Tag: 2024 election
Biden in the Bardo
Being Joe Biden these days really sucks.
He’s checked out while the transition’s in flux.
Trump is acting like a president;
Joe acts like a White House resident,
And he has indeed become the lamest of lame ducks.
Trump Paid $100,000 for RFK Jr.’s Capitulation and Endorsement
$100,000
“Weeks after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race in August and endorsed Donald Trump, the Trump campaign paid a California law firm that lists Kennedy among its lawyers,” NBC News reports. “The Trump campaign — now known as Never Surrender Inc. — disbursed $100,000 to ‘JW Howard Attorneys’ on Sept. 13, just three weeks after Kennedy bowed out of the race and backed Trump, FEC records show. Financial data for Trump’s campaign, which was converted to a leadership PAC, appears in FEC filings under the new Never Surrender name.”
Carville Assesses the State of the Democratic Party
“The damage that the 2024 campaign has done — the damage that this decade has done to a Democratic brand — is almost unfathomable.”
— James Carville, quoted by USA Today.
Less than 2% Is NOT a Mandate
1.55%
In his victory speech on Nov. 6, President-elect Donald Trump claimed Americans had given him an “unprecedented and powerful mandate,” the Los Angeles Times reports. However: “The latest tally from the Cook Political Report shows Trump winning 49.83% of the popular vote, with a margin of 1.55% over Vice President Kamala Harris.”
Trump Beat Harris with Low-Info Voters by Double Digits
14 points
NBC News: “According to the final NBC News poll of the 2024 race, 76% of registered voters said they follow public affairs and politics closely. The poll showed Harris winning among that group by 5 points over Donald Trump, 52% to 47%. … But among the remaining quarter of voters who said they don’t follow politics closely, Trump was ahead by a much greater margin — 14 points, 54% to 40%.”
Trump Received Less than 50% of Popular Vote
49.99% to 48.22%
With 152.7 million votes now counted in the presidential race, Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris 49.99% to 48.22%, according to the Cook Political Report.
Was Trump’s Win a Quid Pro Quo with Russia?
“The election campaign is over. To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.”
— Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev, quoted by TASS.
It’s Done — Trump Won
The intelligence of the American electorate eludes detection.
Millions of votes were cast without thought or introspection.
Despite the Dem’s campaign spending,
It looks like democracy’s ending,
Because rapist, felon, grifter Donald Trump has won re-election.
