🇺🇸 Discussion: General Election 2024, 🥥 VS 🍊

[Brutikus]

Big money beat bigger money in the US Election - Academia - The Jakarta Post

Trump was re-elected despite being outspent by Harris and GOP interest groups and donors gained a remarkable return on their investment.

www.thejakartapost.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Obama speaks out for the first time since Trump won second term

Former President Barack Obama gave his first speech since the election at the Obama Foundation’s 2024 Democracy Forum on Thursday.� His speech, “On the Power of Pluralism,” was an appeal to ...

www.dailykos.com

 

[blueharvest]

Election Day has long passed. In some states, legislatures are working to undermine the results

Voters in some parts of the country are discovering that having their say at the ballot box is not necessarily the final word, even though this year's election was over a month ago.

apnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Trump’s policies ‘should be turning off farmers’ – why did so many vote for him?

Plans of deportation and trade wars should concern farmers, yet they backed him by a three-to-one margin

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Campaign finance records show Harris' $1 million payment to Oprah's production company

Oprah has denied that she received a personal payment for her support of the former Democratic presidential nominee.

www.usatoday.com

 

[blueharvest]

Harris adviser says VP ran ‘flawless’ campaign, GOP campaign managers candid on primary missteps

Vice President Kamala Harris’ chief of staff said Harris ran a “pretty flawless campaign” during a summit of campaign managers, reporters, and Harvard University staff.

abcnews.go.com

 

[blueharvest]

Harris Staffers Went Rogue to Reach Black and Latino Voters in Philadelphia

Worried that the campaign was neglecting voters of color in Philadelphia and other battleground cities, organizers secretly gathered at a Dunkin’ Donuts and elsewhere to get out the vote.

www.nytimes.com

 

[blueharvest]

Kamala Harris lost, but how weak of a candidate was she? - Roll Call

Kamala Harris underperformed the typical Democratic candidate in states across the country, according to the Vote Above Replacement metric.

rollcall.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The typical Democratic candidate isn't dealing with a Democratic predecessor with a 40% job approval rating (exit poll) so keep that in mind too. She ran over 8 points ahead of that.

 

[blueharvest]

Tim Walz ‘surprised’ that he and Kamala Harris lost election to Donald Trump

‘I did the best I could,’ Democratic vice-presidential nominee says in first post-race television interview

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Florida Democrat abruptly switches to GOP after winning election

"It is sad that she has elevated her own needs above the needs of her district," Democrat says.

www.salon.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

‘Covid’s a hoax, vaccines are bad, where’s muh (puny) Donny Bucks?’

American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This reminds me that people had no idea Biden did Covid19 stimulus as well but unlike Trump didn’t put his name on it.

Joe Biden's Name Won't Be Printed on the COVID Stimulus Checks, Unlike President Trump

The White House says President Joe Biden didn't think it was "necessary" to delay stimulus checks for COVID-19 being sent out by printing his name on them

people.com

Biden Says He Regrets Not Signing Name to Covid Checks Like Trump Did

Joe Biden said he regretted not putting his name on Covid stimulus checks as Trump had during a speech at the Brookings Institution.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[squeekness]

Biden Says He Regrets Not Signing Name to Covid Checks Like Trump Did

Joe Biden said he regretted not putting his name on Covid stimulus checks as Trump had during a speech at the Brookings Institution.

www.rollingstone.com

Mine was direct deposited so the signature didn't mean crap to me.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[squeekness]

They believe all the lies.

 

[blueharvest]

Trans activist from Donald Trump's notorious anti-trans ad insists it's not why Kamala Harris lost - LGBTQ Nation

Mara Keisling asked the question that got Harris talking about "surgery for prisoners." She says it's "absurd" to say that lost Democrats the presidency.

www.lgbtqnation.com

 

[blueharvest]

A North Carolina judge won two recounts. Republicans are still trying to overturn her election.

"This is a non-violent version of January 6th."

www.motherjones.com

 

[blueharvest]

Missouri introduces ‘Donald Trump’ bill making it legal for felons to run for office

New legislation would repeal a 2015 law that prevents those who were found guilty or pleaded guilty to a felony from running for local or statewide office

www.independent.co.uk

 

[blueharvest]

Democrats Lost the Propaganda War

The party used up about $5 billion on political ads in 2024. There’s a better way.

prospect.org

 

[blueharvest]

‘What a circus’: eligible US voters on why they didn’t vote in the 2024 presidential election

Nearly 90 million Americans didn’t vote – which is more than the number of people who voted for Trump or Harris

www.theguardian.com

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[squeekness]

Nope. He's turning too Republican for me if he thinks Trump's crazies should be confirmed.

 

[Lily Adler]

Nope. He's turning too Republican for me if he thinks Trump's crazies should be confirmed.

His CNN interview is up on Bluesky. He basically downplays the NDA and Pete Hegseth's sexual assault.

 

[squeekness]

His CNN interview is up on Bluesky. He basically downplays the NDA and Pete Hegseth's sexual assault.

I wonder what happened to him? Unless he was always like this and was hiding it.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

When Manchin’s polling became dog **** in WV is when he started thinking about bailing out and running for president. Could be the same case with Fetterman.