Election 2024

Is Trump right to fear election fraud?

Cheating has never looked easier

When I visited Mar-a-Lago in spring 2021 to see Donald Trump, his aides asked me not to raise the matter of the 2020 election. They wanted him forward looking and optimistic, not grousing about a past defeat. I didn’t raise the issue, but Trump inevitably did. The obvious irregularities that marked the 2020 election was his main theme that afternoon — as it remained for the next three years.

Trump saw the manner of his election defeat as a personal affront. Not only was the pausing of the ballot count on election night an assault on the constitutional rights of Americans, feeding suspicions that illegal ballots were being added to the tally to boost Joe Biden — but it was Trump who was the mark. He was cheated, and so were you, he told the 74 million Americans who voted for him, and they, too, felt the sting of a public humiliation. As I explain in my new book, Disappearing the President, Trump and his supporters were disenfranchised together in front of the whole world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, President Trump

The Trump Betting Whale Speaks Out: ‘I Have Absolutely No Political Agenda’

The man who is betting more than $30 million on a Donald Trump victory wants you to know that he isn’t trying to manipulate the U.S. election.

“My intent is just making money,” the man, who called himself Théo, said during a Zoom call with a reporter from The Wall Street Journal earlier this week. He described himself as a Frenchman who had previously lived in the U.S. and worked as a trader for banks.

Théo’s huge wagers on Polymarket—a prediction market that isn’t open to Americans—drew broad attention last month after the Journal reported that four accounts on the platform had been systematically purchasing wagers on a Trump victory. The bets lifted Trump’s odds of beating Vice President Kamala Harris, as shown on Polymarket. Blockchain data showed that the accounts were all funded by the same crypto exchange, fueling debate about the motives of the “Trump whale” behind them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

The Nightmare of America After Kamala Wins

In my last column, I wrote about America after a second Trump administration, but now comes the horror show – America after a first Kamala Harris administration, which is actually a second Biden administration, which is really the third Obama administration, only dumber. It’s unclear whether America can survive it. We’re strong. We’re resilient. But the infection is deep and when you get gangrene, the only answer is to start cutting.

Election guru Nate Silver accuses pollsters of putting ‘finger on the scale,’ lying to keep presidential race close

Polling guru Nate Silver lashed out at other survey junkies in his field for “cheating” in the final stretch of the 2024 presidential election — accusing them of recycling some results to keep the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris close.

The FiveThirtyEight founder said irresponsible pollsters were “herding” their numbers, or using past results to affect current ones, to keep Vice President Harris and former President Trump within a point or two of each other each time.

You can’t tell who’s winning this race

YOU CAN’T TELL WHO’S WINNING THIS RACE. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — There are some political races in which, if you go to a few rallies by each candidate, you get a pretty good idea of who is going to win. This presidential race is not like that. If you go to former President Donald Trump‘s rallies and Vice President Kamala Harris‘s rallies, you’ll have wildly different experiences, but you’re also going to find large crowds of highly enthusiastic voters who just love their candidate. The race is not only tied in the polls but is tied in the impressions of intensity and strength that each candidate’s events leave with an outside observer.

My heart says Trump and I believe Silver’s analysis has merit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Trump, Harris, and the Role of Intelligence in Leadership

At Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan last Sunday, Donald Trump characterized Vice President Kamala Harris, his opponent in the 2024 presidential race, as “a very low IQ individual.” At the same event, Tucker Carlson dismissed Harris as a “low IQ former California prosecutor.”

Trump’s and Carlson’s remarks tap into a broader discussion about whether intelligence is a critical factor for leadership. Both speakers implied that intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, is a necessary requirement for presidential competence.

Imagine JD Vance as VP vs Kamality Jane.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Pollster Frank Luntz: Biden May Have Lost the Election for Kamala

President Biden’s recent remark labeling Trump supporters as “garbage” has rocked the 2024 race, and pollster Frank Luntz told CNN on Wednesday it could hand Donald Trump the election.

“The Harris campaign is trying to downplay the effect of those comments. Of course they are,” CNN’s Brianna Keilar noted on Wednesday. “But I wonder if you think that those comments are going to move voters.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, WTF?

Joe Rogan exposed the JD Vance the liberal media don’t want you to see

He swears, he bakes, he calls other men “dude” – but the most surprising revelation of the Joe Rogan/JD Vance interview was JD’s reaction to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. He said he rushed home, gathered his kids, “loaded all my guns, and stood like a sentry at our front door”. The Republican vice-presidential nominee is what Sarah Palin might call a “Papa Grizzly”.

The three hour-plus, freewheeling conversation with Rogan will not shift a single vote in this election, but it might set the scene for the next.

I think it may sway a few votes as people want better than Kamala as VP.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Why the Biden White House Might Become Engulfed in Scandal After Joe Said Trump Voters Were Garbage

If I were the Kamala Harris campaign and the liberal media, I’d be drinking heavily. The vice president’s DC rally, which should have been a media bonanza, for better or worse, got torpedoed when Joe Biden decided to attack Trump supporters, describing them as garbage. The media kicked it into high gear to clean up the mess for two reasons: one, it’s an objectively bad statement and pure accelerant to the GOP base, and two, it smothers their ‘Trump’s MSG rally was a Nazi event’ narrative. Yet, it all fell apart because a comedian’s word isn’t as relevant or powerful as Joe Biden’s.

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Bill Clinton’s Closing Pitch in Michigan: Hamas Is Awful and the Israelis Were There First

Hmmm. It’s tough to quibble with what Bill Clinton says here, with just one exception, about the Middle East. What makes this surprising, though, is the when and where of Clinton’s TED Talk on Israeli-Palestinian relations. For the past year, Democrats have tried mightily to pander to the Arab-American vote in Michigan by either suggesting or outright accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.

Method to the madness? Another Anti-Kamala salvo?

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Gingrich: Are Foreigners Funding Vice President Harris and the Democratic Party?

Many Republicans were stunned when Vice President Harris’s campaign raised $1 billion in an incredibly short time. Now there are indications that a significant amount of that money may have come from illegal sources.

So, the next ad you see for Ms. Harris may have been bought with Iranian, Chinese, or drug cartel money. As John Solomon reported in Just the News, Democratic fundraiser ActBlue has been subpoenaed to tell Congress about some fundraising activity which the U.S. Department of Treasury has called suspicious.

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Trump Allies Draw Up Plans Targeting Legal Immigration

WASHINGTON—On the campaign trail, Donald Trump routinely promises he will end illegal immigration. Behind the scenes, his closest advisers and allies are also drawing up plans that would restrict many forms of legal immigration, some of which could affect the ability of businesses to hire foreign workers.

Outside advisers including Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda when he was in the White House, and such groups as the America First Policy Institute have been preparing executive orders, regulations and memos for a future homeland security secretary to sign that would narrow legal ways to migrate. That is according to interviews with a dozen former Trump administration officials, a review of public plans published by the campaign, and outside groups aligned with the campaign.

Mass deportation is needed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, President Trump

Harris Campaign Recruits Foreign Volunteers, Tells Noncitizens How To Skirt Donation Rules

In the previous installments of this investigation into how the Harris-Walz presidential campaign is dishonestly manipulating online platforms, I noted the existence of a Discord server where campaign employees coordinate with a volunteer army to flood social media sites with campaign propaganda. The volunteers also vote en masse on social media to artificially boost Harris-Walz content or downvote content that is harmful to their campaign. Not only is this deceptive and misleading to voters, it’s a clear violation of these websites’ Terms of Service.

In part one and part two of the investigation, I noted this strategy had been successful at manipulating both Reddit and X. Over the past month, one out of every eight of the top stories in the eight-million-member Politics subreddit was planted by the campaign. On X, the campaign appears to have successfully voted down Community Notes accurately calling out the Harris campaign for tweeting out brazen lies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris", Election 2024

Far-right has gone quiet — but is ready for post-election violence

Far-right extremist groups have been laying the groundwork for post-election violence in America by exploiting local grievances and sowing division to swell their ranks, experts are warning.

US intelligence agencies have said domestic extremists radicalised by online conspiracy theories pose a significant threat from now until inauguration day. The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism reported increases in election-related violent rhetoric online this week, comparable with the same period in 2020.

This week, ballot boxes were set on fire in Oregon and Washington. While the motive remains unknown, it underscored the potential for political divisions to descend into violence around the election next Tuesday.

The Burning Ballot Boxes had pro-Palestinian messaging. That’s lazy reporting from the Times but they have an anti-Trump stance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, WTF?

Trump’s 2016 victory shocked progressives like myself – but after digging deeper than media narratives, I learnt why we were so wrong

I cried when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 – but here’s why I’m now voting for Trump

I cried from Canada when Hillary Clinton lost the election to Donald Trump in 2016. My boyfriend at the time seemed unable to relate to my visceral reaction, which only made my snotty-nosed despair worse. Oh, the misogyny of it all.

Despite having dual citizenship, I had never lived in America, nor voted in an American election. That year was no exception, but Clinton was a shoo-in, I’d figured. “Who would vote for such a vile buffoon as Trump?” I thought.

Apparently, many millions.

They Want to Ensure That, This Time, White Women Vote for a Woman

Donald Trump has won white women, the country’s largest voting bloc, for two elections running. White female Democrats are trying to stop that from happening again, but it may be an uphill fight.

Armed with a clipboard and campaign literature, Liz Minnella strolled through a neighborhood in New Hope, Pa., optimistic that by the end of her day of door-knocking, the small town would live up to its name for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign.

There wasn’t a political yard sign in sight, which Ms. Minnella, who had only recently become a Democratic activist, took to mean that she might find some persuadable voters. When a blonde woman in a Villanova sweatshirt answered one door with a broad smile, Ms. Minnella, a Villanova graduate, thought aloud, “This is my lady.”

So their message is “Vote Stupid Like Us”?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024