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October 29, 2024

Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump offered Americans his closing argument in the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, October 27, at Madison Square Garden.
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How confident are you all feeling? As of last night I’m willing to bet it all. I’m feeling the joy.
 
I was pretty stoked by my husband’s reaction to Kamala’s speech last night — he is a Bernie Bro who unironically voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and while he was always going to vote for Harris, he has not been enthused. He is also a “recovering Catholic” who grew up in a Republican family and the first election he was eligible votes for George H.W. Bush and mostly GOP candidates.

But he said that Kamala’s speech last night was the first time he felt we had a Gen-X candidate (well, almost) representing Gen X and addressing issues from a perspective he shares. It REALLY hit home for him that she made her pitch as a patriotic, pro-America, embracing diversity as part of the American experience (what he still calls the Great American Melting Pot) and acknowledging the sandwich generation.

He has been tuning out/la-la-laing the election coverage as much as he can and so a lot of what I heard as Harris’s standard stump speech dressed up for a bigger stage he heard for essentially the first time.

Hopefully he is not alone in his very positive response to her closing pitch. At the end of the day, he already voted for her, so she didn’t make a new sale in his case but hopefully she did at least encourage some fence sitters to get out and vote FOR her.
 
nycfan said:
I was pretty stoked by my husband’s reaction to Kamala’s speech last night — he is a Bernie Bro who unironically voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and while he was always going to vote for Harris, he has not been enthused. He is also a “recovering Catholic” who grew up in a Republican family and the first election he was eligible votes for George H.W. Bush and mostly GOP candidates.

But he said that Kamala’s speech last night was the first time he felt we had a Gen-X candidate (well, almost) representing Gen X and addressing issues from a perspective he shares. It REALLY hit home for him that she made her pitch as a patriotic, pro-America, embracing diversity as part of the American experience (what he still calls the Great American Melting Pot) and acknowledging the sandwich generation.

He has been tuning out/la-la-laing the election coverage as much as he can and so a lot of what I heard as Harris’s standard stump speech dressed up for a bigger stage he heard for essentially the first time.

Hopefully he is not alone in his very positive response to her closing pitch. At the end of the day, he already voted for her, so she didn’t make a new sale in his case but hopefully she did at least encourage some fence sitters to get out and vote FOR her.
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It was a damn good speech, and the closing was pretty close to perfect.
 
nycfan said:
I was pretty stoked by my husband’s reaction to Kamala’s speech last night — he is a Bernie Bro who unironically voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and while he was always going to vote for Harris, he has not been enthused. He is also a “recovering Catholic” who grew up in a Republican family and the first election he was eligible votes for George H.W. Bush and mostly GOP candidates.

But he said that Kamala’s speech last night was the first time he felt we had a Gen-X candidate (well, almost) representing Gen X and addressing issues from a perspective he shares. It REALLY hit home for him that she made her pitch as a patriotic, pro-America, embracing diversity as part of the American experience (what he still calls the Great American Melting Pot) and acknowledging the sandwich generation.

He has been tuning out/la-la-laing the election coverage as much as he can and so a lot of what I heard as Harris’s standard stump speech dressed up for a bigger stage he heard for essentially the first time.

Hopefully he is not alone in his very positive response to her closing pitch. At the end of the day, he already voted for her, so she didn’t make a new sale in his case but hopefully she did at least encourage some fence sitters to get out and vote FOR her.
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"Great American Melting Pot" sounds very familiar to those of us who grew up on Saturday morning cartoons in the 70s and early 80s

 
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