2024 ELECTION THREAD

Agreed and Shapiro was by far the best

This was an excellent pick. Shaprio is arguably better on paper for her election chances, but's he's a bleh moderate with half the charisma of Walz on his best day. And good luck trying to paint Walz as some American-hating Antifa liberal extremist who wants to make your children gay and is out of touch with real people.

That said I think he'll be about as effective as your typical VP pick in moving the overall needle--not much. But then again I don't think he's particularly likely to make himself a liability either (see: Palin, Sarah). Whereas, JD Vance without a doubt carries some risk of that.

9th month no questions asked abortion and genital surgery for "gender affirmation" of minors don't poll well

Vance was a horrible pick though. Granted it's tough to find all that many ticket-ready Republicans who didn't at some point bash Trump, but he deserves the "weird" tag he's getting. Pence I understood fine but I'm not clear on what JDV is supposed to bring that they didn't already have

GOP in serious trouble

Congrats and how many times 9month abortion happen?
I’m interested in the % since it must be occurring often to be an actual issue , so we could find a % stats about it easily.

He’s besties with Trump Jr

Apparently that’s the singular qualification needed

It’s always hard to find impacts of VP picks but I really wonder what the race would look like if Trump picked Nicky Haley. I completely believe that Vance was based on Don jr’s advice because it looks like such a dumb pick. How do you see what that guys wrote in the past, spend 5 minutes with him and not
realize he’s an awful pick.

A termination of pregnancy in the 9th month is always due to a non-viable fetus, and is in every circumstance a medical mercy to both mother and child.

You keep missing the "r".

we're on to post-birth abortions now, catch up

pretty sure the fact that vance is the dog of peter thiel et al is faaarrr more important than whatever jr thnks. trump legit does not seem to gaf about his sons, to the point that kushlash seems like his only son

JD Vance doesn't poll well

veep not moving the needle is a feature, not a bug.

vance moved the needle...

agreed but at least he is taking interviews and speaking without a teleprompter.

Its been a great 3 weeks for Kamala will see how she fares down the stretch and without a teleprompter.

it's going to be so nice to see the magats scurry away after november. will be time for the loozens of the world to crawl back in their holes.

Sadly Ill still be here and the election is not over yet . Heck with Joe and Kamala at the helm the world could end before we hit an election

Here's a good piece on the choice from The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

You don’t have to be though

Just think of how great Elon’s X is

Walz’s speech is definitely required viewing

Except for lozen Luciom bahahahaha blowjob playbig etc etc. not sure youlll get much out of it

lol, he'd lose in a landslide if he did that

In a normal setting I agree that the running mate adds little (but not nothing) and at worst is a catastrophe

This election seems to be the anthesis to that. Dems are putting up ‘whoever the **** isn’t trump or biden’ so the running mate is critical and I think they knocked it out of the park with walz who is clearly a charismatic guy with flyover appeal which is exactly what the Dems need with the top of the ticket being someone thrust into the ‘not joe biden’ slot and is pretty uncharismatic

Besides that, RFK isn’t going anywhere and is apparently in line to be trump’s HHS Secretary (****ing lol) if trump wins. Can’t give people a reason to spitevote that half a dipshit if you can balance the ticket with someone a would be RFK voter is fine with

Meanwhile trump remains a deeply unpopular human being who the only reason half the country is glad he wasn’t killed is only because the consequences of trump’s assassination aren’t worth being in a world without him. I don’t know if a candidate exists that would get him broader support but he could have at least avoided the ones who bring less than nothing to the table

Again why Harris would take the mic 3 weeks when she got confirm only yesterday ?
There was already enough on her and the party to see if everything would go smoothly or not .

Why any network would waste time on someone not knowing if it would matters 2 weeks later?

It has been a surprising turnaround. Barely over two weeks ago I was trying to figure out which would be the bigger disaster between Biden staying in or dropping out, and right on the heels of Trump surviving an assassination attempt too.

Not only is she doing okay she's unquestionably killing it with fundraising. Last month was nuts, how much was post July 21 we'll fund out later but we already know it was at least 2/3rds. We'll have to see how that holds up but there's still the DNC to come. Of course they can't match the powerhouse that is Kid Rock but I'm sure they'll find some folks.

Either way at this point today she's at least not lost ground and very likely gained some, which is better than I expected.

He's a Thiel-funded plant by the US technogarchs. Trump and Jr had no say in the matter.