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

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What date roughly would Kamala pick her VP?

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What date roughly would Kamala pick her VP?

IDK she'd either announce it on Convention Day or if Joe resigns then there's a lengthy congressional confirmation process

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J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows

https://archive.ph/NisY0#selection-925.613-925.622

More than 200 people appear on Vance’s Venmo “friends” list. Among them is Amalia Halikias, government relations director at the Heritage Foundation—the conservative think tank coordinating the controversial Project 2025. So is an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York, among many other lawyers for the Department of Justice, frequently decried by Trump loyalists as enemies and part of the “deep state.” So are Jeff Flake, the famously anti-Trump former Arizona senator and current ambassador to Turkey; lobbyists from organizations like the Government Strategies Group; people affiliated with other conservative think tanks like the Hoover Institution and the American Enterprise Institute; journalists and media personalities like Bari Weiss and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson; and tech executives from Anthropic and AOL.

f*ck you anthropic.

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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics ... r-BB1qplOx

Heritage Foundation eyes multi-million dollar legal fight against Biden replacement

oh dear

a national strike or something needs to happen if the courts try anything stupid

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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics ... r-BB1qplOx

Heritage Foundation eyes multi-million dollar legal fight against Biden replacement

oh dear

a national strike or something needs to happen if the courts try anything stupid

I don't see how laws regarding "withdrawal" can apply when the Democrats had not even formerly nominated their candidate. Remember that we are still over one hundred days out from the actual election, so laws concerning withdrawal with less than one hundred days to go do not apply. As for Biden's action to withdraw from the race and release his delegates from their pledges to him, that is done all the time. Nobody complained when Niki Haley released her delegates to allow them to support Trump. The only difference is that Biden happens to control a majority of delegates. He is not a slave to the process. It should not be a matter of being forced to accept the nomination. The opponent that defeated him was old age and poor health. It is ridiculous to insist that he cannot concede to those opponents, at least before the nomination process is complete.

There is also the matter of standing. Why should the Heritage Foundation be granted any kind of standing in how the Democratic party conducts its business?

Even the current Supreme Court has been very deferential to arguments regarding standing.

At this point, stepping down from the nomination process can be seen as lightening his workload. He can now concentrate on the job of being president without the additional burden of running for president. Moreover, a definite retirement date has been set, a date that lies in the relatively near future. So, it is not unreasonable that he should complete his term even as he declines a nomination to serve an additional term.

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Kamala Harris Sees Surge in Big Money Support after Biden Drops Out of Race
by Brian Schwartz and Rebecca Picciotto
July 21, 2024

Introduction:

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• Kamala Harris is already seeing a wave of big money donor support since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

• Some of the party’s top financiers opted to hold back funds after Biden’s June debate performance drew concerns from Democrats about his mental acuity.

• The progressive donation platform ActBlue said it raised $46.7 million after Biden endorsed Harris.

Read more here: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/21/kamala ... rge.html

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