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

Oh I agree. He's just a guy with podcast. It can be an interesting, free form conversation, podcast. But it's just a podcast nonetheless.

In any case, if Rogan's endorsement actually changes anyone's mind on who they're going to vote for today (even if he opted for Harris), then I would suggest that that person needs to really reevaluate their life.

In fairness I can kinda understand that from Rogan's perspective. All his shows are at his place and he aims to just have a pretty free-flowing conversation with people rather than any timed interview (I think his podcasts for years haven't been worth the data they're stored on, but that's another matter). But it's also the height of arrogance to assume that a serving VP, nominee for President, in the last few weeks of a campaign, should travel to his place for a podcast. Rogan's podcast simply isn't that important to do. Harris offered him a little bit of time for a sitdown in the midst of her schedule, but it wasn't what Rogan does, so he said no. I can't really fault either side for not coming to agreement on something.

Trump did it because Rogan's base is more aligned with Trump's base, he knew it'd be a soft interview/podcast, and he didn't mind then being hours late to his next rally because of it.

Rogan endorsing Trump is no surprise. If anything I'd say he was looking for something reasonable he could hang his endorsement on, and when nothing reasonable came along, he just had to say that Musk's argument for Trump convinced him.

Looks like JD Vance might not have the bottle for Trump's shenanigans should he lose

Speaking after voting...

“We do expect to win” Vance told reporters outside the polling station. “But obviously no matter who wins, half the country is gonna be at least partially disappointed, I think my attitude is the best way to heal the rift in the country is to try to govern the country as well as we can.”

Vance is probably glad he's not in the same position Pence was in 2020 with regards certifying the election results. It's one thing that they were chanting "Hang Mike Pence" on Jan 6th, but with Vance they could sing "Hang the JD" to the tune of The Smiths' song.

Snap (on all three)

270-299 I cover both bets, 300-329 get almost 200. 330+ happy to lose the money

breakingnews have a good time guide of when polls close (and results are tallied) across various states in Irish time

https://www.breakingnews.ie/us-election/us-election-what-times-are-results-expected-where-can-i-watch-1691012.html

These are the important ones

12am - Georgia (16).

12.30am - North Carolina (16)

1am - Pennsylvania (19)

2am - Arizona (11), Michigan (15) and Wisconsin (10)

3am - Nevada (6)

Given how long it took last time for Pennsylvania to call, our best chance of knowing by early tomorrow morning is Georgia and North Carolina getting their acts together

Normally I agree , high turnout always favors the Dems, but Trump is trying to get out less frequent voters such as young males and obviously trying to make inroads with different demographics, if he somehow gets them out and I am skeptical of the bro's coming out he wins, but its a massive if.

The Harris core voter especially females will come out in their droves.

So yeah, is Elon Musk buying votes here?

Realistically: he's infinitely more likely, if Trump loses, to weasel out of this promise, especially given that it's awfully hard for many people to provide proof they voted that he is likely to find acceptable for this challenge: an 'I voted' sticker won't cut it and you aren't allowed to take photos inside a polling place, and many states make it illegal to take photos of your ballot. So it's a dare with very little chance of Elon paying up on, but it is funny in that it seems to tacitly encourage people to vote against Trump on the promise of $1,000, which sounds an awful lot ironically like an illegal scheme to buy votes, albeit against Trump.

That lad is obviously self medicating?

Rogan doesn't need her, so why would he upset his routine and way of doing things when he doesn't need the interview.

You could argue she needed the interview significantly more as it could have helped her influence a demographic that she is not as popular with.

She could have potentially lost out on an opportunity to get more votes , he lost out on nothing as his audience will remain unchanged by her non appearance.

Just a thought, if he's giving his entire fortune (which is a LOT) to people who can prove they voted and only a handful of people vote it means that small handful of people are in for one hell of a payday

Trump won in 2016 because he carried Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Pennsylvania also managed to have the result at about 1am eastern time (6am our time) and Wisconsin about an hour later. Postal voting was less of a thing which I'd say helped massively with the timings but likewise postal voting helped Biden in 2020. Gotta take the good with the bad as they say

It's no Harambe.