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Post by tashoya on Aug 13, 2024 22:16:10 GMT -5
The American people are smart? I've seen the former Republican party's candidate for president and the cult they've formed in support of him. I beg to differ. And, their stupidity is part of why they continually lose the popular vote. But, Nikki Haley's thinly-veiled attempt at starting her campaign for the next round is hilariously self-serving. Typical "Republican." I can already see her using this clip when she runs in 28 talking about how right she was. She's threading the needle of kissing Trump's cultists' butts while hedging against Trump's loss. "Smart" people can see it for what it is. Which is not to say that she's wrong. It's just that there's nothing but upside for her in saying it. And, noteworthy that she didn't say that she wants Trump/Vance to win. She wants the "campaign" to win.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 13, 2024 22:37:10 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 14, 2024 8:19:54 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 14, 2024 8:27:29 GMT -5
For his entire aborted 2024 reelection campaign, no issues threatened to hamstring President Joe Biden quite as much as the economy and immigration. The economy is almost always voters’ top issue, and views of Biden’s handling of it were routinely way underwater. Immigration is generally less important in voters’ minds, but a border crisis pushed Biden’s numbers on the issue to historically low levels — to the point where three-fourths of independents and large numbers of Democrats disapproved. One poll early this year showed Americans preferred Donald Trump over Biden on immigration by more than 30 points. Vice President Kamala Harris replacing Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee has significantly blunted those liabilities for Democrats. A new poll this week piqued more than a few people’s interest. It came from the Financial Times and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and it showed that about as many Americans preferred Harris on the economy (42 percent) as preferred Trump (41 percent). Such a finding was previously unthinkable, after many months of the economy dogging Biden. Across three other recent polls to compare the two candidates on the issues — national polls from NPR/PBS/Marist College and Marquette University Law School and a swing-state poll from the New York Times and Siena College — Harris has trimmed between six and nine points off Biden’s previous deficits to Trump on the economy. On immigration, she has trimmed between four and seven points off Biden’s previous deficits. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/14/harris-trump-biden-polling-economy-immigration/
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 14, 2024 8:29:35 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 14, 2024 8:33:19 GMT -5
…this would fit well in the Trump corruption thread…
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 14, 2024 14:42:21 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 14, 2024 16:29:29 GMT -5
Demented Donnie, HoyaTalk "Republicans " cult leader!
Though Donald Trump’s appearance in North Carolina was billed as remarks on the economy, and he began his speech staying on message, the former president has since been falling back into parts of his stump speech, making inflammatory attacks on undocumented immigrants and voicing other sentiments he has repeated consistently throughout his campaign.
Former president Donald Trump is repeatedly attacking Vice President Kamala Harris’s intelligence at his North Carolina rally — a day after fellow Republican Nikki Haley warned him against doing so.
“She is not a smart person,” Trump said of Harris. “She is not very smart.”
Haley, Trump’s former primary rival who has since endorsed him, said in a TV interview Tuesday that Trump’s campaign is “not going to win talking about whether [Harris is] dumb.”
WaPo, 8/14/24 @ 5:23 pm.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 14, 2024 19:00:09 GMT -5
This is a sure fire winner.
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Post by tashoya on Aug 14, 2024 19:09:20 GMT -5
This is a sure fire winner. This crap is so insane. Hopefully, women make their voices heard with regard to abortion and the Right's desire to take us in the wayback machine with regard to equal rights. Anyone that isn't a wealthy white male should be deeply concerned.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 15, 2024 10:14:34 GMT -5
"Childless cat ladies" and "post-menopausal women" are surefire phrases for electoral success!
Congrats, JD! You're just a Yale-educated weirdo.
And Usha is a younger version of Elaine Chao except at least she quit Demented Donnie after J6 but Turtleman hangs on!
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 15, 2024 10:35:34 GMT -5
Why should Demented Donnie listen? Don't moron "Republicans" know by now that he is omniscient, wiser, smarter, and stronger than generals, economists, doctors to say nothing about common everyday political hacks?? Hint to moron "Republicans" - he has no "insights" and no "policy." He is demented. Republicans practically beg Trump to change it up. He’s not listening. Former Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway this week offered a recipe for Trump’s struggling 2024 campaign: “The winning formula for President Trump is very plain to see: It’s fewer insults, more insights and policy contrast.” Fellow former Trump adviser Peter Navarro echoed that. “When Trump attacks [Vice President Kamala] Harris personally rather than on policy, Harris’s support among swing voters rises — particularly among women,” Navarro said. Trump is not listening. Recent days have featured a familiar sight: a coterie of Trump allies taking to broadcast outlets like Fox News, seemingly to send a message to Trump — in the apparent belief that this is how you get through to the cable-news-junkie former president. They’ve practically begged him to change it up. They’ve sought to push him away from talk of crowd sizes and personal attacks on Harris, and toward policy. But whether because he refuses to or he can’t, that message is going unheeded by the “audience of one.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/15/republicans-practically-beg-trump-change-it-up-hes-not-listening/
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 15, 2024 13:05:35 GMT -5
Harris has opened up a second path to victory, according to The Post’s polling model Since President Joe Biden exited the presidential race on July 21 and passed the baton to Kamala Harris, his vice president, the race has effectively reversed itself. It is no exaggeration to state that Harris would be the favorite to win the White House, according to our polling model, if the presidential contest were held today. Relative to the day that Biden dropped out, Harris has gained two percentage points nationally and, as of Sunday, leads in our national polling average. In swing states, she has gained an average of 2.1 points since June 21 and leads in 2 of 7 of them. Harris has taken the lead in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and has substantially closed the gap in Michigan, where Donald Trump now leads with less than one percentage point (if this trend continues, we’d expect our average to show a tie in that state in the coming days). According to our polling model, Harris still trails Trump in the electoral college tally if the election were held today and every state votes as their polling average currently demonstrates. Nonetheless, she would be the favorite if voters today went to the polls because Harris now has more paths to the presidency than Donald Trump — that is, she is competitive in more states that could add up to 270 votes or an electoral college victory. Our modeling shows that Harris has two paths to possible success: the Rust Belt states of Michigan. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and the Sun Belt states of Georgia, Arizona and Nevada (she could win in either region and still claim the White House). Meanwhile, Trump’s must win both the Rust Belt and Sun Belt to triumph. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/15/kamala-harris-polling-electoral-college-polling-model-donald-trump/
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 15, 2024 13:42:36 GMT -5
Vance stupidly doubling down on bashing Walz's military service. Few can grasp the choice that Walz faced — including Vance, whose life revolved around the Corps during his enlistment. But I do. I have missed birthdays, anniversaries and career opportunities. I have also gained things that words can’t capture by serving my country during its times of greatest need. Yet for every ball I keep in the air, another hits the ground. I was laid off from my reporting job in July while on military leave. I see the different variables in Walz’s calculus: family and medical issues, the desire to keep serving, the overlapping moral obligations to self and soldiers. I see someone who made a difficult decision that ultimately benefited not just him, but his unit, too. In fact, if the National Guard had its way in 2002, Walz would have been forced into early retirement. That year, the future governor was hauled before a medical retention board due to his hearing loss. Such panels determine whether a soldier is medically fit to continue service; Walz was retirement-eligible and could have bowed out with a pension. But instead he successfully argued he was medically fit to stay in the National Guard. The impacts of his bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus only mounted, though. Walz underwent a surgery in 2005 that replaced his damaged ear bones with synthetic ones, though it’s unclear whether the surgery occurred before or after his retirement. Nonetheless, he was having health issues when deployment rumors arose. www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/15/tim-walz-national-guard-retirement-jd-vance-00173893An open letter signed by more than 1,000 veterans and military family members bashed former President Trump and his vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) for their “politically motivated attacks” on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) military record. “JD Vance’s recent comments attacking Governor Walz’s service record are disrespectful and deeply disappointing, especially given Vance’s own service — which we are also profoundly grateful for,” states the letter, first reported by USA Today and later obtained by The Hill. “But given Donald Trump’s long record of expressing disdain for service members, veterans, and their families, it’s unsurprising that his running mate has stooped to such lows.” thehill.com/policy/defense/4827927-walz-military-record-trump-vance-veterans/
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 15, 2024 15:28:36 GMT -5
Of course Lewandowski is brought back. Birds of a feather . . . Trump adds five new staffers, including Corey Lewandowski Trump fired Lewandowski as he entered the general election that year, months after Lewandowski was accused of assaulting a reporter at a campaign news conference in Florida. Video appeared to show Lewandowski grabbing the reporter. Lewandowski became a political commentator, including for CNN, and later joined a pro-Trump super PAC while Trump was in the White House. He was removed from the super PAC in 2021 after a donor accused him of repeatedly groping her and making unwanted sexual comments at a charity event in Las Vegas. The donor, Trashelle Odom, said in a statement that Lewandowski “repeatedly touched me inappropriately, said vile and disgusting things to me, stalked me, and made me feel violated and fearful.” A lawyer for Odom alleged that Lewandowski also threw a drink at Odom. An attorney representing Lewandowski at the time said he would not “dignify” accusations and “rumors” with a response. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/15/trump-campaign-lewandowski-new-hires/
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 15, 2024 18:50:33 GMT -5
MAGA Moron Don the Con, for the working man and woman. . . In a freewheeling and chaotic livestreamed conversation with Elon Musk on X this past Monday night, Donald Trump complimented Musk on his “fertile mind,” celebrated the prospect of climate change creating more oceanfront property, and said that Vice President Kamala Harris resembled his own wife on a recent Time cover. But the moment when Trump praised the idea of firing workers on strike could be the one he comes to regret this election season. “You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump said to Musk. “I mean, I look at what you do. You walk in and you just say, ‘You want to quit?’ They go on strike. I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike, and you say, ‘That’s okay. You’re all gone. You’re all gone.’” (It wasn’t clear what action of Musk’s, real or imagined, Trump was referring to; Musk did axe a majority of Twitter’s workforce after he took over in 2022, and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled in 2021 that Tesla had illegally fired a worker who was trying to form a union.) Musk laughed, and Trump pivoted to another topic. The whole exchange lasted about 20 seconds, but the backlash was swift: The United Auto Workers (UAW) union promptly filed federal labor charges against Trump and Musk. As my colleague Charlie Warzel wrote this week, the comments made Trump sound like “a caricature of a heartless industrialist.” And in angering unions, Trump is in danger of turning a powerful force for voter mobilization against himself. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/08/trumps-strike-busting-comments-could-come-back-to-haunt-him/679475/
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Post by tashoya on Aug 15, 2024 19:52:06 GMT -5
Watching this horse's rear is like if the only Happy Days rerun available was the jumping the shark episode. Except, of course, there have never been any high points with Trump.
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