Politics Official 2024 Presidential Election Thread

Wow. This is painful at this point. @crandc had nothing to do with any of it. I was making fun of the person who made the original tweet for calling Jill Stein a Russian agent.
How is it this confusing?

 

Because she was referencing a tweet, and i was adding to what she said.
Tell me more about how racist i am for it.

 

The one constant on this site over the years and it can’t be argued…..there is a certain type of person on here that is constantly defending themselves that they are NOT racist. And every single one of them have been Trump supporters. Why is that?

I’ve never been accused of being racist in my life. Why is that?

I wonder who David Duke is voting for?

 

Valentines day is the day of love, albeit a ridiculous consumer holiday if we're being honest. January 6th is more like the Munich Putsch and it seems like Trump is leaning into that similarity, among others.

 

Who hurt you?

 

Nobody. I still buy your wife flowers as well as mine. Do you have stock in Hallmark or something?

 

#BAM

 

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-16-2024

"Two Fox News Channel interviews bracketed today: one this morning with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in front of an audience of hand-picked Republican women in Georgia, the other by Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris with host Bret Baier. Together, the two were a performance of dominance.

FNC billed Trump’s so-called town hall as a chance for female voters, a demographic that is swinging heavily to Harris, to ask Trump about issues they care about. But Hadas Gold and Liam Reilly of CNN reported that FNC had packed the audience with Trump supporters. The first question came from the president of the Fulton County Republican Women, though she was not identified as such. FNC then edited the broadcast to cut out remarks in which the attendees expressed support for Trump.

It seems unlikely that Trump attracted any new voters by speaking to an audience of loyalists audibly cheering him on.

After Trump refused to debate her again, Harris voluntarily moved into his right-wing territory, agreeing to an interview with FNC host Bret Baier. In that interview, Baier reframed right-wing talking points as questions, essentially giving Trump a second shot at a debate. Baier kept talking over the vice president’s attempts to answer—even putting out a hand to interrupt her—in a stark contrast to FNC’s deference to Trump. Harris asked him to let her reply, and then answered his questions, sometimes testily, usually turning them into opportunities to contrast her own candidacy and record with Trump’s.

Control of the interview changed abruptly when Harris called out Trump for referring to the “enemy within” and talking about using the American military against those he considers enemies. Baier used that opportunity to show a clip of Trump saying he wasn’t threatening anyone, but the clip was edited to remove his threats against “sick,” “evil,” “dangerous” “Marxists and communists and fascists” including Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) and “the Pelosis”—presumably former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her husband, who was attacked in 2022 by a man with a hammer who wanted to force Nancy Pelosi to renounce the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia..

Harris had had enough propaganda.

“Bret, I'm sorry, and with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the enemy within that he has repeated when he’s speaking about the American people. That's not what you just showed…. You and I both know that he’s talked about turning the American military on the American people. He has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protest. He has talked about locking people up because they disagree with him. This is a democracy. And in a democracy, the president of the United States in the United States of America should be… able to handle criticism without saying he’d lock people up for doing it. And this is what is at stake, which is why you have someone like the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying what Mark Milley has said about Donald Trump being a threat to the United States of America.”

Simply by going on the right-wing network, Harris was demonstrating dominance. Then, by answering as thoroughly as she did, she undercut the right-wing narrative that she is stupid and inarticulate. By calling out the FNC for deliberately misleading its viewers, she took command. Baier, rather than Harris, was the one doing the post-interview spinning.

Writer Peter Wehner, who worked for presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush, wrote: “Bret Baier has rarely looked as bad (or tendentious) as he did in his interview with Kamala Harris. On the flip side, this was one of her best interviews. She dominated Bret. All in all it was quite a bad day for MAGA world's most important media outlet.”"

 

On his own home turf... "In my home! Where my wife sleeps! Where my children come and play with their toys! In my home!" to quote Michael Corlone.

I wasn't sure she'd do anything with that opportunity, but it really feels like one of those relentless ground game drives where you start at your own 20 and just keep getting first downs until you're at their 10 yard line.

 

this one is hilarious:

 

Trump continues to cancel rallies and interviews. Old guy just has no energy.

 

But when it was Biden doing that you ignored it. A bit hypocritical, no?

 

I don't think so. Most of us wanted a younger candidate.

 

and Biden did the right thing....Trump never does