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Democrats fly anti-Trump banners over football games in latest appeal to college voters

Democrats seemingly played into the college rivalry between the University of Michigan and The Ohio State University Saturday, in their latest appeal to young voters.

The committee flew planes with banners targeting former President Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) over football stadiums including Michigan and Pennsylvania State University. The DNC noted in a press release that one will also fly over the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium later Saturday.

The stunt also sought to tie the GOP duo to the conservative Project 2025 agenda, per the release. Democrats have intensified their attacks on the project and alleged links to Trump, which the former president has rejected.

The DNC said they wanted “to remind college students and football fans that a vote for Trump is the same as losing the game thanks to his dangerous and extreme Project 2025 plans.”

The banners, according to the release, read JD VANCE [heart emoji] OHIO STATE + PROJECT 2025 for Michigan, PENN ST: BEAT TRUMP, SACK PROJECT 2025 for Pennsylvania and JUMP AROUND! BEAT TRUMP + PROJECT 2025 for Wisconsin.

The University of Michigan and Ohio State University have an intense rivalry, with the Michigan banner seeming to reference the neighbors’ feud and the fact that Vance graduated from Ohio State in 2009.

The banners were also placed in critical swing states Vice President Harris may need to win in order to secure the presidency against Trump. President Biden, who stepped down from the race in July, won the three states in 2020 after the former president won them in his 2016 race.

The DNC is reaching voters where they are in swing states across the country by flying Project 2025 banners over the Big House in Michigan, Beaver Stadium at Penn State, and Badger Stadium in Wisconsin, Abhi Rahman, a deputy communications director for the DNC, said in a statement in the release.

Democrats spotlight Project 2025 with banners over NCAAF stadiums

This is why they don't let Horris do unscripted interviews.

https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status...4j95UR92A&s=19

^Did you not see this?

Harris, Walz to launch ‘New Way Forward’ tour following debate

Vice President Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), will rally supporters in critical battleground states following Tuesday’s presidential debate between Harris and Trump.

Harris’s campaign will kick off what it’s billing as the “New Way Forward Tour” on Thursday, two days after the debate and a day after the vice president marks the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The vice president will visit North Carolina on Thursday and Pennsylvania on Friday. Walz will be in Nevada on Tuesday, Michigan on Thursday and Wisconsin on Friday. Second gentleman Doug Emhoff and Walz’s wife, Gwen, will also visit key swing states, including Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire and Maine.

In addition to their travel, the campaign will also launch a new ad called “New Way Forward” that highlights Harris’s key proposals, including a ban on price-gouging and investments to increase the housing supply. The ad will air in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Nebraska.

“This election is about two very different visions for our country,” Harris campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement. “Donald Trump and JD Vance want to take us backward with their dangerous and extreme Project 2025 agenda. Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are fighting for a New Way Forward that protects our fundamental freedoms, strengthens our democracy, and ensures every person has the opportunity to not just get by, but to get ahead.

“With early voting about to begin and less than 60 days until Election Day, our campaign will take the vice president’s message directly to the voters wherever they are – on the airwaves, on the doors, and online,” Tyler continued. “With so much at stake in this election, we are blitzing the battlegrounds and leaving it all out on the field.”

Harris and Trump are set to debate on Tuesday night in Philadelphia. The event is being hosted by ABC News. The Harris campaign has signaled it may agree to a second debate in October, but no such event is on the books. There is a vice presidential debate scheduled for Oct. 1.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

^Did you not see this?

He doesnt have a child are policy. He thinks its small bananas in the grand scheme of things. He will get Rubio and Ivanka to come up with something.

Originally Posted by longway

He will get Rubio and Ivanka to come up with something.

it does not matter how groundbreaking the idea is , trump is unable to articulate

“Childcare, is childcare“-Orange Imbecile

And that babbling buffoon, has the audacity, to question Kamala Harris’s intellect.

Liz Cheney calls Trump a ‘catastrophe’ and urges Republicans to vote for Harris

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Anti-Trump Republicans should take "extra step," vote for Harris, Cheney says

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) addressed voters who plan to write in a name other than former President Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris in November's election, urging them to "take the extra step" and vote for the Democratic nominee.

Why it matters: Cheney, who has been an outspoken critic of the former president, and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, endorsed Harris last week over the GOP ticket, citing the dangers they believe Trump poses to democracy.

• The Cheneys join several other prominent Republicans who have shirked policy differences to rally behind Harris — though others, like former President George W. Bush, have not publicly endorsed either candidate.
• Bush told People that he wrote in Condoleezza Rice in the 2020 election, opting against voting for President Biden or Trump.

Driving the news: But in a tight election, Cheney said on ABC's "This Week," writing in another name is "not enough," contending, "It's important to actually cast a vote for Vice President Harris."

• "It's a secret ballot ... I would prefer to have as many people as possible out publicly making the case, but at the end of the day, you just have to wrestle with your own conscience when you're there in the voting booth," she said, adding she expects "far more Republicans and independents" make the "right decision" when the time comes.

Zoom out: Cheney also slammed Trump's sweeping tariff proposals as "fundamentally an anti-conservative" and a "disastrous" policy that will "kill the American economy."

• Asked by ABC's Jon Karl about Harris' policy proposals — some of which have shifted to the center from her previous stances — Cheney noted that while she has never viewed the 2024 race as a "policy election," Harris "has changed in a number of very important ways on issues that matter."
• "She understands that this election is going to require a coalition of people from across the political spectrum supporting her," she said, highlighting that in her correspondence with Harris, the vice president understands "the importance of reflecting the broad coalition."

The bottom line: Asked if she has left the GOP, the lifelong Republican said she still considers herself "a conservative" but is "certainly not a Trump Republican."

The other side: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump's former press secretary, characterized Cheney as a "non-factor" in her own "This Week" appearance following Cheney's interview.

• Sanders slammed the former GOP representative for backing Harris saying, "That doesn't make you a conservative. It certainly doesn't make you a Republican. I think it makes you somebody who wants to protect the establishment."

Buttigieg slams Trump on child care

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared Sunday to go after former President Trump for recent comments he made about child care.

“And as we saw when Donald Trump was asked about child care the other day, it wasn’t clear whether he even understood the question,” Buttigieg said Sunday on CNN’s “State of The Union” with anchor Dana Bash.

The Transportation secretary seemed to be referring to comments made Thursday by the former president at the Economic Club of New York. When asked if he would commit “to prioritizing legislation to make child care affordable,” the former president responded for two minutes and did not discuss any specific legislation he would propose. He said tariffs would cover child care costs.

“I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, because child care is child care, you have to have it in this country. You have to have it,” Trump said. “But when you talk about those numbers compared to the type of numbers I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to, but they’ll get used to it very quickly.”

White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates noted in a Friday interview that economists on all sides of politics have stated that tariffs would increase the price of goods, including ones required for child care.

“If you have any idea what the hell that answer means, you’re a better detective than I am, because these tariffs that he wants to apply across the board would amount to a $4,000 tax increase on working families,” Bates said.

Buttigieg said in his CNN interview that Harris “has a plan for expanding the Child Tax Credit, making sure that we have paid family leave in this country, two things we would have right now if Republicans weren’t blocking them.”

This is what Buttigieg thinks Harris will need while debating Trump

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Harris sweeps in anti-Trump Republican votes

Vice President Harris’s campaign is seeking to highlight support from prominent anti-Trump Republicans ahead of November as she looks to expand her base of support.

On Wednesday, Harris gained her biggest backing of a Republican to date when former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said that she would vote for Harris. Multiple Harris campaign officials shared the remarks on X, with the campaign saying it was “proud to have earned” the endorsement. On Friday, Cheney said that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, also planned to vote for Harris.

The Harris campaign has also touted support from over 200 former GOP staffers for the past four Republican presidential nominees, following several high-profile anti-Trump Republicans, including former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), taking prominent speaking roles at the Democratic Convention.

Democrats and anti-Trump GOP groups say they are not expecting to make major inroads among Republicans but rather use a “permission structure” to let moderate Republicans and center-right independents show that someone does not have to be a liberal or even a Democrat to vote for a Democratic candidate.

“There is a sense of party identity that is very real,” said Olivia Troye, a former national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence and Republicans for Harris surrogate.

“It’s saying, I understand where you’re coming from,” she said. “Yes, I know it’s hard to walk away from your party, especially in this moment, but maybe if we all band together … you take a stand together and maybe that’s how you will impact change even within our own party.”

Polling suggests there could be an opportunity for Democrats to appeal to moderate Republicans.

An ABC News/Ipsos poll released last week found that 24 percent of Republicans said they had a “positive view” of Harris’s campaign, while 56 of independents said the same. Thirty-eight percent of independents and 13 percent of Democrats said the same about Trump’s campaign.

“For our center-right swing voters that our campaign is targeting, they’re Kamala curious. They are open to the pitch that she is making,” said John Conway, director of strategy of the anti-Trump group Republicans Against Trump.

“For our voters, this is going to be a choice for them about Donald Trump first most and foremost,” he continued. “These are voters that are primarily motivated to go out and vote in November because of the dangers that Donald Trump represents to the country, and I think Kamala Harris is reintroducing herself to the voters.”

The group launched an $11.5 million ad buy earlier this week, targeting Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District.

“There’s a little bit of Trump amnesia with some voters, where they’ve forgotten all the reasons why they couldn’t stand Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 election,” Conway said. “We have to do our best to remind voters why they couldn’t support Donald Trump in 2020.”]

A number of other anti-Trump groups, including the Lincoln Project, are also deploying their efforts into swing states.

“We’ve identified 1.3 million of these voters spread across four states that we’re keying in on: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona,” said Jeff Timmer, executive director of the Lincoln Project. “They’re former Republicans, they can’t support Donald Trump,” he said, describing the group’s targeted voters. “It took them a while to vote for a Democrat, maybe they haven’t yet but this is the time to do it and we create that messaging and infrastructure. That’s what all of these efforts do.”

Democrats and Never Trump Republicans point specifically to Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, his connection and response to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and his past comments about foreign adversaries, particularly Russian President Vladimir Putin.

But other anti-Trump Republicans push back on the theory that there is “Trump amnesia,” pointing to post-2020 election developments.

Mike Madrid, a Republican strategist who co-founded the Lincoln Project, said there needed to be more of a focused message on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results, and the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

“The messaging has not been right from the Republican groups. It needs to be much more focused on direct advocacy, especially on the extreme elements,” Madrid said. “Everyone of those three issues is new since 2020. These were not reasons that you were doubling down on or tripling down on in 2016.”

Madrid also pushed back on the use of a “permission structure” to appeal to center-right and conservative voters who have been turned off by Trump, saying it “isn’t really relevant anymore.”

“They seem to be caught in this old model of what they call a permission structure,” Madrid said. “We show one voter saying, ‘I’m a Republican and I’m doing it, you can do it, too.”

Pro-Trump Republicans brush off the strength of the Never Trump movement and its ability to appeal to swing voters, calling it “a vanity project.”

“They’re only doing this to be included in the media conversation,” said Republican strategist Ford O’Connell, referring to the group as “just a bunch of grifters.”

In a statement to The Hill, the Trump campaign said the Harris team “is desperately grasping at straws” in trying to appeal to Republicans.

“No conservative in their right mind will be voting for radical Marxist, weak-on-crime, open border, high tax Kamala Harris,” said Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s national press secretary.

But Democrats point to what they say is a crack in the GOP coalition going back to this year’s presidential primaries. Former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley drew a significant number of protest votes during the primary season, even after she dropped out of the race in March. Haley picked up over 26 percent of the GOP primary vote in Michigan. She also picked up over 100,000 votes in each of the two key battleground states of Arizona and Pennsylvania.

“She was mobilizing the anti-Trump coalition because she was running directly at Donald Trump,” Conway said. “She was talking about why he was unfit for office, why he was responsible for Jan. 6, all of the issues that for these center right Trump-skeptical voters really resonate.”

Prior to President Biden dropping out of the race, his campaign sought to target Haley’s voters. In June, the-then Biden campaign announced it hired Kinzinger’s former chief of staff, Austin Weatherford, as its national Republican engagement director. And in April, the campaign rolled out an ad targeting Haley voters, titled “Save America, Join Us.”

Still, there is no guarantee that these voters are sure bets for the Harris campaign.

“Those people that didn’t [vote for Trump], they’re going to come home,” O’Connell said. “The ones that are Democrats, are going to go back to being Democrats and some of them just might not vote at all.”

Chief of Public Affairs of SDNY admits Bragg charges are bs.

Just need to watch first 20 seconds. watch all if you want.



Anone who isn't an hallucinating weirdo already knew this. Let's what new hallucinations the weirdos will dredge up to cling to their fantasy world.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

it wasn’t clear whether he even understood the question,”

it was crystal clear that he had no fcukin idea what childcare is - I am sure his minders know to keep him away from childcare centres

Originally Posted by longway

Just need to watch first 20 seconds

lawfare ? who made up that weird word ?

The Best People | Harris-Walz 2024

Harris campaign features ex-Trump officials in new ad for Fox News, West Palm Beach

Vice President Harris’s campaign on Monday unveiled an ad featuring ex-officials in the Trump administration warning against former President Trump.

The one-minute ad, titled “The Best People,” will run on Fox News as well as in Trump’s hometown of West Palm Beach, Fla., and in Philadelphia on Tuesday to coincide with the presidential debate.

The ad includes former Vice President Mike Pence saying he won’t endorse Trump this cycle and former Defense Secretary Mark Esper saying he doesn’t think Trump can be trusted with the nation’s secrets.

It also features former national security adviser John Bolton warning that Trump would cause damage as president and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Mark Milley calling Trump a “wannabe dictator.”

“Take it from the people who knew him best. Donald Trump is a danger to our troops and our democracy. We can’t let him lead our country again,” the ad reads.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the ad.

“This ad will remind Fox News viewers, perhaps even a certain defeated former president himself, about how Trump’s own national security team can’t stomach him anymore because of how he’d put the country at risk,” said Harris principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks.

The Harris campaign also released three ads targeting Trump on abortion ahead of the debate that include comments from the former president saying he was proud to have had a hand in the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

Access to this page has been denied


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Scoop: Generals come to Harris' defense on Afghanistan

Ten generals and admirals are mobilizing to defend Vice President Kamala Harris from Republican attempts to tie her to the chaotic 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Why it matters: The withdrawal has emerged as a major campaign issue in the lead-up to Tuesday's presidential debate, with Harris coming under fire from former President Trump, House Republicans and parents of victims of the Abbey Gate suicide attack, which killed 13 American service members.

• The push to defend Harris comes from retired military brass, including three with four-stars: Admiral Steve Abbot, who served as deputy homeland security advisor to George W. Bush, Gen. Lloyd W. Newton and Gen. Larry R. Ellis, who has never previously endorsed a political candidate.
• Some of the military officials are also fanning out on TV this week to defend Harris' record, two people familiar with the plans told Axios.

Driving the news: "Without involving the Afghan government, [Trump] and his Administration negotiated a deal with the Taliban that freed 5,000 Taliban fighters," the retired military officials wrote in a National Security Leaders for America letter first obtained by Axios.

• The group accused Trump of leaving Biden and Harris with no plans to execute a withdrawal and little time to do so.
• "This chaotic approach severely hindered the Biden-Harris Administration's ability to execute the most orderly withdrawal possible and put our service members and our allies at risk," they wrote.
• Trump "continually disrespects those who serve in uniform, including wounded warriors, prisoners of war, and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice," they added.

The other side: Trump and his Republican allies have sought to elevate the voices of the Gold Star families, laying wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider at Arlington National Cemetery on the third anniversary of the bombing.

• Trump has also tried to cleanse his record with veterans, telling podcaster Shawn Ryan last month that he never called Americans who died in war "suckers and losers." — "Who would say that? A stupid person would say that."

What we're watching: On Tuesday, GOP congressional leaders including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will present the Congressional Gold Medal to the families if the 13 U.S. service members killed in the 2021 attack.

• Hours later, Trump and Harris will debate in Philadelphia, their first and only scheduled head-to-head encounter.

Zoom in: The House Foreign Affairs Committee released a report outlining the Biden administration's alleged failures on Afghanistan and highlighting Harris's role in particular.

• The GOP report accuses the Biden administration of ignoring repeated warnings from military officials, national security advisers and U.S. allies about the risks associated with drawing American forces down to zero.
• Harris "appears to have been working in lockstep" with Biden, according to the report.

Catch up quick: In August of 2021, the Biden administration conducted an evacuation of unprecedented scale that saw more than 120,000 people airlifted out of the country after the Taliban swept into Kabul.

• The White House has repeatedly defended Biden's decision to withdraw U.S. troops, while acknowledging that aspects of the evacuation were flawed.

Just a short everybody hates trump post

Nick Offerman of Parks and Recreation came out to show his support

(Uncensored) Nick Offerman - "Proud to Be a Kamala Man" Swearin' Version

Originally Posted by baldrick

lawfare ? who made up that weird word ?

The only hallunation he could dredge up is lawfare isn't a word.

A New Way Forward

Harris campaign adds policy positions to website, contrasts with ‘Trump’s Project 2025 agenda’

Vice President Harris’s campaign added policy positions to its website and set up an outline to contrast her stances with those of former President Trump, coming a day ahead of the presidential debate between them.

The page, titled “A New Way Forward,” leads with Harris’s plans to “build an opportunity economy and lower costs for families.”

The economy often ranks as the issue most important to voters. Harris has been on defense over GOP criticism that her administration would be a continuation of the Biden years, during which many Americans have felt the cost of groceries, gas, rent and child care is too high.

The Harris campaign site’s section on the economy outlines proposals to cut taxes for middle class families; make rent more affordable and homeownership more attainable; grow small businesses and invest in entrepreneurs, among other sections. And, it ends with a contrast to “Trump’s Project 2025 agenda,” which it argues would “jack up prices.”

Trump has sought to distance himself from Project 2025, which is the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a conservative presidency.

Another section of Harris’s policy positions page highlights “fundamental freedoms,” outlining proposals to restore and protect reproductive freedoms and protect civil rights and freedoms. And, it points out that Project 2025 includes a national abortion ban.

Under a section that says a Harris administration would “ensure safety and justice for all” are plans to make communities safer from gun violence, fix the immigration system, tackle the opioid and fentanyl crisis and “ensure no one is above the law.”

The last section, promising to “keep America safe, secure, and prosperous,” lays out plans to stand with allies and up to dictators, lead on the world stage, invest in America’s sources of strength and support service members and veterans.

Trump’s website has a platform page with 20 top issues; it leads with tackling the border and ending inflation.

Access to this page has been denied

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Extra: another everyone hates trump

“This machine sues fascists.”

• White Stripes sue Trump over ‘flagrant misappropriation’ of hit song

The White Stripes’ Jack White and Meg White have filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump for what they allege is the “flagrant misappropriation” of a recording of their hit song Seven Nation Army in a campaign video.

In an Instagram post on Monday, Jack White shared the first page of the lawsuit, filed in court in New York, with the caption: “This machine sues fascists.”

The video that spurred the legal action was posted by Trump staffer Margo McAtee Martin on X on 29 August, but has since been deleted. It shows the Republican presidential nominee boarding a plane with the opening riff of Seven Nation Army playing in the background.

Responding via Instagram at the time, Jack White wrote: “Don’t even think about using my music you fascists. Law suit coming from my lawyers about this (to add to your 5 thousand others).”

The singer has made good on the threat, filing a copyright infringement suit, alongside Meg White, as the White Stripes, seeking “significant monetary damages”, and listing Trump, his campaign and Martin as defendants. The suit alleges that the campaign did not seek or obtain permission from the band to use the song, and did not respond to pre-litigation efforts to resolve the issue.

The lawyer Ronald Coleman, with Dhillon Law Group, who is acting for Trump on the matter, gave no comment to the Guardian on Monday, but said over email the defendants had not yet been served with papers. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to Guardian Australia’s request for comment.

In their lawsuit, the White Stripes say Seven Nation Army is “among the most well-known and influential musical works of all time” and said Trump and his campaign have sought to “generate financial and other support for his campaign and candidacy on the backs of plaintiffs, whose permission and endorsement he neither sought nor obtained in violation of their rights under federal copyright law”.

The duo also point out that they previously “publicly denounced” Trump’s use of the same song during his 2016 campaign, stating that they “vehemently oppose the policies adopted and actions taken by defendant Trump when he was president and those he has proposed for the second term he seeks”.

White Stripes sue Trump over ‘flagrant misappropriation’ of hit song | The White Stripes | The Guardian

Originally Posted by longway

The only hallunation

If you don't like to eat cat then you are obviously weird

Naturalized citizens fired up to vote this year: Poll

Naturalized citizens are likely to vote at much higher rates than U.S.-born voters, potentially playing a decisive role in an election with razor-thin margins.

According to a new poll by the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), 97.3 percent of naturalized citizens in swing states plus California say they are likely to vote in November, and 75.5 percent said they definitely will.

The potential for high participation tracks with past performance for naturalized voters.

About 66 percent of the general voting age population turned out in 2020, the highest participation rate since 1900, according to the Pew Research Center.

The NPNA poll found that 86.8 percent of its respondents said they voted in 2020.

And there are nearly 25 million naturalized citizens across the United States, according to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI).

“Those polled are among the over 3.5 million new Americans that have naturalized since the last presidential election, and with naturalized voters now accounting for over 10 percent of the U.S. electorate nationwide, they have the potential to play an outsized role in key states this November. What is clear from the polling is that new Americans are paying close attention to this election and are highly committed to vote,” said Nicole Melaku, executive director of NPNA.

The poll found a diversity of political leanings in the naturalized population, but overall, new citizens skew toward Democrats.

Nationally, 29.6 percent of respondents said they consider themselves strong Democrats, 13.7 percent identify as Democrats but not strongly, 17.9 percent said they are strong Republicans, and 12.5 percent identify as Republicans but not strongly.

Among independents, 7.3 percent lean Democratic, 5.9 percent lean Republican and 13.1 say they don’t connect with either party.

Those numbers are reflected in respondents’ presidential vote intent: 53.6 percent said they’d vote for Vice President Harris, 38.3 percent said they’d vote for former President Trump, 6.4 percent said they’d vote for another candidate and 1.7 percent said they would not vote at the time of the poll.

In 2020, 58.8 percent of respondents voted for President Biden and 37.9 percent voted for Trump, according to the poll.

At the state level, naturalized citizens are less likely to follow national trends.

For instance, Trump has a national net favorability of minus 13 among respondents, but a minus 26.3 rating in California and a minus 2.6 rating in Michigan.

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Trump leads Harris by just 2 points in Florida: Poll

A new poll shows former President Trump leading Vice President Harris by only 2 points in Florida ahead of what could be a tighter-than-expected race in the red state in November.

Trump leads Harris with 49 to her 47 percent support in the Sunshine State, according to a Morning Consult poll released Monday. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus two points.

The latest polling data paints a picture of a tightening race in Florida, which has been dominated by Republicans in recent election cycles. Former President Obama was the last Democrat to win the state by less than a percentage point in 2012. Trump then won the state by just more than 1 point in 2016 and by more than 3 points in 2020.

Republicans continued to strengthen their grip on the state in the 2022 midterms, when the party saw landslide statewide victories while Republicans outside of the state largely underperformed.

But the Harris campaign has made a number of recent investments, many of them related to abortion, as the state prepares to vote on Amendment 4, which would enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution. Earlier this month, Harris launched a “Reproductive Rights for All” bus tour in Trump’s hometown of Palm Beach.

'I'm good' | Kamala Harris leaves for Philadelphia from Pittsburgh

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How to watch Harris and Trump in presidential debate Tuesday

Vice President Harris and former President Trump will face off for their first presidential debate on Tuesday.

Why it matters: It could be America's only opportunity to watch a one-on-one debate between Harris and Trump. No other dates have been announced.

The big picture: ABC News is hosting the broadcast, which is the second general election debate of the cycle and Harris' first as the Democratic party's nominee.

• The first presidential debate in late June was a turning point in the election and led to President Biden withdrawing from the race.

What time does the Harris-Trump debate start?

State of play: The debate starts at 9pm ET Tuesday, Sept. 10.

• It will be held in Philadelphia's National Constitution Center but won't have a live audience.
• It's the second time in the last 50 years that a presidential debate has been held in Pennsylvania.

Who is moderating the ABC presidential debate?

The presidential debate will be moderated by "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir and ABC News Live "Prime" anchor Linsey Davis.

How long is the presidential debate?

The debate is 90 minutes and includes two commercial breaks, ABC said.

Where to watch the 2024 presidential debate live

The debate will air on ABC News and other major networks, including CNN, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS and BBC.

• There will be programing before and after the debate on most networks.

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Here are the rules for the Harris-Trump ABC debate

After some back-and-forth between the Harris and Trump campaigns and host ABC News over the terms, both campaigns have agreed to the rules. An ABC-hosted debate has been on the calendar for months, originally set to be the second between Trump and Biden after CNNÂ’s June match-up, but that was before the president dropped out of the race.

The most contentious issue had been whether a candidateÂ’s microphone would be muted while their opponent is speaking.

The mics were muted in the Trump-Biden debate in the aftermath of a 2020 clash between the two, when Trump repeatedly interrupted Biden and moderator Chris Wallace, making what was being said at times unintelligible.

HarrisÂ’s campaign pushed for the microphones to be live at all times, allowing her to interject and Trump to be heard if he tries to talk over her. But the mics will be muted when the other candidate is speaking as before.

Other rules and regulations will be similar, too.

The event will start at 9 p.m. Eastern time and go for 90 minutes with two commercial breaks. The moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, will be the only ones asking questions, and the candidates will not be allowed to ask each other questions.

Each candidate will have two minutes to answer a question and two minutes to respond to the other candidate. They will also have an additional minute for “follow-ups, clarifications, or responses,” the rules state.

After the moderators introduce the candidates, the debate will begin with the questions and no opening statements. The candidates will have an opportunity at the end for a two-minute closing statement.

Harris and Trump will be given a pen, pad and bottle of water for the debate, but are not allowed to have any prewritten notes or props. No topics or specific questions are being shared in advance, and their campaign staff will not be allowed to interact with them at any point while the debate is ongoing, including commercial breaks.

The candidates will stand at podiums opposite each other and enter from opposite sides. Trump won a virtual coin toss and chose to deliver his closing statement last, allowing Harris to choose her preferred podium on the right side of the television screen.

Also notably, as was the case with the June debate, the event will take place without an audience, unlike many of the debates from previous election years.

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New poll delivers warning signals to Harris

A string of recent polls is delivering warning signs for Vice President Harris ahead of the critical presidential debate Tuesday evening.
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Trump’s debate playbook: Call the rules ‘rigged’ and undermine the moderators

Donald Trump is laying the foundation for a “rigged” debate on ABC News before he squares off with Kamala Harris.

In interviews, fundraising appeals, rallies, and posts on social media, the former president has repeatedly blasted the host network and accused its top talent of being biased against him. HeÂ’s even accused the network, without evidence, of providing the questions in advance to the Harris campaign.

“ABC is the worst network in terms of fairness,” Trump said during a Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity recently. “They’re very nasty, and I think a lot of people are going to be watching to see how nasty and how unfair they are.”

“Do you think ABC will give Kamala every question beforehand? We already know her liberal media cronies would do ANYTHING to keep her from getting embarrassed the same way Biden was!” Trump said in a fundraising appeal. “I’m coming into this at a disadvantage — taking on Crooked Kamala AND the Fake News — but with you in my ear, I’m NOT SCARED OF ANYTHING!”

Claiming he’s up against unfair odds and working the refs ahead of a major event is a routine strategy from Trump — one he employed ahead of his debate with President Joe Biden in June as well. And in recent days he has only escalated his criticism and allegations against ABC, which is hosting one of the most anticipated moments of the 2024 election on Tuesday.

TrumpÂ’s attacks on the network illustrate his overall approach to debates, which partially center on raising doubts about the fairness of the moderators and questioning whether his rivals are breaking the rules. By doing so, Trump appears to be trying to lower expectations for himself and pressure debate organizers into treating him more favorably. And it allows him to lay the groundwork to divert blame in the event he performs poorly.

“This is an expectations game,” said former White House press secretary Sean Spicer. “And it’s not just your opponent, he has two opponents. He has Kamala Harris, and then he has the network and hosts themselves.”

ABC did not respond to a request for comment.

TuesdayÂ’s debate, hosted by longtime ABC News World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC News Live anchor Linsey Davis at PhiladelphiaÂ’s National Constitution Center, will be the first time Trump and Harris meet face to face.

However there were questions about whether Trump — or Harris — would actually agree to debate. Trump raised concerns about the fairness of the network, and the Harris campaign repeatedly pushed back on a rule from the first debate with Trump and Biden mandating the microphones be muted in between responses.

The Harris campaign eventually relented after ABC agreed to keep both microphones on during any heated back and forth, and will allow a group of reporters known as a “press pool” close enough to the debate stage to take note of remarks that go unheard by the microphones.

Trump told Fox News on Wednesday night he even asked for his campaign to include in the debate rules that none of the questions would be leaked to any candidate in advance. In 2016, it was revealed that then-interim DNC chair Donna Brazile gave Hillary ClintonÂ’s campaign a heads up about specific questions during the March Democratic primary debate.

And he has repeatedly brought up the close relationship between Harris and Disney Entertainment co-chair Dana Walden, who is a personal friend, and who has donated to Democrats. ABC News has made clear Walden has no editorial input.

Trump’s offensive is similar to the one he used prior to the first debate in June, which aired on CNN. Trump repeatedly railed against the network prior to the debate, calling moderator Jake Tapper “Fake Tapper” and saying CNN would be favorable toward Biden, his then-opponent. Yet in the months since the debate, Trump has had kind words for Tapper and his co-moderator, Dana Bash, saying they were fair. Trump’s aides have privately praised the network over its decision not to fact check the candidates during the debate.

At the same time, Trump has a history of accusing his opponents of cheating. Ahead of his debates with Biden in 2020 and 2024, Trump suggested that Biden would be using performance-enhancing drugs, something Biden mocked before his ultimately disastrous performance. He made the same accusation against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Trump has a history with Muir. The veteran anchor has interviewed Trump several times, including in May 2020, several months following the start of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. Muir drew criticism in some corners for his performance, with some saying his questioning was too soft and that he didn’t press Trump on falsehoods he spread, although the Poynter Institute called the interview “tough but fair and not contentious.”

Trump is also suing one of the top anchors at ABC News, George Stephanopoulos, who he frequently mocks out on the campaign trail. The former president filed a lawsuit in Florida federal court earlier this year claiming that he was defamed by the famous newscaster during a “This Week” interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.). Stephanopolous said that Trump had been found liable of raping writer E. Jean Carroll, but a jury found Trump liable in a Manhattan civil case for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll. A jury did not find him liable for rape. However the judge who presided over Carroll’s civil suit against Trump wrote that the jury did conclude Carroll was raped, but New York law has a much more narrow definition of rape than what is understood in “common modern parlance.”

This summer, Trump also attacked star ABC News reporter Rachel Scott as “nasty” and “hostile” during a contentious interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago.

“Are you with ABC, because I think they’re a fake news network, a terrible network. I think it’s disgraceful that I came here in good spirit,” Trump said in response to a question about why Black voters should trust him.

Originally Posted by baldrick

If you don't like to eat cat then you are obviously weird

Yeah, it's the new way forward. The new normal under Horris.

Originally Posted by longway

The new normal under Horris

always good to cite a Latin poet, when lacking substance, your prose is fush with commitment you are TD's own preparation H, hope you watch the debate it's nuts on block time.

Harris is bringing two former Trump administration officials as her debate guests

Vice President Kamala Harris is bringing two unusual guests to tonightÂ’s debate in Philadelphia: two former officials in her opponentÂ’s administration.

It’s part of the campaign’s ongoing effort to use former President Donald Trump’s former allies to get under his skin in the lead-up to Tuesday night’s debate — and as they seek to woo both prominent Republican officials and rank-and-file voters who oppose Trump in what will almost certainly be a close election.

Former Trump White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who served only 10 days before he was fired, and former Trump national security official Olivia Troye will attend the debate in Philadelphia as the vice presidentÂ’s guests and surrogates, according to a Harris campaign official. The two are expected to warn of the dangers of a second Trump presidency and why they believe he shouldnÂ’t return to office at a press availability at the debate site.

“Listen, don’t take it from us: Take it from the ones who know Donald Trump the best and who are telling the American people exactly how unfit Trump is to serve as president,” said Harris communications director Michael Tyler in a statement. “Now as Americans prepare to tune in for tonight’s debate, these former Trump staffers are warning that a second Donald Trump presidency would be far more dangerous and extreme than the first.”

30 percent in new poll say debate will help decide their vote

About 3 in 10 registered voters in a new survey said Tuesday nightÂ’s presidential debate between Vice President Harris and former President Trump will help determine their vote, underscoring how high the stakes are for the first, and possibly only, debate between the two candidates.

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, released Tuesday, found 30 percent of registered voters said the debate will help them a great deal or good amount in making their selection for president. Roughly 69 percent said they do not think the event will help them very much or at all with their decision in November.

Originally Posted by longway

Yeah, it's the new way forward.

Speaking of which. The section titled Lower Energy Costs and Tackle the Climate Crisis will let voters know what she (and team) will be pushing.

As Attorney General, Kamala Harris won tens of millions in settlements against Big Oil and held polluters accountable.

As Vice President, she cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in climate action in history. This historic work is lowering household energy costs, creating hundreds of thousands of high-quality clean energy jobs, and building a thriving clean energy economy, all while ensuring America’s energy security and independence with record energy production.

As President, she will unite Americans to tackle the climate crisis as she builds on this historic work, advances environmental justice, protects public lands and public health, increases resilience to climate disasters, lowers household energy costs, creates millions of new jobs, and continues to hold polluters accountable to secure clean air and water for all.

As the Vice President said at the international climate conference, COP28, she knows that meeting this global challenge will require global cooperation and she is committed to continuing and building upon the United States’ international climate leadership.

She and Governor Walz will always fight for the freedom to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis.