🇺🇸 Discussion: General Election 2024, 🥥 VS 🍊

[MagnarTheGreat]

Ohio Senate
2010: Portman (R) 57%, Fisher (39%) (R+18)
2016: Portman (R-inc.) 58%, Strickland (D) 37% (R+21)
2022: Vance (R) 53%, Ryan (D) 47% (R+6)

Ohio Senate
2012: Mandel (R) 45%, Brown (D-inc.) 51% (D+6)
2018: Renacci (R) 47%, Brown (D-inc.) 53% (D+6)
2024: Moreno (R) TBD, Brown (D-inc.) TBD

Ohio Governor
2010: Kasich (R) 49%, Strickland (D-inc.) 47% (R+2)
2014: Kasich (R-inc.) 64%, FitzGerald (D) 33% (R+31)
2018: DeWine (R) 50%, Cordray (D) 47% (R+3)
2022: DeWine (R-inc.) 62%, Whaley (D) 37% (R+25)

Ohio Presidency
2012: Romney (R) 48%, Obama (D-inc.) 51% (D+3)
2016: Trump (R) 51%, H. Clinton (D) 43% (R+8)
2020: Trump (R-inc.) 53%, Biden (D) 45% (R+8)

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Biden says cooling political rhetoric doesn't mean he'll 'stop telling the truth' about Trump

President Joe Biden has returned to the campaign trail for the first time since the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, continuing his call to calm the divisive rhetoric on both sides.

apnews.com

The Washington Post - Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changes​

Plans include proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code.

President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

He is also weighing whether to call for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional officeholders, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

The announcement would mark a major shift for Biden, a former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has long resisted calls to reform the high court. The potential changes come in response to growing outrage among his supporters about recent ethics scandals surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas and decisions by the new court majority that have changed legal precedent on issues including abortion and federal regulatory powers.

Trump's plans if he returns to the White House include deportation raids, tariffs and mass firings

Donald Trump is already laying a sweeping set of policy goals should he win a second term as president.

apnews.com

Project 2025 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[squeekness]

Cheney: Vance would help Trump ‘illegally seize power’​

https://thehill.com/elections/4774911-cheney-vance-trump-ticket-warning/

Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I wonder now if I've ever read anything good about this guy.

 

[Lily Adler]

I wonder now if I've ever read anything good about this guy.

Trump picks are never good. Hell even Mike Pence who was foisted on him was a bad dude on how he ran Indiana and gutted HHS as VP.

 

[squeekness]

Trump picks are never good. Hell even Mike Pence who was foisted on him was a bad dude on how he ran Indiana and gutted HHS as VP.

True, but at least Pence balked at not certifying the election, knowing he didn't have the authority. Vance wouldn't have thought twice.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

J.D. Vance: `We're effectively run in this country ... by childless cat ladies who are miserable'​

J.D. Vance: `We're effectively run in this country ... by childless cat ladies who are miserable'

Apparently Don Jr. and Eric pushed their father to make Sen. J.D. Vance his vice presidential pick over North Dakota Gov. Doug Bergum. And now that the Ohio Senator is the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, they’re stuck with a nominee who’s so...

www.dailykos.com

 

[blueharvest]

Adam Schiff reportedly tells donors ‘I think we lose’ if Biden is nominee

California Democrat also reportedly says Biden staying on ticket hurts chances of keeping Senate and winning House

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Determined to push forward, Biden tightens his circle and grows combative

President Joe Biden's patience has quickly been running out for questions about his mental acuity after his rough debate.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Adam Schiff reportedly tells donors ‘I think we lose’ if Biden is nominee

California Democrat also reportedly says Biden staying on ticket hurts chances of keeping Senate and winning House

www.theguardian.com

Wow that's a big one.

 

[squeekness]

J.D. Vance: `We're effectively run in this country ... by childless cat ladies who are miserable'​

J.D. Vance: `We're effectively run in this country ... by childless cat ladies who are miserable'

Apparently Don Jr. and Eric pushed their father to make Sen. J.D. Vance his vice presidential pick over North Dakota Gov. Doug Bergum. And now that the Ohio Senator is the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, they’re stuck with a nominee who’s so...

www.dailykos.com

Really? And who would those ladies be.....?

 

[Lily Adler]

Really? And who would those ladies be.....?

 

[blueharvest]

North Carolina approves party seeking to put RFK Jr. on the ballot, rejects effort for Cornel West

North Carolina’s election board has certified a political party that wants to put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the state’s presidential ballot this fall.

apnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Rudy Giuliani takes a fall at the 2024 RNC inside Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani took a fall inside Fiserv Forum on Tuesday at the RNC.

www.jsonline.com

Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy's feud erupts at Republican convention

"I think at the end of the day, he probably shouldn’t be on the streets,” the former House speaker said about Gaetz, his former House colleague.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

RNC co-chair: Trump campaign now considers Minnesota a battleground state

Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump told delegates at the party’s national convention Tuesday that the Trump campaign now considers Minnesota a battleground state.

www.mprnews.org

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Lily Adler]

I truly have a hard time believing they're getting the woman vote here.

 

[blueharvest]

I truly have a hard time believing they're getting the woman vote here.

They almost never do. Hopefully, Republicans won't get it this year, either.

 

[squeekness]

Horrible man.

 

[Lily Adler]

Most Americans favor maximum age limits for federal elected officials, Supreme Court justices

79% of Americans favor maximum age limits for elected officials in Washington, D.C. And 74% support such limits for Supreme Court justices.

www.pewresearch.org

Age cap at retirement age which is currently 65, but don't worry I've seen people discuss due to declining birth rate we will see that increase to keep the workforce going.

 

[InCali]

Term limits for appointed officials seems reasonable to me. Elected officials, I have a harder time with as it really goes to the heart of a democratic society (whether the US qualifies is debatable). I would be in favor of an outside, independent group of medical specialists who would evaluate someone's fitness for office, but I think setting an age limit is somewhat arbitrary.

 

[squeekness]

I can see an age limit set high like 80 or so. 65 does seem low these days.

 

[InCali]

I can see an age limit set high like 80 or so. 65 does seem low these days.

I don’t think I would be in favor of age limits, because everyone is different. I look at people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who don’t really seem to have slowed down much at all. Then there’s the president who has a speech impediment but certainly looks pretty frail these days.

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Schumer, Jeffries pushed party to delay official Biden nomination vote: Sources

abcnews.go.com

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the co-chair of the DNC Rules Committee, called Biden campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon on Tuesday to push for the delay of the virtual roll call that would officially nominate Biden, two people with direct knowledge of the call told ABC News.

Walz co-wrote the letter sent this morning to rules committee members, which set the proposal for an early August virtual nomination of Biden. The roll call could previously have been held as early as Sunday.

Walz told O'Malley Dillon that he has been hearing from other governors who want the roll call to be pushed back. The Biden campaign made the concession to push it back, one source said, and even helped to propose the solution.