Her rapid response team has been posting clips like crazy. There’s just so much horrific garbage that it’s hard to keep up.
Here, the team posted a clip of CNN calling out Trump for absolutely lies.
The media may finally be waking up to the fact that the promising the horse race is not a good long term strategy for them, the country or the world at large.
I’m wondering (since they had to know to expect this from the speakers), are they really this careless/stupid, do they just live in a bubble they can’t see out of, or do they just figure they actually gain votes by staying in the news no matter how bad the news is?
Trump did a nod and a wink to Mike Johnson about “our little secret”, so the plan is not to win more votes but to win the battles after the voting is over. To that end, these rallies aren’t about winning votes, they’re about ginning up the troops to go fight in support of the legal challenges.
Two things:
Hopefully Johnson will not be Speaker on Jan 6, Hakeem Jeffries will; and
With all the Jan 6 generals in jail for very long stretches, I wonder about the ability to mount such a coordinated effort again.
Don’t forget that, on Jan 6, the rally at the Ellipse was large but only a small proportion - still a few thousand - went to the Capitol. Of those, even fewer still breached the Capitol and that is because the Proud Boys et al made the breakthroughs while other instigators exhorted the rioters to go inside. All this was with Trump holding back the National Guard.
None of these conditions will be able to repeat themselves, because Trump is not president this time. A repeat of the rally at the Ellipse is highly unlikely as Trump will - at best - be out on bail from a jail term imposed in the election interference case and likely face arrest and immediate incarceration if he tries to do this again. Meanwhile, Biden will be the one making the calls on deploying the National Guard.
There is also the possibility that Trump is jailed on November 26. Remote, but possible. And, if Republicans are dealt a notable cock punch next week, don’t overlook the motivation for establishment Republicans to look at Trump’s legal problems as an opportunity to rid themselves of him. In jail, no one can hear him scream.
Polls say that Harris has a lead of +12% with women voters. Voting records in the swing states show that women are early voting by +10% compared to men.
Trump is going to have to get a blistering turnout by male voters on Election Day. I wonder if swing state women have been saving up “honey dos” for next Tuesday…