Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

I'm open to correction, while they can change their nomination, if they want to use Trumps campaign money that has been raised then it can only be for someone on that ticket. So, Vance.

the originator of the pet eating hoax has come forward, confessing they had no evidence or direct knowledge to support their claims and that they regret how virulently the rumor has blown up (thanks to chronically online MAGA republicans such as JD Vance and others who don’t or can’t campaign on Trump’s policies (Project 2025) or record) she disavowed any intention to harm the Haitian community

Lee recently posted on Facebook about a neighbor’s cat that went missing, adding that the neighbor told Lee she thought the cat was the victim of an attack by her Haitian neighbors.

Newsguard, a media watchdog that monitors for misinformation online, found that Lee had been among the first people to publish a post to social media about the rumor, screenshots of which circulated online. The neighbor, Kimberly Newton, said she heard about the attack from a third party, NewsGuard reported. 

Newton told Newsguard that Lee’s Facebook post misstated her story, and that the owner of the missing cat was “an acquaintance of a friend” rather than her daughter’s friend. Newton could not be reached for comment.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfield-woman-says-never-meant-spark-rumors-haitian-rcna171099

I think that the "their eating cats" will be the end of Trump. Its a perfect summation of both his racism and his decent into madness. It's also packaged so neatly to destroy any lingering confidence in his ability.

Its a slow burning gift to the Dems - like a cancer in the Republicans camp. I wouldn't be surprised if there not dragging him off in a straightjacket by the end.

Yeah. Trump's goal here is not to win the vote, its to get close enough that he can use the courts, or some dodgy shenanigans by stooges the GOP have planted in the states and federal beaurocracy to throw enough spanners in the works that he can get electoral college votes overturned.

For Trump himself, it may be enough to keep delaying certification of the election results as this will continue to delay any federal trials and he feeds on chaos and instability. (Especially if your alternative is guaranteed federal convictions for all the crimes he's definitely guilty of)

I get there are lots of undecided non voters, often totally apolitical people, but in the swing states (the only places it matters) , especially if you're a potential Democrat supporter, voting is really hard. People queuing for hours in high temperatures, where its actually illegal to supply them with refreshments or even drinking water to keep them from abandoning the queue....

This is why Trump and the GOP are aiming at suppression of voters rather than convincing undecided voters to vote for them.

Any undecided voter at this stage is so apolitical that they're not likely to find it worthwhile to jump through hoops and put themselves through artificially high levels of stress and inconvenient to cast a ballot one way or another

Its also why Trump beats the polls in presidential campaigns while Trumpists in special elections often fall flat, because the voter suppression game is focused on president and general elections, not bi-elections

Undecided, undeclared, same difference

333mill + Americans so at approx 62 mill catholics yes, it’s a “minority” religion (according to Google figures just now) - numbers and % may vary depending on source but in general it’s around this ballpark

HOWEVER- Pennsylvania has a population of approx 13 million people.

23% of that population are Catholics according to Google - that makes his statement far more influential

Did she accuse Haitians of eating pets? No? Ya I think the desperation is showing from you guys.

Did she bring a 9/11 conspiracy theorist to a 9/11 memorial?? Now that should have disqualified her if anything right?

See my edited post above- I’m with you on the childless cat lady overall but just look at the % of catholics in Pennsylvania - 23% - that makes what he says far more influential and significant for this swing state

Reporters should just come out and ask if they are a couple

I'm thinking that a lot of the voters who say they are undecided are more probably afraid or ashamed to admit they had a hankering after Trump, the man who "tells it like it is" after having the opportunity to look and listen to his public behaviour for weeks now on the stage alone after the other candidate he was so "ageist" about left the stage. The uncle/aunt you don't want to admit is related to you.

Thought trump summed it up perfectly-“she’s been in office for 3.5 years, why hasn’t she done it?” referring to all the wonderful thing she’s supposedly going to do. She’s not going to do anything

The where-as "what has Trump done for us" is still there. A lot of US voters still have family living outside the US north and south of the equator.

Trump was president for 4 years. The border wall was his legacy to the US. Harris is [still] only the V/P.

Oh FFS. Hey! Catholic Church! I know this seems to be a hard lesson for you residents of the Vatican to grasp but let me repeat it now: Nazis are bad.
For the love of a God you claim to believe in stop being nice to nazis.

You’d think World War 2 and running Rat-lines to South America for Nazi war criminals (often in return for conversion to Catholisislm, I kid you not…) and being found out for it would have made them reflect a little on thier choices. I guess not…

Well, Pope Francis is from Argentina, a place which was kind to lots of Nazis. What so many people fail to grasp is the distinction between a legal and a moral issue. I have huge moral problems with abortion, but I am against criminalising it, for very practical reasons - basically it doesn't work. I think that many of the Yes votes in our repeal the 8th referendum were Catholics who dislike abortion but who take a different attitude on the legal issue.

If you see Kamala Harris' recent speeches, she is obviously pro choice, but recognises that people may have velaid objections to abortion on moral grounds.

If you believe that moral beliefs should be legally enforced, it's a form of theocracy.

Harris has not been the President for the last 3.5years, or do the Trump supporters actually believe she has been in the background pulling Bidens strings for the last 3.5 years.

The VP is largely a ceremonial position with absolutely minimal constitutional power. The VP is there to support the Presidents policy agents - not define it.

You do realize that VPs in america have almost no say in policy and are basically there just to keep the show on the road by implementing the POTUS' policies if the president gets sick or otherwise incapacitated.

Trump was the President for 4 years, why didn't he do all the things last time he is talking about now?
Trump had a Republican majority in the House to work with.
No excuses.

Will Trump explain then was he actually carrying out Mike Pence's agenda?
He seems to think a VP in office can do that.
Did he offer any concrete examples?
I'm going to hazard a guess no, he is spouting nonsense to fool people who don't understand the US political setup, and have memory holed Trump's presidency.

Meanwhile, Harris was the VP, not the President, not even a Majority Leader in Congress. Not a lead role in the party. She was casting votes in Senate ties.

And the House of Representatives has had a Republican majority of late, a Republican party in a mess which has no interest in helping to govern the country responsibly.
Witness the blocking of the bipartisan border bill by Republican stooges at the behest of Trump.

Yeah it sums up the double standards people apply to Harris v Trump, and the limited thinking of Trump that the criticism can be made about him with far more foundation and merit.