Tag: 2024 election
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.
More than 78 Million Have Already Voted
78,041,301
As of 9 a.m. Eastern Time Monday, Nov. 4, a total of 78,041,301 early votes had been cast in the 2024 general election. In-person early votes totaled 42,664,880, with 35,376,421 mail ballots returned out of 67,464,164 mail ballots requested, according to the University of Florida Election Lab.
Feeling Nauseously Optimistic?
“I’m not making any predictions, but one phrase (I don’t know who coined it) is sticking with me. I find myself ‘nauseously optimistic.’ It’s not based on the polls, the odds, or the punditry. It rests solely on my (possibly naive) belief that the American people cannot and will not look at Donald Trump and say, ‘Yeah, that’s who we are.’”
— Charlie Sykes
Carville Is All in for Harris
“Today I am pulling my stool up to the political poker table to throw my chips all in: America, it will all be OK. Ms. Harris will be elected the next president of the United States,”
— Democratic pundit James Carville, writing in the New York Times.<.h2>
15 Million Have Already Cast Early Voting Ballots
15 million
“With two weeks until Election Day, more than 15 million people have already cast their ballots, the clearest sign yet that voting habits were forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic and that early voting has become a permanent feature of the American democratic process,” the New York Times reports.
One in Five Republicans Say Trump Should Seize Power If He Loses Election
19%
A new PRRI survey finds 19% of Republicans say that if Donald Trump loses the 2024 election, he should declare the results invalid and do whatever it takes to assume office. Meanwhile, nearly 3 in 10 Republicans believe that true American patriots may have to resort to violence to save the country. Said pollster Robert Jones: “I’ve been doing this for 20 years, and these answers are keeping me up at night.”
Trump and Wealthy Donors Have Started Undermining the 2024 Election Results
Judd Legum at Popular Information offers a pretty good explainer on how Donald Trump and billionaire asshats like Peter Theil are already calling into question the results of the presidential election before a single vote has been cast. It’s rich that Trump is accusing the U.S. Postal Service of ineptitude in handling mail-in votes, since the postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, is a Trump appointee:
There are 49 days until Election Day in the United States. Although the presidential race remains extremely close, Donald Trump and his allies have escalated their efforts to undermine the results.
In a post to Truth Social on Sunday morning, Trump falsely claimed that the United States Postal Service (USPS) “has admitted that it is a poorly run mess that is experiencing mail loss and delays at a level never seen before.” Trump asked, “how can we possibly be expected to allow or trust the U.S. Postal Service to run the 2024 Presidential Election?”
Read more here.
