2020 was a referendum on trump and if she doesn't step in some deep shit 2024 will be too.
It also could be a blue wave.
I was listening to some talking head on MSNBC and he brought up an interesting point. The RNC convention was really a lackluster non inclusive affair that was not well watched and despite the shooting and convention there was no real bounce. Trump's floor and ceiling are set.
The DNC convention has the potential to be a real touchstone. Biden was denied a convention and traditional inauguration with all the accolades and right now he's a dem hero for multiple reasons.
He's gonna get a ton of love and adulation from the Clintons, Obamas and more as well as a huge pass the torch moment that looks to the future with optimism as well as a chance to remind everyone of the bad old days of trump.
I think it could really resonate.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
2020 was a referendum on trump and if she doesn't step in some deep shit 2024 will be too.
It also could be a blue wave.
I was listening to some talking head on MSNBC and he brought up an interesting point. The RNC convention was really a lackluster non inclusive affair that was not well watched and despite the shooting and convention there was no real bounce. Trump's floor and ceiling are set.
... The Harris campaign released a statement calling Trump “old and quite weird,” said he was “flustered” and “lashing out,” and asked: “Is Donald Trump OK?”...
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Donald Trump claimed during a campaign rally on Wednesday that Kamala Harris is “totally against the Jewish people.”
The vice president’s husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jewish.
Trump was railing against Harris for not attending Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on Wednesday afternoon. (The presumptive Democratic nominee instead stuck with a pre-planned campaign event in Indianapolis, but she’s been scheduled to meet with Netanyahu on Thursday)....
These motherfuckers are telling us exactly who they are and want they want and it's the complete antithesis of what this country is about and people are still cheering them! What the hell!?
In the 2018 midterms, Jews were again the most Democratic group as designated by religious identity, with 79% voting for the Democrats while 17% voted for the Republicans.
So when Trump says "the Democrats" he's acting as if Jews are a separate group. Yet the cult stands in awe.
These motherfuckers are telling us exactly who they are and want they want and it's the complete antithesis of what this country is about and people are still cheering them! What the hell!?
...The new poll, conducted July 22–24 and released Sunday, found that Harris’s approval rating had surpassed Trump’s in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Michigan. In Michigan, Harris was leading Trump in favorability by a whopping 57 percent to 47 percent.
GoKamalaGo
Many online predicted that Trump would be incensed over the results. “The ketchup is going to hit the wall in Mar-a-Lago after this new Fox News poll,” remarked former Clinton White House aide Keith Boykin on X (formerly Twitter).
Within hours, Trump posted five separate videos on Truth Social of one of his longtime favorite Fox News hosts, Mark Levin, whom Rolling Stone once called a “bomb-throwing Trump sycophant,” attacking Harris....
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So think strategy, or lack thereof, in a primary, personally trashing the opponents works pretty well because everybody in in the same party and you're really just trying to say "I'm better than those other sleaze bags who kick dogs." But in a general election, you're facing about half the voters already decided on somebody else - and usually somebody else that they've already recently voted for. If you want to win, you have to pull off some of those and collect about half of those who don't really care but will go to vote. Normal winning politicians become less extreme in rhetoric and more policy-focused. But Trump is still (and even more so) feeding red meat to his own rubes. How is he going to increase his support, or even keep anybody but his hard core cultists with that approach?
So think strategy, or lack thereof, in a primary, personally trashing the opponents works pretty well because everybody in in the same party and you're really just trying to say "I'm better than those other sleaze bags who kick dogs." But in a general election, you're facing about half the voters already decided on somebody else - and usually somebody else that they've already recently voted for. If you want to win, you have to pull off some of those and collect about half of those who don't really care but will go to vote. Normal winning politicians become less extreme in rhetoric and more policy-focused. But Trump is still (and even more so) feeding red meat to his own rubes. How is he going to increase his support, or even keep anybody but his hard core cultists with that approach?
True, but it's also about maintaining/increasing enthusiasm and turnout amongst your loyalists and fair weather loyalists. Winning campaigns strike a balance.