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Post by SSHoya on Sept 23, 2024 11:54:36 GMT -5
Too busy spending money on Demented Donnie's legal fees? Morons. LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican activists in swing states say they have seen little sign of the teams tasked with knocking on doors and turning out infrequent voters on behalf of Donald Trump, raising concerns about the party’s presidential nominee relying on outside groups for an important part of his campaign operations. Trump and the Republican National Committee he controls opted to share get-out-the-vote duties in key parts of the most competitive states this year with groups such as America PAC, the organization supported by billionaire Elon Musk. It is difficult to demonstrate that something is not happening. But with fewer than 50 days until the Nov. 5 election, dozens of Republican officials, activists and operatives in Michigan, North Carolina and other battleground states say they have rarely or never witnessed the group’s canvassers. In Arizona and Nevada, the Musk-backed political action committee replaced its door-knocking company just this past week. apnews.com/article/trump-political-action-committees-voter-canvassing-musk-0c1c095a6516b7bcbc80bf94fe0fe45a
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 23, 2024 13:57:18 GMT -5
GOP effort to change how Nebraska allocates electoral votes hits roadblock A key Republican state lawmaker said Monday he does not support changing how the state awards its electoral votes before the November election, imperiling a last-ditch push by former president Donald Trump and his allies. “I respect the desire of some of my colleagues to have this discussion, and I have taken time to listen carefully to Nebraskans and national leaders on both sides of the issue,” state Sen. Mike McDonnell said in a statement. “After deep consideration, it is clear to me that right now, 43 days from Election Day, is not the moment to make this change.” Without McDonnell’s support, Republicans would be at least one vote short www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/23/nebraska-electoral-votes-mike-mcdonnell/
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 23, 2024 18:06:13 GMT -5
GOP effort to change how Nebraska allocates electoral votes hits roadblock A key Republican state lawmaker said Monday he does not support changing how the state awards its electoral votes before the November election, imperiling a last-ditch push by former president Donald Trump and his allies. “I respect the desire of some of my colleagues to have this discussion, and I have taken time to listen carefully to Nebraskans and national leaders on both sides of the issue,” state Sen. Mike McDonnell said in a statement. “After deep consideration, it is clear to me that right now, 43 days from Election Day, is not the moment to make this change.” Without McDonnell’s support, Republicans would be at least one vote short www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/23/nebraska-electoral-votes-mike-mcdonnell/Who let that RINO into the state senate?
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 23, 2024 18:15:16 GMT -5
"Any Catholic that votes for Comrade Kamala Harris should have their head examined…." -- Demented Donnie Former President Donald Trump criticized American Catholics who plan on voting for Vice President Kamala Harris, saying that they need a brain exam of some kind. In a Monday post on Truth Social, Trump announced he will attend the Al Smith Dinner in New York, as is custom for the two major party nominees in an election year, though Harris is not attending. Smith, a Democrat, was governor of New York in the 1920s and was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party. He lost the 1928 election at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment was a substantial factor in U.S. electoral politics. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-bashes-catholics-voting-for-harris-should-have-their-head-examined/
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 23, 2024 18:53:14 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 23, 2024 20:22:21 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 23, 2024 20:55:00 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 24, 2024 0:41:35 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 24, 2024 7:07:49 GMT -5
Opinion: Donald Trump might have Taylor Swift-kicked his chance to win Arizona Arizona might be one of those states where Swift's endorsement of Harris and Trump's 'I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT' response might backfire on him. Not long after Taylor Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, Donald Trump went online and — channeling his fifth grade self (which is essentially no different than his 78-year-old self) — posted, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT.” Swift, an actual grown-up who possesses actual class, did not respond with something like, “I’m rubber and you’re glue … .” She didn’t need to, since her endorsement led to 405,999 visits to the national voter registration site Vote.gov. Last week, however, USA Today reported that the data company Resonate, which uses an AI modeling system that, it says, “analyzes trillions of online interactions,” said that 2.3 million Americans in battleground states are among those who are more likely to be swayed by celebrity endorsements. Among them, it said, were 161,000 Arizonans. www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2024/09/23/trump-hates-taylor-swift-lose-arizona-election/75343897007/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 24, 2024 9:00:55 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 24, 2024 9:25:46 GMT -5
Nice cult leader you have HoyaTalk "Republicans". Don’t scoff at the Hitler comparisons. Trump’s rhetoric is that bad. There’s a semisatirical theorem, known as Godwin’s Law, which posits that if any online discourse goes on long enough, it inevitably leads to a Hitler or Nazi comparison. No professional pundit wants to be guilty of tripping this law. After all, equating a political figure with fascists sounds absurd. It’s just so over the top. It also might not win over any additional allies; people roll their eyes and tune out when they hear commentators or historians warn, yet again, about another big bad Great Dictator. Problem is, Donald Trump seems intent on making the Hitler comparison happen. In recent weeks, the Republican presidential nominee and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) have ramped up their baseless claims about violent invasions from impure foreigners, echoing “blood and soil”-style rhetoric deployed nearly a century ago. At a rally this past weekend in North Carolina, Trump declared that “a vote for Kamala Harris means 40 or 50 million more illegal aliens will invade across our borders, stealing your money, stealing your jobs, stealing your life.” Chillingly, he added that migrants were already “attacking villages and cities all throughout the Midwest.” Even Godwin Law’s namesake, Mike Godwin, wrote in a Post op-ed last year that he agrees the Hitler analogy is not just apt but necessary. He cited Trump’s authoritarian instincts for consolidating state power in a single leader; dehumanizing political enemies as “vermin”; and claiming that immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” an infamous Hitler talking point. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/24/trump-hitler-rhetoric-comparison/
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Post by CTHoya08 on Sept 24, 2024 11:05:59 GMT -5
GOP effort to change how Nebraska allocates electoral votes hits roadblock A key Republican state lawmaker said Monday he does not support changing how the state awards its electoral votes before the November election, imperiling a last-ditch push by former president Donald Trump and his allies. “I respect the desire of some of my colleagues to have this discussion, and I have taken time to listen carefully to Nebraskans and national leaders on both sides of the issue,” state Sen. Mike McDonnell said in a statement. “After deep consideration, it is clear to me that right now, 43 days from Election Day, is not the moment to make this change.” Without McDonnell’s support, Republicans would be at least one vote short www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/23/nebraska-electoral-votes-mike-mcdonnell/Who let that RINO into the state senate? He actually was a Democrat until recently switching parties: "Mr. McDonnell, a firefighter by trade and a union leader, had once been a firm blue-collar Democrat, but his Catholic faith and social conservatism led him to support Republican bills that restricted most abortions as well as transition-related care for transgender minors. The Nebraska Democratic Party punished him in March with a censure. Then in April, he switched parties and changed the balance of power in Lincoln, where Democrats had been able to use the Legislature’s filibuster rule effectively." www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/us/politics/nebraska-trump-electoral-vote.html?searchResultPosition=6
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 24, 2024 12:35:16 GMT -5
Harris in these recent, well-regarded polls: 51%-46% (+5) ABC News 50%-45% (+5) Morning Consult 49%-44% (+5) NBC News 52%-48% (+4) CBS News 49%-45% (+4) Economist/YouGov That’s Biden 2020, 4.5 points. She is tied or ahead in all polls taken in MI, PA, WI in recent weeks. That’s Biden 2020 or even a little better. She has been tied or ahead in 7 out of the last 8 independent polls in NC. That’s better than Biden 2020. She is up 1 in a new poll NV poll today, and the last 4 non-NYT polls in Arizona have the race tied. While some polls have her down in GA the most recent poll by a Republican outfit American Greatness had her ahead. We have a solid lead in NE-02, and we learned yesterday that the blue dot will remain the blue dot this November. -- Simon Rosenberg BTW, Demented Donnie's claim to be the "protector of women" is his acknowledgement that he knows he is losing the women's vote BIGLY. Trump in Pa.: Digressions, threats and vows to be ‘protector’ of women www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/24/trump-pennsylvania-women-remarks/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 24, 2024 12:42:24 GMT -5
Nebraska governor does not plan to call special session on electoral votes Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) announced Tuesday that he does not plan to a call a special legislative session before the November election to overhaul the way his state awards its electoral votes, a change sought by former president Donald Trump and his allies that could tip a very close election in his favor. Pillen’s announcement came a day after a key holdout vote, Republican state Sen. Mike McDonnell, announced he was still opposed to returning Nebraska to a winner-take-all system, which would likely benefit Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/24/nebraska-jim-pillen-special-session/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 24, 2024 15:04:28 GMT -5
My DOJ friend, Yale Law School alum, (big NYC firm, former DA in Texas, and most years an Assistant US Attorney, and colleague at DOJ National Security Division) says lawyer behind the criminal charges (also YLS) is pretty sharp. Springfield, OH — Today, the leader of nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance filed, on behalf of the Alliance, criminal charges in the Clark County Municipal Court against Donald Trump and JD Vance, asking that court to (1) affirm there is probable cause they committed crimes and (2) issue arrest warrants for both men. The criminal charges stem from the devastating harm of Trump’s and Vance’s baseless fearmongering that legal Haitian immigrants to the Ohio town are eating their neighbor’s pets. The criminal charges come after Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, and his vice-presidential-running-mate Vance, a Republican U.S. senator from Ohio, repeatedly made wild accusations that have been repeatedly debunked by both city and state officials and many responsible news outlets. www.chandralaw.com/blog/criminal-charges-filed-against-trump-and-vance-for-springfield-ohio-conduct-arrests-soughtA former federal prosecutor, law director for the City of Cleveland, and large-firm litigator, Subodh Chandra is The Chandra Law Firm LLC's founding and managing partner. His practice focuses on high-profile civil-rights litigation, along with white-collar-criminal defense and internal investigations. Chandra is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was executive editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. He also graduated with honors and distinction from Stanford University, which awarded him the John Gardner Fellowship to work as a protégé of Ohio Governor Richard F. Celeste. Chandra has served as Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, teaching appellate practice and legal ethics. He has also served as a legal-ethics and attorneys' fees expert in litigation. www.chandralaw.com/about/meet-the-team/subodh-chandra
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 24, 2024 19:37:39 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 25, 2024 7:52:34 GMT -5
Desperate Demented Donnie will decompensate as his outlook (prison) comes into focus. America is in a dangerous place with his violent racist, fascist, 2nd Amendment freaks, insurrectionists and weirdos walking the streets. Trump is losing his edge on the economy among voters Americans are finally starting to feel better about the economy, invigorating Vice President Kamala Harris’s pitch for the presidency as she narrows her Republican opponent’s longtime lead on an issue that is foremost on voters’ minds. Although voters still favor former president Donald Trump over Harris on handling the economy, his advantage has dropped dramatically in recent weeks. Trump now averages a six-percentage-point edge on the economy, compared with a 12-point lead against President Joe Biden earlier this year, according to an analysis of five polls that measured voters’ opinions before and after Biden dropped out. www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/25/economy-election-harris-trump-polls/46% of voters said they trust Harris to handle the economy — the same share as former President Trump, according to a Morning Consult poll conducted in late August and released Thursday morning. A separate survey from FT-Michigan Ross, taken after the debate and released on Sunday, shows Harris with a slight edge over Trump when it comes to the economy. Voters who watched the debate were even more apt to go for Harris. www.axios.com/2024/09/19/harris-trump-economy-trust-survey
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 25, 2024 8:21:50 GMT -5
If Demented Donnie elected, Hillbilly Vance is a heartbeat away . . . Walz is right - they are weirdos out of step with America. The presidency of JD Vance Like Trump in 2016, Vance has virtually no political experience; his only qualification when he ran for Senate two years ago — yes, it was that recent — was having written a best-selling memoir. (Nixon had at least served in the House.) We have only his accumulated rhetoric to go on — and the more you analyze that, the more it seems like maybe a job for a therapist rather than a policy expert. While other aspects of Vance’s worldview have come and gone depending on what’s expedient, one thing has remained chillingly consistent. Vance is bizarrely obsessed with setting down rules for women in society, almost as if this were something America’s women were pleading with him to clarify. I won’t compile a list here of his various moral edicts (others have), but I think we can fairly summarize Vance’s worldview this way: the biological purpose of women is to have children, and after they’ve raised those children, their only remaining purpose is to raise their children’s children. If they don’t have children, then they are ancillary members of the community and should have less say in how we’re governed. And if they weren’t born here, or if they’re gay or transgender, then they’re polluting the common culture. (The same goes for men.) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/25/jd-vance-president-trump-age-nixon/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 25, 2024 10:07:04 GMT -5
Demented Donnie and tariffs, his apparent policy for everything (child care, manufacturing, inflation, jobs, even the prevention of war): Perseveration is the involuntary repetition of a thought, action, or speech pattern that continues even after a stimulus ends. It can be caused by a brain injury or other organic disorder, or by changes in cognitive skills like memory, attention, or mental flexibility. Former President Trump offered a new strategy for world peace during a rally in North Carolina last month: massive tariffs on countries that start wars. “We don’t have to send troops, I can do it with a telephone call,” he said. “You go to war with another country that’s friendly to us, or even not friendly to us, you’re not going to do business in the United States and we’re going to charge you 100 percent tariffs.” thehill.com/policy/defense/4872274-trump-tariff-war-policy/
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Post by CTHoya08 on Sept 25, 2024 10:16:44 GMT -5
Demented Donnie and tariffs, his apparent policy for everything (child care, manufacturing, inflation, jobs, even the prevention of war): Perseveration is the involuntary repetition of a thought, action, or speech pattern that continues even after a stimulus ends. It can be caused by a brain injury or other organic disorder, or by changes in cognitive skills like memory, attention, or mental flexibility. Former President Trump offered a new strategy for world peace during a rally in North Carolina last month: massive tariffs on countries that start wars. “We don’t have to send troops, I can do it with a telephone call,” he said. “You go to war with another country that’s friendly to us, or even not friendly to us, you’re not going to do business in the United States and we’re going to charge you 100 percent tariffs.” thehill.com/policy/defense/4872274-trump-tariff-war-policy/Same guy probably wants to kill the sanctions against Russia, though.
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