The Biden campaign fiercely denounced Donald Trump following his caustic remarks aimed at immigrants Saturday, saying the former president “parroted Hitler.”
“Tonight Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” Biden-Harris 2024 spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement.
Trump on Saturday ratcheted up his already inflammatory rhetoric on immigrants at a rally in New Hampshire. “They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” the former president said. “They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia.”
The scariest part? This guy is polling above Biden
Biden being their best chance of defeating Trump is scary enough.
Not the best, just the only one, because nobody else is being considered
I think that may be a distinction without a difference.
Gotta keep the israeli agent in power
I mean, I feel your frustration, but I don’t imagine trump would be any better in that regard
Well just apply his words, immigrants tainting blood… His position would be to fully support Isreal and wipe out any foreign blood that could come near their borders. Expand their borders for “sake of security” agaisnt said foreigners and then start over.
The “their” you reference is the Democratic Party. It’s the party’s best chance of defeating Trump. People with better chances don’t fit well enough within the party to get their nomination.
And the only reason the Democratic Party has a say is because the U.S. political system was designed to only allow one of two winners. The system is designed so that any third party offering will fail, and their attempt will harm the party with the “nearest” compatible beliefs.
It’s a shitshow. Built poorly (on purpose to preserve power of the political elites), and litigated to be even worse, so corporations can bribe those elites.
polls said the same about Hillary. Biden will win again
no he won’t, not if American voters keep apathetically stumbling towards fascism like they have been the last few years. The only way this is going to work is if everybody Taylor Swift’s the fuck out of this election, no more pussy footing around
Trump has actually never won the popular vote. Unfortunately, majorities don’t really matter in the American election system.
It is possible to out-vote the inherent inequities of the electoral college system and the decades of gerrymandering, but it will take a concerted effort to get out the vote from the demographicswho have been targeted by those voter supression efforts, especially in places like Florida and Texas.
Uhh what?? Trump got elected once. That is it. Since then Dems have basically come out on top every election since likely because of Trump. Polling has always proven to be dog shit.
Trump is a boogeyman Dems use to encourage people to vote their way. We aren’t heading to fascism because of him
He almost won in 2020. The GOP has been hard at work across the country with gerrymandering and other election fuckery for the last few years. And while polling may not be gospel, it’s a rough indicator. I wouldn’t act so confident that he’s going to lose. I’m optimistic he will, but I wouldn’t say it’s an absolute certainty.
And if you don’t believe a large percentage of Americans are clamoring for authoritarianism, then you obviously haven’t been paying attention.
How do you figure he almost won? He lost damn near every key swing state. That election was not close.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/2020-election-numbers
Yes, Biden won by a landslide overall. But as the quoted paragraph above points out, it was strategically very close to a Trump victory.
Well 2016 wasnt close either, so saying it was closer than 2016 isn’t saying much. The paragraph basically says “if he had won the key parts of the election he would have won”. Well…ya…
He was dominated in the key parts of the election just like Hilary was. I agree with you he is absolutely a threat in the upcoming election, but he did not almost win 2020.
It literally said he won by almost 43k votes across states. That’s pretty damn close.
Stop spreading disinformation.
what election cycle did dems face hard losses since?
I wasn’t talking about that; I was talking about this blatant fucking lie:
you think we are going to fascism because of trump?
Who the fuck else do you think is responsible for it?!
Just like every time before them, the polls accurately predicted the popular vote which is all they ever claimed to do. Read a book. And don’t get complacent.
Tbf, I saw plenty polls that said Hillary was PROBABLY going to win. But any time something is PROBABLY going to happen there’s a chance it might not.
70-80% chance might seem like a sure thing. But these are the same people who complain when 20% chance of rain turns into… rain. “But the weatherman said it wouldn’t rain.”
To drive home the point: play more xcom.
Was about to say the same thing.
Except XCOM actually cheats in your favor with its RNG.
Which means he’s more popular than Hitler was right before he took over.
He’s definitely going to win, fascism is way too popular. Biden’s not great, but Trump’s a fucking disaster
I wouldn’t throw in the towel just yet. When was the last time a sitting democratic president lost the second term, with a strong economy? Plus the entire 18+ demographic waking up thanks to the attack on reproductive rights, on trans, gay, basically anything other than white males.
With the number of criminal charges trump is facing I would be surprised if he gets anywhere near this next election. All it takes is one or two states declaring him unfit under treason and sedition and he has zero chance of winning even with the electoral college being borked.
Plus keep in mind that trump is good for these news organizations. They are going to keep giving him the spotlight and he can keep rilling up the 75% of us that know what his masters want from him.
Remember that it’s a very small, very loud minority supporting trump. We also don’t have the same troll farms manipulating people on fb and elsewhere like we did last time around. We will also be more likely to be more vigilant (hopefully) protecting people at the voting booth from people scaring off anyone who may vote for sanity.
If he’s found guilty in Georgia, even if he doesn’t do time, I think it’s very unlikely he will be on the Georgia ballot, which will cost him 16 electoral votes he would have otherwise been almost guaranteed to win.
And then all we need is other states like Michigan, California, etc to not let him on and they will have to run someone else who isn’t a treasonous traitor who sold/gave away secrets to Russia, NK, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc.
There was a day not long ago when the entire republican party would be calling for trumps head and want him strung up in the middle of town. Now there are no crimes they won’t ignore if it means getting the dems and making as many people suffer as possible.
Their only position now is “whatever Democrats want, we want the opposite.”
Exactly. During Obama they reverted to being obstinate toddlers. Ideas that were originally their idea were all of a sudden the worst thing ever because Obama said it.
Feels by design at this point
It’s always been by design.
Honest question from a foreigner: is it possible for the electoral college select a write-in candidate?
If so, Trump not being on the ballot may not be enough to keep him out of power.
People don’t think the economy is strong right now. Wages still haven’t caught up to the last few years of inflation.
A year is a long time. Look at the labor market right now. Companies are crying for workers and desperately trying not to raise wages. Big companies are laying people off because they are getting squeezed to show continued unsustainable growth but that is self-sabotage in the long run - investments will flow to new competitors who have room to actually grow. But the UAW prevailing and the writer’s guild prevailing are bellwethers for the future. The workers are collectively demanding more even if most of us aren’t organized into unions.
The economy isn’t as weak as people think and improving, so the environment is ripe for wages to rise and people to catch up with the reality. That’s all my interpretation anyway. I’m quite positive about the next year. We’ll see, but I think it’s way too early for any doom and gloom.
Trump is certainly a huge threat, but Biden beat him once and it’s likely barring an economic downturn that he will lose again. Never in the history of the United States that I can find has a presidential candidate ever lost an election and then come back to defeat the same opponent they lost to the first time. That’s a comfort when I’m feeling stressed about it.
Feels don’t beat actual numbers. The economy is bouncing back strong from the pandemic. As another comment said, everyone is hiring. They haven’t all (yet) broken and increased wages enough to bring in enough talent but it’s slowly getting there. It’s been a few years now since wmt, tgt and others increased starting to like $15/hour. That’s not enough to retire on but it’s a start.
We also have the waves of unions going on strike. This will definitely have a negative impact on the economy (short lived) but then the higher wages these strikes make happen will be part of the next economic boom over the next decade or so. At least that’s what I see happening and hope I’m right about.
There is a place for nuanced discussions but letting feelings guide you is not the way forward and neither is letting perfect be the enemy of good.
That’s not a uniquely American situation at the moment.
All valid points, but don’t forget the Republican party has been working for over a decade through gerrymandering to ensure they won’t lose an election. They are close to their goal. If ranked choice were national and popular vote had any weight then gerrymandering would be less effective. Until then it’s close to a gamed election system.
If this was 100% foolproof trump wouldn’t have lost the second term.
Remember that for decades Republicans only win via the electoral college not the popular vote. We have the perfect recipe for a sweep of the federal and state governments so long as we can get the younger generations out to vote.
I saw something the other day about a republican strategist saying that it’s likely they will lose the house or senate iirc. Trump and company will be the downfall of the republican party. Assuming Biden wins again hopefully we will go after the bullshit hard and put the final nail in that parties coffin. Biden can’t order or even suggest anything now because it would not be good optics.
Yeah the last Republican to win both terms by popular vote was Ronald Reagan. The last Republican president to never win without winning the popular vote was George H.W. Bush, and he was so long ago that he campaigned on ending global warming as a Republican.
Heck yes!
I live in a deep red rural area and the MAGA flags and others are out of vogue(granted they were Cheap AF & ruined quickly). I’m not seeing the energy. Even the perennial die-hard “but democrat x bad” have lost their desire to trumpet even a pro-republican slogan. They will vote and most won’t change their mind but they are seriously deflated with nothing to rally around with Trump’s “retribution only” campaign.
I agree many of the news organizations have changed leadership & most of them are clamoring to get back the audience they had from previously or seeking to “shift tone”.
On Saturday I drove from Atlanta to Highlands NC for a funeral. Had to drive thru Deliverance Country - exactly where it was filmed - to get there. I passed a Southern Heritage Museum and Gift Shop with a giant Stars & Bars billboard, and numerous TRUMP 2024 SAVE AMERICA! giant banners.
Thankfully I don’t have stickers on my car identifying me as a “librul,” and my license tag says Cobb Co which is still a pretty red part of metro ATL but people in those rural areas probably think anyone from “the city” is a “librul”.
The Trump garbage is still everywhere, at least here, and it’s not going away. I am happy to hear you’re seeing less of it.
You live in a purple state that MAGA thinks was stolen, so it makes sense that keeps them motivated. I’m talking from a deep red state experience here. They are not gone or banished for sure but have become on par to Southern Heritage territory so checks out.
He is not definitely going to win. What a shit take. Vote. Tell other people to vote.
Defeatism is even worse than neutrality.
Well, let’s hope Americans prove me wrong. Won’t hold my breath.
Fair play. I don’t blame anyone for being spooked. Americans as a group can be very scary.