Energy in politics can’t be bought, and it can’t be manufactured. It has to just be there. Tonight, in an arena filled to its 12,000 capacity in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz reminded Democrats who they are.
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Jenna Ellis pleads guilty, again, in Arizona this time. And has agreed to give testimony about Trump's conspiracy to steal the 2020 election using fake electors.
Trump is more and more obsessed with crowd size these days. Could be because Kamala Harris filled the same venue in Atlanta that he didn't. But there was no shortage of people he decided to blame for it.
If election-denying Republican officials refuse to certify votes in battleground states, lawsuits will be filed in every county and statewide by Democrats to force the certification of the elections.
Every time one of Trump’s extravagant claims encounters reality, it’s another blow not only to his campaign. Now that he is a former president out there begging for votes, his braggadocio rings even more hollow.
Trump is panicked, and as this appearance proves, when he is panicked, he makes mistakes. His biggest mistake this time was agreeing to speak to an audience that would catch his lies every time he uttered them.
This election is a national emergency. We’ve got 100 days to get behind Kamala Harris and beat Donald Trump in November. Our country is having a heart attack. It’s time for Democrats to give it CPR at the ballot box.
Whatever Trump has in mind cannot be good, when he is telling rallies packed with MAGA voters that they don’t have to worry about voting, because he already “has the votes.”
Donald Trump is laying plans for this to be the last American election. He is telling his crowds that he’ll “fix it” so he is, like his friend Vladimir Putin, president for life.
Four days into the candidacy of Kamala Harris, we have a brand new presidential race, folks. It’s right there in today’s numbers, and the race is only a few days old.
Ooops. On the fourth day after Vance-a-mania at the Republican Convention, the Wise Man and Wise Woman behind the Trump campaign were already having second thoughts.
The themes of the Harris campaign haven’t even begun to sink in. Wait until you see the polls after she turns “We’re not going back” into the Democrats’ slogan for 2024.
It took more than three weeks for dissension to fracture the Democratic Party and less than 24 hours to bring it back together behind Harris.
The question is, can we as Democrats put our differences aside, dismiss the circular firing squad and come together now, before the convention, and put together the kind of unified, powerful campaign that is necessary to beat Donald Trump?
Here's the thing about political conventions: Apart from their actual purpose, they are ridiculous exercises in excess and what we now call identity signaling. The crowd in Milwaukee, as was the crowd in Miami in 1972, relentlessly white.
Whatever happens over the next few days, Democrats will have to unify and get down to the business of beating Donald Trump and the pool boy he has chosen as his running mate.