Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

By the time this debate happens he will have said it both ways just to gum up fact checkers

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-undercuts-his-campaigns-push-for-muted-mics-at-debate-doesnt-matter-to-me-id-rather-have-it-probably-on/

Biggest flip flopper on the planet.

If Harris has any kind of lead though, she will win. It doesn't need to be significant at all.

Trump has not said how he will fox anything, at all. He has no policies to address, he just uses soundbites like "we will do great things, the best there ever has been". This works for his base who would vote for him no matter what.

Swing voters are actually interested in policies and action, his rallies are not aimed at them, you can see it very clearly when he feeds off what they are saying and just starts attacking his opponents with slurs.

Look at how the politicians he supported for the elections 2 years ago fared. The majority lost their seats, they were spewing rubbish about stolen elections, which Trump still to this day claims, he is also saying he can only lose this election if it is rigged.

The momentum has shifted, still a very long way to go. Trump is running scared by planting seeds about dropping out of the debates. That will harm him more than Harris.

That is on national figures, I presume? I used to think it was more than that. We had the discussion here previously as to the margin needed.

Why does it have to be 3?

Surely just 1 will suffice…

What trump doesn't know about NATO could fill 40 libraries

you understand the electoral college system? Hillary won the popular vote by about 2%…

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Funny that she would endorse Trump and claim he would walk the US back from war, after pretty much every action he has taken and position has pretty much guaranteed the opposite.

She is as much of a clown as the rest of them. Heard her on a podcast recently and she spouted waffle all over the place.

A clear lead for one or other side in polls can sometimes backfire too… people don't vote as they think they don't need to. I think there was an element of that in 2016 on the Democrats side. I wouldn't expect it this time.

From the NYT in May this year.

May 30, 2024

Tulsi Gabbard, a former House member who ran for president in 2020 as a Democrat and then left the party, on Wednesday embraced the idea of joining Donald J. Trump as his running mate on the Republican ticket.

“If asked to serve in that way, I would be honored to do so,” Ms. Gabbard said in response to a question from the audience during a speech at the Richard M. Nixon Library and Museum in California. She was promoting her book about her estrangement from the political left.

Ms. Gabbard, an independent, is considered a long shot for the role, but has drawn intrigue from Mr. Trump with her criticism of Democrats and her visibility on conservative news outlets. She has visited Mr. Trump multiple times at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida.

Coincidence my ass! The question now is only why did she wait until RFK stepped forward to make her move?

Trump's idea of ending the Ukraine war is handing territories to Russia... Basically if you want to leave Russia off to commit a load of genocide, then vote Trump. A form of peace where you just pretend it's all sorted.

If you think the Ukraine war is bad, you'd have to have swallowed an awful lot of Russian propaganda to think Putin's lapdog Trump would deliver peace and security for Ukraine. Trump doesn't give a damn about the fate of Ukraine, as evidenced by his playing political football with their security because they wouldn't go along with his scurrilous muck raking about political opponents. Trump would abandon Ukraine.

Trump doesn't care if Russia slaughters, rapes, enslaves or tortures every last civilian under Russian occupation. That's Russian peace for you, that's Trump's peace for you. Atrocities don't just happen in war. But all that matters to some people is that it doesn't happen "in war" and they can go back to turning a blind eye to it.

But sure prove me wrong, find the quotes where Trump publicly criticises Russia for the documented evidence of its war crimes and atrocities, for its occupation and abuses in Ukrainian territory. War is bad but that is worse. Find us the quotes where he condemns Russia without reservation for such conduct. Trump mouths off about everything else, but not that. Says it all.