news 2024 US Election Megathread 🇺🇸🏛️

[Chemist]

13 minutes ago, JennyWayne said:

Elissa Slotkin projected to win Michigan senate race

 

 

Some good news at last

I really would like to understand these ticket splitters, like what was in their mind

[cloudbusting]

i know I didn't see someone call Biden a democratic socialist

do words just not mean anything today?

 

[Lose My Breath]

Just now, Bamboo said:

I ain't watching her speech  What is there to say?

It's a normal formality, they typically try to help bring unity

[FameFatale]

Here we go. Can't wait to pay even MORE for stuff. Thanks Trump! 

 

 

[YellowRibbon]

Trump would have won regardless of the candidate... 2024 was the first year in recent US Political History where Dems had a chance at receiving a healthy economy instead of a messy economy. Trump inherited the economic growth of the second Obama administration and then left the country more indebted and with high unemployment rates for the Biden Administration. Now, he'll inherit another recovering economy after a devastating global pandemic and the general public will think that his management lead to those benefits... It's a sad situation overall and I don't think I can bring myself to hear Harris' concession speech. 

[anastaciabby]

3 minutes ago, Bloo said:

Is she about to give her speech?

 

1. Mass deportations

2. Build a wall

3. Address fentanyl crisis because of migrants

4. Impose tariffs to reduce costs

 

None of these policies are things I believe in or think will accomplish anything good for the American people. But, these are basic policy ideas I associate with Trump despite trying to ignore his existence. Pretending he has no policies is absurd. Kamala's policies were just cheap rip-offs of his: remember how Trump announced his plans to remove income taxes on tipped salaries and Kamala literally copied that policy? I do. It made no sense and didn't make her seem like a serious alternative to Trump when she's parroting the same ideas.

I don't think Running on a racist rhetoric that imitates the Holocaust by using migrant people as the scapegoat is a policy but I see what you're saying about people thinking it is since they seemed to vote on feelings and ignored logic

[Lose My Breath]

Just now, FameFatale said:

Here we go. Can't wait to pay even MORE for stuff. Thanks Trump! 

 

 

Well of course they will... What kind of idiot would think that ANYONE other than the consumers would eat those costs?

[Bloo]

1 minute ago, RihRihGirrrl said:

I mean she did talk about letting medicate negotiate drug prices and capping the cost on drugs like insulin.....pretty much in every interview and speech she was on. This was targeted at seniors/older voters.

• "I believe that Medicare should be allowed to negotiate drug prices to reduce the price of drugs" -> "Insulin should be free; it is a crime against the American people that Big Pharmaceutical companies get away with stealing from the American people."

Rule #1 in Politics: You need a bad guy.

 

Trump is not a compelling bad guy to anyone but liberals. People had issues before Trump ran for office, so you need a bad guy that explains the harm people have felt before, during, and after Trump. Trump's bad guy is largely immigrants. It's xenophobic, yes, but it leads to people going, "Huh, well maybe he's right!" And then they vote against immigration because they have an explanation for why their lives suck. Trump is weaponizing xenophobia in his identification of a bad guy.

 

Democrats need to give people a bad guy if they want to be successful and it cannot just be Trump. Corporations are a winning candidate for being the bad guy. Even Republicans don't like the big corporations. 

[dman4life]

25 minutes ago, ClashAndBurn said:

Theres no future where this happens. I'm sorry, but Obamacare is about to be gone. There's no coming back from this. I really, truly see no path. And Joe Biden will skate by without receiving the blame that he deserves.

I wholeheartedly agree. I hate to doom the future of the country but the reality is Democrats blew it big time and unfortunately this time around the consequences may be irreversible. 

[Bloo]

Just now, anastaciabby said:

I don't think Running on a racist rhetoric that imitates the Holocaust by using migrant people as the scapegoat is a policy but I see what you're saying about people thinking it is since they seemed to vote on feelings and ignored logic

If elections were determined by logic, we would call it "science". You have to think about the emotional responses of voters because, of course, people will have their votes informed by their emotions.

[Bubble Tea]

 

[RihRihGirrrl]

9 minutes ago, Bloo said:

Is she about to give her speech?

 

1. Mass deportations

2. Build a wall

3. Address fentanyl crisis because of migrants

4. Impose tariffs to reduce costs

 

None of these policies are things I believe in or think will accomplish anything good for the American people. But, these are basic policy ideas I associate with Trump despite trying to ignore his existence. Pretending he has no policies is absurd. Kamala's policies were just cheap rip-offs of his: remember how Trump announced his plans to remove income taxes on tipped salaries and Kamala literally copied that policy? I do. It made no sense and didn't make her seem like a serious alternative to Trump when she's parroting the same ideas.

You guys have to stop running with the narrative that she had no policies....she talked about them in every interview in the same talking points. Sure she could've gone further but she talked much more about policy than Trump ever has. These are just some I think we've all heard over and over again: 

 

• $6k dollar child tax credit (amounting to taxes for 100M Americans)
• Passing a federal ban on price gouging 
• $25k downpayment assistance for first time home buyers
• $50k tax deduction for small businesses
• Build 3M new homes in her first term
• Capping costs on insulin at $35 a month and prescription drug costs at $2000 a year 
• Expanding medicare to cover home health care

 

Edited November 6 by RihRihGirrrl

[Lil Mistee]

So like… a lot of these red states instilled democrats in various positions despite voting for trump…. We literally just needed a primary and a better candidate….

 

**** YOU JOE BIDONE I CANT BELIEVE I DEFENDED YOUR ASS FOR STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS, CHIPS AND LINA KHAN **** YOU YOU DISGUSTING OLD STUTTERING SELFISH MAN 

[Rotunda]

While Kamala obviously tried to deemphasize identity in this race, I do hope this loss has the accidental side-effect if closing the "Black Women are the Democratic Party" era of liberal posturing (even if it's true on-face). 

[Virgos Groove]

BERNIEEEE… BEEEERRRRNNIIIEEEEEEE

 

It should've been you 

[Vroom Vroom]

8 minutes ago, Rotunda said:

Yeah Kamala's out of politics. And she probably ascended too high to be relegated to teaching classes at Georgetown or UCLA. Though Amy Coney Barrett still teaches at Notre Dame sometimes.

No chance that she will run in the 2026 California gubernatorial race? 

[Lightbringer007]

could bernie still run by any chance chile

[Shawn]

37 minutes ago, MP3 said:

Any news of that girl saying Kamala would win Iowa by +3% ? Where is she? Nowhere to be found? 

Miss Selzer's statement from today.  

 

 

[jakeisphat]

18 minutes ago, Bloo said:

Not to play both sides, but both Republican and Democratic voters love to claim the polls are rigged against them when it's not showing their preferred candidate winning. It's such a bad habit but it seems to not be going away anytime soon.

I agree. I think it's expected from the GOP based on it's current state, and when Democrats start making those arguments it comes off just as delusional as MAGA republicans. 

[Lightbringer007]

kamala is now out on stage

[shyboi]

omg, she actually looks very presidential

[on the line]

4 minutes ago, RihRihGirrrl said:

You guys have to stop running with the narrative that she had no policies....she talked about them in every interview in the same talking points. Sure she could've gone further but she talked much more about policy than Trump ever has. These are just some I think we've all heard over and over again: 

 

• $6k dollar child tax credit (amounting to taxes for 100M Americans)
• Passing a federal ban on price gouging 
• $25k downpayment assistance for first time home buyers
• $50k tax deduction for small businesses
• Build 3M new homes in her first term
• Capping costs on insulin at $35 a month and prescription drug costs at $2000 a year 
• Expanding medicare to cover home health care

 

Thank you. Very ******* confused by these republican talking points of her having no policy. Based on the listed Trump "policies," she's matched nearly all of them.

[Relampago.]

I feel so bad for her… the secondhand embarrassment I'm getting  

[Ger]

Just now, shyboi said:

omg, she actually looks very presidential

If anything she looks delusional with the amount of smiling.  

[Armani?]

So looking at things now if Biden stayed in Trump would have probably won 60% of Latino men, 57% of White women, over 40% of Latinas, 25% of Black men and nearly 65% of White men in the exit poll