Funny how hrw says the same thing about the Trump rally that was said about the Harris rally. People left early. Maybe it was the venue that had uncomfortable seating. I did not get to see the people leaving at either rally because I was not watching that part. I suppose some had been there for hours and needed to use the bathroom or go catch a flight back home. It’s just funny to even think it worth discussing. It’s all about the issues, folks! Any who left early already have their minds made up about how they will vote. People already know the personalities and character of these candidates.
Someone called Trump a bozo saying he would lose this election. That made me laugh. Just the thought of how it was once a lesser of two evils and now is a contest between two bozos!! I’ll take Trump for the win.
And those Democrats must believe us all to be bozos eh? It has been denied over and over again by the left and their sympathizers that Biden won by cheating. Let the light shine on the darkness!! And you know they aren’t going to give up now…third world politics.
Speaking of. I listened to the Situation room with Michael Brown yesterday while in the car. Interviewed was a woman from Atlanta revealing how the Dems were going around picking people off the street and paying them to attend the Harris rally. She said this was nothing new in the world of Democrats doing this..they have been doing this for years. She did mention that most of those bought and paid for “supporters” grew tired of Ms Word Salad and the hype and they took their money and free meals and left!
In an election decided by 11k votes, and 10k, that we know of, are fraudulent double votes, it’s certainly reasonable to ask questions. Kemp doesn’t want to answer those questions because he’s ultimately responsible for vote integrity in his State. He has refused to address obvious fraud, and the potential for even more in Nov.
Plus I don’t remember all the hand wringing when Kemp and Rafensburg were bashing Trump.
But now it’s an issue?
Oh, that’s right, Orange Man Bad, even when he’s right to question this and call them out. Almost forgot.
I was saddened to hear Harris chose our governor as her running mate. I will not be sad to see him leave us, however. Really, though, not much will change, since the party will stay in power. Everyone in our country has a clear choice about what they want to support.
Since I am reading in the OT, I see the same choices made in Israel and the horror it brings on. Not that I think we are the same as God’s chosen people and land. Nevertheless, the OT is there for our learning.
The progression in our nation has been apparent for decades. It’s predictable, but sad. I am glad I know God is in control. His will will prevail. He will help us continue to do what he wants us each to do.
You helped ignite the George Floyd riots, the worst the country had seen in decades. While Minneapolis burned, you stalled on deploying the National Guard for an entire day, blaming the city for not submitting the right paperwork. You let your daughter leak the Guard’s deployment plans online, so that rioters would know how long they had to loot the city with impunity. Minneapolis is a war zone because of you.
Just days after the attempted murder of Donald Trump, you called him and his supporters “fascists,” egging on the same rhetoric that led to him being shot in the first place.
You have overseen some of the most radical youth trans surgery laws in the country. Under your leadership teenagers can get their breast chopped off and get sterilized, and your government calls it “healthcare.”
You have the most radical abortion laws in the country. Zero limits. Every year 5-6 babies are BORN ALIVE and then murdered “legally” under laws you support.
On immigration, you famously said you wanted to provide a “ladder” so invaders can come over Trump’s wall. You are a radical open border zealot.
You oversaw the single worst fraud of the Covid era, the Feeding Our Future case. Thanks to ineptitude at your Department of Education, criminals stole $250 million of taxpayer dollars to spend on luxury cars, houses, and vacations.
Also during Covid, you approved $500 million in “hero pay” for frontline workers, only to have 40% of that money go to people who were ineligible or, in many cases, literally deceased.
In the House, you were Pelosi’s sidekick and did whatever the Democrats demanded.
You will try and disguise yourself as a folksy midwestern moderate. In reality, you are a white male version of Kamala Harris. Radical. Inept. Undeserving to be in leadership.”
“When I ran for governor of Minnesota in 2022, my campaign put together this video montage of Tim Walz’s first-term failures.
Enjoy the highlight reel as the worst Vice President in our history is about to pick the worst, most careless Governor in history as her running mate.”
“More footage of Jamie Raskin explicitly stating he will ignore the will of the people if Trump wins.
Insurrectionist.”
——–
“Even if voters unquestionably elect Donald Trump as President, no matter the margin, and even if the election is universally accepted as free and fair, top Democrats are calling on Congress to block certification of the results, and prep for civil war.”
Welcome to the USGovt., where incompetence is rewarded, and accountability is a long dead idea from a bygone era.
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“NEW – Whistleblowers tell me the lead site agent in charge of the Butler rally was known to be inexperienced, ineffective and not up to the job – and on the day failed to implement basic security protocols – yet this person is STILL on active duty. Why? 👇”
“With just over 24 hours to go before the polls close, Disgraced ‘Squad’ Democrat Rep. Cori Bush is headed for a LANDSLIDE loss in the Democrat primary, trailing by HUGE MARGINS according to recent polling.”
“We’re now learning that former Secret Service Director Cheatle was pushing to destroy the cocaine found in the White House without telling anybody. Cover up after cover up after cover up.”
“It’s official – Kamala has chosen the white guy for her VP who allowed black communities in Minnesota to be burned, looted, and destroyed in the 2020 BLM riots
He kept back the National Guard
He told police to take a kneeHe helped bail out the violent criminals
“Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who everyone thought was the obvious pick, spent the entire weekend all but apologizing for being Jewish. And the Democrat oligarchy still refused to pick him. That’s how much the radical left-wing base of the Democrat party hates Jews.”
“A lot of Republicans like me might just decide not to vote at all in the presidential election because of stupid antics like tonight,” Allen Peake, a former GOP state legislator, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Trump may have just lost Georgia.”
“Over 30,000 people refused to vote for [Trump] in 2020 and he lost by about 12,000 votes,” Erick Erickson, the conservative radio host from Georgia, told Politico. “All he’s doing is reminding everyone why they don’t like him. And he has no Georgia ground game and will have to rely on Kemp. It’s going to hurt him.”
Does he think his opponent is Brian Kemp or Kamala Harris?
~ The ascension of Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee has Donald Trump fumbling for an effective strategy. But in the meantime he’s reopening old feuds with fellow Republicans. That will work about as well for him as it did in 2020.
Mr. Trump used a campaign appearance in Georgia on Saturday to tee off on the state’s GOP Governor, Brian Kemp, and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Both men won re-election in 2022, despite Mr. Trump’s vocal opposition, even as Trump-backed candidates lost elsewhere. But no matter, Mr. Trump will never forgive either man for not joining his attempt to overturn the 2020 election in the Peach State.
“He’s a bad guy, he’s a disloyal guy and he’s a very average Governor,” Mr. Trump told the crowd about Mr. Kemp. He even took a shot at the Governor’s wife. Mr. Trump added that “Wasn’t for me, he would not be your Governor. I think everybody knows that.” Actually, everybody knows that Mr. Kemp won in 2022 with 53.4% of the vote against Democratic media darling Stacey Abrams, while Mr. Trump lost the state by 12,000 votes in 2020.
Mr. Trump also cost Republicans two Senate seats in special elections in January 2021 when he told his partisans that the November election had been stolen. Turnout was down in Republican areas of the state. Why vote if your candidate says your ballot won’t count?
Mr. Trump’s rants are especially counterproductive because he needs Mr. Kemp’s organization in Georgia. Mr. Kemp is supporting the former President and is deploying his turnout machine, but Mr. Trump may convince many of those Republicans to vote for someone else or stay home as they did in 2020.
Mr. Trump won’t win if he’s fighting about the past instead of laying out an agenda for the future. But he simply can’t help himself. ~
“I served my first two years in Congress with Tim Walz on the House Veterans Committee.
Walz opposed the most important pro-veteran legislation passed in decades just because it was President Trump’s.
The Mission Act was very bipartisan but Walz opposed giving our veterans better access to health care because he didn’t want to give President Trump a win.
Keep in mind, this is the same guy who wants to give illegal aliens free health care & drivers licenses.
Walz is bad for our veterans and horrible for our country!
AJ – Last night, DJ mentioned ” fellow Republicans”, not naming Kemp in particular. (Although she did bring him up today, in response to your comments.)
~ “Plus I don’t remember all the hand wringing when Kemp and Rafensburg were bashing Trump.
But now it’s an issue?” ~
The difference is that Trump is running for president and needs the support not only of fellow Republicans but also of voters who might support those other Republicans. That is why it is an issue now.
Polling aggregates suggest a 0.8 to 1% lead for Trump.
If 1% of Kemp supporters decide to stay home because of Trump’s personal attacks, he loses.
Even worse, if some members of the Georgia Republican party who work “to get out the vote” for Kemp do not volunteer for Trump, he definitely loses.
Despite this Trump demands adherence to his leadership. And in November, he will blame Kemp again despite his inability to compromise.
Penn, Nevada, and Georgia are currently more or less tied while Wisc, Mich have gone Dem and North Carolina and Arizona look to be Republican. The math is starting to favor the Democrats …..Trump needs to be a better man instead of the pettiness he is currently demonstrating.
Yes, the goal of political parties — once their conventions are over their ticket is set — is to bring home any disaffected factions within the part.
Divided parties have a difficult time winning national elections by more than a hair. And candidates who understand that won’t engage in circular firing squads — if they are wise.
But that last part — about wisdom — is the key, it all depends on the party’s candidate(s) and how they exercise wisdom (or, usually out of hubris, don’t).
I see the Walz Republican playbook has been released – I’m sure they had that one ready. The best is the complaint Shapiro was a better candidate – I’m sure they had a Shapiro playbook ready to go too.
For a VP pick, he was safe. He might help with Wisc, Mich, or Penn but in reality it’ll make little difference either way. He does seem to have an ability to relate to working class whites of the Midwest and thus brings something for Harris. Not much different than what Biden brought to Obama.
Shapiro might have a better pick in order to secure Penn but I’m sure he will still campaign for Harris. The Democrats will poll which areas of Pennsylvania he is stronger than Harris and he will go there. I’d expect to see him in white suburbs of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Shapiro will do what Trump needs Kemp to do for him but one wonders if the cooperation will be there.
Its not anti-Jewish to be anti-Israeli or even against current Israeli policy. I suspect Dearborn will still turn out for Harris. In a two party state, its not like there’s a lot of choice for Arabs and others critical of Israel and the US policy of support.
I am glad Harris made such an extreme selection. It makes the contrast even more apparent. This is good. And if God should allow them to win by whatever means then the demise will go more quickly. If that should be God’s plan, I will feel sadly accepting but trust in Him to make good come out of evil for His divine purposes.
Unfortunately with Trump, it’s (always) ‘all about Trump.’
Voters may be growing weary of that.
And HRW is correct, the movement right now is in the Democrats’ favor. Whether that can be sustained or not, we’ll see. But with Trump continuing to “be Trump,” it may provide some ongoing momentum for the blue team.
And I also think Shapiro would have been a wiser choice for collecting some of the disaffected independents, conservatives and moderates.
And it would have perhaps made some more moderate Dems happier as well – ex-college boyfriend, a very moderate lifelong, old-school Democrat, was hopeful Shapiro would be the pick.
But it’s all political calculations and trade-offs and playbooks, so apparently that pushed this particular VP choice instead.
Democrats will be easy to unify this year — the party as a whole is very motivated.
Many Dems of all stripes in the party were quoted as saying they’d pretty much support any VP nominee going forward, it didn’t matter. The ’24 election was too important to have a divided party going into November.
So that is what the (divided) Republican Party faces.
~ One of the first rules when it comes to a vice presidential pick is to “Do no harm.” Harris likely did no harm with this pick. Walz served 12 years in the US House and is currently in his second term as governor. He can’t be attacked for having little experience, unlike his Republican counterpart Vance, who is the least liked vice president nominee coming out of his party’s convention on record. …
… What we can say, though, is that Walz is not likely to help Harris with many swing voters. He did less than a point better than Biden in Minnesota when he won reelection in 2022. In fact, Shapiro seems to have done better with White voters without a college degree in Pennsylvania than Walz did with the same demographic in his state two years ago.
And even if Walz had been an electoral juggernaut, it remains to be seen whether he can help the Democratic ticket outside his home state.
If Harris ends up losing Pennsylvania and the election by a small margin, it will be one of history’s great “what-ifs.” Did she not choose Shapiro because she was afraid of the online left?
Harris, of course, is hoping the election won’t be that close. She seems to have momentum, and the Walz pick will probably do nothing to impede it. ~
She couldn’t select Shapiro. Her Jew hating left flank, aka, her base, would go ballistic. She needs them more than Shapiro. Plus she’s confident enough self loathing Jews will still vote for her.
In looking up the pronunciation, it appears to be waalz, ending in a zuh instead walls which ends in a suh sound. I had to figure out the zuh and suh myself as it is so similar.
Wandering Views 
Dj,
This gets you lambasted. Kemp has done nothing about any of this.
Widespread fraud.
https://x.com/rewillson717171/status/1820054399315529992?t=4qMAsC-ZdnV6BUUiDxUQXA&s=19
https://x.com/JDunlap1974/status/1806426079189442685?t=7x4MKr_rsvUa846qGeaVFg&s=19
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More….
https://x.com/SteveLovesAmmo/status/1799551452370579952?t=EO9MSaJiiQ2Irr6RzmlvNA&s=19
https://x.com/PhilipBLee/status/1691863323753541712?t=ZMr14rYEHcgt1wYRXvsa6w&s=19
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More….
Addresses in cities that don’t exist, yet they voted and were counted.
https://x.com/Georgians4Truth/status/1819728949066265031?t=vu3HVbkAes7AAAAfRCqDsQ&s=19
https://x.com/JodyHiceFRCA/status/1337584908533968898?t=IfLhzilQClBG0jLMlO2d5g&s=19
Yet Never Trumper Kemp and his sidekick did nothing to address any of this.
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Even Politico addressed some of this.
https://x.com/peterschweizer/status/1724064069940895814?t=Uo1z17wAOAC2hDnft_G1AA&s=19
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/12/new-georgia-project-nse-ufot-00122485
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Townhall notices, yet Kemp is MIA.
https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1336498338791874562?t=KCfTqZC5_Efp42JaUmVe0Q&s=19
Voters with addresses that aren’t theirs, including post offices, and businesses. Kemp has not done a thing. He deserves to be lambasted.
https://x.com/NetworksManager/status/1331443372398096386?t=E1WiR287X-q1qJWlu960Mw&s=19
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9k voters all at 2 addresses, and all voted twice.
That’s fraud, Kemp is useless.
https://x.com/rewillson717171/status/1820054399315529992?t=koHzUjPo1AHcv8IMYqsIMw&s=19
Here’s a thousand more, all double voted….
https://x.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1303483531910434819?t=7Hhy8lqpMWKRH5T2XqhaMg&s=19
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Funny how hrw says the same thing about the Trump rally that was said about the Harris rally. People left early. Maybe it was the venue that had uncomfortable seating. I did not get to see the people leaving at either rally because I was not watching that part. I suppose some had been there for hours and needed to use the bathroom or go catch a flight back home. It’s just funny to even think it worth discussing. It’s all about the issues, folks! Any who left early already have their minds made up about how they will vote. People already know the personalities and character of these candidates.
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Someone called Trump a bozo saying he would lose this election. That made me laugh. Just the thought of how it was once a lesser of two evils and now is a contest between two bozos!! I’ll take Trump for the win.
And those Democrats must believe us all to be bozos eh? It has been denied over and over again by the left and their sympathizers that Biden won by cheating. Let the light shine on the darkness!! And you know they aren’t going to give up now…third world politics.
Speaking of. I listened to the Situation room with Michael Brown yesterday while in the car. Interviewed was a woman from Atlanta revealing how the Dems were going around picking people off the street and paying them to attend the Harris rally. She said this was nothing new in the world of Democrats doing this..they have been doing this for years. She did mention that most of those bought and paid for “supporters” grew tired of Ms Word Salad and the hype and they took their money and free meals and left!
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In an election decided by 11k votes, and 10k, that we know of, are fraudulent double votes, it’s certainly reasonable to ask questions. Kemp doesn’t want to answer those questions because he’s ultimately responsible for vote integrity in his State. He has refused to address obvious fraud, and the potential for even more in Nov.
Plus I don’t remember all the hand wringing when Kemp and Rafensburg were bashing Trump.
But now it’s an issue?
Oh, that’s right, Orange Man Bad, even when he’s right to question this and call them out. Almost forgot.
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I was saddened to hear Harris chose our governor as her running mate. I will not be sad to see him leave us, however. Really, though, not much will change, since the party will stay in power. Everyone in our country has a clear choice about what they want to support.
Since I am reading in the OT, I see the same choices made in Israel and the horror it brings on. Not that I think we are the same as God’s chosen people and land. Nevertheless, the OT is there for our learning.
The progression in our nation has been apparent for decades. It’s predictable, but sad. I am glad I know God is in control. His will will prevail. He will help us continue to do what he wants us each to do.
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https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1820806545367846922?t=8cuGfq7BUOHbhAY00Tbt5g&s=19
“Welcome to the race, Tim Walz!
Let’s make sure America knows who you are.
You helped ignite the George Floyd riots, the worst the country had seen in decades. While Minneapolis burned, you stalled on deploying the National Guard for an entire day, blaming the city for not submitting the right paperwork. You let your daughter leak the Guard’s deployment plans online, so that rioters would know how long they had to loot the city with impunity. Minneapolis is a war zone because of you.
Just days after the attempted murder of Donald Trump, you called him and his supporters “fascists,” egging on the same rhetoric that led to him being shot in the first place.
You have overseen some of the most radical youth trans surgery laws in the country. Under your leadership teenagers can get their breast chopped off and get sterilized, and your government calls it “healthcare.”
You have the most radical abortion laws in the country. Zero limits. Every year 5-6 babies are BORN ALIVE and then murdered “legally” under laws you support.
On immigration, you famously said you wanted to provide a “ladder” so invaders can come over Trump’s wall. You are a radical open border zealot.
You oversaw the single worst fraud of the Covid era, the Feeding Our Future case. Thanks to ineptitude at your Department of Education, criminals stole $250 million of taxpayer dollars to spend on luxury cars, houses, and vacations.
Also during Covid, you approved $500 million in “hero pay” for frontline workers, only to have 40% of that money go to people who were ineligible or, in many cases, literally deceased.
In the House, you were Pelosi’s sidekick and did whatever the Democrats demanded.
You will try and disguise yourself as a folksy midwestern moderate. In reality, you are a white male version of Kamala Harris. Radical. Inept. Undeserving to be in leadership.”
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“When I ran for governor of Minnesota in 2022, my campaign put together this video montage of Tim Walz’s first-term failures.
Enjoy the highlight reel as the worst Vice President in our history is about to pick the worst, most careless Governor in history as her running mate.”
https://x.com/lotusbeebee/status/1820810398225817785?t=grfUUmOKLgA37KY5Wm36VA&s=19
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This sounds “insurrectiony”……
Borderline treasonous even.
https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1820708752938369059?t=lCMSWr4gGg8VuelgERoTwg&s=19
“More footage of Jamie Raskin explicitly stating he will ignore the will of the people if Trump wins.
Insurrectionist.”
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“Even if voters unquestionably elect Donald Trump as President, no matter the margin, and even if the election is universally accepted as free and fair, top Democrats are calling on Congress to block certification of the results, and prep for civil war.”
https://x.com/leezeldin/status/1820562086453182489?t=DUWu_sCaTFTC_cWW-uk-fQ&s=19
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Welcome to the USGovt., where incompetence is rewarded, and accountability is a long dead idea from a bygone era.
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“NEW – Whistleblowers tell me the lead site agent in charge of the Butler rally was known to be inexperienced, ineffective and not up to the job – and on the day failed to implement basic security protocols – yet this person is STILL on active duty. Why? 👇”
https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/1820623486827815164?t=5qDelkFKSv5rvQE1pbj36Q&s=19
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This is some good news.
https://x.com/ProudElephantUS/status/1820507191146615265?t=bQRRe4PlzNM87UYJBo0MDw&s=19
“With just over 24 hours to go before the polls close, Disgraced ‘Squad’ Democrat Rep. Cori Bush is headed for a LANDSLIDE loss in the Democrat primary, trailing by HUGE MARGINS according to recent polling.”
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I guess she’s taken that “protect the president and first family” thing a little too far.
https://x.com/RepTimBurchett/status/1820511474671833365?t=gTLVML-JizJUJjKwuFUmKg&s=19
“We’re now learning that former Secret Service Director Cheatle was pushing to destroy the cocaine found in the White House without telling anybody. Cover up after cover up after cover up.”
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“It’s official – Kamala has chosen the white guy for her VP who allowed black communities in Minnesota to be burned, looted, and destroyed in the 2020 BLM riots
He kept back the National Guard
He told police to take a kneeHe helped bail out the violent criminals
He is radical Tim Walz”
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1820807307921416478?t=42hMz4WzpQ66SEJC4WmY0g&s=19
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This is Kamal and Walz’s America.
No thanks.
https://x.com/robsmithonline/status/1820813698493038912?t=Zbj8SFpfO8yadyYLVFvELQ&s=19
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Wow.
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1820829526785479035?t=BymNjO61roHb_lzlr3eF6Q&s=19
“Tim Walz established a “snitch” program during Covid where people report neighbors for violating his authoritarian stay-at-home orders
This is straight out of Fidel Castro’s playbook for anyone that spoke out against his regime”
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This is the Democrat party.
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1820817139533504721?t=7v3uZeuh-2GRPScQLEnxBg&s=19
“Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who everyone thought was the obvious pick, spent the entire weekend all but apologizing for being Jewish. And the Democrat oligarchy still refused to pick him. That’s how much the radical left-wing base of the Democrat party hates Jews.”
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“No, this is not a video from a war-torn country in the Middle East.
This is the aftermath of the Minneapolis Riots when Minnesota Governor Tim Walz allowed it to burn four consecutive nights.
This is the legacy of Kamala Harris’s new running mate.”
https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/1820637683632222544?t=PBU9cheB730ZQ0SK9yUKcw&s=19
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Of course.
https://x.com/trumprealparody/status/1820547189292097713?t=wWuX-FCg0BcG8pwqxk_WFw&s=19
“The White House has formally announced that Biden will veto the Republican bill that seeks to prevent noncitizens from voting. “
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“A lot of Republicans like me might just decide not to vote at all in the presidential election because of stupid antics like tonight,” Allen Peake, a former GOP state legislator, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Trump may have just lost Georgia.”
“Over 30,000 people refused to vote for [Trump] in 2020 and he lost by about 12,000 votes,” Erick Erickson, the conservative radio host from Georgia, told Politico. “All he’s doing is reminding everyone why they don’t like him. And he has no Georgia ground game and will have to rely on Kemp. It’s going to hurt him.”
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WSJ Editorial Board:
Trump Runs Against Republicans in Georgia—Again
Does he think his opponent is Brian Kemp or Kamala Harris?
~ The ascension of Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee has Donald Trump fumbling for an effective strategy. But in the meantime he’s reopening old feuds with fellow Republicans. That will work about as well for him as it did in 2020.
Mr. Trump used a campaign appearance in Georgia on Saturday to tee off on the state’s GOP Governor, Brian Kemp, and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Both men won re-election in 2022, despite Mr. Trump’s vocal opposition, even as Trump-backed candidates lost elsewhere. But no matter, Mr. Trump will never forgive either man for not joining his attempt to overturn the 2020 election in the Peach State.
“He’s a bad guy, he’s a disloyal guy and he’s a very average Governor,” Mr. Trump told the crowd about Mr. Kemp. He even took a shot at the Governor’s wife. Mr. Trump added that “Wasn’t for me, he would not be your Governor. I think everybody knows that.” Actually, everybody knows that Mr. Kemp won in 2022 with 53.4% of the vote against Democratic media darling Stacey Abrams, while Mr. Trump lost the state by 12,000 votes in 2020.
Mr. Trump also cost Republicans two Senate seats in special elections in January 2021 when he told his partisans that the November election had been stolen. Turnout was down in Republican areas of the state. Why vote if your candidate says your ballot won’t count?
Mr. Trump’s rants are especially counterproductive because he needs Mr. Kemp’s organization in Georgia. Mr. Kemp is supporting the former President and is deploying his turnout machine, but Mr. Trump may convince many of those Republicans to vote for someone else or stay home as they did in 2020.
Mr. Trump won’t win if he’s fighting about the past instead of laying out an agenda for the future. But he simply can’t help himself. ~
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Sure, widespread fraud, irregularities, none of it rectified, but Trump should just forget about it and let it happen again. Good plan.
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Tim Walz, defined.
https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/1820593542122643903?t=wl9dXbZjZbYLO9T4oG1u-A&s=19
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“I served my first two years in Congress with Tim Walz on the House Veterans Committee.
Walz opposed the most important pro-veteran legislation passed in decades just because it was President Trump’s.
The Mission Act was very bipartisan but Walz opposed giving our veterans better access to health care because he didn’t want to give President Trump a win.
Keep in mind, this is the same guy who wants to give illegal aliens free health care & drivers licenses.
Walz is bad for our veterans and horrible for our country!
Vote for Trump!”
https://x.com/Jim_Banks/status/1820821350216261804?t=cPdBjmkN4BJXEuHWkIjm-Q&s=19
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AJ – Last night, DJ mentioned ” fellow Republicans”, not naming Kemp in particular. (Although she did bring him up today, in response to your comments.)
~ “Plus I don’t remember all the hand wringing when Kemp and Rafensburg were bashing Trump.
But now it’s an issue?” ~
The difference is that Trump is running for president and needs the support not only of fellow Republicans but also of voters who might support those other Republicans. That is why it is an issue now.
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Kemp has a 63% approval rating.
Polling aggregates suggest a 0.8 to 1% lead for Trump.
If 1% of Kemp supporters decide to stay home because of Trump’s personal attacks, he loses.
Even worse, if some members of the Georgia Republican party who work “to get out the vote” for Kemp do not volunteer for Trump, he definitely loses.
Despite this Trump demands adherence to his leadership. And in November, he will blame Kemp again despite his inability to compromise.
Penn, Nevada, and Georgia are currently more or less tied while Wisc, Mich have gone Dem and North Carolina and Arizona look to be Republican. The math is starting to favor the Democrats …..Trump needs to be a better man instead of the pettiness he is currently demonstrating.
hrw
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Yes, the goal of political parties — once their conventions are over their ticket is set — is to bring home any disaffected factions within the part.
Divided parties have a difficult time winning national elections by more than a hair. And candidates who understand that won’t engage in circular firing squads — if they are wise.
But that last part — about wisdom — is the key, it all depends on the party’s candidate(s) and how they exercise wisdom (or, usually out of hubris, don’t).
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I see the Walz Republican playbook has been released – I’m sure they had that one ready. The best is the complaint Shapiro was a better candidate – I’m sure they had a Shapiro playbook ready to go too.
For a VP pick, he was safe. He might help with Wisc, Mich, or Penn but in reality it’ll make little difference either way. He does seem to have an ability to relate to working class whites of the Midwest and thus brings something for Harris. Not much different than what Biden brought to Obama.
Shapiro might have a better pick in order to secure Penn but I’m sure he will still campaign for Harris. The Democrats will poll which areas of Pennsylvania he is stronger than Harris and he will go there. I’d expect to see him in white suburbs of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Shapiro will do what Trump needs Kemp to do for him but one wonders if the cooperation will be there.
Its not anti-Jewish to be anti-Israeli or even against current Israeli policy. I suspect Dearborn will still turn out for Harris. In a two party state, its not like there’s a lot of choice for Arabs and others critical of Israel and the US policy of support.
hrw
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I am glad Harris made such an extreme selection. It makes the contrast even more apparent. This is good. And if God should allow them to win by whatever means then the demise will go more quickly. If that should be God’s plan, I will feel sadly accepting but trust in Him to make good come out of evil for His divine purposes.
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Unfortunately with Trump, it’s (always) ‘all about Trump.’
Voters may be growing weary of that.
And HRW is correct, the movement right now is in the Democrats’ favor. Whether that can be sustained or not, we’ll see. But with Trump continuing to “be Trump,” it may provide some ongoing momentum for the blue team.
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I am happy for Kathaleena and others in her state.
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And I also think Shapiro would have been a wiser choice for collecting some of the disaffected independents, conservatives and moderates.
And it would have perhaps made some more moderate Dems happier as well – ex-college boyfriend, a very moderate lifelong, old-school Democrat, was hopeful Shapiro would be the pick.
But it’s all political calculations and trade-offs and playbooks, so apparently that pushed this particular VP choice instead.
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Ilhan Omar is delighted with Waltz. Nuf said.
mumsee
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Democrats will be easy to unify this year — the party as a whole is very motivated.
Many Dems of all stripes in the party were quoted as saying they’d pretty much support any VP nominee going forward, it didn’t matter. The ’24 election was too important to have a divided party going into November.
So that is what the (divided) Republican Party faces.
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Via CNN:
~ One of the first rules when it comes to a vice presidential pick is to “Do no harm.” Harris likely did no harm with this pick. Walz served 12 years in the US House and is currently in his second term as governor. He can’t be attacked for having little experience, unlike his Republican counterpart Vance, who is the least liked vice president nominee coming out of his party’s convention on record. …
… What we can say, though, is that Walz is not likely to help Harris with many swing voters. He did less than a point better than Biden in Minnesota when he won reelection in 2022. In fact, Shapiro seems to have done better with White voters without a college degree in Pennsylvania than Walz did with the same demographic in his state two years ago.
And even if Walz had been an electoral juggernaut, it remains to be seen whether he can help the Democratic ticket outside his home state.
If Harris ends up losing Pennsylvania and the election by a small margin, it will be one of history’s great “what-ifs.” Did she not choose Shapiro because she was afraid of the online left?
Harris, of course, is hoping the election won’t be that close. She seems to have momentum, and the Walz pick will probably do nothing to impede it. ~
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Is Walz pronounced like the plural of wall (walls) or like the dance (waltz)?
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Saw this online:
the pronunciation is “walls” — with no “t” sound
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She couldn’t select Shapiro. Her Jew hating left flank, aka, her base, would go ballistic. She needs them more than Shapiro. Plus she’s confident enough self loathing Jews will still vote for her.
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Looks like Kamala bussed in paid “supporters” for her rally today. Again.
https://x.com/Linnylintruth/status/1820935878170042743?t=oj008iihSRX_Uh2MPwzX7w&s=19
https://x.com/KathyTh28476041/status/1820914812248899876?t=RAwXmmb6CTsIPbhLK9ARzQ&s=19
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In looking up the pronunciation, it appears to be waalz, ending in a zuh instead walls which ends in a suh sound. I had to figure out the zuh and suh myself as it is so similar.
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