Election 2024 Foreplay

TreeFrogTrader said:
Long lines. Not something you need to worry about at Sleepy Joe rallies.

Trump’s Michigan rally line stretched over 1.5 miles, but didn’t discou
rage his faithful

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Chad Woodrow of Indiana stood near the end of the entry line for Donald Trump’s Grand Rapids rally – about 1.5 miles from his Van Andel Arena destination.

Woodrow, of Crawfordsville north of Indianapolis, drove more than four hours to get to Grand Rapids. Given the crowd size, he didn’t think he would get into the arena.

It was still worth the trip, he said.

“With everybody here, it’s good to have a common goal,” he said. “We’ve all got something. It don’t matter what race or color or creed, all that stuff. We’re all in the same thing. We all know America needs to get better. And that’s worth the drive even if we don’t get in.”
Nearby, Wayne and Anne Compton of Lansing said they had no idea the crowd would be so large in Grand Rapids. They also weren’t sure they would get inside the arena.

“I think it’s a super exciting time right now,” Wayne Compton said. “I think this is a movement you only see once in a lifetime, kind of what it felt like in the (Ronald) Reagan years.”

Van Andel Arena’s capacity is more than 12,000 people, but even two hours after the doors opened, the line to get in stretched more than 16 blocks.

https://www.mlive.com/politics/2024...-miles-but-didnt-discourage-his-faithful.html
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rallies do not win elections. It is up to Dems now. If they put forward good candidate Trump hate might win and he will loose. For those of you who love Trump you just have no idea what feelings the other side has.

It is just that Biden is so obviously incapable to govern so dems will stay home. Good candidate will make them enthusiastic. Especially with JD as VP. Trump feels cocky and picked someone who calls for national abortion ban, it will backfire if Dems come to their senses and Biden graciously exists within next week.

dems are almost out of time. Few more weeks and Trump is our next POTUS. I am totally fine with that. He will fuck up so big with Project 2025 that we might not see GOP at helm for a while.
 
RedDuke said:
rallies do not win elections. It is up to Dems now.
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Oh but they do in elections that are won or lost by 40,000 votes these days.

Hillary failed to go into the midwest and generate any enthusiasm and she lost.

Trump, however, is going right into the belly of the beast in some of these states where people have long been ignored by dems focused on woke stuff and have lost the working class vote.

Rallies may not be the only thing.
 
Well.... this is one way to potentially get voted into office.

Man named Literally Anybody Else running for president
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/07/18/Literally-Anybody-Else-running-for-president/4921721319000/

A Texas man legally changed his name to Literally Anybody Else to apply for a particularly difficult-to-get job: President of the United States.

The 35-year-old military veteran and middle school math teacher, formerly known as Dustin Ebey, said he is running for president to protest the current major-party candidates -- President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump -- and show his distaste for a system that his website states "often prioritizes partisan battles over real solutions."

Else is running a write-in campaign in Texas, where did he did not get the required 113,000 signatures to make it onto the ballot, and is expected to appear by name on the Tennessee ballot, where he said he did get the required amount of signatures.

"It's not necessarily about drawing attention to my grievances," Else told KTRK-TV, "but about giving a place for anyone who shares these grievances to come together to a focal point."

Else announced Neal David Sutz, a New York man currently living in Switzerland, will be his running mate.
 
smallfil said:
Some are pushing Kamala Harris to replace Joe Biden and there is even talk of Michelle Obama/Barack Obama (VP) combo to replace Joe Biden. Democrats really want Joe Biden out. Will Jill Biden allow them to kick out Joe Biden? That is the $64 million question. There is a huge number of Democrats who hate Kamala Harris and cannot stand her. Let us see how that plays out. Think of it as the Never Harris (a copy of the Never Trumpers). We got about a month to go before the Democrat Convention. Let us see who they put up there.
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There are piles of dems who love Kamala for woke reasons. The problem for dems is that the Kamala-loving dems are mostly in blue states that get even bluer if Kamala runs but they do not get anymore electoral votes from a state that is already blue.

However, and this is a rather large "however," the fight for swing states- PA and the midwest- is a fight for white male working class voters who have been abandoned by the lefties. That is not Kamala-friendly turf.
 
Kamala unleashes her charm on donors.

The predictable ones here will point out that this is Zero Hedge, blah, blah.

Fine. Let's come at it another way then. Show me the money she raises for a Biden campaign after this meeting.

She certainly did not do herself any favors either if Joe does leave because these are the same people she will need to lobby for her own campaign. Being semi-black and sitting down when she pees is not enough skills to handle herself in this current environment.

'A Total Failure' - Donors Vent Over Kamala Harris Conference-Call Flop

Major Democratic donors who joined a conference call starring Vice President Kamala Harris say the event's sloppy organization and scolding tone left them feeling unimpressed and insulted, NBC News has reported.

“It was a total failure. It was damaging. It was poor planning,” said one.

Another called it "ludicrous."

It was also described as "mismanaged and rushed."

The Friday call with about 300 heavy-hitter donors kicked off with reports from field organizers, who used their time to vent anger over the intra-party battle over whether Biden should be replaced atop the ticket, owing to plunging confidence in his mental health.

One participant described how organizers stalled to buy time while everyone waited for Harris to join the call 20 minutes after it started. During that stretch, the donors were "admonished" against agitating to replace Biden, and were instructed to "lock in and get behind" the faltering and frail 81-year-old.

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Big donors pushing for Biden to leave the race want to look at options other than Kamala Harris
According to a transcript obtained by NBC, Melissa Morales, the founder of Somos Votantes, a voter outreach group targeting Latinos, was one of those instructing donors to fall in line:

“It’s time to stop the leaks and the rampant rumors. Your message has been heard and received. But every day that we continue this publicly chaotic conversation, we come closer to a loss — no matter who the nominee is.”

As you can imagine, that kind of tone didn't set well with many in the audience who've committed big money to the campaign and the party. “These are donors who are not used to getting admonished and told what to do,” said one of NBC's sources who'd heard the call.

Many of those donors went into the call expecting to receive insider insights on how the party was going to recover from the devastating impact of Biden's June 27 debate performance and the ongoing, damaging battle over the looming nomination. They instead received the "bad-cop/good-cop" treatment -- first scolded for their lack of faith in Biden and then given a pep talk from Harris:

“We know which candidate in this election puts the American people first: Our President, Joe Biden. With every decision he makes in the Oval Office, he thinks about how it will impact working Americans. And I witness it every day.”

“Something I believe in my heart of hearts. It is something I feel strongly you should all hear and should take with you when you leave. And tell your friends too. We are going to win this election. We are going to win.”

Her rah-rah remarks came on the same day that saw a record number of federal lawmakers -- 11 -- step forward to join others who'd already urged Biden to abandon his re-election bid. One of them was Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown. The chair of the Senate Finance Committee, he's the highest-ranking member of Congress to publicly tell Biden to give up. Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have privately encouraged Biden to quit, as has former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Given the reviews, the call seems unlikely to jostle new money out of donors who've grown increasingly reluctant to throw money at what appears to be a doomed campaign. Some are withholding money not only from the presidential campaign, but from congressional candidates too, whose prospects are diminished by having Biden as the standard-bearer. The Biden-Harris hoped to rake in $50 million from big donors in July, but is only on pace to hit half that, Reuters reported Friday.

With no faith in either half of the Biden-Harris ticket, major donors are taking matters into their own hands. One group is bankrolling -- independent of the Democratic National Committee -- a process to start vetting potential successors to Biden, according to Washington Post sources. Among the names being bounced around: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly.

Meanwhile, as he completes his allegedly Covid-triggered convalescence in Delaware, Biden's campaign is reportedly considering rushing him back on the campaign trail, with trips to Georgia and Texas under consideration. Get ready for another string of video "highlights" demonstrating that he's neither fit to run nor govern.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political...-vent-over-kamala-harris-conference-call-flop

same story from CNBC for the Zero Hedge haters here:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/21/lud...ith-kamala-harris-frustrated-and-annoyed.html
 
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Looks like Joe Biden is going to drop out per reports. No doubt the Democrat donors had a huge influence in his decision. Kamala Harris expects herself to be annointed as the replacement. Let us see how much influence she really has in the Democratic Party in the convention.
 
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Maybe now we will hear Kamala talk more about how she attended and graduated from high school in Montreal.

That could be a way of connecting with Americans.

OR NOT.
 
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