CNN has Trump +3 over Kamala in their latest poll (49 to 46).
I personally believe the current polling will be unsustainable for Dems (i.e. it'll sink a couple points, but it does matter a lot on the DNC - if there are a lot of protests, even outside, that make it look incredibly disorganized (e.g. something like 'queers / grad students for Hamas' or multiple politicians becoming victims of violent crime) I think numbers will subside. A lot of the polls were something like "generic Democrat vs Trump", but now that Kamala's the nominee enthusiasm will subside after a week or 2. She received 0-1% of support in the primary in 2020, even in Cali, so she dropped out
I was talking to a Brazilian colleague a while ago who told me the left doesn't fk around in her country. They went after Bolsonaro and his minions with pure aggression and urgency. Every game they play the left responds by turning the tables and upping the attack. The base wants to see you defend the country. If you just ignore and talk around issues people lose motivation. They want to see their leaders take out the fkn rambo knife and go to work on the opposition.
You seem to think that toughness necessarily needs to come with Trumpism-like idiocy, immaturity, etc. Look at Harris' remarks yesterday about her being a prosecutor and Trump being a criminal. Quite tough, no doubt. But no Trumper idiocy or nicknames in them.
....and didn't accuse Vance of being a DEI pick !!
One can be tough AND take a relatively high road. Perhaps you can't relate.
I agree high road and limited name calling. What I am referring to is applying more pressure on the institutions to confront corrupt acts and confront lies directly to their faces. Ds are too passive. You don't want to play into their petty games but you can't pretend these people aren't a straight up fkn danger.
Wrong. That's the political game. Distort. Flip the tables. Attack. They bring BS we throw back in their faces. Not addressing nonsense doesn't make it go away. Every time they try to plant some BS root, you rip it off right away.
You're all over the place, nearly nonsensical. Right-thinking America does NOT need to be a mirror image of Trumpism to defeat Trumpism. Indeed, one could easily argue that doing that could HURT the chances of defeating it.
I used to think this way, but the reality is trumpism has sunk the bar to subterranean levels and the political game has changed. It won't be going back to civil mudslinging any time soon and people get tired of hearing about the criminal in politics while watching nothing being done. Ds don't seem to urgently want to bury him nor can they implement policies effectively because they lack a large enough majority. The only thing they can really deliver is urgency toward ending trumpism, but they are afraid to lose moderates. Show more spine and stand up for law and order and core values.
Authorities in the city of Moscow are offering a record signing-on bonus for new recruits to fight in Ukraine, in the latest sign of a scramble to boost dwindling Russian troop numbers.
I agree high road and limited name calling. What I am referring to is applying more pressure on the institutions to confront corrupt acts and confront lies directly to their faces. Ds are too passive. You don't want to play into their petty games but you can't pretend these people aren't a straight up fkn danger.
The US electorate has memory holed Trumps awfulness. Part of it is very effective whitewashing of Trump by the enormously effective right wing spin operations. And partly because we have an apathetic population that is totally turned off to politics.
The Left must continually reeducate who Trump is and the things he promises to do because it is very dark for our country.
They need to lay out that Trump can most certainly do what he promises and it’s not just “ Trump being Trump”.
The US electorate has memory holed Trumps awfulness. Part of it is very effective whitewashing of Trump by the enormously effective right wing spin operations. And partly because we have an apathetic population that is totally turned off to politics.
The Left must continually reeducate who Trump is and the things he promises to do because it is very dark for our country.
They need to lay out that Trump can most certainly do what he promises and it’s not just “ Trump being Trump”.
How about a video of what deporting 15 million people would look like? The staging of them. How about a video showing what promised retribution would look like against journalists, Liz Chaney. How about economists showing what 10% tariffs would do across the country? And a video of possibilities with Trump enjoying his criminal immunity in office.
Most people are clueless that Trump has promised most of this.
The US electorate has memory holed Trumps awfulness. Part of it is very effective whitewashing of Trump by the enormously effective right wing spin operations. And partly because we have an apathetic population that is totally turned off to politics.
The Left must continually reeducate who Trump is and the things he promises to do because it is very dark for our country.
They need to lay out that Trump can most certainly do what he promises and it’s not just “ Trump being Trump”.
How about a video of what deporting 15 million people would look like? The staging of them. How about a video showing what promised retribution would look like against journalists, Liz Chaney. How about economists showing what 10% tariffs would do across the country? And a video of possibilities with Trump enjoying his criminal immunity in office.
Most people are clueless that Trump has promised most of this.
There are some real vids of this stuff in Russia and Belarus that they can easily use. Tie it directly to what Trump and the GOP support.