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It usually does. But there is something to consider this time around. Trump has consistently railed against early voting. Claiming it was yet another way of "cheating".

This time around he has been encouraging early voting at every rally he has been holding in the swing states.

I'm not saying how much of a difference that is making because I certainly don't know for sure. But I would say that it will impact more Republicans voting early in this election. It may turn out that early voting still favors Democrats but I would certainly say the margin will be less.

Memphis has been posting someone who has a lot of posts suggesting the R's are crushing it in early voting. I've no clue one way or the other.

That's what it looks like when someone presents slanted Twitter posts as factual. It's basic trolling 101.

Compared to what. Compared to 2020 that would make sense. Trump advocated against early voting in that election.

It is the silly season before voting, everyone trying to make predictions using stats of who voted is flawed logic.

Something about assume is more like "ass u me"

There really is only one poll that matters.

The stripper pole?

Had to buy an offsite storage unit.

I don't know all the ins and outs of what they put in the article, but this notion is corroborated by Musk's own behavior. When Ukraine was invaded, he was as pro-Ukraine as they came. Offering free Starlink and even challenging Putin to an MMA fight, or something crazy. Since then, he's really done a 180 and became "Dark MAGA" to boot. Something stinks...badly.

I had a feeling that if it had not yet gotten to that point it soon would.

So we early voted.

The MD statistics will show an additional Dem and Ind in early voting.

Not that it matters....

So trump is supposed to have a rally tonight in Traverse City, Michigan at 7:30. At 7:30 he was just leaving Texas from the Rogan thing. He called from his plane at 8:30 and said he would be there in a “couple hours” and it would be great. People started leaving in droves

Donald Trump Tells Joe Rogan the ‘Biggest Mistake’ of His Presidency Was Picking ‘Bad,’ ‘Disloyal People’
Todd Spangler
Sat, October 26, 2024 at 1:42 AM EDT
2 min read

Donald Trump sat down with Joe Rogan to record a three-hour interview for “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast Friday. The episode was released later Friday evening.

In the wide-ranging discussion, Trump said his biggest mistake during his time in the White House was hiring “bad people, or disloyal people.” The former president also repeated unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” — but when Rogan asked him if he was going to release evidence proving the election was “stolen,” Trump changed the subject.

Rogan asked Trump whether the ex-president had made “bad choices” in appointing White House officials. Trump, after boasting about his Supreme Court nominees, acknowledged that “the biggest mistake I made” was “I picked some people that I shouldn’t have picked.” Rogan asked if Trump was referring to “neocons,” to which Trump replied, “Yeah, neocons, or bad people, or disloyal people.”

In this context, Trump named two former members of his administration: John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general who had been Trump’s chief of staff, and John Bolton, his national security adviser — both of whom have been sharply critical of Trump and the dangers he poses. Kelly and Bolton are among the many former Trump officials who have become highly critical of the ex-president since serving under him. In an interview with the New York Times this week, Kelly said Trump met the definition of a fascist and had no understanding of the Constitution — and confirmed previous reports that Trump made admiring statements about Adolf Hitler.

In the interview with Rogan, Trump called Kelly “a bully but a weak person” and said he’s “bad,” while he disparaged Bolton as “an idiot.”

In addition, Rogan asked Trump if he is “completely committed” to appointing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his administration. In August, Kennedy suspended his independent presidential campaign and endorsed Trump. Trump responded, “Oh, I completely am. But the only thing I want to be a little careful about with him is the environmental. Because he doesn’t like oil. I love oil and gas.”

The full episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” with Trump is available on YouTube and Spotify.

In a post on X, Rogan said the YouTube upload was temporarily suspended after a technical problem delayed the episode’s distribution on Spotify. “There is no issue with YouTube censoring the trump episode,” Rogan wrote. “It was just supposed to go live on both Spotify and YouTube at the same time and there was a glitch in Spotify’s upload system and so we delisted the YouTube link until it’s fixed. It should be fine now


https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-tells-joe-rogan-054226329.html

Two of many who say Trump is unfit for office.


But they care not.

Far-right congressman suggests N.C. Legislature should consider handing electors to Trump on Election Day

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Harris’ remarks at a GOP dinner Thursday night were posted on social media Friday.

WASHINGTON — The newly elected chairman of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, Rep. Andy Harris, suggested that North Carolina’s Republican-controlled state Legislature should consider awarding the state’s electors to Donald Trump before all votes are counted, according to a video of his remarks posted on social media on Friday.

Citing North Carolina counties hit by Hurricane Helene where residents may have difficulty voting, Harris said during a Q&A at a Maryland county Republican Party dinner Thursday night that it “makes a lot of sense” for the state Legislature to convene a joint session to allocate the state’s electors on Election Day, Nov. 5.

The Maryland GOP congressman was responding to remarks at the Talbot County Lincoln-Reagan Dinner made by a pro-Trump activist, Ivan Raiklin, who proposed to the audience that Trump and others should call on GOP-led state legislatures in multiple states, including North Carolina and swing states like Arizona and Georgia, to convene on Election Day and award their electoral votes to Trump.

Raiklin posted video of his exchange with Harris, as well as a full video of the event which includes Harris’ remarks, on X Friday.

“In North Carolina, that makes a lot of sense,” Harris said to Raiklin during the Q&A in front of dozens of GOP attendees. “I mean you statistically can go and say, ‘Hey, look, you got disenfranchised in 25 counties. You know what that vote probably would’ve been, which would be— if I were in the Legislature, enough to go, ‘Yeah we gotta convene the Legislature. We can’t disenfranchise the voters.’”

“But how do you make the argument in other states? I mean, otherwise it looks like it’s just a power play,” Harris continued. “In North Carolina, I mean, it’s legitimate. I mean, there are a lot of people who aren’t gonna get to vote and it may make a difference in that state.”

In a statement, Harris said Thursday’s “theoretical conversation” about state legislatures awarding electoral votes early “has been taken out of context.”

“As I’ve repeatedly said, every legal vote should be counted. Currently, voting is going well in western North Carolina,” Harris said before pointing blame at Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., for voicing doubts about whether he would vote to certify a Trump election victory if there are anomalies.

Swept into Congress in the Tea Party wave of 2010, Harris was elected just last month as chairman of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus, succeeding Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., who lost his primary race after going against Trump.

Harris played a role in the GOP’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. He attended a Dec. 21, 2020, White House meeting between Trump and House Republicans, where they strategized how to reverse the election results, according to the Jan. 6 committee.

Addressing the Lincoln-Reagan dinner Thursday, Raiklin said popular podcaster Joe Rogan — who was set to interview Trump on Friday — should ask the former president about “calling on the state legislatures in the entire country to just go ahead and convene on Nov. 5 to allocate their own state’s electors.”

“At a minimum in North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin, so that those states guarantee that no illegals are voted, no illegal drop boxes, no illegal signature non-verification going on, and it’s fully free, fair, transparent,” Raiklin added. “And it can be live streamed on X, Rumble and C-SPAN for the whole world to see.”

Raiklin explained that Republicans have the advantage over Democrats in state legislatures: “Right now, 276 electoral votes are controlled by Republican legislatures, where they control the House and the Senate. And the case of Nebraska, it’s a unicameral controlled by Republicans. What happens when Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson all call on this? Do the chances increase?”

Democrats immediately condemned Harris for approving of the proposal to allocate North Carolina’s electoral votes before voters head to the polls.

“It’s really important to understand the mainstream Republican goal — to make Donald Trump President whether or not he wins the election,” tweeted Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...ture-consider-handing-elector-rcna177337

Murica! Freedumb!

Shouldn't stuff like that and instances of purposefully disseminated false information qualify as voter fraud and be prosecuted?

I'm willing to wager heavily that the answer to that question would vary greatly depending on who you are asking. But as of now it's common practice with no actual ramifications. All under the guise of claiming it's free speech.

jc


i dont ever wanna hear a conservative mention george soros ever again, cause yall need to explain to me what the "department of efficiency" is, and why Elon musk is gonna get a direct government role if trump wins.

you guys are a bunch of fascist who wouldve sided with the axis of evil back in ww2.

Trump unveils the most extreme closing argument in modern presidential history

Donald Trump anchored his bid to win a second White House term next week on searing anti-migrant fear at a rally at Madison Square Garden, doubling down on his promise for a massive deportation program on Day 1 to reverse an “immigrant invasion.”

As the ex-president’s allies defend him against Democratic claims he is a “fascist” and an authoritarian in waiting, based in part on warnings by his ex-chief of staff John Kelly, Trump on Sunday delivered a screed that may augur the most extreme presidency in modern history if he beats Democratic nominee Kamala Harris on November 5.

“The United States is an occupied country,” Trump said, as Democrats projected messages on the exterior of the storied New York City arena, reading “Trump is Unhinged” and “Trump praised Hitler.”

The huge rally was billed as the launch of the final stage of Trump’s bid to pull off one of the greatest comebacks in American political history after trying to overturn the result of the last election and leaving office in disgrace in 2021. Before he spoke, some of the ex-president’s top supporters flung race-based and vulgar rhetoric. Former congressional candidate David Rem called Harris the “antichrist” and “the devil,” while others lashed out at Hillary Clinton, “illegals” and homeless people. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”

The Trump campaign later disavowed the line, with spokesperson Danielle Alvarez saying in a statement to CNN, “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”

Much of Trump’s speech brimmed with falsehoods and exaggerations. It was exactly the kind of rhetoric that the Harris campaign believes could prompt moderate voters and disaffected Republicans to choose the vice president. But it also represents a bet from the Republican nominee that he can drive out a huge base turnout and activate voters who don’t normally cast ballots but who agree with his hardline politics.

If nothing else, it clarified the choice that voters face in the coming days, as Harris promises Americans they can move on from Trump’s extreme behavior that tested the rule of law and constitutional constraints on presidents during his first term.

The ex-president’s blistering anti-migrant rhetoric ranks alongside the most flagrant demagoguery by a major figure in any Western nation since World War II. But it was also complemented by a sharp economic argument that represented the second leg of Trump’s closing pitch and targeted the frustration of many Americans who are struggling with high grocery prices despite cooling inflation.

“I’d like to begin by asking a very simple question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Trump asked. “I’m here today with a message of hope for all Americans: With your vote in this election, I will end inflation. I will stop the invasion of criminals coming into our country, and I will bring back the American dream.” He also said he would push for a tax credit for “family caregivers who take care of a parent or a loved one” – after Harris unveiled her own platform proposing that Medicare cover home health care.

“If Kamala Harris gets four more years, our economy can never recover. If I win, we will quickly build the greatest economy in the history of world,” he said.

The former president rooted his first presidential campaign in 2016 on inflammatory rhetoric about Mexican migrants. Eight years later, he is suggesting that migrants are directly to blame for citizens’ economic frustrations, in a conceit that has been used by far-right leaders throughout history.

A nation on edge

Trump’s dark appearance cranked up the palpable sense of tension blanketing the country a week before an election that may represent a national turning point. Supporters of each candidate harbor a sense of dread about what happens if their nominee loses, in a showdown that has highlighted two irreconcilable visions of the future — and what it means to be an American. The warnings from Trump that he envisages a presidency of all but unchecked power dedicated to “retribution” are bolstering a sense that a fateful moment is at hand.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz drew an allusion between Trump’s downtown Manhattan rally and a notorious 1939 pro-Nazi gathering at the previous arena on the same site, as Democrats now openly brand the ex-president as a “fascist.” The Minnesota governor said: “There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden … and don’t think that he doesn’t know for one second exactly what they’re doing there.”

Sunday’s raucous event underscored how the 2024 presidential election is breaking the mold, since Trump is unlikely to be competitive in the state of New York next week. But the ex-president’s homecoming to a city where he built skyscrapers to reflect his outsize persona showed how candidates have sought headlines far from battleground states. Harris was in red-state Texas on Friday to highlight hardline GOP abortion policies she warns could spread countrywide if Trump wins. And on Tuesday, she’s holding an event in Washington, DC.

Both candidates are plunging into the final week of the campaign with polls showing a tied-up race in the swing states and nationally. The election is already underway, with 40 million Americans having voted early in person or by mail. The CNN Poll of Polls shows no clear leader nationally with Harris at 48% and Trump at 47%. The race will be decided across battlegrounds including the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as the Sun Belt states of North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. The result could hinge on mere tens of thousands of votes, potentially setting the stage for tense counts over several days that will only fuel fears of a disputed election.

Harris plans her own closing argument — for a symbolic spot on Tuesday

Early voting explains why Harris will make her closing argument a full week ahead of Election Day, with a rally Tuesday evening on the Ellipse in Washington. The symbolism will be acute since it’s the site of Trump’s infamous gathering on January 6, 2021, when he told his crowd to “fight like hell” or they wouldn’t have a country before his mob smashed into the US Capitol to try to subvert the certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory. Harris’ rally will provide an emphatic exclamation point for an increasingly important theme of her campaign — that Trump represents an existential threat to American democracy.

That message was at the center of Biden’s campaign until he folded his reelection bid in July. Harris didn’t prioritize the same theme initially, but she’s increasingly warming to it. But some Democrats worry that the American people are more interested in how she can quickly improve their economic circumstances. “How effective is attacking Trump for being a fascist? This topic is not as persuasive as contrast messages featuring Harris’s economic plans, and her promise to protect reproductive rights,” read an October 25 email from Future Forward, the top super PAC supporting the Harris campaign, sent to Democrats that was first reported by The New York Times and obtained by CNN on Sunday.

Trump has in recent days played into claims by Democrats and Kelly that he is an aspiring authoritarian.

That left GOP vice presidential nominee, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, seeking to cherry-pick and redefine the ex-president’s on-the-record comments and blaming the media for reporting exactly what his boss has said. Vance insisted in a fiery interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” on Sunday that ex-president had not been referring to political opponents when he openly considered turning the military and the National Guard on the “enemy from within.” Trump, however, had however previously clarified he was talking about people such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and California Rep. Adam Schiff.

“He said that he wanted to use the military to go after far-left lunatics who are rioting, and … he also called them ‘the enemy within.’ He separately, in a totally different context, in a totally different conversation, said that Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff were threats to this country,” Vance said.

Both Trump and Harris are targeting strategic sectors of their core electorates in the final days. Harris, for instance, on Sunday made a fresh attempt to win over Black male voters, some of whom seem to be moving toward Trump. At a barber shop in West Philadelphia, an area where she needs big turnout to counter Trump’s advantage in rural Pennsylvania, the vice president took part in a discussion with Black men focused on providing better opportunities. And she underscored the vital nature of the commonwealth and its 19 electoral votes — which could block her path to the White House if it goes for Trump, as it did during his 2016 election triumph.

“We’re going to do it — victory runs through Philly and it runs through Pennsylvania,” Harris said.

The vice president is also targeting another constituency that could help her to the White House — women voters, as she tries to harness the already significant gender gap to her advantage. She appeared in Michigan on Saturday with Michelle Obama — a reluctant political figure who nevertheless is hugely popular among Democrats. In a powerful speech, the former first lady did not just appeal to women, but to the “the men who love us” — warning that Trump’s history of building the conservative Supreme Court that overturned the federal right to an abortion would have grave implications for women’s health.

“Please, please do not hand our fates over to the likes of Trump, who knows nothing about us, who has shown deep contempt for us,” Obama said. “Because a vote for him is a vote against us, against our health, against our worth.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/28/politics/trump-extreme-closing-argument/index.html

Trump’s Madison Square Garden event features crude and racist insults

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ma...lection-fcfe75be7f8281fde7bffa3adb3bba5d

Fact check: Debunking 16 false claims Trump made at Madison Square Garden

https://krdo.com/politics/cnn-us-po...claims-at-madison-square-garden-rally-2/

"hE wAntZ 2 tErMiNaTe dA cOnsTiTooTiOn of dA yOonIgHTeD StAtEz."

Ballot drop box fires under investigation in Oregon, Washington

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/28/us/ballot-box-fires-oregon-washington/index.html

So they're just setting fire to drop boxes in liberal locations now to try and help flip the election.

Oh those cunning republicans. Claim the very things they are doing is being done buy the other side. Trying to rig an election.

Because Putin made Elon his new handler… They can both be hung for treason as far as I’m concerned.

It happens all the time. They expect you to do work from home and it never goes towards your working hours. They blow up your phone on your private time and discuss work with you and never count it as work time. Somehow you find humor in that.

As per usual the independent vote will decide the election. They always do.

This guy tries to say he’s an election results desk for hire… I scrolled back through his posts and there were two types, reposting poll numbers from other sources, and posts spun to be positive for Republicans… Now I’m not saying he is biased or has an agenda; I’m saying don’t be a dupe, it’s weird.

Another right-winger… don’t you have a single real news resource? Dupe away bro, dupe away.

More crap.

That guy sounds like Hillary supporters in 2016. "But the polls are saying."

We saw how that turned out.

I don't know if Michael Pruser is a Democrat or Republican. Do you?

Now that's some slanted BS right there. ABC always reports poll numbers. So the point is they're accurate and honest about it? Maybe that's why trump thinks they should be taken off the air. He hates honesty!

The Kamala comment is about as bias as can be. But then we've grown to expect that from those whose opinions you value so highly on X.