Pre-match: Can't believe it took this long for this thread, the 2024 Presidential election thread!

One of Trump’s main attacks against Harris is that she’s too hard on Israel. We know how often he makes remarks about how if you vote for Harris you’re not a real Jew.

But a Trump aligned PAC is making a bunch of ads for Michigan pointing out that her husband is a Jewish and she’s too pro Israel.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/politics/super-pac-michigan-kamala-harris-doug-emhoff/index.html

 

getting English correct would be a good start.

 

🚨THIS IS HUGE: Fox News just announced that they're moving North Carolina and Georgia from lean Republican to Toss Up.

North Carolina and Georgia are IN PLAY!
PASS IT ON!pic.twitter.com/M7DmG8iIPq

— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) September 13, 2024

 

Seems like a low energy campaign…

The Trump rally tonight in Las Vegas couldn't even hold more than 2,500 people. I've seen more people at a high school volleyball game. This is pathetic. pic.twitter.com/obzBDJVhJX

— Pushing The Limits (@PTLRadioShow) September 14, 2024

 

I think this is a correct interpretation:

Trump-Loomer couple was inevitable. Trump is now guided by his most extreme and nativist advisors who play off his ego to fulfill half-baked visions of a white ethnostate. The mask is off - it's time all moderate Republicans stand up.@AC360 pic.twitter.com/uzbAZ3lZQ8

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) September 13, 2024

 

Converse needs to come out with a special Chuck Taylor 47-,La edition. She stay rocking her chucks.

 

Why isn't every newspaper editorial board in the country demanding Trump and Vance step down from the race for inciting violence and terror?

Sorry, Joe Biden had to step down because of his age but Trump and Vance can do this: https://t.co/7TR9g5RZij

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 13, 2024

 

Wow, that Scott Taylor is a work of art - the classic "both sides do it" type.

 

Some breathing room in that poll....the last 4 of 5 reliable ones have decent numbers for Harris.

A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally in a head-to-head match up, 50% to 45%.

In a multi-candidate field, Harris lead by a similar 48% to 44% margin.

In last month’s poll just after the Democratic convention, Harris led by a narrow 47% to 46%.

 

Can one be a has-been twice? I thought he was already there.

 

I watched part of a local interview with Walz in Michigan where the first question was basically a restatement of the ‘are you better off now than you were four years ago” inflation question from the debate. Walz responded with statements about the campaign’s economic policy, contrasting it with Trump’s etc.

I really wonder why Harris and Walz don’t address this more directly, because it would seem to be pretty easy to do. Four years ago? September 2020? Why, yes, Americans are far better off than they were then, with the country shedding millions of jobs, businesses failing by the thousands, schools closed, a president telling everyone throughout that year that the pandemic would just magically vanish, who ignored the advice of experts, almost died ofCovid himself.

Yes, Americans today are in a far, far better place now than they were then.

From there you can address economic policy. But I’m lost as to why the campaign seems so unwilling to remind people that Trump left the White House with the economy in free fall.

 

Because people are tying 4 years ago to the start of Biden and the mess he walked into. I do think you are right though, they should say specifically September 2020.

 

good point - they are (uncharacteristically) missing a trick there.

 

My biggest issue is that when people say Trump lost more jobs and had a messed up economy when he left office, they always say, yes, because of COVID.

So why in the hell does that not apply to Biden? Biden came into a world of COVID followed by the after-shock of global inflation. THAT IS WHY WE HAD THE PRICES WE HAD!!!

Directly and indirectly. The inflation allowed many companies to hike up prices because, well, "everyone is doing it" argument beyond catching up with the cost of doing business. This isn't a secret...and yet, when we talk about inflation and prices - it is NEVER even mentioned.

Hello!!!

Did we all forget that ports and truck centers were closed for months with a back log? That some places like S Korea didn't even relax their covid restrictions until March 2022? That the demand from consumers could not match the production levels?

Seems like reminding people of this is necessary because I get the feeling everyone has forgotten about it unless they reminded about Trump's final year in office.

 

fact is - everyone (everywhere) wants to forget about it.

 

Fact is, we have very short term memories, and many already have. It’s absurd that Harris-Walz wouldn’t remind them of it, then follow up by noting how much has been achieved since then, how Trump has no plan for the future, and then speak about theirs.

This isn’t some historical reference point. It’s started 4.5 years ago under Donald Trump.

 

Flooding the zone with sewage:

Since the end of the DNC:

• Republican-aligned pollsters have publicly released 34 national and state polls for the presidential race

• Democratic-aligned pollsters have publicly released 7 national and state polls for the presidential race

That’s nearly a 5:1 ratio https://t.co/XBrRGoh0wQ pic.twitter.com/o7A2Y9eRJY

— Adam Carlson (@admcrlsn) September 14, 2024

 

One of the seldom-mentioned byproducts of such a mass deportation campaign will be persistent harassment of those who aren't deported but nonetheless share traits with the deported ones. In other words, those Hispanic citizens who don't get deported will also be harassed on a regular basis, if not killed by vigilantes.