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

Yeah, in the mind of the average American Harris is worse than merely a woman: she's an educated woman of colour.

When the alternative on the ballot paper is Donald Trump, the only excuses for not voting for Harris are sexism, racism and ignorance.

So 2.44% is todays inflation rate figure.

Let’s start a Trump inflation watch group just to monitor where it goes for the next 4 years - see you back here 2028 😀

Big difference to the 2 parties as you will know. If the house goes the GOP we will see some bad stuff but that kind off stuff fantasy plus unlike Russia there will be more then 1 party. I am so sure if I was a betting man I would put serious money on that

Ya it's funny no one had a problem with the supreme court when it had a left majority for 30 years and voted the way they liked. But it's suddenly a big problem now it has shifted to the right and is not voting how they'd like.

Fauci was the real criminal in all of that

What has shifted is hypocritical virtue signalling celebs have lost their lustre.

What qualifies some celebs as hypocritical virtue signalling and more as not?

That aside, there's very little evidence that celebs have ever had a lustre in swinging a vote for one side or another. I mean, if Harris had won last night, would it mean that it was because of the celebs, or that people saw Trump for what he was and said they didn't want it, instead of seeing him in that way and saying they did?

The end of the USA and the further rise of Putin, China etc. Obviously a lot of American's not educated (properly). Trump is pure scum

And that attitude there my dear Sleepy, is probably why people didn't bother voting.

The sheer ARROGANCE of you stating that if you don't vote for Kamala Harris, is you are ignorant, racist or a sexist!

You genuinely believe that anyone who doesn't agree with you politically is ignorant, racist or sexist.

A sneering, full of misplaced confidence/intelligence, incredibly annoying attitude that is both laughable and disgusting in equal measures.

It's no wonder people would choose not to align themselves with people who think like that.

Oh I agree I be shocked if he didn't try but he might knight someone in his stead. The midterms will be crucial the Democratic party has 2 years rather then 4 to sort out there crap. I think the people take more of a look in legislative stuff. You just have to take a look at some of the measures. Abortion measures been approved in red states. though worryingly in Ohio a proposition did fail to lessen Gerrymandering

Watched TV3 this morning and they were trying to push this and I don't agree with it at all. We need to be honest and say that Clinton and Harris should not have been running for office. Harris was a poor candidate but Clinton was horrendous. In hindsight, Harris wanted people to vote for her because she wasn't Trump. Aside from the support of a range of stars, she didn't really offer than much. I thought she'd get over the line because she wasn't Trump myself.

Biden beat Trump because he's been part of the political elite for decades and he knows how to play the game, and play it well. If Biden had run against Trump instead of Clinton, he would have won that election with plenty to spare. He would have made Trump look like an absolute fool back then. I lay the blame for this defeat and the last defeat to Trump firmly at the feet of the Dems.

In the US context? Calling them right wing makes even less sense.

You don't be partisan elections to fit on a left right spectrum. All parties are somewhere on the spectrum.

But the point remains, gun ownership, does not make one right wing. You are confusing a characteristic of US republicans, with ring wing, not the same thing.

Some people with far right views voting republican does not make the GOP far right. I suspect you know that.

It's all relative. Everyome is left compares to the Nazis. everyone is right compared to Chairman Mao…

The Irish media were even worse.

I am not a Trump fan and wanted Harris to win (for selfish reasons admittedly as Ireland is screwed under a Trump presidency), but there wasn't an iota of impartiality or objectivity in the Irish media on this election. Almost no one was able to acknowledge the idea that Trump could win.

Listening to Newstalk today was funny, total shellshock and incredulity at the result. A perfect example of a total lack of critical thinking. Some people really seem to think that if only they believe in something hard enough, it will come through.

The type of person that is going to vote for the other side, to avoid voting for a women, is more likely to be conservative.
Which means that however hard it is for a female democrat candidate to be elected, it's going to be even harder for a republican.

While there’s definitely big mistakes made by the democrats, holding them primarily responsible for the result doesn’t make any sense to me, like they’re being viewed as the hapless parent of an unruly child in the republicans.

America has said clearly that they want Trump as president, and they clearly don’t care about the felonies, sexual assault, classified documents or any of the other million things.

The democrats didn’t run an amazing campaign but it wasn’t a total disaster either. America just likes Trump.