2024 U.S. Presidential and State election thread - I'm gonna... I'm gonna... VOOT!!! I'm VOOOOOTING!!!

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The finger-pointing was in full force Wednesday. Many Democrats blamed Biden for not dropping out sooner, while acknowledging that it was the party all along that enabled his ability to seek a second term, essentially clearing the primary for him.

Harris, they said, inherited a campaign where the fundamental negatives of a nation on the wrong track were baked in. Some blamed the influence of the Obama-era consultants and strategists who play an outsize role in messaging and who, according to one longtime Democrat close to the Biden team, were “stuck in 2009.”
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One Harris ally said Democrats as a party will need to reckon with creating a “martyr” out of Trump by impeaching him twice, bringing a number of state and federal prosecutions against him, and creating a Jan. 6 House Select Committee that spent weeks attacking him on prime-time television.

“People needed to pick who was going to go after him,” the Harris ally said of prosecutors and Democrats. “There can’t be eight cases against him. That’s just not strategic because you’re going to make him a martyr. And guess what? You made him a martyr. Everybody is suing him. Every attorney general is investigating him. Every Democrat that has the authority to investigate, is investigating Trump. We made ourselves look like a joke.”
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Campaign aides and allies directed much of the angst at the campaign’s chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, whom they complained ran a shop with the hand of an autocrat. According to three senior campaign officials, they saw her as loyal to Biden, never allowing Harris to truly make the break from him that she needed to win.

O’Malley Dillon, they said, siloed off information with just a tight circle of advisers, keeping other senior officials off email chains and updates. That sidelined many of the aides who knew Harris the longest — and the best, they said.
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One Harris aide called for more diversity among decision-makers, pointing to a far too-white leadership makeup of Harris’ campaign and Biden’s former campaign. The campaign did have campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez and former Rep. Cedric Richmond as a senior adviser, among others.

“There was a huge gap in leadership of color, up and down the system that I think played to some of these blind spots,” the person said. “I just want to see more honesty and a little less whiteness ... I think that if we are able to kind of look within ourselves and see the talent that is already there, then there can be a new generation of leadership. But it’s going to be tough. This feels like a decade loss. This is really bad, and we have to decide where we’re going to go from here. We have to restructure the whole thing.”
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“How the hell did we not deal with this problem? He’s 80 years old. He was supposed to be a one-termer. The man could barely speak and actually be coherent,” the person said. “It was too late, and we knew we had a Biden problem this time last year. The party knew it and people truly were not honest about how out of touch he was and how his age was really playing with America.”
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Came across this.

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In all the counties I've looked at THUS FAR in Wisconsin (between 2020 and 2024), they have shown an increase in Trump votes. There are counties that actually decreased in Democrat votes from 2020 to 2024.

The increase in votes from 2020 to 2024 have been noted in yellow.

One county, Sauk, in Wisconsin turned red from 2020 to 2024.
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Trump is now the King of the United States. 10 years he was a simple billionaire who occasionally made funny tweets online, and now he's almost virtually untouchable: any future Dem that tries him or some other Trump-esque candidate will be eviscerated, and any Rep that attempts to undermine him (especially any RINO) will be ensured their career as a politician comes to a swift end by him, his administration and the people. He's cut off the three branch-heads of the Hydra that is the DNC and crippled them with a humiliating defeat, and his unification of the GOP is now strong enough for him to do what he's set out to do from the start - Making America Great Again

Everything since 2015 feels like some epic-long movie now nearing its conclusion, it's so surreal honestly
 
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Law said:
I'd like to believe that Trump supporters are accepting of women and don't scapegoat white women, but this thread has so much seething in it, I'm not convinced. It's like, am I being shown acceptance, because they see me as someone who's trust they want to earn? Or do they see me as a shiftless irresponsible moron who's genetically incapable of leadership?
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Why do you care about the opinion of men you aren't married or directly related to?
 
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Dr J said:
Yeah but if Canada's Parliament is anything like Britain's, shouldn't Parliament be able to force a vote of no confidence?
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Yes, and there have been a couple during his tenure. But when push comes to shove, people stick to party lines and the Liberals dangle just enough carrot to get the NDP on board to pass the confidence vote.
 
Law said:
I agree. It must be kind of a mindfuck to harbor an intense dislike of women, while also desiring a wife and children. It reminds me of what happened to Nick Rickieta.
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this makes no sense
rekeita had his family unit where they had to work together, for most of his adult life. the guy isn't some woman hating bitter incel.
he was married for like twenty years and it seemed to be going pretty well for him (until he let his sudden internet fame get to his head and threw it all away for coke and hookers)
 
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