’ll bring to the presidency.”
 
J-DONK said:
We are unburdened by what has been

Nate has Kamala as the favorite now.

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Bigdaddysaints said:
MAGAs got what they asked for. they wanted Joe Biden to drop out . now they are in a tail spin.
what's the saying "be careful what you ask for, you just might get it"?
now I'm laughing at the money they spent on the FJB and Lets Go Brandon paraphernalia..
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They backed a candidate who has gotten worse, not better, in "being a politician". His ego is so massive, that he couldn't simply return to private life and live out his days, he had to make another run at it, not to make America great again, but to satiate his NPD.
He has blown up the Republican party from the inside. He has seemingly lost his 4th wife ( Melania no where in public in last 4 mo with him ) and he has turned vitriol into common discourse.

70% of this country is simply done with all of it.

You still have a large evangelical, single issue voters, that will pull the lever for the R nominee, even if it was a cardboard cut out.

It's refreshing to see the outpouring of support to return to normal debate/discourse. I was hopeful this would happen but I thought later rather than sooner.

Hopefully a majority of Republicans come to their senses after November to understand they need to jettison the MAGA crowd or they are destined to always struggle.

Either way, like you said, you reap what you sow. Congrats Republicans.
 
RICHMOND — Former congressman Denver Riggleman, a Virginia Republican who ran twice with Donald Trump’s backing but broke with him over the Jan. 6 insurrection, endorsed Vice President Harris for the White House on Sunday.

“I was heartbroken and horrified to see how close we came to losing our democracy on January 6, because of one man — Donald Trump,” Riggleman said in a statement released by Harris’s campaign. “I’ve seen with my own eyes how Trump’s thirst for power, revenge, and retribution is his real motivation, and that’s why I cannot stand by while he tries to destroy our country.”

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RICHMOND — Former congressman Denver Riggleman, a Virginia Republican who ran twice with Donald Trump’s backing but broke with him over the Jan. 6 insurrection, endorsed Vice President Harris for the White House on Sunday.

“I was heartbroken and horrified to see how close we came to losing our democracy on January 6, because of one man — Donald Trump,” Riggleman said in a statement released by Harris’s campaign. “I’ve seen with my own eyes how Trump’s thirst for power, revenge, and retribution is his real motivation, and that’s why I cannot stand by while he tries to destroy our country.”

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To be fair, I don’t think Trump is necessarily “trying” to destroy the country - it’s just the collateral damage of his supreme selfishness and ego. Which is actually more disturbing.
 
i used to think politicians being political all the time was a problem. now that the opposite has occurred, i prefer politicians be political.
that can of worms needs the lid put back on it.
 
It isn’t only Trump’s horrible policies toward women and immigration that are going to hurt him. He’s awful on labor, and businesses are taking note of his horrible tariff position.

 
MT15 said:
It isn’t only Trump’s horrible policies toward women and immigration that are going to hurt him. He’s awful on labor, and businesses are taking note of his horrible tariff position.

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If his supporters don’t like prices now, they are in for a rude awakening if his proposed tariffs are implemented.
 
And not only tariffs. I mean, how do people think the meat and produce gets picked / slaughtered? If he does even half the mass deportation he is saying he will do, the price of food will skyrocket because it will be very scarce in large swaths of the country. A lot of produce will rot in the fields. Meat processors all over the country rely on immigrant labor.
 
Weird is just the best description for this. Well, delusional works too, I suppose.

 
MT15 said:
And not only tariffs. I mean, how do people think the meat and produce gets picked / slaughtered? If he does even half the mass deportation he is saying he will do, the price of food will skyrocket because it will be very scarce in large swaths of the country. A lot of produce will rot in the fields. Meat processors all over the country rely on immigrant labor.
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There’s a whole bunch of “native-born” people dying to take those jobs, MT.
 

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