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

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Vance is the single biggest mistake a presidential candidate has ever made!

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Election Deniers Just Scored a Major Primary Win in Arizona’s Biggest County
by Tim Murphy
July31, 2024

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(Mother Jones) Earlier this month, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican who oversees mail-in voting, voter registration, and property records in America’s fourth-largest county, reached out to Elon Musk with an invitation.

“Can I please give you a tour of our election facility and mail voting process,” he wrote on Musk’s social-media platform, X, after the red-pilled billionaire declared that “electronic voting machines” and “anything mailed in” were “too risky” to use in elections.

“You can go into all the rooms,” Richer continued. ”You can examine all the equipment. You can ask any question you want. We’d love to show you the security steps already in place, which I think are very sound.”

For three-and-a-half years, Richer has been asking skeptical Republicans just to hear him out about how elections really work in the most closely contested county in the nation’s most closely contested state. First elected in 2020 amid right-wing fears about George Soros, Richer, a Federalist Society lawyer, emerged as one of the nation’s most outspoken voices against the myth of stolen outcomes. He held the line against election deniers such as Kari Lake (who Richer is currently suing for defamation) while attempting to make the election process as transparent as possible. Richer opened the doors to the county’s Tabulation and Election Center for more than 150 tours, turned the security cameras on 24/7 for people to watch at home, and tirelessly fielded questions on Musk’s platform—all while facing a stream of violent threats and criticism.

But it turned out that good cheer and transparency could only accomplish so much. Musk, for one, did not take Richer up on the offer. And on Tuesday, Richer finally ran out of time to change his fellow Republicans’ minds: He lost his primary to state Rep. Justin Heap, a member of legislature’s Freedom Caucus, who was backed by many of the state’s most prominent election deniers. The single-digit margin only tells a part of the story; with another Richer critic running a strong third, just 36 percent of Republican voters backed the incumbent

Stephen Richer will face Democrat Tim Stringham in the General Election.

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

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Vance Defends Trump Saying Kamala Harris Isn’t Black

August 1, 2024 at 4:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 220 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/08/01/va ... snt-black/

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Sen. J.D. Vance defended Donald Trump’s false comments about Kamala Harris’ racial identity, saying that it was “totally reasonable” for his ticket mate to describe the vice president as someone who “pretends to be somebody different, depending on the audience she’s talking to,” CNN reports.

Said Vance: “Look, all he said is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon.”

[firestar464]

mf when he realizes you can have multiple coexisting identities:

[Vakanai]

mf when he realizes you can have multiple coexisting identities:

Judging by the colon I'm assuming you meant to follow that statement with a picture but sadly it's not showing.
But yeah I'm having a pretty good time watching Trump implode just because he can't figure out what biracial means.

[firestar464]

I pretended there was an image there, trying to leave the reaction up to imagination. Ig I'll go add an image rn

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[wjfox]

That's a totally incredible amount!

Meanwhile, I see Diaper Donny is throwing another tantrum -- whining about how "unfair" it is that Biden dropped out, and threatening to take legal action to remove Harris from the ballot.

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[wjfox]

Excellent and inspiring podcast, if you can spare 40 minutes.

[Time_Traveller]

Excellent and inspiring podcast, if you can spare 40 minutes.

Definitely agree with you there, this is one of the most inspiring political podcasts I've heard for awhile, I look forward to the next few months now and what the future may hold for the United States.

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[firestar464]

Excellent and inspiring podcast, if you can spare 40 minutes.

21:40 f*ck

[wjfox]

21:40 f*ck

Yes.

And unfortunately, he's the favourite right now:

https://polymarket.com/event/democratic ... 2674265570

[Cyber_Rebel]

Nah

Nancy Pelosi Reportedly Has a Favorite V.P. Pick for Kamala
The former House speaker has some thoughts on who Kamala Harris’s running mate should be.

NewRepublic

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and many House Democrats have a favorite to be Kamala Harris’s running mate: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

The Hill reports that several Democrats have been advocating for Walz, who was a member of Congress himself from 2006 until 2019 and was well liked among his fellow Democrats. That includes the former House speaker, who was instrumental in convincing Joe Biden to withdraw from the race and gave a lot of early support to Harris.

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“I want somebody who’s really strongly pro-labor and understands labor, because this is a big part of the working-class agenda and making sure that we win working-class votes,” Representative Pramila Jayapal said.

Now, when considering this along with who the UAF recently preferred as her VP pick as well. This is a real opportunity to basically have an American Labour style party, and with how the Harris campaign has been basically utilizing Walz's language to campaign with anyways, they really appear to be moving in such direction.

Walz also fits the "governing partner" experience which she's looking for, having a great deal more than Shapiro and proving quite successful with passing progressive reforms.

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Jimmy Carter says he's hoping to vote for Kamala Harris as 100th birthday approaches

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON - Former President Jimmy Carter told family that as he approaches his milestone 100th birthday this fall that he's holding on to vote in the presidential election.

“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip this week, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Carter voted in the Georgia primary in May, according to family.

“He’s not going to miss an election,” grandson Jason Carter said at the time. “It’s important to him. I mean, that’s the person he is.”

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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 657161007/