Politics 2024 United States Presidential Election

[Kevin]

So... what are thoughts on the 2024 election?

Forgetting for a moment the Trump circus, I'm surprised really that Biden is going to run again. With the 2020 election I think a lot of people who voted for Biden did so assuming that he'd bow out of a second term and let Harris be on the ticket. Harris, though, seems to have been mostly invisible since the election and wouldn't come close to having the momentum behind her to carry the ticket to a win.

 

[Bella]

why do they start so early?

 

[Kahuna]

why do they start so early?

Marketing is what elections are about now not politics.

 

[Kahuna]

Marketing is what elections are about now not politics.

Good thing Elon Musk stopped all of the fake accounts! 🤣

Massive Twitter Bot Farm Is Heaping Praise on Trump and Trashing DeSantis

A new report identified hundreds of thousands of Twitter bots spewing hate on Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer, along with Mitch McConnell and Nikki Haley.

gizmodo.com

 

[Kevin]

It'll be interesting if Pence enters the arena.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/11/politics/mike-pence-gridiron-dinner/index.html

With Trump & Desantis fighting for... a certain demographic... it could be Pence that is the dark-horse candidate for the GOP.

 

[Kahuna]

With Trump & Desantis fighting for... a certain demographic...

Everything Desantis does screams out "Me too!" to be like Trump. 🤣

Ron DeSantis says he would consider presidential pardons for Jan. 6 rioters

The Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate said he would be "aggressive" in issuing pardons and suggested he would consider one for former President Donald Trump if needed.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Kevin]

Well, I think we can all assume this one will be appealed to the Supreme Court.

Colorado Supreme Court, in landmark ruling, bans Trump from state’s ballot under insurrection clause

A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race. “A majority of the court holds that Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment

news.yahoo.com

 

[Trubel]

I guess if Biden runs again he has my vote. I try not to watch the news because the world and this country has gone crazy. I don't know the candidates or people running yet. Who have thrown their hat in the ring.

 

[Kevin]

I guess if Biden runs again he has my vote. I try not to watch the news because the world and this country has gone crazy. I don't know the candidates or people running yet. Who have thrown their hat in the ring.

On the Dem' side, it's really only Biden & Harris. There were a few people who said they'd run but there was never a chance of any of them getting traction.

On the GOP side it's Trump in the lead with Haley and DeSantis way behind.

Trump is going back to his usual bag of tricks, now he's trying the 'birther' conspiracy stuff with Haley by claiming she's not eligible even though she was born in the US to parents who were naturalized citizens.

 

[Kevin]

Well, DeSantis is gone. I'm a little surprised, I figured he'd stick it out till the last possible moment before bowing to Trump.

Ron DeSantis suspends campaign for president

The Republican governor says there is no "clear path to victory" and endorses Donald Trump.

www.bbc.com

 

[Kevin]

I'm surprised that they ruled against Trump considering how much he stacked the courts in his favor.

Trump is not immune in 2020 election interference case, appeals court rules

Trump is likely to ask the Supreme Court to intervene to further delay the trial in Washington, D.C.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Kevin]

Well, this has been an interesting week in American politics! 👀

Conspiracy theories aside, this week will most likely push Trump ahead of Biden in the polls and now Biden's campaign is actually stopping a lot of their ads temporarily.

The US really does need to get rid of the two-party system, it simply no longer works.

 

[Kahuna]

Well, this has been an interesting week in American politics! 👀

 

[Bella]

time for the first women president!!

 

[Kevin]

time for the first women president!!

That should've been Clinton but at the time calling Trump's cult "deplorables" was controversial. Politics have certainly changed since then in regards to what is considered to be a controversy or not. 😳

 

[Kahuna]

Today Trump is saying that he might skip the debate with Harris. Did anybody expect him to show up? 🤣

 

[Kevin]

Today Trump is saying that he might skip the debate with Harris. Did anybody expect him to show up? 🤣

What I'm surprised at, if I've understood the news correctly, is that he wants the mics to be muted and Harris wants hot mics. I would've thought for sure it be the other way. 🤔

 

[LennoxZayn]

Surprised Biden's running again—Harris's low visibility makes me wonder if she'll gain enough momentum to carry the ticket.

 

[siocon]

Biden dropped put. It's almost like 1968.when Johnson dropped out after McCarthy won a primary.

 

[Kevin]

Surprised Biden's running again—Harris's low visibility makes me wonder if she'll gain enough momentum to carry the ticket.

That's something I've been surprised at the past few years. With the 2020 election a lot of people I know who voted Biden/Harris did so knowing that Biden likely wouldn't run again (or, not to be morbid, be around to run again) and that Harris would be the 2024 ticket but Harris was basically sitting out the past four years barely making any ripples. Now that she is the ticket, she has a lot catching up to do with letting people know where she stands.