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2024 Landslide? Harris Is Surging In 3 Key Battleground States

In the weeks ahead, you’ll hear one number repeatedly: 270. That’s the number of electoral votes it takes for a candidate to win the presidential election and become the next head of state.

While conventional wisdom is that the race for the White House between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump will be one of the closest in American history, a former head of the Republican Party says recent trends suggest Harris could be on the verge of winning in a landslide.

Michael Steele now works as co-host of MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” and is one of the most astute voices on the subject of the GOP, writing in an article for the network that three key states — Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina — are now leaning to Harris. Their 62 combined electoral votes could give Democrats a resounding victory on November 5.

So-called “late deciders” are the key, Steele explains.

“As we get closer to Election Day, these voters become more engaged. Their intentions begin to shift and may even harden into support as they read up on the two candidates, listen closer to their arguments, and shift their attitudes. When they do, they can change the political landscape dramatically in short order. In Florida, voters will also be considering ballot measures to legalize recreational cannabis and codify abortion rights — popular policies that align with the Harris-Walz agenda.”

Steele adds that while Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina all seem to be going in Harris’ direction, there’s no guarantee they’ll wind up in her column when the ballots are counted.

“To be clear, I’m not saying that Harris will outright win Georgia, North Carolina or Florida — or even that she’ll win at all. What I am saying is that the polls can’t yet capture what these late deciders intend to do.”

A similar dynamic took place in 2016, when Trump convinced enough late deciders to vote for him, completely upending conventional wisdom which suggested Hillary Clinton would win overwhelmingly.

There’s plenty of time remaining for all of us to make a difference in the 2024 election, Steele concludes.

“The only thing you can do is cast your own ballot, encourage your friends and family to do the same and volunteer to help out a campaign and persuade as many intentional voters as you can along the way. After that, all you can do is wait as they make their intentions known.”

If Harris does indeed win in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina while carrying most of the other battleground states of Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, she’d secure over 300 electoral votes, more than enough for victory and a mandate from the voters.

 

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Melania Trump May Have Just Pulled The Ultimate ‘October Surprise’ On Donald

It’s been called the “October surprise” that failed former president Donald Trump didn’t even see coming, mainly because it came from inside his orbit.

As part of promoting her upcoming memoir, former First Lady Melania Trump proudly declared that she’s pro-choice, a direct rebuke of her husband’s anti-abortion policies that could hurt him with just a little more than a month left until Election Day.

In an ad, Mrs. Trump states, “Individual freedom is a fundamental principal that I safeguard. There is no room for compromise when it comes to this essential right that all women possess at birth…What does ‘my body, my choice’ really mean?”

Those comments led some to suggest on social media that Melania may also be on the verge of endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, which would be devastating for Donald.

While some may argue that Melania’s remarks are a calculated move to “soften” her husband’s anti-choice image, they once again bring the issue to the forefront, which is something the Trump-Vance campaign was hoping to avoid, especially since voters are already going to the polls in some states.

 

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Trump’s Weakness In This All-Important Red State May Cost Him The 2024 Election

Think back for a moment and try to remember the last time a Democratic presidential candidate won so overwhelmingly that even a deeply red state like Flordia was in play.

The year was 2012, and Barack Obama was seeking a second term in office against Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Obama wound up storming to an overwhelming electoral victory, winning 332 electoral votes to Romney’s 206.

Yet here we are a dozen years later and Vice President Kamala Harris could be on the verge of turning the Sunshine State blue once more, which would be a death knell for former president Donald Trump’s campaign, according to Newsweek, which reports that a recent poll from the state shows Trump only has a razor-thin lead as early voting begins in some states.

“A recent survey of 600 registered voters by the Independent Center and The Bullfinch Group, conducted September 20 and 23, showed Trump had a 1-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in Florida (48 percent to 47). The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.”

Even if Trump does manage to prevail in Florida, such a close race with Harris could wind up costing him the election because it will force him to put resources into a state he should already have locked down, Thomas Gift, an associate professor of political science and director of the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London, warns.

“Even if Harris loses Florida, which certainly looks likely, this could cost Trump elsewhere if he’s forced to devote scarce time, resources, and energy into shoring up his lead in the Sunshine State.”

Two constitutional amendments in the ballot could also boost the turnout of progressive and Democratic voters, with Floridians deciding if abortion access should be enshrined under law and marijuana legalized. Those issues have dramatically increased voter interest and turnout in other states that have put similar measures on the ballot.

Florida Democrats are placing their hopes on the Orlando area of the state, which recently elected Congressman Maxwell Frost (D-FL), the first Gen Z House member, who told the Tampa Bay Times, “The people are on our side in terms of policy but not politics. So how do we solve that? We talk about our policy more.”

This late in the 2024 election, Trump and the GOP should have Florida locked up so they can focus on battleground states such as Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Instead, they’re sweating as they see the Sunshine State continue to trend in Harris’s direction. And if that continues, Democrats could well win the biggest prize in the South, which would all but slam the door on Republican dreams of eking out a win in 2024.

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‘Senile’ Trump Claims ‘Most People Don’t Have Any Idea What A Phone App Is’

If you own a smartphone, there’s a good chance that you’ve used one or more apps on that device. You probably use several of them daily to check the latest news, get sports scores, and communicate with family and friends on social media.

However, according to failed one-term ex-president Donald Trump, most Americans “don’t know what a phone app is.”

Trump made that bizarre claim Saturday evening during a campaign rally in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

While he was at it, Trump also called Vice President Kamala Harris “a mentally disabled person” and tried to blame illegal immigrants for a fly that was buzzing around the stage where he was speaking.

Speaking of immigrants, Trump slammed immigrants for using a phone app, saying “most people don’t have any idea what the hell a phone app is.”

“They have a phone app so that people can come into our country.”

“These are smart immigrants, I guess, because most people don’t have any idea what the hell a phone app is,” Trump added.

A video clip of Trump’s strange remarks was shared on Twitter/X by the Harris campaign:

It didn’t take long before laughter and mockery were aimed at Trump on social media, where many suggested the former head of state was getting more senile by the second.

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Trump Blames Campaign Staffers For Fans Leaving His Rallies Early: ‘These Stupid People!’

For those of you keeping score at home, Friday, September 28, 2024 will go down in American election history as the day that failed one-term former president Donald Trump officially threw his campaign staffers under the bus, suggesting they’re to blame when his fans walk out of his rallies.

According to Newsweek, Trump blamed his campaign staff during a rally in Warren, Michigan, remarking, “The people that you see leaving? Nobody ever leaves. And when they do, I finish up quick.”

Nobody ever leaves, but he finishes up quick when they do? Is that something like the sun only shines in the daytime but sometimes it shines at night in certain parts of the world?

Not content with that convoluted bit of Trumpian “logic,” the disgraced ex-president added, “I couldn’t take pictures at the beginning so I take them at the end sometimes if I’m late, the plane gets late, you get delayed, lots of things happen there’s a little hurricane going on in Florida, as you know. “What they do is they say, ‘Oh please come up now’ at the end of my speech.”

Pictures and hurricanes. Ohhhhhh kay. Does anyone have a net we can drop over this babbling fool?

“I said, ‘Don’t do that!’ because it looks like they’re leaving,” Trump insisted, catching the eye of a person in the audience as he said, “Like your husband who owns this place. He’s not leaving — he likes Trump very much — he made a lot of money because of Trump, right? Right?”

Next was the complete trashing of his campaign staff.

“But these stupid people that are with me sometimes, they say, ‘Come on back,'” Trump said. “Thirty people, they get up and they go back and they’re all lined up waiting in the back, waiting for me to take a picture, because I couldn’t do it before, because I didn’t want to keep you waiting, because you’re much more important than the wealthy people.”

Prediction: When Trump loses in a landslide to Vice President Kamala Harris, that won’t be his fault, either. It wasn’t his fault in 2020, and losing to a black woman would be even more humiliating than his loss to President Joe Biden.

Trump staffers, prepare to be repeatedly trashed in the closing days of the 2024 election. Donnie will need someone to blame as he spirals into madness and rage.