"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler" - JD Vance
He's no different from Ted Cruz. Was against Trump, then later supported him. Both of these guys grew a beard after flipping to be huge Trump supporters too.
I promise that if elected, I will not be Donald Trump.
I wonder if she convicted anyone of falsification of business records? It would be interesting if she mentioned that as one of her past accomplishments while on the stage with someone found guilty of 34 counts of that crime.
Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking.
I feel really bad for Biden. There's more that he wants to do. But he's gotten too old to be able to do those things. But he's accepted it, and he should be respected for that.
They'll do all that no matter what. They already did that to Kamala Harris, in the last election. I'm sure they tried really hard to dig up shit on her but had to resort to making up shit.
Basically all they fabricated was the same weak-ass birther bullshit they did to Obama (odd how it's only non-white people they use that on, isn't it?) which is now being spread again on Facebook as we speak.
Intentionally mispronouncing her name, which they re-hashed in the RNC convention. Her name is literally consonent-vowel-consonent-vowel-consonent-vowel, not really hard to say so they just sound like morons when they do that.
I guess they don't like how she laughs?
They lost that election. Their base likes the racist dog-whistles, but those are votes they have no matter what. Doing the same bullshit they did before loses them independents.
Remember how a lot of Republicans voted for Nikki Haley even after she dropped out of the primary? It wasn't a love for Nikki Haley, it was a dislike for Trump that motivated Republicans to vote for Nikki Haley in the primaries. After she dropped out. So there's even Republicans that are open to voting for a woman with a South Asian background that the MAGAs like to intentionally mispronouncing her name.
How does AOC know what the elites want? Does she spend a lot of time having conversations with the elites about which direction they want politics to go?
A lot of people just felt like it was time to trade in their Not Trump for a newer model Not Trump. Sure there were other Not Trumps we could've gone with a year ago, but those Not Trumps are no longer on the market. So we're going with the best available Not Trump right now.
This Not Trump isn't in mint condition (but none of them are), but it has much better mileage and it has more acceleration and a better top speed.
As is the case with all Not Trumps this one is a better choice than Trump. Obviously.
The largest democracy takes around two months of campaigning and about six weeks for voting.
Population scales proportionately for both the number of voters and for number of people working on a campaign and number of people working at polling stations on election day.
And let's be honest, it's only a small number of states that Presidential campaigns actually focus on because of that whole Electoral College thing.
It's just the US is accustomed to a long election cycle, that's all. It's not a necessity. It may not actually be a good thing as it allows time for bad actors to construct false narratives. Seems to just favour personality over policy.
This only indicates the GOP does not want to be running against Kamala Harris.
This is a good sign.
That cuts both ways. The GOP also has to pivot from "Biden is too old!" to "Trump is NOT too old" in the few remaining months.
Giving up power is way more respectable than trying to hold onto power. Something Biden's opponent, now Harris's opponent isn't good at.
There's a lot of people that are old and don't follow politics all that closely. Biden's story of having to accept that he's gotten too old to do the things he wants to do is a story they can relate to. The guy they can relate to most is endorsing Harris. It's not like he's gone. He can still make speeches about how the GOP wants to cut Social Security and his friend Kamala won't do that.
Yeah, Democrats famously talk all the time about how much worse the election would have gone had it been John Glenn running against Reagan instead of Walter Mondale.