Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

Did Trump ever even have an edge on the economy? He inherited the economic recovery from Obama and then relaxed some regulations. After that, he seemed intent on riding that wave to reelection. Not a bad plan except that it kind of relied on no crisis popping up, and that's really where he became undone. He cannot lead through any sort of adversity. We see it even now in his reelection bid. His campaign was 'disciplined' when Joe Biden was trailing in every poll. Now it's in disarray just because Harris has closed the gap. Can't handle pressure.

None of these polls really matter all that much at the end of the day. They are all far too volatile. One poll will say one thing and then another will appear in short order to contradict it. Plus we have no proper idea of how these pollsters are collecting their data and how it's being processed.

When Americans go to the polls in November, we'll get a more representative and fuller picture of what they are/were thinking. Right now, there's no real solid indication of what will happen then that can be gathered from polling results.

helps them that corporate media bias leans in favor of Republican economic policy. Go figure, probably half the reason their policies exist, to bake in that free media support.

No, I'd say polls matter quite a bit. Polls are, for example, a big reason why Biden decided to step out of the race. He and/or his donors looked at the numbers and concluded they were bad and only likely to get worse.

Nobody would argue that you'd put your house on an election where there were only a couple of points in it, but it's not an accident that polls have been and remain the foremost empirical way of gauging voter intention. It's a truism to say they're not perfect or that the only poll which really matters is the election, because yeah of course, but they're the best measure we have of which way the wind is blowing, and most probably why there is not only a big public industry around it, but political parties themselves conduct polls internally.

Right now, we can certainly glean this from the polls - the election will be much closer than Trump thought it would be in early July and he is not a happy bunny.

Hope he at least remembered to put his jugs the right way 'round.

The polling data, the momentum for Harris, rallies, positive media commentary is putting pressure on Trump and his campaign, and he doesn't handle it well.

His "condition" is age. There wasn't denial or collusion to conceal it, it was simply a case of determining if it would affect his performance as President, how much by, how much would it affect his standing with voters, and could it cost them the election.

Ultimately it became evident especially over the past year that yes, his age and slowdown had become the primary factor that could put people off voting for him, and would hand Trump the election. It was damn near undeniable after the debate. And so therefore polls were plummeting, donors abandoning, senior Dems publicly telling him he should step down and then the decision was up to him and he chose to not run again, because it was the right thing to do.

But to say he had a condition to which there was active collusion to conceal is just wrong.

His age is the reason he's stepping down. Not any polling data. Coupled with a very bad debate performance where he was clearly tired and not up to the job, the culmination of all the varying factors helped form the sensible decision to step aside. The guy needs to retire, he's done his service.

Once that bad performance was digested, there was really no other option.

Before that Biden had been trailing Trump in the polls anyway.

There's far too much emphasis, traction and credence placed on transient polling results, especially in US politicking, when really they're just a snapshot in time and a very tenuous one at that. For instance Harris and Walz may be looking good today, but next month might tell a different story altogether.

You may be right on this, but the logic of that exposes the continued denial on the Republican side of the clear and obvious deterioration in Trump's mental capacity. Yes, the Democrats should have acted sooner, but that is more than mitigated by the continued failure of the Republicans to similarly do the necessary.

Yeah I'd say he was always destined to be the dud in the family regardless. But no doubt he's caused a lot of issues for Joe over the years. No chance Joe should or will pardon him though. As much of a F*ck You as it'd be to Trump and the GOP even if Kamala is President-Elect, I'd be more inclined to think there'll be a new plea deal reached because the GOP won't care any more.

Republicans swore up and down they weren’t going to push for a federal ban of women’s drugs now here they are setting the stage to do precisely that

I hope they keep losing their mask like this it makes the Harris campaigns job easier

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I've read this a lot in the last few weeks. I don't see the deterioration to be honest. I think his recent ramblings and social media outbursts are entirely consistent with his deranged behaviour four years ago. He's just picking up where he left off, and doubling down on maga. I remember going to bed late each night in 2020 in order to catch his bizarre daily COVID press conferences, just for the entertainment value.

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