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""I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election," Swift said in a post on Instagram. "I’m voting for @/kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them. I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos. I was so heartened and impressed by her selection of running mate @/timwalz, who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a woman’s right to her own body for decades."

"I’ve done my research, and I’ve made my choice," the Grammy-winning artist added. "Your research is all yours to do, and the choice is yours to make. I also want to say, especially to first time voters: Remember that in order to vote, you have to be registered! I also find it’s much easier to vote early. I’ll link where to register and find early voting dates and info in my story."

Swift, 34, signed her post "Childless Cat Lady" — a reference to rhetoric used by Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, to describe women who do not have kids."

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One more reason to feel hopeful, Marc Elias joins Harris campaign legal team!

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Minnesota governor says it's "humbling" to be among Democratic VP contenders

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says it’s “humbling” to be considered among the shortlist of potential running mates for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race.

It’s “surreal” to be among the list of contenders, the former teacher-turned-politician said in a Wednesday night interview with MSNBC.

“It is humbling, it’s a privilege, it’s surreal,” he said.

Walz, the chair of the Democratic Governors Association, called the fellow governors reported to be in contention to be Harris’ running mate “my friends,” and urged Harris to choose a governor.

“If you take a Democratic governor using the Biden-Harris policies that they put in place, you’re protecting reproductive rights, you got free school meals, you’ve got a working class that’s focused on organized labor and union labor,” he said. “So for me, I’m just proud. I’m proud of what we’ve done in Minnesota. I’m proud of what they’ve done across this country.”

Jabs at Vance: Walz also used the interview to take veiled jabs at the Republican vice presidential nominee, Ohio Sen. JD Vance. The governor referenced Vance’s previous remarks about Harris and other Democrats being “childless cat ladies.”

“Oh my God, they went after cat people. Good luck with that. Turn on the internet and see what cat people do when you go after them,” Walz said.

“It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. They see the least fortunate among us as scapegoats and punch lines for them. Kamala Harris and Democrats see them as our neighbors. That is a big difference.”

Key progressive’s backing: Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal told CNN’s Manu Raju on Thursday that she supports Walz as Harris’ pick. The Washington lawmaker said Walz has strong union ties, is committed to the Biden-Harris agenda and would bring deep support in purple states in the Midwest.

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Play offense, not defense!

September 16, 2024

Robert B. Hubbell

Things are going so badly for Donald Trump's campaign that he has decided it is better to stoke outrage with racist lies and attacks on Taylor Swift than allow the media and public to focus on the ugly truth of his collapsing campaign.

So, let’s resist Trump’s disinformation gambit and focus first on Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, who are crisscrossing the country to carry their message to persuadable voters. Harris and Walz will visit Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and North Carolina this week. According to the Harris-Walz campaign,

Harris will be doing a sit-down interview with the National Association of Black Journalists in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. She will then head to Michigan for a live stream event with Oprah on Thursday, [and then] she plans to be in Wisconsin on Friday. On Tuesday, September 17, Governor Tim Walz will host a series of political events in Macon and Atlanta, Georgia and Asheville, North Carolina.

The race remains effectively tied, although Kamala Harris has maintained her initial momentum despite predictions that it would evaporate shortly after the convention. (Sorry to disappoint you, Nate Silver!). And every objective signal suggests Harris is driving new registrations and fueling unprecedented levels of grassroots activism and small donor contributions. In August, Kamala Harris’s fundraising total was triple that of Trump's—driven almost entirely by small donor donations.

I always urge readers to ignore the polls, but new voter registrations are verifiable and quantifiable. I will spare you the details, but new voter registrations are higher across the board compared to 2020—with Black women, voters “under 30,” and women showing significant increases over 2020. Those cohorts have strong Democratic correlation. (If you are interested in new voter registrations, Tom Bonier is keeping track on Twitter.)

 It is difficult to quantify the effect of raw enthusiasm, but every objective observer knows that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are leading on that metric as well—which is why cynics like Nate Silver continue to “discount” Harris’s lead in the polls to offset what they believe is an unsustainable level of support for Harris.

It is also worth noting that Kamala Harris has met and exceeded every expectation marker that doubters and critics set for her. Although many doubted her ability to secure the nomination, she did so in 48 hours. Her convention speech was a soaring success—described as “presidential” by even her toughest critics. Her first sit-down interview with major media (Dana Bash) was a solid success. And her performance in the first debate was historic. Indeed, Trump is still trying to recover from her resounding victory, which explains why he has doubled down on racism and hate as a diversionary tactic.

So, we should look ahead with confidence to her sprint to the finish. She is on message, energetic, and positive as she challenges the biggest threat to democracy in nearly a century. We can take nothing for granted, but we are well-positioned for the final 50 days of the campaign.

We should be inspired to work with even greater dedication and confidence—and to ignore the noise that is the sound of Trump's campaign desperately trying to distract attention from its failures while appealing to the ugliest instincts of his base. Read on!

Trump and Vance turn up the volume on anti-immigrant attacks and hate

Trump and JD Vance doubled down on racism and hate over the weekend—apparently concluding that provoking criticism for those statements is better than allowing the press to dwell on Trump's disastrous debate performance and his continuing decline in the polls (all within the margin of error).

Trump started Sunday morning by posting “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT” on Truth Social. It was a reprehensible post on many levels—but most fundamentally because “hate” has no place in political discourse. Such vitriol can only serve to motivate Trump's followers to threaten, harass, or harm Taylor Swift. Every responsible media outlet in America should condemn Trump's attack on Swift—but as of Sunday evening, most outlets are simply reporting the fact of the attack without commentary. Let’s hope that changes soon.

Just as reprehensible as Trump's attack on Taylor Swift was JD Vance’s appearance for an interview on Dana Bash’s show on CNN’s State of the Nation. Vance not only failed to acknowledge that his attacks on Haitians were baseless, but he also seemed to suggest (and then retract) that it was acceptable to fabricate false stories about immigrants if doing so caused the media to focus on the problem of immigration.

During a back-and-forth with Dana Bash about whether the reports of immigrants eating domestic pets were true, JD Vance said,

If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do because you guys are completely letting Kamala Harris coast.

JD Vance later seemed to retract the statement, saying that his comments were based on “first-hand reports from constituents.”

But Vance’s attempt to retract his statement is unavailing. He admitted that “creating stories” was acceptable to counter the media’s alleged (but non-existent) bias in favor of Kamala Harris. Whether he did so with respect to the cat-eating immigrants is beside the point. As one reader noted in an email Sunday evening, “This is simply unbelievable. Right out of the Nazi playbook of the early 30s.”

The reader forwarded an article from The Bulwark, Trump Team: ‘We’ll Take The Hit’ on Cat Eating to Keep Immigration in the News.

Per The Bulwark,

Bash suggested the rhetoric from Trump and Vance incited bomb threats and risked violence, but Vance called the insinuation “disgusting” and refused to tone down his approach, delighting conservatives on social media. [¶¶] Privately, Trump aides think it’s a net plus. The longer the discussion is about migrants, the less it is about tougher topics for them. “We talk about abortion, we lose. We talk about immigration, we win,” said one Trump adviser. But what about spreading an incendiary story for which there is no evidence? “We’ll take the hit to prove the bigger point,” the adviser said.

In the last two lines above, the Trump campaign adviser seems to confirm that JD Vance “spread incendiary stories for which there is no evidence.” As the reader noted, directing such slander to immigrants and foreigners is, indeed, “right out of the Nazi playbook.”

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg responded with a tweet:

Cats! Dogs! Geese! Laura Loomer! Look, now he’s attacking Taylor! Like the last season before a show gets canceled for getting over-the-top and, at the same time, boring. This election is about jobs, wages, climate, health care, abortion. Not his show. Your life.

Secretary Buttigieg is right: Trump understands that he is on the verge of being canceled and is going all out to retain viewership.

Trump may also be attempting to create distractions to divert the press from talking about rumors about his relationship with Laura Loomer, the right wing provocateur who had been traveling with Trump on his private jet. (Trump's campaign managers have apparently banned Loomer from further travel on the jet.}

Finally, Heather Cox Richardson noted that the anti-immigrant hate may be an attempt to gain control of the Senate by defeating Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown. See September 13, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson. Per HCR,

The widespread ridicule of Trump’s statement has obscured that this attack on Ohio’s immigrants is part of an attempt to regain control of the Senate. Convincing Ohio voters that the immigrants in their midst are subhuman could help Republicans defeat popular Democratic incumbent senator Sherrod Brown, who has held his seat since 2007. Brown and Montana’s Jon Tester, both Democrats in states that supported Trump in 2020, are key to controlling the Senate. 

The key question, of course, is whether Trump's tactics will work. Most people in Springfield, Ohio know that Trump's lies are racial slurs with no basis in fact. Such lies will not expand Trump's base—and will likely offend persuadable independents and Democrats who might have otherwise stayed at home.

A note on the second apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump

The Secret Service foiled a second potential assassination attempt on Trump's life. See Trump safe after potential assassination attempt at golf course. (This article is accessible to all.) As details are still developing, I will refrain from discussion, other than to say that in a nation with more than 300 million guns, many will find their way into the hands of people with mental health issues and tendencies toward violence.

The most reprehensible response to the attempted assassination on Trump was that posted by Elon Musk on Twitter. In response to a tweet that said, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?”, Musk posted,

“And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala.”

The Secret Service and FBI should treat Musk’s post as an incitement to assassinate Biden and Harris until Musk explains otherwise. Taking the Tweet down would be a good first step in that direction. Musk’s companies are major US government contractors. All of his companies’ contracts with the US government should be put under review. It is unacceptable for the US government to be doing business with a person questioning why Biden and Harris have not been the subject of assassination attempts.

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USDebate2024: VP Kamala Harris Campaign Calls for 2nd Debate Against Donald Trump

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has called for a second debate against Donald Trump, following their first showdown in Philadelphia. In a surprising move, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has called for a second presidential debate against former U.S. President Donald Trump, just moments after the first debate ended in Philadelphia on Tuesday night. This follows Harris’s…

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Trump at NABJ Racist, "Is she Indian or is she Black" Attack Line Explained

Reading time: 4 minutes We all know that Trump openly questioned Harris' ethnic identity. The only question is why? Why would he do such an offensive thing? He needs to expand his racist base, that's why.

The Freak Out Over Trump’s Open Naked RacismVideo Clip of Trump’s Indian or Black CommentsAnalyzing Trump’s Motives for His Outrageously Racist RemarksAttack the Reporter When Asked a Difficult QuestionThe More Outrageous the Lie or Claim, the Stronger the Reaction, the Better the Sound BitesUnderstanding Trump’s Racist Agenda and GoalAppealing to White Nationalists and the Openly RacistReaching…

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If you're wondering why polling averages are suddenly showing Trump winning despite all the bad news he's gotten lately- it might have something to do with this:

Basically, Republicans are ratfucking the polling averages by churning out huge numbers of partisan polls, and the polling aggregators/analysts like 538 aren't doing due diligence to compensate for it.

Now, what is the purpose of this?

Well, in the immediate-term, it creates a narrative that Trump is winning, boosting morale of his supporters while demoralizing support for Democrats and Harris.

Beyond that, if polling averages show that Trump is winning ahead of election day-which we can pretty much guarantee they will, because see above-then they will use that as "proof" of fraud if Democrats subsequently win.

Basically, they are engineering a pretext for their next coup attempt in front of us.

The only numbers that decide anything are actual votes. So ignore the polls, and VOTE.

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Yo imagine thinking "celebrity endorsments" mean shit in a world where Hollywood has been exposed as a den of corporate sex traffickers and Zionanzis.

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Harris IS Losing

The three of you who have followed me for more than a week will probably already know that I believed Harris was in fact behind despite what the polling seemed to indicate. Tune in Friday for the long version of why polls are so bad, but today I’m basing my new assessment on a different piece of evidence. I am now convinced that Harris is trailing much worse than we have been lead to…

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US Election: Harris And Trump Back Their Running Mates

US Election: Harris And Trump Back Their Running Mates As The Pair Battle It Out Amidst Tough Outing The time heats up as US Presidential election draws nearer by the as running mates of both candidates engaged in a fiery debate on Tuesday night. On Tuesday night, the American people were thrown into dilemma over their choice of candidate during the election following tough debate performance by…

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Attention Pennsylvania voters!

Senator Bob Casey’s race is now at a margin of 0.53%.

An automatic recount in PA is triggered with a margin of 0.5%. That’s a difference of 0.03% or a little over 2,000 votes. We need to make sure every ballot is counted here, and there’s thousands of uncounted ballots right now due to voter error.

Did you mail in a ballot? Check to see it was accepted here:

If it says anything other than accepted/counted/etc, your ballot needs your attention. A mistake in filling it out means that your ballot will not count unless you “cure” it. Check your county’s curing policies:

See full instructions for curing by county here.

You have until November 12 to cure your ballot in PA.

Do you know someone who mailed in a PA ballot? Please pass these links on to them. You may be the difference between their vote counting or not in a super close race.

Everyone else, you can help PA voters cure their ballots. If you live in Pennsylvania, you can help canvass in your county (see links in this thread). If you are in another state, you can sign up to call voters and help them cure by phone.

Want to help another state? Sign up for a shift through November 19.