2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

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Bankermatt said:
Or just let him talk about how he let Minneapolis burn during the summer of love in 2020.

Should be very uplifting
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Welcome, buddy! When was the last time you were in Minneapolis to see the destruction? I was there a couple of weeks ago and, weirdly, I didn’t see any damage. And the people seemed really nice and happy with their beautiful city. Just wondering how much you really know about what you’re talking about.
 


Trump Team still seems stuck using CTRL-F Biden and replacing with Harris in their campaign materials.
 
lawtig02 said:
Welcome, buddy! When was the last time you were in Minneapolis to see the destruction? I was there a couple of weeks ago and, weirdly, I didn’t see any damage. And the people seemed really nice and happy with their beautiful city. Just wondering how much you really know about what you’re talking about.
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www.nytimes.com

‘Absolute Chaos’ in Minneapolis as Protests Grow Across U.S. (Published 2020)

Minnesota’s governor said the police and National Guard had been overwhelmed by protests, which raged even after a former police officer was charged with murdering George Floyd.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

I know right?
 
From the WaPo link:

“… Caitlin Legacki, a Democratic strategist, said “the overall vibes right now should not be ignored,” arguing that the Harris-Walz “enthusiasm makes people want to join in.”

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Legacki said. “After the last 10 years of American politics, people are just exhausted. They’re tired of being angry. And so giving people something to be excited about, telling them there’s a role for you in this space, is hugely important right now.”

The Trump campaign, for its part, began Wednesday morning with a fundraising email titled, “The world has gone to s*** in the last 2 weeks!” Inside, the missive warned that “the stock market is CRASHING! Unemployment is RISING! Wars in the Middle East are spiraling OUT OF CONTROL!” — and all the while “Kamala is asleep at the switch.”

And on Tuesday, as Harris and Walz were making their first exuberant joint appearance, Trump took to TruthSocial, unleashing angry screeds, including one that posted shortly after midnight. In his messages, Trump disparaged ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos as “Liddle’ George” and “George Slopadopolus”; dismissed Harris — whom he called “Crazy Kamabla” — and Walz as “the most RADICAL Left duo in American history”; and claimed, with no evidence, that “Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST president in the history of the U.S.,” was going to crash the Democratic convention and take back the nomination from Harris, which Trump claimed was “Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla” in a “COUP.”

Trump and his aides have closely tracked right-track, wrong-track polling about how voters feel about the direction of the country, and they believe that many people are not optimistic about the way things are heading. One adviser in Trump’s orbit said fundraising numbers go up with more negative messages.

… At his most recent public campaign event, a Saturday rally in Atlanta, Trump painted a dystopian portrait. He described crimes being committed in Atlanta, violent riots in American cities, immigrants killing Americans and a range of other societal ills. He blamed Democrats and, at times, even Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a fellow Republican.

“We are a nation in decline. We are a failing nation. We are a nation that has lost its confidence, lost its willpower and lost its strength,” the former president said near the end of his speech.

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On Wednesday in Detroit, a Fox News reporter specifically addressed the issue of negativity with Vance, saying that he can look “a little too serious, too angry sometimes” and asked, “What makes you smile? What makes you happy?”
“I smile at a lot of things, including bogus questions from the media, man,” Vance said, forcing a chuckle. “If you watch a full speech I that give, I’m actually — I’m having a good time out here and I’m enjoying this.”
He continued: “Sometimes you’ve got to take the good with the bad. And right now, I’m angry about what Kamala Harris has done to this country and done to the American southern border. And I think most people in our country, they can be happy-go-lucky sometimes, they can enjoy things sometimes, and they can turn on the news and recognize that what’s going on in this country is a disgrace.” …”

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Dystopian hellscape versus hope for the future is quite the contrast (and a contrast Biden’s message of needing to compromise for an elderly man to avoid authoritarianism wasn’t offering).
 


This isn’t really a new development in this campaign. Trump has spent a lot of time hanging out at his properties with a smattering of campaign events. Even as he complained daily during his NY criminal trial about being kept off the campaign trail, he used most of his days off to play golf and shit post, not campaign.

Having Vance stalk the Harris campaign this week has further emphasized that the guy at the top of the GOP ticket is AWOL on the trail while his new competitors barnstorm. While Biden was his opponent, Trump generally had a more active campaign schedule than his opponent, but that didn’t mean he was engaging in the rigors of a typical presidential campaigning schedule.

The thing is the Dems still have their convention coming up to get a burst of extensive free media coverage. Maybe Trump is just waiting until after that to get out there.
 
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