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

Hey, he's gone after blacks again, this time Giannis Antetokounmpo, two-time NBA MVP, doubting his origin (greek citizen). In his usually dogwhistle way, Trump claimed more "Greek DNA" than Giannis.

I think it’s that type of condescension that is driving “some” of the switch over to MAGA- they don’t want to hear the lectures anymore

It is absolutely the case that the Biden/Harris administration has given the 2 fingers to the Muslim community because of what is happening in Palestine and America's support for Israel.

I wouldn't fault a single Muslim who cannot consciously vote for Harris on the back of that such as been the devastation in Palestine. If Harris wins next week, I would love to see Washington filled with Pro-Palestinian protests every weekend until the conflict stops.

But, I know that objectively, someone within the current administration looked at things and judged whether they would lose more votes by supporting Israel, or reigning them in, and unfortunately, it was the former and so things have progressed as they have.

If I was voting in the US, I would absolutely vote for Harris, and then demand she act to stop that conflict. I don't want the conflict to stop under Trump by him emboldening Israel to go to further extremes.

None of this is of any consolation whatsoever to the Palestinians, it is a harsh reality in todays world that they have been abandoned to such an extent that its not a question of if they will die, but how many of them will do so.

I'd rather virtue signalling any day above head in the sand trying to pretend a problem doesn't exist.

And I didn't refer to betters in the media and politics, they are your words, and your spin on my post. I referred to educated/experienced and responsible experts in various fields. The UK is learning the harsh lesson right now of choosing populism over experts and they're going to be dealing with that choice for decades.

Arab Americans are Americans like everyone else, the vast majority are not extremists as you seen to be implying. They're just getting on with life like everyone else. Hyphenated Americans are pretty standard btw, you're not losing it over Irish Americans or Italian Americans...

And also, whatever about the Arab American vote, I don’t understand how the overall ethnic support difference between Rep and Dem has reduced from previous elections - it’s like turkeys voting for Christmas all round

I'll listen to two hours or so but it has to be a genuinely informative show. Eg there's a film history one that I listen to and it clocks in at 1.5 hours an episode. But a general interview, I'd only listen to an hour max tbh.

I think Allred beats Cruz in TX but that Trump takes their EC votes.

Florida is a bit different mainly due to the additional ballot measure but particularly IMO the Abortion & Marijuana ballots. I think those in particular will drive a degree of turnout that does threaten an EC flip in Florida.

I do think that Powell-Murcaso beats Rick Scott in the Senate race there too.

But objectively, there's no comparison between the 2 Presidencies. I'm not posting this to counter your point, I'm posting it to underline it.

Biden delivered Covid Recovery. Infrastructure and Chips and Science Acts all major pieces of legislation that surpassed anything that Trump delivered. And objectively speaking, America's recovery from Covid was better than in most other countries. He was responsible for capping insulin medication costs and for introducing prescription negotiations with pharma companies for the first time. He delivered student debt relief for millions. He proposed a Border Bill that was on tracked to be passed in the house before Trump told Johnson to can it. He delivered on funding for Ukraine and Israel despite a Republicans (who controlled the house) arguing against it with increasing volume.

And aside from the legislative side, he had zero crises to deal with from within his administration, maybe his defense secretary going to hospital was as close as it got in that respect. He had minimal changes in key positions or acrimony and infighting compared to what we saw under Trump. And zero of his administration have earned felony charges while serving for him. And his tone throughout was Presidential. Exactly what it should be from the office.

There's only a single metric by which Trump is more renowned than Biden, and that's in the category of Bluff and Bluster, the rhetoric, the false promises, the false claims, the attention seeking all of which Trump did vastly more of. Trump wanted his tenure to be about President Trump, Biden wanted his to be about 'The United States President'. Two very different approaches to the job.

That would be absolutely massive for The Dems

and today he’s endorsed the comedian from the MSG rally who made the floating garbage attack about Puerto Rico.

His own worst enemy within.

So different to other politicians

Police wise one has a rap sheet and the other used to write them.

Policy wise? One has the concept of a health plan and a hard on for project 2025. The other has a list of actual policies and broad range of business & industrial support as well as the backing of a majority of economists on the parts of their economic plan that can be costed.

I think this is a very strong, rational, and well argued appeal to non-MAGA republicans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXTmNTYjaQc