USA 2024 presidential election

Podge_irl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122861254#Comment_122861254

You are vastly overestimating the importance of Shannon to the Americans there.

Anyway, they won't "target" our tax rates. We have already raised them due to the OECD agreement. The US could drop theirs but that won't do a thing for the trade deficit.

Kermit.de.frog

https://twitter.com/KellieMeyerNews/status/1950642034538123435

Harris to have another go in 28? I think it would be absurd and a disaster but actually I expect the Democrats have moved on and I don't think she'd get the nomination.

I'd imagine a lot of senior Democrats will be hoping she stays out of it.

eire4

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123684865#Comment_123684865

Agreed even if she actually ran in the primary I don't see her getting anywhere.

Quantum Erasure

It's mad reading back over posts from the night of the election, people really weren't expecting what happened

wildgreen

Why would anyone want to live in a country like this:

After serving 43 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam was finally free.

New evidence had exonerated him earlier this month of the murder of his former roommate.

But before he could reach his family's arms, Mr Vedam was taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), who want to deport him to India - a country he has not lived in since he was a baby.

Kermit.de.frog

I see Kamala's been out today more than hinting at another run in 28. Is that the sound of Republican champagne corks I hear popping?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/25/kamala-harris-bbc-interview

Tell me how

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123937616#Comment_123937616

Kamala has had her shot. I wish it was different, that she was President right now, but it isn't and she isn't.

And she didn't just fail in losing to Trump, she actually ran quite a good campaign once she was announced, but she was largely invisible before getting the nomination and has been invisible (book tour aside) since she lost.

And that being said, there's a lot of ambitious contenders who will be eyeing up a race for the Democratic nominee. Gov Shapiro, Gov Pritzker, Buttigieg (although societal tolerance is moving in the wrong direction for him at this point) and the current forerunner Gavin Newsome and none of these people are going to go easy on Harris in a Primary. And she still would have to break the glass ceiling of being the first female President.

I wish it were different, she's highly qualified and suitably experienced and if she was President right now, there wouldn't be a fraction of the sh*t going on that there is, but again, her lack of visibility of being a voice in the conversation for much of her time over the last 5 years cannot be ignored and I think she has missed her chance.

Podge_irl

I would imagine the chances of her getting through a primary are vanishingly slim. But if she manages to do so then so be it.

The last contest ultimately had almost nothing to do with reality, so not sure it is much of a useful barometer for the next one.

Iecrawfc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123940497#Comment_123940497

She can thank joe(and a particularly naive and uninformed American public) for upskuttling her one shot at a presidency, she should leave the field to one of the governors trying to stand up against the current federal administration.

Kermit.de.frog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123940497#Comment_123940497

If she even runs in the primaries there will be serious friction in the Democratic party over it. I don't think it would be healthy for them at all.

Should be nipped in the bud. At the end of the day she lost to Trump, that must be fatal. The Democrats managed to lose to Trump twice so if they don't take a new direction now it really is hopeless.

Podge_irl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123940598#Comment_123940598

All primaries create internal friction.

There is nothing to nip in the bud. If she wants to run she can run and nobody can actually stop her.

Tell me how

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123940598#Comment_123940598

Should be nipped in the bud.

The Dem's "nipped it in the bud" last year in not having a nomination when Biden pulled out and one of the main counter points to Harris used by MAGA'ts was that she hadn't been fairly selected.

If she runs, there doesn't have to be friction, it's one thing about the Primary circuit and how it is spread out over several weeks across all states. That and the expense of running means that contenders who see the writing on the wall pull out fairly quickly. This is what I would expect with Harris if she runs in 28. We'll know fairly quickly if there's a following for her and if there isn't early, she'll disappear quickly.