2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread

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RFK Jr. Bashes Trump—And Draws Cheers—Before Ex-President’s Speech To Libertarians
by James Farrell
May 25, 2024

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(Forbes) Long-shot presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drew cheers when he lashed out at former President Donald Trump’s pandemic lockdowns during a speech at the Libertarian Party convention Friday, just a day before Trump is set to face the same crowd for his own speech Saturday.

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Kennedy, a controversial skeptic of vaccines and the public health measures taken during the pandemic, claimed Trump “caved” to bureaucrats in instituting pandemic lockdowns.

Citing the closing of businesses, mask mandates and travel restrictions, Kennedy said Trump presided over “the greatest restriction of individual liberties this country has ever known,” and was met with applause.

Kennedy, whose third-party run could play spoiler for Trump, said Trump didn’t “stand up for the Constitution when it really mattered” and argued that there’s no pandemic exception to the rights granted by the constitution.

His speech was not the only indication that Trump could face at least a somewhat hostile crowd when he speaks on Saturday—former Republican presidential candidate and now-Trump backer Vivek Ramaswamy was booed when he mentioned Trump during his own speech.

Read more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politic ... gNewsSerp

caltrek’s comment: Criticizing Trump for all of the wrong reasons.

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At least he might now stop siphoning off votes from Joe. Tbf though anyone who supported him in the first place is crazy already

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‘He’s More Delusional than I Thought’: Libertarians Jeer Trump During Convention Speech
by Brittany Gibson and Peder Schaefer
May 25, 2024

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(Politico) If Donald Trump came to the Libertarian National Convention to make peace on Saturday, it could hardly have gone worse.

Within minutes of beginning speaking — and after enduring sustained jeering and boos — the former president turned on the third party, mocking its poor electoral record in presidential elections even as he appealed to them for their endorsement.

“What’s the purpose of the Libertarian Party of getting 3 percent?” Trump asked the crowd, which proceeded to pelt him with jeers. “You should nominate Trump for president only if you want to win.”

The libertarians in attendance didn’t want to hear it, as hecklers chucked insults at Trump all night. “Liar,” they called him. “Panderer,” they shouted. “You crushed our rights,” they belted.

The raucous reception laid bare the difficulties confronting Trump in his effort to expand his base and cut off a third-party threat, not only from Libertarians, but also from independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Despite the Libertarian Party’s relatively small following, its 2020 candidate, Jo Jorgensen, drew more votes in some close states than the margin separating Trump and now-President Joe Biden
“If we unite, we are unstoppable,” Trump told a crowd split between Libertarians and Trump supporters. “You have to combine with us.”

Read more here: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/ ... -00160023

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Trump Doesn't Submit Paperwork to be Considered by Libertarian Party After Soliciting Votes
by Megan Lebowitz
May 26, 2024

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(NBC) WASHINGTON — Hours after former President Donald Trump asked libertarians for their party's nomination and votes, the party chair said he did not submit the appropriate paperwork.

"I also learned that Mr. Trump did not turn in any nominating papers," Libertarian Party Chair Angela McArdle announced to the delegates Sunday. "But he was nominated, and it's nice to be nominated."

Moments earlier, the crowd at the Libertarian National Convention jeered the man nominating Trump for consideration.

“I would like to nominate the greatest president of our time, Donald J. Trump,” the libertarian said as the crowd of delegates booed loudly in response.

Another man made his way to a microphone to argue that Trump did not qualify for nomination, which the crowd responded to with applause and a partial standing ovation.

Read more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024- ... na154132

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Libertarians Nominate Chase Oliver for President, Rejecting Trump and RFK Jr
by Robert Tait
May 27, 2024

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(The Guardian) The US Libertarian party has nominated Chase Oliver as its presidential candidate after members rejected overtures from Donald Trump and Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Oliver, 38, who describes himself as “armed and gay”, was chosen at the party’s convention in Washington DC on Sunday at the end of seven rounds of voting that lasted seven hours.

Accepting the nomination, he vowed to be “the only national candidate” – contrasting himself to Trump, Kennedy and President Joe Biden – in the presidential poll and called for a ceasefire in Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, saying “end the genocide”.

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(Robert F Kennedy Jr.) was eliminated in the first round of Sunday’s voting after winning just 19 votes, 2% of the total. Trump, who was not an official potential nominee, won six write-in votes.

In his acceptance speech, Oliver took aim at both candidates, as well as Biden.

Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ar ... candidate

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Chase seems like a based guy; I'd like him more if he didn't act as a spoiler candidate

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Trump Doubles Down, Seeking Fossil Fuel Cash at Private Houston Lunch
by Dharna Noor
May 24, 2024

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(Mother Jones) Donald Trump was continuing to ask fossil-fuel executives to fund his presidential campaign on Wednesday, despite scrutiny of his relationship with the industry.

The former president attended a fundraising luncheon at Houston’s Post Oak hotel hosted by three Big Oil executives.

The invitation-only meeting comes a day after the defense rested its case in Trump’s criminal hush-money trial, and a week after Houston was battered by deadly storms. The climate crisis, caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels, has created the conditions for more frequent and severe rainfall and flooding, including in Texas.

“Houstonians are staring at Trump in disbelief as he flies in to beg Big Oil for funds just days after the city’s climate disaster,” said Alex Glass, communications director at the climate advocacy organization Climate Power, and a former Houston resident.

It also follows a fundraising dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club last month, where the former president reportedly asked more than 20 oil executives for $1 billion in campaign donations from their industry and promising, if elected, to remove barriers to drilling, scrap a pause on gas exports, and reverse new rules aimed at cutting car pollution.

Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2 ... s-deal/

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Trump outraises Biden in April
https://apnews.com/article/fundraising- ... dbb9aeb186

Trump: $76 million
Biden: $51 million

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We're screwed

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Trump campaign raises record $34.8 million in donations after guilty verdict

Source: CNBC.COM

The Trump campaign said it nearly doubled its single-day fundraising record after a New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty in his criminal hush money trial.

The Republican’s presidential campaign said it raised $34.8 million from small-dollar donors following the verdict finding Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records.

Nearly 30% of those donors were brand new to the Trump donation site WinRed, senior campaign advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a press release.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/31/trump-c ... ecord.html

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Trump conviction dents independent, GOP support - poll

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A just-released Reuters/Ipsos poll indicates Donald Trump’s business fraud conviction may cost him among independent voters, as well as Republicans.

The survey conducted following Trump’s guilty verdict on Thursday finds 10% of registered Republican voters are less likely to vote for him, alongside a quarter of registered independent voters.

The findings were significant for a few reasons. Independent voters may decide the outcome in swing states Joe Biden carried in 2020, but where polls show his support has dropped in the years since. And even though Trump easily won the votes necessary to become the GOP’s presumptive nominee, some people continue to cast ballots for Nikki Haley, who bowed out of the race for the Republican nomination months ago. That raises the possibility that the former president is unpalatable to a potentially significant number of Republicans – a group whose ranks may have just grown with his conviction.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/liv ... c67d9ae25d

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