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Ok. When media gets hold of her, this is what they’re going to do:
Breaking news: Harris says XYZ in interview!
Coming Up Next: Why Trump says that Harris saying XYZ is bad!!!
Over and over again so that they get to lick both sides of the pot in engagement.
Slightly unrelated thought that occurred to me…
Harris, during the debate, invited people to attend Trump rallies. Republicans wouldn’t want to do anything that a liberal, communist Democrat like Harris would ask them to. Which might be more disincentive to attend the rallies and melt Trump and his followers’ brains even more than just the heat.
Trump’s advisors were reaching for any reason to convince him he won, because they know how disastrous another debate would be.
Not to worry, we will be entertained by the Walz-Vance faceoff, though I’ll admit giving TFG the talking to he’s deserved since forever ago was immensely gratifying.
Many Republicans were also not convinced about their candidate’s performance in the debate in Philadelphia. Some 53% of Republican voters in the poll said Trump won the debate, compared to 91% of Democrats who said she was the victor. Among Republicans, 31% said no one won and 14% said Harris got the better of Trump.
I get partisanship is bad, but I’m glad 9 out of 10 Democrats and 1 of 7 Republicans have their head screwed on correctly. Did a large portion of viewers watch it with the volume on mute?
I mean sure because conservative women are supposed to be either stuck in the kitchen and nursing children, a husband’s sex slave or a mouthpiece advocating for the first two.
Social conservative positions have just gone off the rocker and left most women behind, being mocked, insulted and threatened. Examples are the childless cat lady comment and recently Musk’s abhorrent outburst re: Ms. Swift.
If you can believe it, Trump supporters will accept the Ohio immigrant pet eating story as true.
Somehow media is pitching the “moderate position” as halfway between anywhere within the normal range of political positions and the crazy positions.
That’s an encouraging sign.
Even a 1% boost in turn out from young people could mean a lot in many races across the country, in swing state country I mentioned or not. Most people aren’t Swifties, but chances are young people would have at least a friend of a friend who is one who may motivate the people around them to get involved this election.
How many are from the esteemed nation of PAWANEVMIAZGANC?
The highlight for me for the whole debate was not Trump’s pet-eating outburst but the perfect setup and execution Harris did to bait him into that unhinged rant instead of talking about immigration.
She “invites” people to go to Trump rallies. She follows up the point about people leaving rallies early with a note along the lines of: you’re about to watch Trump not talk about you. Sure enough, he fell into the trap, and Trump talked about what he cared about most at that moment.
I noticed after the initial laugh Harris had to temper her smile a bit to evoke serious disappointment in Trump’s unhingedness and not look like she is agreeing. I bet Harris was absolutely ecstatic in that moment seeing how effectively he took the bait she laid for him.
Harris’ set up was the perfect troll:
I’m going to actually do something really unusual and I’m going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump’s rallies because it’s a really interesting thing to watch. You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about windmills cause cancer. And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom. And I will tell you the one thing you will not hear him talk about is you.
Trump nods along right until the moment the words touch his nerves.
“We are going to have the best economy, she is Joe Biden and we had the highest inflation we’ve ever seen” - Trump
“Let’s compare your economic plan with mine, we’re giving tax breaks to small business.”
Also, going back to the previous point that Trump lied about several times, Harris nailing the rebuff of Trump’s lies that usually just go unchecked on painting Harris as a person that wants to steal guns. Very good.
Also also, Trump’s entire closing statement stated one positive thing he did (we rebuilt our military) and the rest of the time was saying why Harris was bad. Harris positioned herself well here.
The game is tough for Democrats, I don’t think this gets nearly enough attention, but pretty much they have to win all the close races, and flip a couple more. Current Projections show 48(D+I)/2(Tossup)/50®.
The longshot potential flips are:
About 20%, 30% chance according to TheHill. A lot of work will be needed to unseat those GOP powerhouses.
Democratic held seats that have various likelihood to flip to Republican are:
A lot more work will also be needed to keep all these seats. And young people are going to have to look to the bigger picture, show up in droves if they want to prove any poll wrong.
I keep going back to this whenever someone in a US politics discussion says “Harris’ campaign doesn’t go far enough in ___”…
Harris can barely promise anything truly special if Republicans have even one potent avenue of obstruction, so it’s up to US voters to deliver their voice towards what they want to see.
Tech has evolved to intentionally give less and less choice to the user. Tech skills have declined on average as a result.
What the… this is so infuriating to a railfan. It’s like they are trying to attach a 2x viewer multiplier by putting Elon-related keyword in it when Tesla has so little to do with it.
It’s not a Tesla train, nor a battery from Tesla, nor operated by Tesla, not even a new route (but granted an expanded timetable)
I wish media hyped trains like this in general and not limited to implicitly attributing it to Musk (who made hyperloop specifically to distract from High Speed Rail, mind you)… “GIGA TRAIN brings commuters to work”, “Hyper train first electric regional service in California - you won’t believe the capacity!”
The Harris campaign knows how to clapback real hard, that’s for sure. The Trump campaign’s words, even with all the relevant context included, speak for themselves.
I see another person ascribed to the Alito School of Deliberately Misinterpreting Legal Text To Suit Your (and your donors’) Needs.
🖐🤚We need to bring the wand-manufacturing jobs back to America 👐, it’s terrible👆 they’ve all closed up shop and moved to Narnia.