American Politics Thread: The Hunt for Blue November

[Barnet Flame]

And so the public face of Trump’s plan to eradicate what is left of the US democratic system begins.


https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/...389558273?s=21

[dobbles]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Yeah, but I'm dead, so who cares?

Even though the pizza analogy played out a dozen or so posts ago, I will stick with it since it doesn't want to die!

Would you be willing to starve yourself and eat nothing even if it meant everyone you loved and cared about would be left behind to be force fed the $%&% pizza?

[Itse]

Well. There we have it. Trump calls for delay of election.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-ca...Bqr2wF19QLOWWQ

[activeStick]

In reality, most have known it was only a matter of time for him to suggest delaying the election with him polling so poorly. It'll be interesting to see what levers the GOP tries to pull to make this happen.

[Matata]

Originally Posted by New Era

Need more information from how the polling was conducted. These numbers could be a result of shifting to more rural areas and getting more data from the non-urban centers and less from the higher population centers. The job satisfaction/dissatisfaction numbers remain consistent as does the broader polling. One thing you can count on right now is for the media to make this seem like a race as that is what sells. RCP remains consistent in their numbers so I would not get your underwear in a knot over this.

I don't think any poll can really be trusted now. The concept of even participating in polls has become very politicized in the last few years. It's become a point of pride that Trump won despite the polls and every talking head on the right has spent the last few years saying stuff like: "I've never taken a poll." "Polls don't represent us" "what kind of loser even has time to take a poll?" "If someone calls me asking to participate in a poll, I'm hanging up the phone."

[troutman]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1288820888004112385

[Old Yeller]

I'd be more concerned if Trump hadn't consistently pissed off every general, colonel, lieutenant, major, captain, sergeant, corporal and private in the army.

[Thor]

Well, this will end really well for America...

[Senator Clay Davis]

MAGA, a two part act

https://twitter.com/user/status/1274489632886075398

https://twitter.com/user/status/1288843506018947073

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by activeStick

In reality, most have known it was only a matter of time for him to suggest delaying the election with him polling so poorly. It'll be interesting to see what levers the GOP tries to pull to make this happen.

I'm going to wildly speculate congressional Republicans will give the standard "Don being Don, he's not serious", they won't get pressed on it and they'll get the trial balloon data they want out of this.

[Thor]

Is the assumption that Cain got covid at the Tulsa rally?

[Senator Clay Davis]

It's possible he did, but as the picture shows he made no effort to take it seriously. Indoor rally, thousands of people, no mask. Just shows the current Trump supporter attitude that this is nothing, right up until their last breath.

[Thor]

Just scrolling his twitter feed, what a disaster it is.

[Senator Clay Davis]

But he will forever live on in meme history, so at least he has that.

[ResAlien]

If law matters only congress has the ability to postpone the presidential election and has never done so in the history of the US for any reason.

Not sure why a no big deal flu like virus is reason enough to delay the election. Must be all the internal big firm polling that just came in showing him he’s going to get curb stomped causing him to have a fit. This will only get worse as the election nears.

[driveway]

I’m pretty sure half of why Trump floated that tweet today was to swallow some of the news that the US economy shrank THIRTY THREE PERCENT last quarter.

The previous worst quarter was in 1958, when the economy shrank by 10%. In 2008, the economy shrank by 8% in the last quarter of the year.

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

It's possible he did, but as the picture shows he made no effort to take it seriously. Indoor rally, thousands of people, no mask. Just shows the current Trump supporter attitude that this is nothing, right up until their last breath.

If he didn't get it there, he was probably spreading it there.

Cain is still actively tweeting today. I never fully realized what BS these public figures Twitter accounts are.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by Itse

Well. There we have it. Trump calls for delay of election.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-ca...Bqr2wF19QLOWWQ

Oh boy, here we go. We all knew he would float this idea eventually. This will be the final test as to whether or not anyone in the GOP has a spine.

If I'm not mistaken, this would have to go through Congress. If Trump and his cronies try to push this through and it actually passes the Senate, then that's pretty much the end of American democracy as we once knew it.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by driveway

I’m pretty sure half of why Trump floated that tweet today was to swallow some of the news that the US economy shrank THIRTY THREE PERCENT last quarter.

The previous worst quarter was in 1958, when the economy shrank by 10%. In 2008, the economy shrank by 8% in the last quarter of the year.

By tomorrow he'll be spinning this as a win since projections were for a decline over 34%. Winning!

[ResAlien]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Oh boy, here we go. We all knew he would float this idea eventually. This will be the final test as to whether or not anyone in the GOP has a spine.

If I'm not mistaken, this would have to go through Congress. If Trump and his cronies try to push this through and it actually passes the Senate, then that's pretty much the end of American democracy as we once knew it.

His ridiculous suggestion would never get through the house. Senate means nothing.