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2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

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Macksbrownies said:
I’d like to think Durham will play a part in this as well as the number of eligible voters increased by 7-8k since 2020 per the Durham BOE site.
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Indeed Research Triangle or the Triad plays a roll too… but not as much as Char-Meck. NC goes as Char- Meck goes.
Unfortunately in 2020, they didn’t show and NC went Trump for the 2nd time in a row.
Char-Meck needs to get out and vote. Period.
 
nycfan said:
Interesting closing argument, I’ll give him that



“… Musk’s remarks, shared in a Telephone Town Hall organized by his America PAC, indicate that he and Trump see economic pain to average Americans as a necessary cost of their policy goals.

“We have to reduce spending to live within our means. And that necessarily involves some temporary hardship, but it will ensure long-term prosperity,” Musk stated in the call, fully endorsing the strain Trump’s policies would place on Americans.

Musk’s words make it clear that the disruption is not an unintended side effect but an accepted—if not desired—outcome. The billionaire went further by responding to an X (formerly Twitter) user who anticipated a market downturn if Trump’s aggressive policies, including mass deportations and extreme deficit cuts, were enacted. The user predicted that with Trump and Musk in charge, the U.S. economy—dependent on debt and vulnerable to asset bubbles—would face a severe reaction before stabilizing under the intended austerity.

Musk’s response was a simple acknowledgment: “Sounds about right.” …”
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This is basically what Herbert Hoover and his rich buddies were saying in 1932:
“No one knew how to combat the Great Depression, but certain wealthy Americans were sure they knew what had caused it. The problem, they said, was that poor Americans refused to work hard enough and were draining the economy. They must be forced to take less. “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate,” Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon told President Herbert Hoover. “It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.”

“Slash government spending, agreed the Chicago Tribune: lay off teachers and government workers, and demand that those who remain accept lower wages. Richard Whitney, a former president of the Stock Exchange, told the Senate that the only way to restart the economy was to cut government salaries and veterans’ benefits (although he told them that his own salary—which at sixty thousand dollars was six times higher than theirs—was “very little” and couldn’t be reduced).”
 
unc879 said:
She didn't have a choice if she wants to run in '28. She had to endorse him or MAGA would have ruined her. Doesn't make it right.
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Maybe if all of the Republicans who are secretly anti-Trump but won’t say so for the sake of their careers actually spoke up during his presidency, we wouldn’t be where we are.

Sure, many of them would have been primaries by MAGAs, but the movement as a whole wouldn’t have the sway it currently does.
 
So, what's the betting line on how many months it will take for the election results to finally get certified?
Second question: line on how many lawsuits get filed by MAGA if DJT loses?
 
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