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A Crucial Voting Bloc Is Abandoning The Trump-Vance Ticket: New Polling Data

For years, failed former president Donald Trump and the Republican Party have tried to make inroads with one of the fastest-growing voting blocs in the country: Hispanics.

But it appears that outreach was all for naught, according to new polling data.

On Wednesday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Jonathan Lemire asked former Biden administration press secretary Jen Psaki about the polls.

“It’s not like Trump’s numbers are really going down per se. At least not much,” Lemire noted. “It’s more Harris’ growing support. It seems like Democrats that, for whatever reason, had really cooled on President Biden are now coming home because they’re excited about Kamala.”

“That’s exactly right, and remember just over a month ago, there was a larger number of double haters as we called them, people who weren’t thrilled about either candidate,” Psaki explained. “There was a large percentage of undecided voters that kind of wavered from poll to poll, and this all is a reflection of Democrats coming home, or Democratic-leaning voters coming home, which is a very good sign for the Biden (sic) and Walz campaign, exactly what you want coming out of the convention.”

“One of the most interesting numbers, certainly 18 to 34-year-olds, but the Hispanic number, Latinos is super interesting because this is a group that Trump and the Trump team has really done a ton of outreach to, and it is a group that you have seen some trends in certain states that has been leaning sometimes more Republican than they have been historically Democratic,” she added.

The segment concluded with Psaki remarking, “So this is a very good sign for them. What this means too, and you see this in state polls which are much more interesting to me than national polls, is that some of the states that seem to be off of the competition lane for the Democratic ticket like Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, are back in competition, and that’s a very good sign for the Harris-Walz team because they have more maps to get to 270, and it’s not just the Blue Wall, even though the Blue Wall will still be pivotal.”

Women, the single-largest voting bloc in the country, are now registering to vote in record numbers, as are young people. Harris will likely win the black vote by a mile and is also looking good among Asian voters. If the Hispanic vote also breaks for Harris, Trump will be left with little more than angry white men who wouldn’t vote for a black woman in a million years.

Could a popular and electoral vote be in the offing for Democrats in November? That’s very possible, but only if we all get out and cast a ballot against Trump and his extreme right-wing agenda.

 

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JD Vance: Polls That Show Kamala Harris Has Electoral Momentum Are All ‘Fake!’

According to Sen. J.D. Vance, all of the polls that show Vice President Kamala Harris with political momentum on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago are all “fake” and shouldn’t be believed.

Vance appeared on the friendly airwaves of Fox News earlier this morning. Host Shannon Bream asked him about several recent polls that have Harris pulling ahead of failed former president Donald Trump in several key battleground states. Rather than answer the question, Vance suggested that support for Harris is stagnant and decreasing.

“How does that not line up then with another poll we got out this morning, Washington Post, ABC, they’re giving the vice president nationally a four to five-point lead?” Bream inquired. “I mean, those are new numbers.”

“So if you think the momentum is not swinging or your internal polls are suggesting differently, every other poll that’s been released has shown great momentum in her direction.”

Vance replied, “You know, Shannon, I think there are a lot of polls that actually show her stagnating and leveling off. Of course, ABC, Washington Post was a wildly inaccurate pollster in the summer of 2020.”

But this isn’t 2020. It’s 2024.

“We can’t worry about polls,” Vance insisted. “Consistently, what you’ve seen in 2016 and 2020 is that the media uses fake polls to drive down Republican turnout and to create dissension and conflict with Republican voters.”

“I’m telling you, every single person who’s watching this, the Trump campaign is in a very, very good spot.”

Fake polls? That’s a common refrain when a candidate is losing. And the Trump-Vance ticket is losing badly, especially when it comes to momentum and fundraising. Their poll numbers drop nearly every time one of them opens his mouth.

At this rate, Trump and Vance could wind up losing by a historic margin. Maybe that would finally put a stake through the heart of the MAGA movement.

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Womp Womp! JD Vance Humiliated By Sparse Turnout At Michigan Campaign Rally

If enthusiasm and interest from voters are keys to successful political campaigns, then disgraced former president Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) are absolutely screwed.

For weeks now, Trump has been suggesting that Vice President Kamala Harris could never draw crowds as big as his, and yet she’s been doing exactly that (and then some) with her barnstorming political rallies in several key battleground states, suggesting that all the momentum is on the side of Democrats with less than three months until Election Day.

In contrast, the convicted felon ex-head of state has been largely secluded at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida while Vance has been doing most of the actual campaigning on behalf of the GOP ticket.

On Wednesday, Vance held a rally in Michigan, and based on the sparse crowd that showed up to hear him speak, Republicans should probably go ahead and start working on their concessions speeches, because they’re going to be needed soon after the polls close on November 5.

Multiple reporters who covered the Vance event said the number of audience members was sparse, to say the least, with dozens of empty seats and almost no applause from those who were in attendance.

Tech correspondent Chris O’Brien noted, “If I’m being generous, that looks like 10 rows of 10 seats across on each side. So about a total of 200 people potentially?”

Others also shared photos showing just how few people were there to see Vance speak, with Meryl Kornfield of the Washington Post trying to put a happy face on the photos that were circulated on social media.

Others who saw the photos were spectacularly unimpressed.

And then the internet took over, heaping mockery onto Vance and his pathetic excuse of a rally crowd.

Enthusiasm and interest are lacking when it comes to the Trump-Vance ticket. At this rate, they’ll be able to hold their upcoming rallies in a one-car garage with room left over for refreshments.

 

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Pete Buttigieg Shreds J.D. Vance For Using ‘Pro-Family’ Rhetoric To Cloak His Bigotry

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttgieg slammed GOP vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance this morning during an appearance on CNN, making it clear that while Vance claims to be “pro-family,” his words suggest otherwise.

Asked about an interview CNN conducted with Vance in which the Ohio Republican accused Democrats of being anti-family, Buttigieg made it clear he has no use for the senator’s bogus pronouncements on the topic of what constitutes a family.

“Let’s be clear, we’re the ones trying to get the Child Tax Credit expanded and J.D. Vance couldn’t be bothered to show up in the Senate and vote for it and Republicans have blocked that from being expanded or it’d be the law of the land right now.”

“So if you want to talk about promoting children, promoting family, put your money where your mouth is,” Buttigieg added.

Buttigieg also told host Dana Bash, “Look, when you asked him and pressed him on whether my family was legitimate, he said yes because I think he felt shamed into it. But let’s remember also, the last time I checked, he doesn’t even think I should legally be able to have a family.”

“Now, if he really got his way in his anti-marriage equality views, I don’t know if that means that he would want me and my husband to be forcibly divorced and separated from our children or if he’d be satisfied just to have us lose legal protections like the ability to do our taxes together, visit them in a hospital,” he added. “I don’t know exactly what his vision of us not having a family looks like, but I know that it’s not pro-family for me.”

Make no mistake. Vance and his political godfather, Donald Trump, think they have the right to determine what constitutes a family. But their version of family is something from the 1950s and has no relevance at all in 2024.

Buttigieg is right. And Vance’s narrow-minded bigotry needs to be called out every time he opens his big mouth.

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Flailing Trump And Vance Look Like ‘Chimpanzees’ Tossing ‘Fecal Remains’: Reporter

As they continue to lose ground in the 2024 race for the White House, one reporter with decades of experience covering elections is noting that both Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are starting to look like “chimpanzees” who are throwing their feces in a desperate effort to blunt the momentum of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

In an article he wrote for Salon, Brian Karem notes that Vance’s attack on Walz’s 24 years of service in the Army National Guard proves that the GOP is flailing about and losing ground with voters.

“At the end of the day, the GOP looked like those chimpanzees in the zoo who are kept behind glass walls because they fling their fecal remains at everyone. So far, very little of this has stuck to Walz, who remains affable and effective at blocking the demagoguery. Still, the GOP won’t give up its attempts to demonize Walz and Harris. The Democrats had to know it was coming, and if they didn’t then they’re more headless than I thought. The Republicans are certainly heartless. “

Trump also looks weak and feckless when compared to Walz, who spent decades as a public school teacher and is beloved in the state he leads, Karem adds.

“Trump, meanwhile, has dissolved under Walz’s addition to the Democratic ticket. Insiders in the Trump camp who still can nominally engage in cogent thought believe Trump made a horrible choice in choosing Vance and it will cost them the election. They’re running around with their hair on fire while trying to pull it out.”

In other words, Trump and Vance deserve each other, Karem rightly observes, because both of them are widely despised by a large majority of Americans.

“Donald Trump’s mental decline becomes more apparent every day. Vance’s fear of women, his desire to destroy voting rights and both of their desires to turn back time to ‘Make America Great Again’ when that past was never great for children, minorities, those of certain faiths and those in the LGBTQ community, are taking a toll on this country.”

The 2024 election, Karem concludes, isn’t just a choice between Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and progressives. It’s much deeper than that, and while Harris and Walz seem to understand that and have tapped into the larger zeitgeist.

“Watching Trump and Vance meltdown in public is funny, weird, creepy, and dangerous. But the more it becomes apparent that Trump is slipping, the more dangerous he and his vile movement become. For the country to come together, Trump cannot win. After all, who the Hell wants JD Vance a heartbeat away from the Presidency? I’m told even Trump doesn’t relish that thought.”

If Trump and Vance win, the United States as we know it is finished, and so is any pretense that this country is even the least little bit of a democracy or a republic. Instead, it will become the sort of “shithole” nation Trump loves to sneer at.