Here’s the story on Loomer, from last May. She is on the inside of the Trump campaign: Loomer, a far-right activist and former Republican congressional candidate, has plenty of evidence that Trump likes her. There are all the times he’s boosted her videos on Truth Social. There was the event last summer, at Trump’s New Jersey golf club, when the former president spotted Loomer on the rope line and invited her onto his private balcony. There was the shout-out at a rally in Iowa, in January, when Trump praised her as “a very important person, politically.” There were the former president’s invitations to fly on Trump Force One, his Boeing 757 — Loomer remembers being a passenger three times, Trump aides recall only two — bobbing along to Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U”en route from Palm Beach to Des Moines last January. There’s also the fact that Trump reportedly wanted to hire her for a campaign role last spring,before aide sintervened.
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The childless cat lady sings You can’t unsee it. Donald Trump last night bested Joe Biden with a Grandpa Simpsonesque debate performance even more unsettling against Vice President Kamala Harris. If Trump’s goal was to be best of the worst, congratulations, Donald, you did it. Trump made at least 33 false claims during the debate, fact-checker Daniel Dale told CNN viewers Tuesday night. But that’s not the point anymore. Facts have never mattered to Trump, nor to his MAGA cult. As Maya Angelou said, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” How did they feel about seeing Trump afraid even to look at Harris? How did Americans feel about Harris pledging to fight for them, all of them, while Trump whined about his crowd size? How did they feel about Trump citing Viktor Orbán, the autocratic prime minister of Hungary, as a character reference? There were too many memorable moments to review. Too many Harris zingers and Trump belly flops. But I’m reminded of Gov.
Harris demonstrated Trump’s weakness Kamala Harris is hardly the first person to observe that Donald Trump is easily manipulated with flattery. Particularly, flattery from autocrats and dictators he admires and whose respect he craves. They belong to an exclusive club he desperately wants to join, a strongman club that wouldn’t have an infant like him for a member. Harris said of Trump during last night’s debate: He’s trying to again divide and distract from the reality, which is it is very well known that Donald Trump is weak and wrong on national security and foreign policy. It is well known that he admires dictators, wants to be a dictator on day one according to himself. It is well known that he said of Putin that he can do whatever the hell he wants and go into Ukraine. It is well known when that he said when Russia went into Ukraine it was brilliant. It is well known he exchanged love letters with Kim Jong un.
According to the New York Times/Sienna poll released over the weekend, about 28% of people said they needed to learn more about Vice President Kamala Harris,” while only 9% said the same about Donald Trump with the race pretty much tied within the margin of error. Consequently, the conventional wisdom going into last night’s debate was that Harris had much more to lose — and gain — than Trump who is thought to have a pretty solid 46% no matter what while Harris could conceivably go up or down pretty substantially. The debate was therefore seen as make or break for her while for him it would probably change nothing. Could she rise to the occasion? Oh yes indeed she could and she did. That 28% of people who needed to learn more, learned that Kamala Harris is quick witted, highly qualified, confident and very well prepared. Yes, she has a very winning smile and exudes a joyful radiance, but she has a spine of steel which she demonstrated for a solid hour and a half as she dominated poor, spent Donald Trump. It was hardly a fair fight.
The whine: Lol. So unfaaaiiir!!!
There were many but this was the coup de grace: At every moment in this short, intense campaign Kamala Harris has risen to the occasion. During the weeks of agony as President Biden and the party debated whether he could continue his campaign, she kept her head down giving him space to make his decision. But when he endorsed her moments after announcing his withdrawal from the race, she hit the ground running. Her rollout, including the choice of Tim Walz as her running mate, is widely accepted as one of the best in American political history. Her speech at the DNC was flawless. The debate last night was a home run. She. Is. Good. Very, very good. It’s clear that she not only has good instincts, she learns from her mistakes and moves forward with confidence. She is a mature, experienced politician with a warm and engaging personality. That’s rare. The Democrats are lucky to have her.
Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight. If you haven’t already, now is a great time to do your research on the issues at hand and the stances these candidates take on the topics that matter to you the most. As a voter, I make sure to watch and read everything I can about their proposed policies and plans for this country. Recently I was made aware that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his site. It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation. It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter. The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth. I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them. I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos.
What’s he thinking about, I wonder? This maybe? The share price of Trump Media plunged more than 13% on Wednesday, a day after majority shareholder Donald Trump gave a widely panned presidential debate performance against Vice President Kamala Harris. The company’s stock price was at its lowest intraday level since the Truth Social app owner began publicly trading as DJT on the Nasdaq in late March. Investing in Trump Media stock is often seen as a way to bet on the political fortunes of Trump, the former president and current Republican nominee. Trump Media has said its business hinges at least partly on Trump’s popularity, and analysts say the company’s value will rise or fall based on his electoral prospects. He’s going to cash out in a few days with at least a billion dollars. It will destroy his investors but he doesn’t care about that. At this point he’s got to cramble to grift as much as he possibly can before the whole thing comes crashing down.
JV Last at the Bulwark asks the right question: What will it say about America if Trump’s numbers don’t drop over the next week? We have had every chance to reject Donald Trump. We saw him mishandle a crisis, resulting in an economic collapse and hundreds of thousands of excess deaths. We saw him attempt a violent coup. When voters said, “I don’t love Trump, but that other candidate is super old . . .” Democrats went and swapped out Joe Biden for Kamala Harris. Harris has been a good candidate. She has run as a rock-solid moderate. She just curb-stomped Trump in front of tens of millions of voters. What else do people want? I’m serious about this: What else could Harris possibly do? Because it looks to me like she’s an above-average candidate, running in a good economic environment, playing near-perfect baseball against a guy who says he wants to be a dictator. And the response of the American people is: Harris +1.1. What happens if, a week after last night’s demonstration, this race is still a toss-up? What does that tell us about the long-term viability of American democracy?
Republicans would rather rule The mailing of over 100,000 North Carolina absentee ballots in-state and to armed service members and others residing overseas will be delayed for weeks. (Dare we again use unprecedented?) North Carolina’s state Supreme Court on Monday ruled for RFK Jr. on his demand that his name/party that he fought to include on state ballots now be removed. One hundred county Boards of Elections have already printed roughly 3 million in-person and absentee ballots with Kennedy’s name on them. His delay in withdrawing from the presidential contest to endorse Donald Trump means strapped county boards must pay reprinting costs. As we noted on Saturday, “2,348 ballot styles will have to be reformatted, reproofed, reprinted, mailings re-prepared by staff, and voting machines recoded in 100 counties.” The cost of Kennedy’s vanity project to North Carolina taxpayers and delay to voters will be considerable. State law requires absentee ballots to be mailed 60 days ahead of the general election. That was Friday, September 6.