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

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PLEASE PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD... NOT SHAPIRO.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kamala ... 024-08-05/

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Trump Fans Furious Over His “Coward” Decision on Kamala Debate

Even Donald Trump’s most loyal fans think he made the wrong call on whether to debate Kamala Harris.

August 5, 2024/2:46 p.m. ET

Donald Trump’s own right-wing social media venture, Truth Social, seemingly turned against him as users got #TrumpIsACoward to trend over the weekend.

The derisive hashtag made rounds on X (formerly Twitter) before it started trending on Truth Social Sunday, Raw Story reported, after Trump said he’d finally agreed to debate Vice President Kamala Harris—only, it wasn’t the September 10 debate hosted by ABC News that the two candidates had previously agreed to at all.

Rather, Trump suggested a debate on September 4, hosted by Fox News and moderated by hosts Brett Baier and Martha MacCallum.

While the conservative media company originally said it was “open to discussion” on the terms, in his post, Trump offered another demand: an arena packed with onlookers to watch him perform—a far cry from the previous debate hosted on CNN, which had no audience.

https://newrepublic.com/post/184540/don ... ris-debate

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Trump is 'Too Old' Majority Now Say as Health and Mental Fitness Increasingly Worry Voters
by David Badash
August 5, 2024

Introduction:

(Alternet) In the fifteen days since President Joe Biden pulled out of his re-election campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, voters have increasingly grown even more concerned over Donald Trump’s age, health, mental fitness, and variety of other factors, while embracing newly-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on those same issues. A majority (51%) now see Donald Trump as too old to be president, and more than a third of voters doubt he would be able to serve a full four-year term.

Morning Consult, in a new poll released Monday, offers additional good news for Vice President Harris, saying she has “widened the trust advantage that Biden held on handling issues such as abortion (her biggest lead), climate change, education, health care and protecting American democracy, while Trump’s advantage over Harris on gun policy, crime, the economy and foreign policy are smaller than they were for Biden.”

“Not surprisingly, Harris’ replacement of Biden has now erased the Democratic Party’s age problem with the American electorate. That burden has now shifted to Trump,” Morning Consult’s Eli Yokley writes.

In a significant, seven-point jump, a majority (51%) now say Donald Trump is too old to be President, up from 44%. Morning Consult found, “more than 1 in 3 voters (36%) — including 45% of independents — said it is unlikely the Republican nominee would be capable of serving a full four-year term in office if elected in November.”

Those concerns are not related to Trump’s health as much as his fitness for office.

Read more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other ... 74&ei=43

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Donald Trump Has Nothing Else

August 5, 2024

Donald Trump spent his weekend talking about something he just can’t let go: his 2020 election loss. During an Atlanta rally, he attacked the state’s top Republicans he claims let it all happen. “They want us to lose,” Trump said of Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state he tried to pressure into “finding” him enough votes to defeat Joe Biden that cycle. “Atlanta is like a killing field” under their leadership, Trump said. “The state has gone to hell.”

For some of his Republican supporters, the taunts mostly renewed worries that the former president’s preoccupation with the last election could hamstring him. “My focus is on winning this November and saving our country from Kamala Harris and the Democrats,” Kemp responded. “Not engaging in petty personal insults, attacking fellow Republicans, or dwelling on the past. You should do the same, Mr. President.” For Democrats and Republicans not on the Trump train, his grievance-filled rally was simply another data point demonstrating how played out this man is—how consumed he and his party are by his personal resentments. “This is now starting to not be Donald Trump’s problem,” Geoff Duncan, Georgia’s former Republican lieutenant governor, who is supporting Harris in November, told CNN on Sunday. “This is starting to be the Republican Party’s problem.”

To be clear, Trump and his grievances have been the GOP’s problem for a while now; this is, after all, a party that has spent much of the last decade under Trump’s spell, excusing the inexcusable over and over again as they named him their standard-bearer for three consecutive cycles. But Harris’s rise and the surge of Democratic energy following Biden’s decision last month to pass the baton seem to have inflamed Trump’s sense of desperation and bitterness—and left his allies scrambling to recapture the momentum they were trumpeting just a few weeks ago at the Republican National Convention. At the time, Republicans were unified and bullish about November. A supposedly “changed” Trump said he wanted to “unify” the country after surviving an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally. Biden was in quicksand following a lousy debate performance in June. Democrats appeared to be in disarray. Days later, everything flipped: Biden dropped out; Democrats united around Harris; and Trump—whose post-shooting rebirth was always greatly exaggerated—quickly reverted to who he’s always been.

In fact, as Trump himself acknowledged at a July 28 rally, he may have “gotten worse”—an assessment driven home by a racist, misogynistic appearance at a National Association of Black Journalists conference last Wednesday that was shocking, even by Trump’s standards. “She was Indian all the way,” Trump said of Harris in a roomful of Black journalists in Chicago. “All of a sudden, she made a turn, and she became a Black person.” It’s a line even his supporters have warned him against: “Every day we’re talking about her heritage, and not her terrible, dangerous liberal record throughout her entire political life is a good day for her and a bad day for us,” Lindsey Graham said on Fox News Sunday. But Trump has only doubled down, mocking her name during his Atlanta rally and even reviving the racist birtherism he began spewing against Barack Obama more than a decade ago.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d ... thing-else

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Maddow: Pro-Trump Administrators already in place to subvert the 2024 election

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/wat ... 6510533698

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Kamala Harris names Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor, as running mate

Tue 6 Aug 2024 14.22 BST

Kamala Harris, the de facto Democratic nominee for US president, has named Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, as her running mate ahead of the November election.

The decision ends intense speculation over which candidate Harris would pick to go up against Donald Trump, the Republican nominee and former president, and his choice for vice-president, Ohio senator JD Vance.

Walz first ran for office in 2006 in a Republican-leaning congressional district, upsetting the incumbent. He kept the seat until he won the Minnesota governorship in 2018, then again in 2022. Under his leadership, the state has seen massive progressive legislative wins in recent years, including universal school meals, legalized marijuana, abortion protections and gun control measures.

Before he entered public office, he was a school teacher in Mankato, Minnesota, teaching geography to high school students. He also served in the army national guard for 24 years.

His midwesterner dad charm and straight-talk propelled him up the list as a potential vice-presidential pick, though, and as the head of the Democratic Governors Association, he has been stumping for Biden and Harris for the past year.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... k-tim-walz

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