Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

I'm going to guess that regardless of result, being a Trump sycophant is going to be her main meal-ticket. This seems to be the case for many who delve too deeply into the MAGA Sinkhole of Logic. Your entire political identiy is forever linked to Donnie and any gainful attention left to you are amoung the Truth Social / Rumble using, Trump-NFT purchasing, MAGA-hat donning, knuckle-dragging simpletons who now fill the ranks of Donnie's "political" "movement".

There's no really good way out after that. In the hopeful senario of Trump losing & after whatever abhorrent thing he'll try to do to steal power, you're going to find a slew of human debris clinging onto the sinking remains of the GOP's Titanic, screaming out of their love of the Dear Leader while the icy waters of irrelivancy inch closer as the days and months pass.

If we are living in the "good" reality, I hope to witness that decay in the future. My popcorn subscription will need renewal.

PA is well populated. It took a couple of days last time, especially since the mail-ins didn't get counted until after the polls closed. PA result will not be early alas.

One early result on the night which might prove interesting is North Carolina. It's now a toss up and might actually go to Harris. Without North Carolina, a lot of Donnie's paths to 270 are cut down severly. By then he'd have to win nearly all of the swing states, and although that's not impossible, it's not very likely either.

It's not just Trump loyalists/MAGA heads though, virtually the entire right-conservative 45% of the American population seems to have stayed rock-solid behind Trump since his first presidential run. These 'establishment figures' coming out for Harris seem to be barely registering at a grassroots level AFAICS.

It seems to me that the Harris campaign must focus principally on convincing potential Democratic voters to actually go and do so.

I've been thinking that for a while. After all both HRC & Biden seemed to be machine -tooled to appeal to the centre ground, including moderate Republicans notionally repelled by Trump's antics. It didn't succeed with Hillary and only barely did with Biden, and that with a massive helping hand from covid. And given who she is, I'm afraid Harris will ultimately struggle to even match her prededecessors' centrist appeal…

That would be logical if/when going by the republican/maga narrative driven for a good while.

You can not state he is to old, has dementia, forgets things etc and then act surprised when he allegedly takes more time off.

Not only that, but "vacation" generally means "not at the White House or on official trips". So Biden's "vacations" were generally back in either his home or beach property in Delaware.

Average number of vacation days per year by Biden: 68

Average number of vacation days per year by Trump during his Presidency: 95

Both Bush's were also circa 130 days per year on average.

She didnt answer the question.

She rambled for around 3 minutes then Winfrey stepped in and said, “So to answer Justin’s question, now that that bill has gone and hasn’t passed, will you reintroduce that?”

Absolutely,” Harris answered.

 “And when I am elected president of the United States, I will make sure that bill gets to my desk, and I will sign it into law.”

So this is her answer to immigration, somehow sign a bill that died in the Senate in May. It was never introduced, and would never have passed, in the House of Representatives.

Yet she is mysteriously going to sign this bill when it gets to her desk.

When will that be, I will tell you, the 12th of never.

Biden and Harris took office almost 4 years ago, and they opened the border en masse.

Only in an election year did they do anything about addressing the border, and instead of relying on Presidential executive orders they waited around for a doomed bill.

Harris's "answer" was complete deflection, try to blame Trump.

The whole Oprah thing was a lovefest, Oprahs first question was “Can you feel the joy rising here?”

Regrettably it probably won't, because to the Trump voting republican it's a battle of Us Vs Them, Them being comprised of anyone who disagrees with Us

If they want more choice and better access to education for everyone they could set up standardised private schools and fund them all equally. They could pay for them with taxes. They could call it a public school system.

Pretending the privatisation of the public school system is about increasing access for those with less money is absolute bullshit. They could at least be honest about it.

This is still a bill Republicans wanted and the Border Patrol endorsed.

It’s funny this is getting poo poo’d while 9 years after coming down the escalator in 2015, and promising to repeal and replace Obamacare, Trump is still on the “concepts of a plan” phase. I’d love to hear if anyone could remind me what Trumps policies are that don’t involve signing any laws from Congress? Dictator on day one, is that it? But Kamala oh how **** dare she endorse a piece of key legislation. It’s droll, Ted.

5% gap, Trump had a lead whole time until recently with this lot

According to an online report from the Daily Mail, Republican House Speaker Johnson got a deal passed yesterday which will secure the funding of the Federal Govt for the next [3] three months. Can anyone confirm the report as true, given the report I saw is a product of the Daily Mail? I can't see that making for a happy day for Trump.

The below article from NBC says the Senate will vote on a continuing resolution this week.

Sounds like the Daily Mail jumped the gun. Again. That is why I think anything from the Daily Mail requires enough salt to season a whale.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-good-chance-avoid-government-shutdown-johnson-rcna172148