"Harris vs Trump: Who is worse for Gaza?", the Cradle. The US presidential election is a toss-up between a ‘soft-on-Palestine’ Democrat whose boss has armed Israel’s genocide and an unabashedly pro-Israel Republican who doesn’t like war or war budgets. / For some voters, that noncommittal position [from Harris] on Palestinian rights may be preferable to a Trump return to the White House. The former US president has repeatedly made it clear that he believes Israel must “finish the job” and achieve “victory.”
X and Meta Employees Meet With MAGA Hub Sludge (TF) - The Trump-aligned Conservative Partnership Institute sponsored an event this month with X’s head of U.S. elections, Meta’s public policy manager, and staffers for Freedom Caucus representatives./ On August 6, X’s Head of US Elections Caroline Strom and its Lead Client Partner Matthew Madrazo took part in a panel at a Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) event in New York City for members of the organization’s Veritas Fellowship, a digital media training program for conservative communications professionals. The panel was described in a CPI trip itinerary posted to the website of the U.S. House Clerk as focusing on the “role of Twitter/X in public policy discourse.” / Seven Republican House staffers were listed on the disclosure as attendees. Five of the staffers work for representatives who voted against certifying election results in 2020, and the other two work for representatives who were not yet in office at that time
Harris’ Hollow Words on Gaza Daniel Larison
Celebrating at the DNC in a Time of Genocide The Nation How Democrats Make Republicans: RFK Should Be A Wake Up Call for the Party Jonathan Turley
Justices allow Arizona to enforce proof-of-citizenship law for 2024 voter registration SCOTUSblog
Trump (R): “Lest we Forget the Horrors: a Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes” [McSweeney’s]. “Early in President Trump’s term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, and crimes, and it felt urgent then to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. This election year, with the very real possibility of Trump returning to office, we know it’s important to be reminded of these horrors and to head to the polls in November to avoid experiencing new cruelties, collusions, corruption, and crimes.”
Kamala Harris Isn’t Winning This Race Yet” [Freddie DeBoer]. Worth reading in full. This caught my eye: “Above is the latest polling breakdown from the New York Times. As you might notice, it does not currently project a Kamala Harris victory! She’s leading at the national level, but as everyone suddenly forgot in 2016, the United States does not have a national popular vote system. She’s leading in two of the three “blue wall” states, but the outcomes are within the margin of error, and most paths to victory require her to carry all three. She’s tied in Pennsylvania and Arizona. The only state here where a lead exceeds the margin of victory is Georgia, which favors Donald Trump. If Harris’s recent gains regress back to this state of affairs in the coming months, it’s a coinflip election where Trump could easily squeak out victory in Pennsylvania and Arizona and regain the White House. That’s not some wild hypothetical! It’s an entirely plausible state of affairs! Much more plausible than Trump winning in 2016, where it took Hillary’s wild unpopularity, Robby Mook’s incompetence, and decades-long indifference among Democrats towards the collapse of the Rust Belt. This election is very, very close. And yet this current state of affairs has produced some of the most wildly unrestrained football-spiking and expressions of certainty that I’ve seen in 24 years of following presidential elections.” •
As RFK Jr. Backs Trump, Here’s the Secretive Billionaire Plutocrat Funding Them Both Common Dreams
Trump and Harris Hear From the Megadonors. What the Big Money Wants in Return. Barrons
CNN anchor calls RFK Jr. endorsing Trump ‘huge’ based on swing state polls: ‘It is everything’ FOX
Burnett cited a recent New York Times/Siena College poll showing Kennedy with 6% support in Arizona and Nevada and 5% in Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Kennedy joined Trump at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, where the former candidate received a hero's welcome.
"Over the course of more than a year … the DNC-aligned mainstream media networks maintained a near-perfect embargo on interviews with me," he said. "During his 10-month presidential campaign in 1992, Ross Perot gave 34 interviews on mainstream networks. In contrast, during the 16 months since I declared, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN combined gave only two live interviews [with] me. Those networks instead ran a continuous deluge of hit pieces with inaccurate, often vile pejoratives and defamatory smears. Some of those same networks colluded with the DNC to keep me off the debate stage."
06032024 - Super Tuesday: “7 things Super Tuesday just taught us about the November election” [Politico].
06032023 Trump (R): “Trump lawfare update” [Washington Examiner].
04032024 Trump can remain on 2024 primary ballots, US Supreme Court rules
02032024 Elections: Was Biden for the Economy?, By Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson. Originally published at Geopolitical Economy Report
04032024 Trump can remain on 2024 primary ballots, US Supreme Court rules
Was Biden for the Economy?, By Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson. Originally published at Geopolitical Economy Report
Among these [2024 Elections], for good or ill, one might add, the US election will be the most consequential, deciding life and death questions such as how much war the world will witness, how well its economy will do.
This is not because the US is a force for peace and development. On the contrary, it’s been weighing down on the prospects of peace and development for decades. Of course, the formal choices before the US public promise to change little, though a worsening on both fronts is entirely in the cards, no matter which of the two main contenders on the scene at present win the election.
But will they even, will either of them win the election because there are so many uncertainties around this election? Will Biden run? Can Trump run? If not they, then who will represent this increasingly divided country?
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/the-reality-of-bidenomics-how-good-was-biden-for-the-economy.html#:~:text=Among%20these%2C%20for,increasingly%20divided%20country%3F
