All Things Kamala: Is It Over Yet?

[Brian Peacock]

When you regulate crypto it just becomes regular money.

[Tero]

Rallies etc.

Rapper Eminem is introducing former President Barack Obama at a Detroit rally on Tuesday night. Rock icon Bruce Springsteen is on tap later this week. And then there are the influencers you and I will never recognize who are promoting Harris on TikTok and other social media.

“We’re not throwing spaghetti against the wall. We have literally studied who these voters listen to,” a campaign official told CNN.

Expect more events like the vice president’s interview with Charlamagne tha God and Julia Roberts’ trip to Georgia, both ideas that came right out of the campaign’s research.

The campaign is planning for media-splashy events, like a rally in Houston, Texas, highlighting abortion rights. Texas, home to one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans, is a great foil for that message, and a massive crowd will only amplify it nationally.

White men will overwhelmingly vote Republican this November, but the Harris campaign is working hard to eat into Trump’s margins. This serves two purposes: to cut into Trump’s core base of support, and to possibly flip some women voters along the way. After all, while unmarried women voted for Biden 63-36 in 2020, married women voted for Trump 51-47, not far off married men, at 55-45 Trump. Marital peer pressure is real.

Walz: ....They don’t recall that all of our neighbors were dying of Covid because of his idiocy of neglecting science, and telling us to inject bleach didn’t do much good,” Walz said Saturday at a rally in Papillion, Nebraska, previewing the kind of lines he’ll be dropping over the next two weeks. “They tell us we could survive another four years, and I’m an optimist. … But I truly don’t know if the institutions will hold if we get another four years of Donald Trump.”

“The independents that I encountered are weighing voting for Harris, which is a good sign to me,” Nancy Quarles, who chairs the Oakland County Democratic Party in Michigan, told CNN last week ahead of an appearance by the vice president in the Detroit suburbs. While a few years ago, those people would have been Republican voters, “there’s a big opening, and they’re paying attention and being willing to listen to the discussions,” Quarles said.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1 ... medium=web

[Brian Peacock]

Trump team register complaint of election interference with election commission.

Why are Labour volunteers causing a stir in the US election race?

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A post last week on LinkedIn by Sofia Patel, Labour’s head of operations, has started a peculiar row over a longstanding practice of British and American politicos: lending their support to sister parties across the Atlantic.

“I have nearly 100 Labour party staff (current and former) going to the US in the next few weeks heading to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia,” Patel wrote. “I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of North Carolina – we will sort your housing. Email me on labourforkamala@gmail.com if you’re interested.”

The message may seem innocuous enough, but with the US presidential race too close to call and with less than three weeks to go, no potential wedge issue is being wasted, and the suggestion of foreign interference has some power to change minds in American politics.

Under Federal Election Commission rules, foreign volunteers on US campaigns are permissible as long as they are not compensated for their work, and in Patel’s message the Trump campaign detected evidence of such remuneration in the form of sponsored accommodation.

The campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington seeking an immediate investigation into alleged “blatant foreign interference”.

“When representatives of the British government previously sought to go door-to-door in America, it did not end well for them,” the Trump presidential campaign’s deputy general counsel declared, in an apparent reference to the war of independence.

Thrown into the complaint for good measure was that a number of senior Labour party staff – namely, Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, Downing Street director of communications – also attended the Democratic convention in Chicago and met Kamala Harris’s campaign team....

[Tero]

2.5 hours of rally

[Tero]

NYT/Siena ran thir last national poll. It came out 48/48. The state polls will not mean much even if any trickle in from now on.

At this point in 2020 NYT/Siena had Trump running 10 points behind in battlegrounds.
But the "models" were not the same.

I still don't get why you need models to sample 900 random people. But now they fit a certain number of democrats, republicans and independents (you register as one of those) in the states.

[Tero]

We can't have a woman president because...I dunno. Women having a beer here.
https://www.threads.net/@demsmight/post ... PaL0qKEyyw
I guess they would have to pee in the parking lot to make the takeover complete.

[Tero]

[Tero]

The PA situation is not looking great. Biden won by 1.2%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Unit ... nnsylvania

With varaiable numbers coming in as far as percentage counted, Harris is not doing better than Biden, though she is beating Trump in counties where Biden beat Trump. But it may come to 0.5% or it may be 10 000 votes.

[aufbahrung]

Through a mirror darkly on that cartoon

[macdoc]

Black bunting on the site?

[Tero]

Is she black of Asian, Trump asked. Well, those were both bad things for Trumpsters. But those did not lead to her loss. Being a woman was the major factor.

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah that, and not really being very strong on things like the cost of living or Gaza.

[pErvinalia]

It's over.

[Brian Peacock]

[aufbahrung]

America is still a immature nation afraid of its women coming to power. A symptom of youth not a major concern, except for letting Trump back in on the childish incel leanings.