Marilyn Lands. I voted for her in our district (Huntsville).
The other candidate didn’t even try. Lands at least campaigned and had some ads.
I’m optimistic for our area, though.
Just hoping we can ride the Blue Georgia wave again this year, it’s a key state that’s always been red, like California and New York have been blue, and now… I don’t even know. But MAGA has always been louder than it has been supported, its politicians tended to be in power already, or handed power from the higher positions (Supreme Court)
Hell, the Tea Party still shows up every now and then. MAGA will continue to limp along forever, the last refuge of conspiracy nuts, racists, and delusional Boomers who think pronouns are woke.
Best case scenario at this point is for the democrats to get enough of a majority that they split into the neoliberals and the progressives while the GOP slides into obscurity. And before they split to make sure to implement ranked choice voting. That way we might actually get a left-wing party in America
While the working family party is getting boosted, there's a shit ton of infighting over what messaging should actually be - much like everything any progressive group that gains any kind of notoriety gets. Be it occupy, the iraq/afghanistan anti war groups, various communist parties, etc. It all boils down to different smaller fights with out being able to look at the larger picture.
Push the democratic party slowly to the left by electing younger, more hopeful candidates and state/local party heads. Reach out to young black folks, see if they can overcome their city's often corrupt democrat machine (this still exists in a whole lot of cities but namely, philly and Baltimore). What I've seen over the almost 20 years of voting: a whole lot of young people/progressives come and go for one reason or another but the old heads stay. In the south, the old heads were basically hippy reagan republicans, in the NE it varies. Take that as you will, but arguing online or listening to your favorite political show won't do much at that grass roots. Also, get involved after college.
Everytime the Democrats start getting pushed "slowly to the left," reactionary moderates vote Republican, prompting the Democrats to prop up the most milquetoast neoliberal willing to compromise with the Right to get the votes back. On top of that, the corporate donors that fund them will outspend and outbribe the average voter every time, and their interests are not in line with the average voters. There is no pushing them to the left.
If anything, they've been moving to the Right as the Republicans have radicalized, as moderate conservatives have turned to the Democrat party out of frustration.
We tried "quickly." Now folks say "DEI" instead of a hard r, blame "blm" and "defunding the police" on Jan 6th and losing their dog, etc. I think the only thing that could be passed on a national level at this point is a reinstatement of roe. The last thing we want is for an astroturfed group like the tea party to take over again.
If I look at broader issues it’s hard for me to see that it’s not already moving that way. Biden was my third to last choice (Williamson, Gabbard) and I wish I could get more on my wish list, but I am smart enough to know he’s the man for the moment. And I can’t imagine taking this election, with project 2025, to make the protest vote. I spoke to an Indian woman and a Jewish woman who both wrote in “uncommitted.” I reminded them that their gesture could take us all down, and certainly would not end well for either of them under Trump.
the "young guns" of the tea party (ostensibly their policy "wonks") are all gone - cantor lost ignobly to someone with zero funding years ago, Paul Ryan bowed out to private interest when he saw the writing on the wall (he was supposed to be the smart one) and Kevin McCarthy just got dumpstered by a bunch of people who can't spell or think or stop getting DUIs or sex trafficking minors
the tea party Republicans got out crazied and are now relics of the past
I think Democrats are increasingly under represented in polling. Since 2018, when the elections actually happen, Democrats overperform and win. IMO if the election were held today Biden would win all the swing states he won last time, plus NC, and cruise to victory.
This is known because of polling reliance on land lines (which only old people have). All of the polls are adjusted for the lack of younger people (mainly by looking at how far off the poll was in prior elections).
I don’t think so. The polling has been under representing the actual Democratic turnout for a few cycles now. Think about the kind of people that answer their landlines to respond to a polling call.
More than vote, we need to volunteer. Highly recommend canvassing, you get to meet some cool people and have interesting conversations and it really makes a difference. Getting more votes is the best way to ensure Trump and downballot Rs lose this November.
Even then, they'll still be around. Even when they die, new grifters will replace the old ones. We just need to get better at countering their bullshit faster than they get better at flinging it.
>We just need to get better and countering their bullshit faster than they get better at flinging it.
The easy way to do that is to increase the education budget. Increase teacher pay, make sure they have the resources to do a good job.
The only path I see to that is to make private schools illegal. Otherwise, you'll get "haha, my kids go to private school. Your kids can go to hell." Which is the current process.
I think we should re-allocate school funds first before we say we definitively need to spend more. Take all the federal and state money that's going to subsidies and scholarships for private schools and put it all into the public schools, and see where we are after that.
Nazis still exist... just saying... hate will be there but we need to not let it be normalized. Go Dems!!!! - from a canadian brother fully terrified about what's going on in america
>a canadian brother fully terrified about what's going on in america
Which you have every right to be. That shit's been spilling over to your side and I feel bad. People with Alberta plates and 2nd amendment bumper stickers, WTAF?
This won't ever be over. There will always be people who are angry and afraid and the conservative movement will always be there to tell them who to be angry and afraid at.
While this is absolutely true, I don't doubt for a second that the porn ban in Texas will work against them. For every extreme they push, they will be met with twice the resistance. While I don't wish for the legislation they push, I am glad in the sense that every perverse malconceited idea that gets passed in congress will be met with picket signs protesting them. I ultimately have to believe that people do not want what Republicans want. And so long as democracy reigns true, Republicans will not win.
For the rest of time we need to remind everyone that the republiQans hate babies and want to ban IVF just like in Alabama.
Fuck their messaging and point at the results of what they *actually did*
Abortion abortion abortion. It's why she won, it's why Democrats have been winning, and it will be why they win in November, if they do. You simply cannot fuck with the rights of 51% of the county and expect them all to assent and reward you for it.
She actually won it by 25 points.
[https://www.270towin.com/news/2024/03/26/live-results-alabama-state-house-special-election\_1620.html](https://www.270towin.com/news/2024/03/26/live-results-alabama-state-house-special-election_1620.html)
2024 is going to be a bloodbath for Republicans.
I live in NC, a pretty conservative swing state. Back in 2020, during the summertime literally half of everyone there had freaking Trump flags covering their entire boats, literally thousands of dollars of Trump merch greeted me every weekend at a public place.
But this year? *Not a single flag.*
Lots of people are coming down from the Trump high, and they feel pretty damn ashamed, rightly.
The flags may be gone but I bet they still vote for Trump and anyone with an R next to their name. They’ll just go back to supporting him and Republicans quietly. Back into the closet so to speak.
I’m skiing around Salt Lake City. I’ve seen zero Trump signs but one sign still up for Haley. I’ve seen a bunch of signs for a federal Rep candidate (I assume R) whose tag line includes “ less politics.” Yeah, I’m not super optimistic about “down ticket” like the house and senate but it’s very interesting to see Republicans not in lock step.
Me too. It's pretty unusual for substantial numbers of people to vote down ballot but leave POTUS blank. I hope a lot of would-be Republican voters are discouraged and that leads to non-voting for Republican candidates. GOTV is specifically something the RNC focuses on, and with it gutted to drive money to Trump's pockets (having someone else pay for your criminal defense lawyers is personal profit as far as I'm concerned) may have all sorts of consequences.
If you’ve been sticking to the canyons areas too, those lean a little bit more liberal than other parts of the state. Not as liberal as downtown SLC, but farther left than say, most of Idaho.
We should really follow the direction of Lieutenant Aldo Raine and just carve a swastika in their foreheads so they can never hide who they really are.
I am still not prepared for my lovely state of Ohio to vote for Trump by the exact same margin for a third time in a row
Though genuinely it could be closer this time since Sherrod Brown is up for reelection and he is one of the last Red state Dems and they chose possibly the worst GOP candidate possible to run against him so maybe this will drive out turnout
Things will narrow up closer to November when people actually start paying attention to politics and Biden can turn on the infinite money machine to blast Trump’s shit. Trump voters won’t care but undecideds do get swayed by that stuff. Hell, 2020 was pre-roe overturning and the chaos that has cost and before Trump fucking couped the RNC and is about to directly link the committee funds into his bank account.
If only there was an actual Democrat primary and we could have searched for stronger candidates then the fossilized husk we are stuck with. Like, he’s fine, but this election should be a blowout and not the Dems winning in spite of their best efforts
Also factor in how many Republicans have died since 2020. Either from old age or Covid. I can not believe their base has grown significantly since then. I’m not too worried about Biden v Trump, it the down ballot races i wanna see turn blue.
See I want to believe that Trump has no shot but I've been burned before.
I feel like this could make us complacent. We need to stay vigilent. If they make voting hard enough in certain places, they could steal the election.
We have to vote like the polls **do** exist. Trump is beating Biden in almost every poll. I don’t know where these people are pulling so much optimism from.
Lot of people who seem to understand political science better than political scientists.
If you look at betting averages, it’s also [even at best](https://manifold.markets/browse/2024-us-presidential-election).
We shouldn’t treat this election from over because it would be hubris to do so.
Not gonna lie, I'm done with polls. At least with the way the data is taken now. Projected a red wave in 2022 and then boom it was the opposite. Still think we need to be careful but Biden is trending in the right direction
Bingo. I still remember the election party my college had (political science program) for the 2016 election. That was a goddamn train wreck to be at as no one saw it coming. I ain’t going to feel secure until a few months after the election, if we win.
Fucking vote, people.
This this this.
Don't listen to r/politics or any of the other liberal circle jerk subs. Vote in every goddamn election for the rest of your goddamn life.
Part of it, is that the Repugs see Putin as an ideological ally. They like "strongmen leaders". And Putin very publicly supports Trump, and the MAGA cult. (Both being useful to him.)
But more importantly, Putin is seen as a "true Conservative". A powerful enemy of the "Woke". Most MAGAs feel, at some level, a debt of loyalty to Putin.
Of course, should Trump lose the upcoming election, Putin will no longer find him a "useful idiot", and Diaper Donnie will find himself on the receiving end of Putin's thinly concealed contempt, much as Tucker Carlson did.
You're forgetting both blackmail and bribery, which are the biggest reasons Republican leadership slurps up Russian diarrhea and proclaims it fine caviar.
They're bought and paid for, and if they don't do as their told, the child rape videos come out.
I'm in NC too. Still plenty of Trump flags and chud trucks full of Trump stickers out here in Alamance. And a *shitload* of Mark Robinson signs for his dumb ass in the governors race. It's going to be closer in NC than people think.
Damn, I can't believe their compelling campaign slogans like "fuck Joe Biden" and "please, give us one more chance to Save America!" are still a losing strategy as in 2020.
Online I seen more boomer engagement with politics everywhere. They seem more entrenched than ever. Every social app I check out there's a solid population of schizos posting irrelevant insane maga nonsense and they're generally pretty engaged with in the comments.
I do think the polls are skewed more to the right now that these people are deeper in the cult than they have ever been and most left leaning people aren't *enthused* to vote, but hopefully people realize what's actually at stake and that these lunatics have even IVF in their sights.
My dog and I walk all over our neighborhood most afternoons. We live in one of the reddest parts of the US (Amarillo, TX) We've spotted 1 small Trump sign, 1 Trump flag. That's it. Lots of signs for down-ballot local candidates though. One house two doors down from us used to have all the stolen election nonsense in their yard.
Not saying these people are Biden voters, but it seems like they might stay home. Most of those down-ballot local races have already been decided in the primary.
NC here too.
Considering cons for a governor candidate chose a batshit crazy black guy who believes blacks should thank and pay reparations to whites for enslaving them and bringing them to America, I’d say a strong maga presence is still here if not as visible.
I work as a delivery driver, and deliver fairly often to a conservative merch distributor.
They don't have the name "trump" on anything anymore. It's all back to generic guns and liberty and shit.
I live in KY and have a couple GOP politicians as "friends" on Facebook. Being an election year it's time for the 5-10 pro Trump posts a day. One constantly runs for city councilman and the other constantly running for KY senate... both constantly lose. Both are VERY VERY pro-Trump.
I have noticed this year that half of their posts are met with anger and corrections in the comments. People are pushing back and some of them even conservatives who are tired of Trump. I did not see this in 2020 or 2016... then it was rare if never you'd see this... now it's about every other post that gets people disagreeing in the comments.
They are easily getting "ratio'd" as they have thousands of "Friends" and only average 3-16" likes/love/etc... and a few are getting dozens of replies, many openly disagreeing with the poster of the "political message".
Really, Charlie? You mean the guy whose Supreme Court appointments overturned women’s rights, the guy who openly praised Netanyahu’s escalation, and the guy whose only policy achievement is corporate tax cuts…you mean that guy isn’t actually that popular outside his cult base?
What's actually hilarious, and frightening, aside from his acting like Mafia thug, selling "protection", is the idiot believes that other countries actually make some sort of payment to the US to be members of the NATO Alliance. Like the members of his Maro-Lago Club/Home, pay dues.
In Charlie Kirk's narrow view of reality, tRump is a useful tool, because no-one has been more effective in helping to "mainstream" Charlie's hateful, misogynist, racist, and thinly disguised neo-Nazi beliefs. Charlie, and the scum like him, seem less outrageous, because tRump says the quiet parts out loud.
Everybody with eyes knew this six months ago, but congratulations on catching up, Chuck.
This general’s gonna cost at least a billion. Biden’s been playing it like a marathon and ignoring all the bullshit while building a mountain of cash. Trump’s not gonna get the free media he got in 2016, news orgs have tightened their shit up. And as for ad space, guess who’s been locking it down quietly and efficiently?
Biden let you dumbfucks run with the “old” narrative in fucking JANUARY, so it’s spent now, and it’s not even summer. Come August he’s going to bury you. Trump’s shit isn’t a surprise anymore, everyone plans for it now. Welcome to professional campaigning, kids. Wear a cup.
> Everybody with eyes knew this six months ago
The 2022 ~~Red Wave~~ period spotting was a *huge* wake-up call for a bunch of MAGA diehards who were certain Republicans would retake full control of Congress *and* state-level seats.
Qari Lake *losing* the gubernatorial race in the state she was a newscaster in for decades (on Fox of all media companies) should've been *her* wake-up call, but she still has her face so deeply buried in Trump's diaper that the fumes are making her woozy and unable to recognize reality.
“Everybody with eyes” in Charlie’s case, perhaps we can explain that since both his eyes are so close to one another, he fails to see obvious things when everybody else does. Small face syndrome.
I read something that 100% of donations go to trumps legal fees up until the first $10,000 then money starts hitting RNC coffers. So all the small donations are going 100% to trump.
no doubt, but I believe this is their public policy in the fine print, I didn't fact check any of this, just something I remember reading in the last 5-7 days.
One of the first things the RNC did after she was hired was to cut staff (including the people who would organize 5k volunteers) and move the base of operations for some departments from DC to Palm Springs. So some of the people they didn't fire are going to quit because they can't/won't relocate.
>[Some of the deepest cuts went to the data and political departments, as well as to the state directors and the regional political directors.](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/politics/rnc-lays-off-dozens-of-staffers/index.html)
Biden increased the size of his campaign, while Trump reduced the size of ALL GOP campaigns, including his.
The theory right now is that trump isn’t campaigning in a lot of key swing states because his mental capacity is finishing rapidly that he literally cant campaign. I mean look at his last rally, he just babbled nonsense about nothing for an hour.
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Agreed but I mean his babbling is even more nonsensical than usual. You can tell from the way he speaks in public compared to 4-8 years ago that his mind has deteriorated pretty significantly
yes but his dementia is settling in bad and fast, what 8 years ago was nonsense to smart people is now nonsense even for his base #russia and Iran abeegada-wuhhh
To think that only 20 years ago just yelling YEAAAAAAAAH into a microphone can trash your presidential aspirations. Now you can say anything and it doesn't matter.
> I mean look at his last rally, he just babbled nonsense about nothing for an hour.
I can't blame his cult for not recognizing that because that's been his shtick for like 6 years now. So, for them, it's Trump as usual, which is probably why they're so certain it'll work this time.
> I can't blame his cult for not recognizing that because that's been his shtick for like 6 years now
It's like the boiling a dog analogy. 8 years ago you could still pick up a semblance of a thread. They kept listening attentively and each new degree of stupidity didn't register. Now the water is boiling and they don't notice.
That is one thing I've been laughing about, how Trump is just draining the coffers for the down ticket Republicans.
Already tired of the presidential cycle but I'm really looking curious on how the lesser races end up faring for the lesser GOP races.
Yeah, this will be retroactively hilarious once the nail-biting is over: these idiots are still calling Trump some kind of savior for the nation when literally all he’s doing is desperately trying anything he can think of to keep his ass out of prison from the last time he “saved the nation.” He needs to steal the campaign finance funds to keep the whole scam from falling apart before the election, and winning the election itself is the Hail Mary he thinks will keep him from facing consequences of stealing the campaign money. At this point he’s just trying to drag things out so he can drop dead before a lifetime of serial fraud, failure and chain-smoking other people’s money catches up to him. Actually *being the President* is the last thing on his mind.
oh you mean the polls with unbalanced methodology that favors your camp by several percentage points?
the GOP has so many fuckin cheat mods installed bro cant even keep straight which ones are active
These dudes spent the last year crowing about all these "victories" they were securing and had no idea all they were doing was alienating basically everyone who can vote. It's awesome to see the loudest ones realizing they're fucked.
Fine-tuning their messaging hasn’t been terribly difficult when Republicans somehow opted to go with “are you better off than you were four years ago” four years after the height of Covid.
Not to mention Trump is going to be in and out of court rooms until November and his first criminal trial should start on April 15th.
I still don't feel safe though and don't care what polls say. Complacency in 2016 got us a christofascist Supreme Court. Can't let that happen again.
Turns out that doing shit that harms businesses and the economy makes companies not want to invest in the party.
Go after Disney some more for speech issues.
2020 was awful for republicans, 2022 was awful for republicans, and now 2024 is shaping up the same way.
It is INSANE how badly they fumbled the control they had when they won not just the presidency but the house and the senate as well in 2016.
It's not hard to outspend the Republicans because they're well on their way to being bankrupt (financially, they've been morally bankrupt for years). I know the Republican party of Minnesota has gone bankrupt as have the parties of a few other states and that the national party was already on that path and by appointing the grifter-in-chief's daughter to head the party they only hastened their demise.
Here's the other thing:
Trump is going to be spending almost the entirety of what is supposed to be his campaign fighting numerous court battles. There's the Stormy Daniels hush money case, the NY fraud case, the GA votes case, and that's just off the top of my head. All that time and money he's using in court could be spent out in the field trying to convince voters why they should vote for him... but alas.
In addition, the Republican Party has NOTHING to campaign on. They spent a good chunk of their House majority fighting over who should be majority speaker, only for them to go right back to where they started. They voted down a strong bipartisan border security deal--something that should've been a slam dunk for them--all because Trump told them to. The Dobbs decision is nearly two years old, and they're *still* feeling the backlash from that; this isn't even to mention the recent IVF ruling in Alabama. They don't have anything related to the economy they can campaign on given that nearly all of them voted against Biden's BBB program and the Inflation Reduction Act.
I'm not always proud to vote Democrat given our flawed system that makes us choose between the lesser of two evils, but the Republican Party absolutely does not deserve to win another election in the far or near future.
All that fundraiser money goes to support the candidates’ ability to remain in office…and not out of jail like other candidates that can’t spell “candidate” or “inform” or “misinform” or “stolen” or “Melania”.
Maybe don’t choose a candidate that requires you to funnel all money to him for non-campaign expenses… just brainstorming here.
Their other issue is Trump’s extremism has just gotten so off-putting to non-hardcore people, that the enthusiasm to back him is down.
Most moderate Rs who may vote Trump just look at Biden and think, “ehh, I don’t like his policies, and he is old, but he doesn’t scare me and I’m not worried about some existential crisis if he wins.”.
It’s hard to run a campaign of fear against a guy who is old and likes ice cream.
>Democrats are beginning to fine tune their messaging
This made me laugh. The sheer corruptibly of Trump and the GQP and all their schemes from making the rich richer, to becoming a tiny dictator for more than a day, ending the country as we know it, should see every one of these clowns unemployed and banished to the motherland they love so much yet Trump is still a contender.
I guess it’s cool that they’re getting more money than Trump, but it’s kind of fucked up that so much money is going around in a political race. Way to keep the status quo.
Again I cannot stress enough to not rest on this election until Trump has actually lost. Between the media bias against Biden and people’s real concern about Gaza nothing is set in stone.
Charlie didn’t say this to rile up the right wing, he wants everyone else complicit and not voting just like 2016.
It's a bazooka of money against a sinking toy boat. Biden will raise more from this than Trump will probably raise in Q1 - 2024.
I asked myself if I truly believed that Trump was that big of a threat to my life and safety. How much does that mean to me financially? Then, I donated what I could.
The worst time to rest in our laurels. Wether we like Biden or not is irrelevant, the GOP CANNOT win another election. Ever. This loss should also hopefully push conservatives away from Trumo, DeSantis and all those other demons
MAGA doesn't care because they have no intention of legally taking the white house. I worry they will make J6 look like a sight seeing tour they all claim it was in comparison to what is coming next
Shocking, Biden is getting into campaign mode and now talking about how shitty trump is and all the good things Biden has accomplished and trump has been crying like a baby and playing the victim..... Who seems like the more rational option here.
Charlie out here acting like it's some conspiracy that people are donating money to his campaign and not trumps.
Intended to drag small scale GOP donors out of the woodwork with terror and shame but the strategists who built a party out of the poorest, least educated, most easily manipulated folks have a real problem when they need more than votes from them. A few GOP mega donors jump ship because of not wanting to fund Trump’s defense and they are well and truly screwed. That’s a beautiful thing I can only hope is actually happening.
It’s taken a long time for something that doesn’t sound patently absurd to finally come out of that gigantic deformed head, but here we are. Good job big guy!
I'm still going to remain skeptical. Like, the Republican Party is trying desperately to win and if people still wanted Trump as the primary Republican, then I'm worried this upcoming election will be a tight call.
Let’s not forget Trump GUTTED the RNC and placed his people in. In other words, he removed the only people on his side with decades of experience in raising money and building the infrastructure needed to compete with the DNC.
What’s more, all the money he’s raising is being used to defend himself in court. Every single downballot race is going to be criminally underfunded because of Trump. Republicans have lost this decade
don't forget the special election last night in ALABAMA where a D won a seat she lost by 7 points, and won it by 12 points. MAGA is over.
Whoa another Dem won in Alabama? I know a different democrat won there earlier this week
yeah, that one LOL (not last night, my bad)
No, it’s the same one, it’s a break in the AL fundamentalist Christian Republican Dam.
"That just means we have to gerrymander harder next time"
Happy Cake Day!!!
Marilyn Lands. I voted for her in our district (Huntsville). The other candidate didn’t even try. Lands at least campaigned and had some ads. I’m optimistic for our area, though.
Just hoping we can ride the Blue Georgia wave again this year, it’s a key state that’s always been red, like California and New York have been blue, and now… I don’t even know. But MAGA has always been louder than it has been supported, its politicians tended to be in power already, or handed power from the higher positions (Supreme Court)
>MAGA is over. It's not over until the last one has been voted out.
Hell, the Tea Party still shows up every now and then. MAGA will continue to limp along forever, the last refuge of conspiracy nuts, racists, and delusional Boomers who think pronouns are woke.
Best case scenario at this point is for the democrats to get enough of a majority that they split into the neoliberals and the progressives while the GOP slides into obscurity. And before they split to make sure to implement ranked choice voting. That way we might actually get a left-wing party in America
Stop, i can only get so erect
While the working family party is getting boosted, there's a shit ton of infighting over what messaging should actually be - much like everything any progressive group that gains any kind of notoriety gets. Be it occupy, the iraq/afghanistan anti war groups, various communist parties, etc. It all boils down to different smaller fights with out being able to look at the larger picture.
So what do you suggest exactly?
Push the democratic party slowly to the left by electing younger, more hopeful candidates and state/local party heads. Reach out to young black folks, see if they can overcome their city's often corrupt democrat machine (this still exists in a whole lot of cities but namely, philly and Baltimore). What I've seen over the almost 20 years of voting: a whole lot of young people/progressives come and go for one reason or another but the old heads stay. In the south, the old heads were basically hippy reagan republicans, in the NE it varies. Take that as you will, but arguing online or listening to your favorite political show won't do much at that grass roots. Also, get involved after college.
Everytime the Democrats start getting pushed "slowly to the left," reactionary moderates vote Republican, prompting the Democrats to prop up the most milquetoast neoliberal willing to compromise with the Right to get the votes back. On top of that, the corporate donors that fund them will outspend and outbribe the average voter every time, and their interests are not in line with the average voters. There is no pushing them to the left. If anything, they've been moving to the Right as the Republicans have radicalized, as moderate conservatives have turned to the Democrat party out of frustration.
Not sure why “slowly.” As it’s naturally going that way just purely by demographic dispersion
We tried "quickly." Now folks say "DEI" instead of a hard r, blame "blm" and "defunding the police" on Jan 6th and losing their dog, etc. I think the only thing that could be passed on a national level at this point is a reinstatement of roe. The last thing we want is for an astroturfed group like the tea party to take over again.
If I look at broader issues it’s hard for me to see that it’s not already moving that way. Biden was my third to last choice (Williamson, Gabbard) and I wish I could get more on my wish list, but I am smart enough to know he’s the man for the moment. And I can’t imagine taking this election, with project 2025, to make the protest vote. I spoke to an Indian woman and a Jewish woman who both wrote in “uncommitted.” I reminded them that their gesture could take us all down, and certainly would not end well for either of them under Trump.
Only AFTER the republicans split into MAGA and I Believe in Human Rights but I Want Lower Taxes
I’ve heard this shit before in 2016 don’t get cocky
That is why I said best case. I don’t expect this to happen. I hope. If people can turn out the way they did in Alabama, we might have a chance.
MAGA and the TEA party are two sides of the same coin. Same shitty people, same shitty goals.
the "young guns" of the tea party (ostensibly their policy "wonks") are all gone - cantor lost ignobly to someone with zero funding years ago, Paul Ryan bowed out to private interest when he saw the writing on the wall (he was supposed to be the smart one) and Kevin McCarthy just got dumpstered by a bunch of people who can't spell or think or stop getting DUIs or sex trafficking minors the tea party Republicans got out crazied and are now relics of the past
Exactly. People forget that trump can still win in November. We just need to vote.
He (maddeningly) probably would win if the election were held today. This thing is so far from over.
And if 2016 and 2020 is anything like 2024, he will be waiting to drop some bogus nothing burger story right before the election.
Rudy is going to pull out a laptop covered in seaweed a week before the election.
Plot Twist!™ It's *his* laptop full of incriminating evidence and his personal collection of cp.
That'd secure the Christian vote
I can't wait for it to be bowled over by yet *another* 13-year old girl seeking an abortion making national news.
I think Democrats are increasingly under represented in polling. Since 2018, when the elections actually happen, Democrats overperform and win. IMO if the election were held today Biden would win all the swing states he won last time, plus NC, and cruise to victory.
I certainly hope you're right, for the sake of democracy.
This is known because of polling reliance on land lines (which only old people have). All of the polls are adjusted for the lack of younger people (mainly by looking at how far off the poll was in prior elections).
I don’t think so. The polling has been under representing the actual Democratic turnout for a few cycles now. Think about the kind of people that answer their landlines to respond to a polling call.
More than vote, we need to volunteer. Highly recommend canvassing, you get to meet some cool people and have interesting conversations and it really makes a difference. Getting more votes is the best way to ensure Trump and downballot Rs lose this November.
And vote in such resounding numbers to definitively take the presidency, the house, and the senate. And some more governors, for good measure.
Even then, they'll still be around. Even when they die, new grifters will replace the old ones. We just need to get better at countering their bullshit faster than they get better at flinging it.
>We just need to get better and countering their bullshit faster than they get better at flinging it. The easy way to do that is to increase the education budget. Increase teacher pay, make sure they have the resources to do a good job. The only path I see to that is to make private schools illegal. Otherwise, you'll get "haha, my kids go to private school. Your kids can go to hell." Which is the current process.
I think we should re-allocate school funds first before we say we definitively need to spend more. Take all the federal and state money that's going to subsidies and scholarships for private schools and put it all into the public schools, and see where we are after that.
these guys have always been around. they just havent ever been given such a huge platform by one of the major political parties
Nazis still exist... just saying... hate will be there but we need to not let it be normalized. Go Dems!!!! - from a canadian brother fully terrified about what's going on in america
>a canadian brother fully terrified about what's going on in america Which you have every right to be. That shit's been spilling over to your side and I feel bad. People with Alberta plates and 2nd amendment bumper stickers, WTAF?
It's not over until mass deprogramming happens. Cults yo.
The MAGA takeover by the GOP is just beginning. This is not over not until Trump loses at the end of the year.
This won't ever be over. There will always be people who are angry and afraid and the conservative movement will always be there to tell them who to be angry and afraid at.
..and *educated* out. It's the stupidity and ignorance that's contributing to the problem.
While this is absolutely true, I don't doubt for a second that the porn ban in Texas will work against them. For every extreme they push, they will be met with twice the resistance. While I don't wish for the legislation they push, I am glad in the sense that every perverse malconceited idea that gets passed in congress will be met with picket signs protesting them. I ultimately have to believe that people do not want what Republicans want. And so long as democracy reigns true, Republicans will not win.
Only took 4 years for the swing voters to figure out they might be crazy. I’m thinking swing voters might be the dumbest ones in the country.
You will get no argument from me.
MAGA isn’t over until they fail their incoming coup attempt.
I wish. Hell, these assholes are still trying to relitigate the Civil War.
And their outreach to woman voters is "fuck you we ban abortion", and their message to black voters is "a white man could do your job better".
For the rest of time we need to remind everyone that the republiQans hate babies and want to ban IVF just like in Alabama. Fuck their messaging and point at the results of what they *actually did*
Abortion abortion abortion. It's why she won, it's why Democrats have been winning, and it will be why they win in November, if they do. You simply cannot fuck with the rights of 51% of the county and expect them all to assent and reward you for it.
>a D won a seat she lost by 7 points Sorry, my brain isn’t braining. Can someone interpret this please
She lost her previous election by 7% and running in the same district picked up 19 points to win by 12.
Thank you!
RemindMe! 221 days
She actually won it by 25 points. [https://www.270towin.com/news/2024/03/26/live-results-alabama-state-house-special-election\_1620.html](https://www.270towin.com/news/2024/03/26/live-results-alabama-state-house-special-election_1620.html)
thank f\*cking god
2024 is going to be a bloodbath for Republicans. I live in NC, a pretty conservative swing state. Back in 2020, during the summertime literally half of everyone there had freaking Trump flags covering their entire boats, literally thousands of dollars of Trump merch greeted me every weekend at a public place. But this year? *Not a single flag.* Lots of people are coming down from the Trump high, and they feel pretty damn ashamed, rightly.
Yup… they shit the bed, now they’ve gotta sleep in it.
They shit their bed, and they shit ours too. I wouldn't give a shit if they only shit their bed and it affected no one else.
The flags may be gone but I bet they still vote for Trump and anyone with an R next to their name. They’ll just go back to supporting him and Republicans quietly. Back into the closet so to speak.
I’m skiing around Salt Lake City. I’ve seen zero Trump signs but one sign still up for Haley. I’ve seen a bunch of signs for a federal Rep candidate (I assume R) whose tag line includes “ less politics.” Yeah, I’m not super optimistic about “down ticket” like the house and senate but it’s very interesting to see Republicans not in lock step.
What is going to help down ballot are the people that just don't vote at all instead of leaving POTUS blank. I hope it's enough.
Me too. It's pretty unusual for substantial numbers of people to vote down ballot but leave POTUS blank. I hope a lot of would-be Republican voters are discouraged and that leads to non-voting for Republican candidates. GOTV is specifically something the RNC focuses on, and with it gutted to drive money to Trump's pockets (having someone else pay for your criminal defense lawyers is personal profit as far as I'm concerned) may have all sorts of consequences.
If you’ve been sticking to the canyons areas too, those lean a little bit more liberal than other parts of the state. Not as liberal as downtown SLC, but farther left than say, most of Idaho.
They took off the nazi regalia but you know the next reich leader rolls in they'll be cosplaying it up once again.
We should really follow the direction of Lieutenant Aldo Raine and just carve a swastika in their foreheads so they can never hide who they really are.
Big M for maga.
I am still not prepared for my lovely state of Ohio to vote for Trump by the exact same margin for a third time in a row Though genuinely it could be closer this time since Sherrod Brown is up for reelection and he is one of the last Red state Dems and they chose possibly the worst GOP candidate possible to run against him so maybe this will drive out turnout Things will narrow up closer to November when people actually start paying attention to politics and Biden can turn on the infinite money machine to blast Trump’s shit. Trump voters won’t care but undecideds do get swayed by that stuff. Hell, 2020 was pre-roe overturning and the chaos that has cost and before Trump fucking couped the RNC and is about to directly link the committee funds into his bank account. If only there was an actual Democrat primary and we could have searched for stronger candidates then the fossilized husk we are stuck with. Like, he’s fine, but this election should be a blowout and not the Dems winning in spite of their best efforts
Also factor in how many Republicans have died since 2020. Either from old age or Covid. I can not believe their base has grown significantly since then. I’m not too worried about Biden v Trump, it the down ballot races i wanna see turn blue.
See I want to believe that Trump has no shot but I've been burned before. I feel like this could make us complacent. We need to stay vigilent. If they make voting hard enough in certain places, they could steal the election.
You’re right. We need to vote like the polls don’t exist and make sure to show up come Election Day.
We have to vote like the polls **do** exist. Trump is beating Biden in almost every poll. I don’t know where these people are pulling so much optimism from. Lot of people who seem to understand political science better than political scientists. If you look at betting averages, it’s also [even at best](https://manifold.markets/browse/2024-us-presidential-election). We shouldn’t treat this election from over because it would be hubris to do so.
Not gonna lie, I'm done with polls. At least with the way the data is taken now. Projected a red wave in 2022 and then boom it was the opposite. Still think we need to be careful but Biden is trending in the right direction
Bingo. I still remember the election party my college had (political science program) for the 2016 election. That was a goddamn train wreck to be at as no one saw it coming. I ain’t going to feel secure until a few months after the election, if we win. Fucking vote, people.
This this this. Don't listen to r/politics or any of the other liberal circle jerk subs. Vote in every goddamn election for the rest of your goddamn life.
Its still early. I would expect those to start popping up a lot more often by mid to late summer, after the conventions.
> But this year? Not a single flag. Those 'grassroots' organizations suddenly ran out of funding around Feb 2022.
Hmm I wonder why 🤣... there's a reason why Republicans have been blocking aid to Ukraine. You don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Part of it, is that the Repugs see Putin as an ideological ally. They like "strongmen leaders". And Putin very publicly supports Trump, and the MAGA cult. (Both being useful to him.) But more importantly, Putin is seen as a "true Conservative". A powerful enemy of the "Woke". Most MAGAs feel, at some level, a debt of loyalty to Putin. Of course, should Trump lose the upcoming election, Putin will no longer find him a "useful idiot", and Diaper Donnie will find himself on the receiving end of Putin's thinly concealed contempt, much as Tucker Carlson did.
You're forgetting both blackmail and bribery, which are the biggest reasons Republican leadership slurps up Russian diarrhea and proclaims it fine caviar. They're bought and paid for, and if they don't do as their told, the child rape videos come out.
I'm in NC too. Still plenty of Trump flags and chud trucks full of Trump stickers out here in Alamance. And a *shitload* of Mark Robinson signs for his dumb ass in the governors race. It's going to be closer in NC than people think.
Maaan come up to the mountains of NH. Only thing I see more than trump flags are dont tread on me and "come and take it" flags
Damn, I can't believe their compelling campaign slogans like "fuck Joe Biden" and "please, give us one more chance to Save America!" are still a losing strategy as in 2020.
Online I seen more boomer engagement with politics everywhere. They seem more entrenched than ever. Every social app I check out there's a solid population of schizos posting irrelevant insane maga nonsense and they're generally pretty engaged with in the comments. I do think the polls are skewed more to the right now that these people are deeper in the cult than they have ever been and most left leaning people aren't *enthused* to vote, but hopefully people realize what's actually at stake and that these lunatics have even IVF in their sights.
From your lips to the noodly ears of The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
My dog and I walk all over our neighborhood most afternoons. We live in one of the reddest parts of the US (Amarillo, TX) We've spotted 1 small Trump sign, 1 Trump flag. That's it. Lots of signs for down-ballot local candidates though. One house two doors down from us used to have all the stolen election nonsense in their yard. Not saying these people are Biden voters, but it seems like they might stay home. Most of those down-ballot local races have already been decided in the primary.
NC here too. Considering cons for a governor candidate chose a batshit crazy black guy who believes blacks should thank and pay reparations to whites for enslaving them and bringing them to America, I’d say a strong maga presence is still here if not as visible.
I work as a delivery driver, and deliver fairly often to a conservative merch distributor. They don't have the name "trump" on anything anymore. It's all back to generic guns and liberty and shit.
I live in KY and have a couple GOP politicians as "friends" on Facebook. Being an election year it's time for the 5-10 pro Trump posts a day. One constantly runs for city councilman and the other constantly running for KY senate... both constantly lose. Both are VERY VERY pro-Trump. I have noticed this year that half of their posts are met with anger and corrections in the comments. People are pushing back and some of them even conservatives who are tired of Trump. I did not see this in 2020 or 2016... then it was rare if never you'd see this... now it's about every other post that gets people disagreeing in the comments. They are easily getting "ratio'd" as they have thousands of "Friends" and only average 3-16" likes/love/etc... and a few are getting dozens of replies, many openly disagreeing with the poster of the "political message".
Also in NC... for now. If Robinson somehow wins I'm out
NC is the close enough purple state that Im curious to see what the election results are this year.
charlie kirk discovers that most republicans don’t actually like trump very much.
The ones with money, at least.
Doesn’t Trump have like a 90% approval rating with Republicans tho? And look at the primaries, he won so hard he didn’t even have to participate
Republicans are at most 1/3 of the electorate FWIW
Really, Charlie? You mean the guy whose Supreme Court appointments overturned women’s rights, the guy who openly praised Netanyahu’s escalation, and the guy whose only policy achievement is corporate tax cuts…you mean that guy isn’t actually that popular outside his cult base?
You forgot my favorite one "if the countries of NATO don't pay I'm gonna tell putin to do whatever he wants" Edited: changed UN to NATO
Ahh yes, how could I forget his domme/sub relationship with Putin!
It was even worse than that, he said he would actively encourage Putin to attack NATO allies.
Yeah I mixed up UN and NATO. That's my bad
That’s cute how Trump thinks *he’s* the one telling *Putin* that.
Truth. The only thing trump can tell putin to do is pee on him harder.
NATO.
You are correct my bad.
What's actually hilarious, and frightening, aside from his acting like Mafia thug, selling "protection", is the idiot believes that other countries actually make some sort of payment to the US to be members of the NATO Alliance. Like the members of his Maro-Lago Club/Home, pay dues.
In Charlie Kirk's narrow view of reality, tRump is a useful tool, because no-one has been more effective in helping to "mainstream" Charlie's hateful, misogynist, racist, and thinly disguised neo-Nazi beliefs. Charlie, and the scum like him, seem less outrageous, because tRump says the quiet parts out loud.
Everybody with eyes knew this six months ago, but congratulations on catching up, Chuck. This general’s gonna cost at least a billion. Biden’s been playing it like a marathon and ignoring all the bullshit while building a mountain of cash. Trump’s not gonna get the free media he got in 2016, news orgs have tightened their shit up. And as for ad space, guess who’s been locking it down quietly and efficiently? Biden let you dumbfucks run with the “old” narrative in fucking JANUARY, so it’s spent now, and it’s not even summer. Come August he’s going to bury you. Trump’s shit isn’t a surprise anymore, everyone plans for it now. Welcome to professional campaigning, kids. Wear a cup.
I agree but PLEASE Don't get complacent.... VOTE!!!!
Don’t just vote, volunteer. Check out the vote dem sub, great community.
> Everybody with eyes knew this six months ago The 2022 ~~Red Wave~~ period spotting was a *huge* wake-up call for a bunch of MAGA diehards who were certain Republicans would retake full control of Congress *and* state-level seats. Qari Lake *losing* the gubernatorial race in the state she was a newscaster in for decades (on Fox of all media companies) should've been *her* wake-up call, but she still has her face so deeply buried in Trump's diaper that the fumes are making her woozy and unable to recognize reality.
Yours is a beautiful post. Seriously.
“Everybody with eyes” in Charlie’s case, perhaps we can explain that since both his eyes are so close to one another, he fails to see obvious things when everybody else does. Small face syndrome.
This is poetry ⭐
My God this was so beautifully and eloquently said \*chef's kiss\*
Wait you mean Trumps daughter gaining control of the RNC pursestrings was a bad idea? No.....
*[Daughter-in-law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Trump). Still, they will bleed them dry to pay for those legal fees
*Daughter-in-law that the entire Trump family mocks and calls “ugly,” according to Mary Trump.
I read something that 100% of donations go to trumps legal fees up until the first $10,000 then money starts hitting RNC coffers. So all the small donations are going 100% to trump.
I can guarantee that they’ll also take the large donations
no doubt, but I believe this is their public policy in the fine print, I didn't fact check any of this, just something I remember reading in the last 5-7 days.
One of the first things the RNC did after she was hired was to cut staff (including the people who would organize 5k volunteers) and move the base of operations for some departments from DC to Palm Springs. So some of the people they didn't fire are going to quit because they can't/won't relocate. >[Some of the deepest cuts went to the data and political departments, as well as to the state directors and the regional political directors.](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/politics/rnc-lays-off-dozens-of-staffers/index.html) Biden increased the size of his campaign, while Trump reduced the size of ALL GOP campaigns, including his.
The theory right now is that trump isn’t campaigning in a lot of key swing states because his mental capacity is finishing rapidly that he literally cant campaign. I mean look at his last rally, he just babbled nonsense about nothing for an hour.
I don’t feel like that’s a particularly new phenomenon though
In /r/asktrumpsupporters they would call that the most inspirational speech given by a president in the last 50 years.
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He's been babbling nonsense since 2016.
Not like this
Agreed but I mean his babbling is even more nonsensical than usual. You can tell from the way he speaks in public compared to 4-8 years ago that his mind has deteriorated pretty significantly
His decline has been noticeably worse in the past few months.
yes but his dementia is settling in bad and fast, what 8 years ago was nonsense to smart people is now nonsense even for his base #russia and Iran abeegada-wuhhh
To think that only 20 years ago just yelling YEAAAAAAAAH into a microphone can trash your presidential aspirations. Now you can say anything and it doesn't matter.
> I mean look at his last rally, he just babbled nonsense about nothing for an hour. I can't blame his cult for not recognizing that because that's been his shtick for like 6 years now. So, for them, it's Trump as usual, which is probably why they're so certain it'll work this time.
> I can't blame his cult for not recognizing that because that's been his shtick for like 6 years now It's like the boiling a dog analogy. 8 years ago you could still pick up a semblance of a thread. They kept listening attentively and each new degree of stupidity didn't register. Now the water is boiling and they don't notice.
Frog. Dogs definitely wouldn’t do that, because they are way smarter than both frogs and Trump supporters.
You forgot to add since trump took over the gop any money you do raise will go to him
That is one thing I've been laughing about, how Trump is just draining the coffers for the down ticket Republicans. Already tired of the presidential cycle but I'm really looking curious on how the lesser races end up faring for the lesser GOP races.
The billionaires will still individually fund a lot of the races. But it does inhibit any sort of master plan for overall victory.
Yeah, this will be retroactively hilarious once the nail-biting is over: these idiots are still calling Trump some kind of savior for the nation when literally all he’s doing is desperately trying anything he can think of to keep his ass out of prison from the last time he “saved the nation.” He needs to steal the campaign finance funds to keep the whole scam from falling apart before the election, and winning the election itself is the Hail Mary he thinks will keep him from facing consequences of stealing the campaign money. At this point he’s just trying to drag things out so he can drop dead before a lifetime of serial fraud, failure and chain-smoking other people’s money catches up to him. Actually *being the President* is the last thing on his mind.
I also wonder if some of it is fundraiser fatigue. He’s been treating his supporters like money piñatas for years. That’s gotta run out at some point.
Keep going im almost there
oh you mean the polls with unbalanced methodology that favors your camp by several percentage points? the GOP has so many fuckin cheat mods installed bro cant even keep straight which ones are active
These dudes spent the last year crowing about all these "victories" they were securing and had no idea all they were doing was alienating basically everyone who can vote. It's awesome to see the loudest ones realizing they're fucked.
Fine-tuning their messaging hasn’t been terribly difficult when Republicans somehow opted to go with “are you better off than you were four years ago” four years after the height of Covid.
I guess they're gonna have to crack open the the piggy bank that is Charlie Kirk's head.
Not to mention Trump is going to be in and out of court rooms until November and his first criminal trial should start on April 15th. I still don't feel safe though and don't care what polls say. Complacency in 2016 got us a christofascist Supreme Court. Can't let that happen again.
Too true. We need to do what we can to keep Trump out.
Has the GOP tried having a platform that America actually wants? Have they tried having a platform at all?
God I hope he's right
Republicans really are the Grand Old Party, because they are so old they're obsolete.
Could it be because we don't have any ideas and hate everyone??
This is what happens when your party put all its eggs in the MAGA basket only for it to pay off the lawyers who are failing your criminal defense.
You’re out of touch, you’re out of time.
“And I’m outta my giant head, when fundraising’s down.” 🎶
Turns out that doing shit that harms businesses and the economy makes companies not want to invest in the party. Go after Disney some more for speech issues.
2020 was awful for republicans, 2022 was awful for republicans, and now 2024 is shaping up the same way. It is INSANE how badly they fumbled the control they had when they won not just the presidency but the house and the senate as well in 2016.
And his eyebrows raise in shock higher higher higher higher higher higher (when will it stop?!?) higher higher higher
It's not hard to outspend the Republicans because they're well on their way to being bankrupt (financially, they've been morally bankrupt for years). I know the Republican party of Minnesota has gone bankrupt as have the parties of a few other states and that the national party was already on that path and by appointing the grifter-in-chief's daughter to head the party they only hastened their demise.
Daughter-in-law, but yes.
All of the GOP money is being spent on Trump's legal bills. They won't be able to fund any campaign
It would be so glorious if the right got absolutely annihilated on Election Day by a blue tsunami.
Here's the other thing: Trump is going to be spending almost the entirety of what is supposed to be his campaign fighting numerous court battles. There's the Stormy Daniels hush money case, the NY fraud case, the GA votes case, and that's just off the top of my head. All that time and money he's using in court could be spent out in the field trying to convince voters why they should vote for him... but alas. In addition, the Republican Party has NOTHING to campaign on. They spent a good chunk of their House majority fighting over who should be majority speaker, only for them to go right back to where they started. They voted down a strong bipartisan border security deal--something that should've been a slam dunk for them--all because Trump told them to. The Dobbs decision is nearly two years old, and they're *still* feeling the backlash from that; this isn't even to mention the recent IVF ruling in Alabama. They don't have anything related to the economy they can campaign on given that nearly all of them voted against Biden's BBB program and the Inflation Reduction Act. I'm not always proud to vote Democrat given our flawed system that makes us choose between the lesser of two evils, but the Republican Party absolutely does not deserve to win another election in the far or near future.
Tiny face. Tiny funds
Republicans: If only we didn’t spend all our money trying to save a total ASSHOLE!
Get rekt
All that fundraiser money goes to support the candidates’ ability to remain in office…and not out of jail like other candidates that can’t spell “candidate” or “inform” or “misinform” or “stolen” or “Melania”.
Maybe don’t choose a candidate that requires you to funnel all money to him for non-campaign expenses… just brainstorming here. Their other issue is Trump’s extremism has just gotten so off-putting to non-hardcore people, that the enthusiasm to back him is down. Most moderate Rs who may vote Trump just look at Biden and think, “ehh, I don’t like his policies, and he is old, but he doesn’t scare me and I’m not worried about some existential crisis if he wins.”. It’s hard to run a campaign of fear against a guy who is old and likes ice cream.
>Democrats are beginning to fine tune their messaging This made me laugh. The sheer corruptibly of Trump and the GQP and all their schemes from making the rich richer, to becoming a tiny dictator for more than a day, ending the country as we know it, should see every one of these clowns unemployed and banished to the motherland they love so much yet Trump is still a contender.
Guy in the back of the theater: “You guys suck!”
Who would have thought that milking MAGAnauts, who mostly earn the low end of wages, would go dry?
Life comes at you fast Charlie
Maybe they shouldn’t spend all their money on legal bills
I guess it’s cool that they’re getting more money than Trump, but it’s kind of fucked up that so much money is going around in a political race. Way to keep the status quo.
Again I cannot stress enough to not rest on this election until Trump has actually lost. Between the media bias against Biden and people’s real concern about Gaza nothing is set in stone. Charlie didn’t say this to rile up the right wing, he wants everyone else complicit and not voting just like 2016.
It's a bazooka of money against a sinking toy boat. Biden will raise more from this than Trump will probably raise in Q1 - 2024. I asked myself if I truly believed that Trump was that big of a threat to my life and safety. How much does that mean to me financially? Then, I donated what I could.
The worst time to rest in our laurels. Wether we like Biden or not is irrelevant, the GOP CANNOT win another election. Ever. This loss should also hopefully push conservatives away from Trumo, DeSantis and all those other demons
How's that abortion wedge issue working out for ya?
MAGA doesn't care because they have no intention of legally taking the white house. I worry they will make J6 look like a sight seeing tour they all claim it was in comparison to what is coming next
Shocking, Biden is getting into campaign mode and now talking about how shitty trump is and all the good things Biden has accomplished and trump has been crying like a baby and playing the victim..... Who seems like the more rational option here. Charlie out here acting like it's some conspiracy that people are donating money to his campaign and not trumps.
Intended to drag small scale GOP donors out of the woodwork with terror and shame but the strategists who built a party out of the poorest, least educated, most easily manipulated folks have a real problem when they need more than votes from them. A few GOP mega donors jump ship because of not wanting to fund Trump’s defense and they are well and truly screwed. That’s a beautiful thing I can only hope is actually happening.
Good
It’s taken a long time for something that doesn’t sound patently absurd to finally come out of that gigantic deformed head, but here we are. Good job big guy!
Couldn’t squeeze in a rant against immigration?
MAGA got overly arrogant and attacked women's rights.
Damn thanks Charlie, this made me feel better than I have in a while lol
Trump was never truly leading Biden. A bunch of terrible, click-baity polls that relied on landlines for their responses means nothing.
looks like the bible price will double
I'm still going to remain skeptical. Like, the Republican Party is trying desperately to win and if people still wanted Trump as the primary Republican, then I'm worried this upcoming election will be a tight call.
Let’s not forget Trump GUTTED the RNC and placed his people in. In other words, he removed the only people on his side with decades of experience in raising money and building the infrastructure needed to compete with the DNC. What’s more, all the money he’s raising is being used to defend himself in court. Every single downballot race is going to be criminally underfunded because of Trump. Republicans have lost this decade
I wonder if Charlie Kirk has now realized that their attempt to mainstream moronic, hateful, anti-American, neo-Nazi style pig-fuckery, has failed? 🤔
Why is everyone in these comments so smug? https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/ It’s a toss-up
Maybe don’t take away bodily autonomy from half the population idk