Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

There's a bit of a festival vibe following it too. You even have some of the late night shows setting up in Chicago to be near the action too.

Donnie must hate this. I don't remember anything close to that amount of positive vibes surrounding the RNC a few weeks ago. The sudden increase in MAGA apologists might reflect Donnie's rage. Also, we've gone from Harris being a Communist to being stupid to maybe claiming that she's a drunk (based on a poster earlier…don't actually know if that one is being used.)

Oh Donnie…please please please go one further and just say it: Say she can't be President because she's a woman. We know that's what you think and I'd be so very happy if you just came out and said it. Go on Donnie…I asked nicely….

The attacks also point out how Harris was the first to drop out during the 2020 primaries, how she only got 5% of the vote etc. As if this is some kind of proof that she is a poor candidate.

And yet, if we assume this poor candidate is terrible, then the fact she is beating Trump is not quite the gotcha such attacks think it is since it is evident that people are actually willing to support a poor candidate and this then infers that the other candidate must be utterly toxic.

As has been remarked on Twitter… the DNC looks like a cross section of all of America.
The RNC looked like a country club in the Deep South.

40 out of 44 members of Trump's former administration won't endorse him, no visible support from previous senior Republicans like Bush.

You mean she didn't execute a coup on stage to seize the candidacy for the Presidency???

shock

Another MAGA conspiracy theory bites the dust. Hard to keep track of them all…
And there'll be no reflection by posters here who were trying to make hay out of the delay in the Obamas endorsing Harris of how they were duped.

Whats your point?

Nixon also, one of the big mistakes Johnson did in his tenure (and their were lots) was not making nixon's interference with peace talks in Vietnam public.

Bookies odds are based on how people are betting. Trump's odds have been getting worse and worse the past few weeks once Kamala replaced Biden because more people started betting on Kamala. But it then tends to flip because you start getting far less of a payout if Kamala wins because her odds are shorter and you get better odds with Trump and therefore a larger potential payout for a smaller bet, so once Trump's odds are longer more people start betting on him and then the odds start getting shorter again.

Bookies aren't taking into consideration anything to do with policies or performance etc. They shift their odds based on how people are betting. People are betting based on the likes of policies and performance, but also who they think might win and what the potential payout might be depending on the odds at the time. An ardent Harris supporter might still put a 20 dollar bet on Trump if there were good odds just because the potential payout might be worth it.

So yeah, bookies odds aren't really that indicative of anything. They show what way people are betting, but those bets can be based on the potential payout rather than preference for the candidate.

A core tenet of his economic policy are tariffs but he does not have a single clue how they actually work. He thinks it will cause money to flow into America from abroad but his tariff plan would increase costs for American businesses which would inevitably pass that to the consumers through price increases. I think the Dems needs to be stronger and clearer on this messaging.