news 2024 US Election Megathread 🇺🇸🏛️

[Gaia]

It's so funny seeing people like Kirk finally acknowledge they're the party of the uneducated white vote  
 

They're finally realizing MAGA is an uneducated CULT that only cares about "Trump's Agenda" and does not know or care about anything else. 
 

All of these dumb influencers will fade into obscurity once Trump finally dies of age or gets out of office. These people only care about him. 

Edited Wednesday at 10:41 AM by Gaia

[Armani.]

Madison reaching Detroit's Nov numbers 

 

[Breathe On Moi]

5 hours ago, Chemist said:

Everyone's talking about FL06 but the FL01 shift was even larger

[Breathe On Moi]

cautiously whispering "we're so back"

 

[Gaia]

All the doomsday'ers like "Democrats won't be winning anything for another 10+ years!!" seem so ridiculous now. 
 

Not that this is any sort of finish line, but it's clearly not like Dems have no chance to get back in control

[FameFatale]

It's tariff day 

 

[ClashAndBurn]

5 hours ago, Bears01 said:

The moment she lost the election, this realization shoulda taken place. 
 

Democrats are now "the party of the educated" and nominating her in 2028 will be….rather dumb. Especially if the economy tanks from tariffs, they'll have a golden opportunity to STORM back to power, but they won't with her 

They don't WANT to storm back into power, is the thing. They want to have the presidency, sure, but they don't want a trifecta, because with that comes expectations of actual governing.

 

Their ideal scenario in 2020 would have been to have lost the Senate by one seat, and I'm not even joking.

 

Or as the kids say, no cap, forreal forreal 

[Communion]

8 hours ago, Lil Mistee said:

Would y'all hate me if I said he's...kinda right? Dem's want stuff like voting ID requirements, that'll dissuade low propensity voters (republicans)

MANDATED VOTER ID REQUIREMENTS FOR ANY STATE WHERE MORGAN WALLEN GETS OVER 1M DAILY STREAMS OR MORE NOW!!! 

[dabunique]

i'm kinda sad about FL06

 

Fines doesn't even live in da district and knows nothing about it smh 

 

but very happy about Wisconsin

[Communion]

2 hours ago, Gaia said:

Some of you guys are absolutely insufferable. High voter turnout for this election in Wisconsin has nothing to do with Kamala.

People said the framing of Elon as a rich oligarch trying to buy the election and steal it from local Wisconsin voters fueled negative polarization.

 

This ties back to Harris because she was dumb enough to have filled her campaign with voices who told her to court the rich, not demonize their influence in politics.

 

Harris' staffers would have had Mark Cuban out and about offering his own $1M checks like how he spent the campaign saying she'd dismantle popular regulations on big business. Stop trying to make her happen. She believes nothing and will never be for the moment that the party needs in the rise of populism. 

 

Let her go be a celebrity and venture capitalist. 

[Communion]

The reality is that you don't belong in the Democratic Party if you are politically engaged and think careerists like Kamala Harris still have any place in it.

 

We're not talking about low propensity partisans who have high approvals of her because she's nice and has an infectious laugh.

 

We're talking about those who claim to be politically informed enough that they discuss politics online and yet still think someone with two failed presidential campaigns still has merit to run for president despite failing both times *in the exact same way* despite running entirely different campaigns. 

 

The era of politicians like Kamala Harris is over. She missed the train. Move on. 

[Bears01]

39 minutes ago, ClashAndBurn said:

They don't WANT to storm back into power, is the thing. They want to have the presidency, sure, but they don't want a trifecta, because with that comes expectations of actual governing.

 

Their ideal scenario in 2020 would have been to have lost the Senate by one seat, and I'm not even joking.

 

Or as the kids say, no cap, forreal forreal 

I was talking about Democratic voters, resist libs, etc etc. not establishment Dems. 
 

Resist libs are currently having a brain and realizing that Democratic leadership is utter crap, and wants them gone. Why would they want someone (again) who is largely responsible for the mess we're currently in, and is the first democrat in 20 years to LOSE the popular vote? 

[ClashAndBurn]

3 minutes ago, Bears01 said:

I was talking about Democratic voters, resist libs, etc etc. not establishment Dems. 
 

Resist libs are currently having a brain and realizing that Democratic leadership is utter crap, and wants them gone. Why would they want someone (again) who is largely responsible for the mess we're currently in, and is the first democrat in 20 years to LOSE the popular vote? 

Democratic voters ultimately go along with whatever the establishment tells them to do, at the end of the day. They may be angry and disillusioned for now, but if Trump isn't on the ballot, things will go back to business as usual and they'll back whomever Jim Clyburn tells them to.

 

considering Obama wanted to skip over her and push for a contested convention, it's clear that Clyburn is the true power broker for the party. He's the reason we were saddled with the biggest loser in DECADES. He's also the reason we only barely won in 2020 with Dementia Joe after Trump literally killed a million people with his COVID response

 

 

[on the line]

1 hour ago, Gaia said:

All the doomsday'ers like "Democrats won't be winning anything for another 10+ years!!" seem so ridiculous now. 
 

Not that this is any sort of finish line, but it's clearly not like Dems have no chance to get back in control

They always have been, dear. 

[ClashAndBurn]

1 hour ago, Gaia said:

All the doomsday'ers like "Democrats won't be winning anything for another 10+ years!!" seem so ridiculous now. 
 

Not that this is any sort of finish line, but it's clearly not like Dems have no chance to get back in control

This take ignores the fact that reapportionment is coming in 2030, and Dems will have zero path to the presidency that doesn't include Georgia, Arizona, or North Carolina. Getting all three of WI, MI, and PA will not be enough. The Dems will need to get ALL three plus one more from now on. And if it's Arizona, they'll also need Nevada too.

 

Of the three, Georgia seems the most gettable. Considering Arizona was the swing state that swung the hardest to Trump overall, and NC hasn't voted Dem for president since Obama.

[i spit on haters]

God, I ******* hate Eric Adams with a burning passion.

 

I love NY, I'm originally from there but it's frustrating that New Yorkers never learn. I don't get it. And they're still on Cuomo's dick. 

[byzantium]

1 hour ago, Communion said:

People said the framing of Elon as a rich oligarch trying to buy the election and steal it from local Wisconsin voters fueled negative polarization.

 

This ties back to Harris because she was dumb enough to have filled her campaign with voices who told her to court the rich, not demonize their influence in politics.

 

Harris' staffers would have had Mark Cuban out and about offering his own $1M checks like how he spent the campaign saying she'd dismantle popular regulations on big business. Stop trying to make her happen. She believes nothing and will never be for the moment that the party needs in the rise of populism. 

 

Let her go be a celebrity and venture capitalist. 

I keep yelling this into the void but if democrats want to seriously win WI, they need to go left.  

[nadiamendell]

15 minutes ago, i spit on haters said:

God, I ******* hate Eric Adams with a burning passion.

 

I love NY, I'm originally from there but it's frustrating that New Yorkers never learn. I don't get it. And they're still on Cuomo's dick. 

Yeah, NYC politics is so weird to me. 

[Nights]

Genuine question from a non-American: What are the concerns surrounding laws requiring a voter ID to vote or voters needing to prove citizenship to register to vote, and similar regulations?

 

I'm asking because in my country and many countries these are standard regulations and they make complete sense to me, to bolster the integrity of the electoral system. When registering to vote here, you have to go through a whole process to prove your residence in the area you're registering to vote in and you have to present an photo ID (preferably the provided voters' ID, but not necessarily) in order to cast your ballot.

 

The pushback against this particular type of regulation has always puzzled me a bit.

[dabunique]

Just now, Nights said:

Genuine question from a non-American: What are the concerns surrounding laws requiring a voter ID to vote or voters needing to prove citizenship to register to vote, and similar regulations?

 

I'm asking because in my country and many countries these are standard regulations and they make complete sense to me, to bolster the integrity of the electoral system. When registering to vote here, you have to go through a whole process to prove your residence in the area you're registering to vote in and you have to present an photo ID (preferably the provided voters' ID, but not necessarily) in order to cast your ballot.

 

The pushback against this particular type of regulation has always puzzled me a bit.

because some people r tryin to get birth certificate as a proper id and if it doesn't match ur photo id u can't vote

 

dat knocks off any person who might have a name change like a married woman 

[Thuggin]

3 minutes ago, Nights said:

Genuine question from a non-American: What are the concerns surrounding laws requiring a voter ID to vote or voters needing to prove citizenship to register to vote, and similar regulations?

 

I'm asking because in my country and many countries these are standard regulations and they make complete sense to me, to bolster the integrity of the electoral system. When registering to vote here, you have to go through a whole process to prove your residence in the area you're registering to vote in and you have to present an photo ID (preferably the provided voters' ID, but not necessarily) in order to cast your ballot.

 

The pushback against this particular type of regulation has always puzzled me a bit.

Can't speak for everyone here, but I don't think anyone would have an issue with voter IDs if we had automatic voter registration for citizens. Otherwise, we know Republicans only pursue the policy because they want to add as many barriers to voting as possible, particularly for lower income people who vote Democrat.

 

We know how this would play out in Republican states. They would require you to go in person to get a voter ID and pay some kind of fee.

[dman4life]

4 minutes ago, Nights said:

Genuine question from a non-American: What are the concerns surrounding laws requiring a voter ID to vote or voters needing to prove citizenship to register to vote, and similar regulations?

 

I'm asking because in my country and many countries these are standard regulations and they make complete sense to me, to bolster the integrity of the electoral system. When registering to vote here, you have to go through a whole process to prove your residence in the area you're registering to vote in and you have to present an photo ID (preferably the provided voters' ID, but not necessarily) in order to cast your ballot.

 

The pushback against this particular type of regulation has always puzzled me a bit.

I think it just initially never landed well because it only came about on the heels of the big lie that the election was "rigged" or "stolen" and at the time ceding to voter ID laws could be interpreted as validating those lies. Now that some time has passed it feels safe to just go along with it. 

[karron0624]

2 hours ago, Communion said:

MANDATED VOTER ID REQUIREMENTS FOR ANY STATE WHERE MORGAN WALLEN GETS OVER 1M DAILY STREAMS OR MORE NOW!!! 

My Trump voting neighbors don't even have proper id. Republicans are going to be kicking themselves.

[GraceRandolph]

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/02/trump-musk-leaving-political-liability-00265784

[VOSS]

23 minutes ago, Nights said:

Genuine question from a non-American: What are the concerns surrounding laws requiring a voter ID to vote or voters needing to prove citizenship to register to vote, and similar regulations?

 

I'm asking because in my country and many countries these are standard regulations and they make complete sense to me, to bolster the integrity of the electoral system. When registering to vote here, you have to go through a whole process to prove your residence in the area you're registering to vote in and you have to present an photo ID (preferably the provided voters' ID, but not necessarily) in order to cast your ballot.

 

The pushback against this particular type of regulation has always puzzled me a bit.

Historically in the US voter restrictions like ID, literacy tests, etc. were put in place to disenfranchise black people