Trump’s Excuse for Racist Puerto Rico Joke: I Didn’t Hear It
Fingers crossed.James Carville Drops ‘One Little Factoid’ That Could Sink Donald Trump’s Campaign
The veteran strategist also made a 2024 election prediction about Florida.
... “Just one little factoid here,” Carville told MSNBC’s Ari Melber. “You know how many Puerto Rican voters there are in Pennsylvania? 273,000. This is gonna cost him votes.”
There’s also “a substantial Puerto Rican vote” in Michigan and “in Florida which is going to be a lot closer than anybody thinks,” Carville continued.
Carville suggested Melber have NBC News’ national political correspondent Steve Kornacki “look around and see how many Puerto Rican voters there are in swing states” to see how the gag could affect the vote.
Carville later repeated his assertion that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris will win the 2024 election.
Watch Carville’s full analysis here: ...
Puerto Rican Archbishop Calls On Trump For Direct Apology: ‘Humor Has Its Limits’
The chair of Puerto Rico’s Republican Party also said he would not support the former president without an apology over a comedian's insults at a Trump rally.
... Puerto Ricans living on the island are not able to vote for president and the territory carries no electoral vote, but more than two-thirds of Puerto Ricans live in the U.S. and are able to cast ballots in the states where they reside....
This country was built on hard work by unpaid Black people who were exploited by rich white guys who took the credit.
Meanwhile, Trump inherited $400 million from his KKK daddy and Dr. Phil became famous because a Black woman gave him a platform.
A Black woman built his career.. That kind of DEI?
Article and more tweetsDon’t you love it when they say the quiet part out loud?
The Native and African American communities would like a word.
Maybe more in Pennsylvania.Vrede too wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2024 5:27 pmFingers crossed.James Carville Drops ‘One Little Factoid’ That Could Sink Donald Trump’s Campaign
The veteran strategist also made a 2024 election prediction about Florida.
... “Just one little factoid here,” Carville told MSNBC’s Ari Melber. “You know how many Puerto Rican voters there are in Pennsylvania? 273,000. This is gonna cost him votes.”
There’s also “a substantial Puerto Rican vote” in Michigan and “in Florida which is going to be a lot closer than anybody thinks,” Carville continued....
ABC news gave the same figure for Pennsylvania. Opps.Puerto Rico’s Leading Newspaper Endorses Kamala Harris
El Nuevo Día urged the roughly 5 million Puerto Ricans living in the mainland U.S. to vote for the Democratic nominee.
... “Trump has for years maintained a discourse of contempt and misinformation against the island that reveals an obsession and disdain for a people who do not have the power of the vote to defend themselves, since the three million American citizens who live in Puerto Rico cannot vote in the presidential elections,” María Luisa Ferré Rangel, the head of the media group that owns the daily newspaper, wrote in an editorial. “However, the other five million who live in the United States, whom they also labeled as trash, can vote.”
The majority of Puerto Ricans living in the U.S. reside in electorally uncompetitive states such as New York and Florida. But as many as 500,000 live in Pennsylvania, a hotly contested state where President Joe Biden won by just 80,000 votes in 2020.
... His administration then limited relief funds to the U.S. territory, stymying reconstruction and allowing Puerto Rico to languish without electricity for 11 months, the second-longest blackout in world history. Trump went on to ask his secretary of homeland security at the time whether the U.S. could sell Puerto Rico, which the U.S. has considered a “possession” of the American government since seizing the island as a colony and military outpost following the Spanish-American War of 1898.
“Let’s not forget the paper towels he threw at us while we suffered without electricity for months, and let’s not forget that the funds did not arrive because Trump ― through the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development ― told them to stop because he considered Puerto Ricans ‘bums who live begging,’” read the editorial in El Nuevo Día. “It is cowardly to insult those who cannot defend themselves.”
... “It’s about giving people access to opportunity, knowing that the people in all communities — in all communities — they want, yes, a job, but they want to be able to build wealth,” Harris said, according to a White House press pool report. “They want to be able to build intergenerational wealth, home ownership, small business growth, right? So I call it an opportunity economy. The thing I mentioned this morning is I’m going to create basically an opportunity economy Task Force for Puerto Rico.”
Noting that “we may not fully know all aspects of the candidate due to the fact that she entered the race three months before the election,” El Nuevo Día nevertheless applauded Harris for being “courageous enough to step forward and accept the challenge.”
“Today we urge all those who love our beautiful island, the land of the sea and the sun, not to lend their vote to Donald Trump,” the editorial concluded. “To all Puerto Ricans who can vote in this upcoming United States election and represent those of us who cannot: Vote for Kamala Harris.”
Is Virginia solid blue? Maybe it's a Hail Mary to flip itGoCubsGo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 10:31 pmVice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump held dueling rallies in North Carolina on Wednesday, but the Democratic nominee's venue had a significantly larger space for attendees.
Harris hosted a rally in Raleigh at the Coastal Credit Union Music Park, which has a 20,000-person capacity, according to the Walnut Creek Amphitheatre website. Trump, on the other hand, spoke 55 miles away at the Rocky Mount Event Center, which has 4,000 seats according to its website. The final tallies on how many people actually showed up have not been released yet.
Trump is holding a rally in Salem Virginia on Saturday.
WTF?
Has he given up or got it in the bag?
To be fair, Kamala just rallied in solid blue DC, and she and Beyonce rallied in Texas.
Kamala Harris Draws Massive Crowd at Ellipse, Notches Larger Audience Than Trump’s Jan. 6 Rally in Same Spot, Campaign Says
... The Harris campaign estimated the size of the crowd to be more than 75,000 people, which would make it a markedly larger assembly than the one former President Donald Trump spoke to on Jan. 6, 2021, when he urged then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify the results of the 2020 election as the presiding officer in Congress. After Pence refused, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.
According to the House Jan. 6 Committee that investigated the riot and Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, 53,000 people attended the former president’s “Stop the Steal” rally....
Julia Roberts, ftw!GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 9:28 amCharlie Kirk is trending.
https://x.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1851965824837247088
And this is a great ad.
https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1851973402724114566
"It is so disastrous": MAGA men are freaking out that wives may be secretly voting for Kamala Harris
"That’s the same thing as having an affair,” Fox News host argues as women fuel early vote in key states
... In the latest ABC News/Ipsos national poll, the Democrat enjoyed a 14% advantage with women over Trump; among women with a college degree, that number rose to 23%; among women voters under 40, it rocketed to 34%.
According to the Brookings Institution, Harris’ strength among women angered by the 2022 Dobbs decision could explain why Democrats, for the first time in forever, are polling better with older voters than Republicans. The think tank’s Michael Hais and Morley Winograd noted that, per the ABC News/Ipsos survey, there has been a 10-point swing to Harris among voters over the age of 65 compared to 2020.
“Some observers think this shift is driven by the ‘revenge of Boomer feminists’ among the women of that famous generation, all of whom are now over 65 but who cut their political teeth in the battle for equality when they were much younger,” Hais and Winograd wrote. Younger voters may be angry over losing a right they had never lived without, but older people have seen hard-fought progress rolled back. They are also the most reliable group of voters — and they tend to vote early.
In battleground states, that appears to be exactly what’s happening. According to an analysis of early-voting tallies by Politico, women account for 55% of all ballots cast thus far in states such as Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
That, in turn, is causing some MAGA commentators to break from their usual posture of feigned confidence to outright panic.
“Early vote has been disproportionately female,” Charlie Kirk, head of Turning Point USA and helping to lead the Trump campaign’s get-out-the-vote effort, posted on social media. “If men stay at home, Kamala is president. It’s that simple.” (Kirk, seeking to motivate these voters, offered Orwellian misogyny: “If you want a vision of the future if you don’t vote, imagine Kamala’s voice cackling, forever.”)
... “It is so repulsive. It is so disastrous. It is the embodiment of the downfall of the American family. I think it’s so gross. I think it’s just so nauseating,” Kirk said, set off by a new ad, produced by a liberal Christian organization, that features Julia Roberts reminding women that how one votes need not be shared with any emotionally-stunted man who would throw a fit. (“That’s the same thing as having an affair,” Fox News’ Jesse Watters commented on the ad. “That violates the sanctity of our marriage.”)
... Mike Cernovich, a pro-Trump influencer, is openly freaking out.
“Male turnout in Pennsylvania for Trump has been a disaster,” Cernovich wrote on social media. “Unless this changes, Kamala Harris takes PA and it’s over.”
Nttawwt."I'm gonna do it whether the women like it or not": Trump's closing argument is toxic masculinity
Nikki Haley is right that "bromance and masculinity stuff" — like wishing Taylor Swift dead — is politically risky
... The censorship of the c-word likely happened because it's profanity, not because it's misogynistic. We know this because Hinchcliffe's other woman-hating "jokes" were left in, including fantasizing about the murder of pop star Taylor Swift. "I think that Travis Kelce might be the next O.J. Simpson," Hinchcliffe said of Swift's NFL-playing boyfriend. Swift has been the object of violent ire by many MAGA leaders, including billionaire Elon Musk, who issued an unsubtle rape threat after Swift endorsed Harris for president. And that is not out of character for Musk, who has purchased a spot so close to Trump's side it often looks like he's replaced Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio. It's Musk who has shown, in the last few days before the election, that misogyny is right up there with racism as the Trump campaign's closing argument.
While Trump's team canceled the c-word "joke" from Hinchcliffe's set, they didn't seem to mind that Musk's political action committee, American PAC, ran an ad declaring, "Kamala Harris is a c-word." Or, they didn't mind until it started to dawn on them that Trump's hate rally in New York City may have backfired, at which point Musk quietly removed the ad. But it was too late, as progressive groups had captured the image.
... Feminists have long argued that "chivalry" is just another form of male domination, disguised as benevolence. Trump, as he often does, proves the feminist case.
... Former Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C., complained on Tuesday about the Trump campaign's "bromance and masculinity stuff," saying that it is "going to make women uncomfortable," which is an understatement considering both Trump's proven and alleged victims both report being traumatized by his sex crimes. But it's unlikely that Trump will listen to Haley. First, she's a woman, so he doesn't care what she thinks. Second, toxic masculinity isn't a slip-up or a gaffe. It's a deliberate strategy by the Trump campaign....
Hey MAGA,... On Monday, Trump advisor and Project 2025 leader John McEntee doubled down by telling women explicitly their votes are not wanted.
MAGA men would throw a party with a big banner that reads "Women Not Welcome" and then complain that the shindig is a sausage fest. Hopefully, it will be enough to cost Trump the election.
GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 9:28 amCharlie Kirk is trending.
https://x.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1851965824837247088
And this is a great ad.
Can't see it too many times.
Vrede too wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 4:12 pmJulia Roberts, ftw!
"It is so disastrous": MAGA men are freaking out that wives may be secretly voting for Kamala Harris
"That’s the same thing as having an affair,” Fox News host argues as women fuel early vote in key states
Hey MAGA,
Harry Belafonte - Man Smart (Woman Smarter) (Official Audio)
Like Hulk Hogan and "Dr" Phil?Newt Gingrich Goes Nuts Over Ad Reminding Women They Don’t Have to Tell Husbands How They Voted: ‘That Is Sick!’
Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich went nuclear on an ad narrated by Julia Roberts in which the actress reminds women they don’t have to tell people how they voted. And that includes their husbands.
“In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want,” she says as a woman casts a ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris in a voting booth. “And no one will ever know.”
... Gingrich appeared on Thursday’s edition of Hannity, where Sean Hannity mocked celebrity endorsements of Harris.
Ummm, Clooney didn't make the ad. Pay attention.“Really? I’m gonna look for what manliness looks like, to George Clooney?” Hannity said of the man PEOPLE magazine twice named Sexiest Man Alive.
“A Hollywood jackass spoiled elitist? No thank you. He’s no John Wayne.”
Wayne, who pretended to be a cowboy in many films, was a Hollywood actor.
“These people are dishonest,” Gingrich responded. “And so, for them to tell people to lie is just one further example of the depth of their corruption. I mean, how do you run a country where you’re walking around saying, ‘Wives should lie to their husbands, husbands should lie to their wives’?”
The former speaker of the House, who cheated on his second wife, then blasted Democrats for their amorality.
“I mean, what kind of a totally amoral, corrupt, sick system have the Democrats developed?” he went on. “If you think about it at that level, it is astonishing, the decay.”
Gingrich then claimed the aforementioned “decay” is why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. no longer supports the Democratic Party. Earlier this month, Mediaite reported that at least three women have claimed that in the last year, they’ve had romantic relationships with Kennedy, who is married to actress Cheryl Hines.
"The former speaker of the House, who cheated on his second wife ..."“Instead of having a dignity and patriotism and a sense of morality, these are really sick people,” Gingrich went on. “And the more you watch them, to say, ‘Oh, why don’t you lie to your husband?’ as a publicly advocated ad? That is sick! And I think we ought to have the courage to say this is a sick, dishonest party.”
Wow. If she wins Iowa she wins the swing states and the nation. It also puts TX and FL and maybe others in play.GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 7:58 pmUmmm, say what?
https://x.com/jaselzer/status/1852849040070734157
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story ... 354033007/
GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 5:25 pmThe audience energy and enthusiasm is off the charts.
https://x.com/kath_mcc/status/1853199667510554920
It's no secret that Donald Trump is obsessed with the size of his rally crowds.
It's literally November, and he's still talking about Kamala Harris bringing up the size of his crowds during that one debate ...
Trump says there’s no empty seats and the cameraman goes rogue
Live fact checks at trump rallies now
This is actually one of the funniest videos of Trump out there
I don't know who the cameraman is, but their silent response was hilariously brutal
Pulitzer Prize for camera work.
