An overly confident Trump team indulged in a campaign luxury that could prove a critical liability on election night, a new political analysis contends. Former President Donald Trump's campaign is seriously concerned about running mate Sen. J.
D. Vance (R-OH) now that President Joe Biden has opted to step aside from the 2024 election, the Atlantic reported Monday. "The selection of Ohio Senator J.
D. Vance as Trump’s running mate, campaign officials acknowledged, was something of a luxury," writes staff writer Tim Alberta, "meant to run up margins with the base in a blowout rather than persuade swing voters in a nailbiter." ALSO READ: ‘Creepy weirdos’: Senator fears Trump WH staff would destroy government from ‘inside’ Trump's supporters were shocked that Biden chose to abide the calls from his own party that he step aside from the election after a disastrous debate performance raised concerns about his age, according to the report.
The reasoning was reportedly based on an old ethnic stereotype. "More than anything," Alberta writes, "Trump’s allies believed that the president’s stubborn Irish ego wouldn’t let him back out of a fight with a man he despised." Conservative confidence fueled a manic energy at the Republican National Convention where Vance mounted the stage and claimed his party's nomination for vice president, Alberta writes.
But Republicans optimistic that their winning streak would run from July through November were met with a brutal check when Biden stepped aside. "In many ways, the convention scene was one of a party peaking too early," writes Alberto. "With Biden appearing to dig in, they left Milwaukee believing that this run of luck might never end.
The president’s abrupt exit dashed any such fantasy." Now Republicans are fretting about the prospect that Vice President Kamala Harris will take the reigns and claim as her running mate someone who can deliver what Vance cannot — undecided voters in powerful swing states, the Atlantic article concludes. "For a campaign that went to bed Saturday believing it would dictate the terms of the election every day until November 5, Sunday brought an unfamiliar feeling of powerlessness," Alberta writes.
"For the first time in a long time, Trump does not control the narrative of 2024." Never Trumper George Conway mocked his ex-wife Monday after she hit out at Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News. “She does not speak well, she does not work hard, she should not be the standard bearer for the party,” Kellyanne Conway, a Trump adviser, said on Sunday as the network showed video clips of Harris giggling.
Her ex, an outspoken Trump opponent, quickly responded on X : “Not everyone can express themselves as eloquently and with such exquisite turns of phrase as Donald J. Trump.” The Conways split “amicably” and said last year that they were in the final stages of a divorce.
The Daily Beast reported that Trump responded, “Congratulations to Kellyanne Conway on her DIVORCE from her wacko husband, Mr. Kellyanne Conway. Free at last, she has finally gotten rid of the disgusting albatross around her neck.
” CONTINUE READING Show less Former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio endorsed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to be vice president Sunday evening, calling a ticket combining Vice President Kamala Harris and the Michigan governor “the winning hand” for Democrats after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign Sunday afternoon. “The heroic, selfless decision by Joe Biden has given us the chance to nominate two leaders who will wipe the smirk off Donald Trump’s face and allow us to come roaring back,” de Blasio said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The best way to beat Trump ? Team up @VP Kamala Harris and @GovWhitmer ! The heroic, selfless decision by @JoeBiden has given us the chance to nominate two leaders who will wipe the smirk off Donald Trump’s face and allow us to come roaring back. A Harris-Whitmer ticket is the..
. — Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) July 22, 2024 De Blasio ran for president during the 2020 cycle and participated in the presidential debates held in Detroit in 2019. Biden endorsed Harris to be the Democratic nominee for president shortly after ending his own campaign, and Harris has started the process of taking over his existing campaign apparatus.
Several Michigan officials quickly endorsed Harris on Sunday, including U.S. Sens.
Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) and Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Twp.), U.S.
Reps. Hillary Scholten (D-Grand Rapids), Debbie Dingell (D-Ann Arbor), Dan Kildee (D-Flint), Shri Thanedar (D-Detroit) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly), Attorney General Dana Nessel and former governors Jim Blanchard and Jennifer Granholm. Granholm also serves as Biden’s energy secretary.
Another member of Biden’s cabinet, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who lives in Traverse City, also quickly endorsed Harris. Buttigieg is among the names who have been floated as a potential replacement for Biden or running mate for Harris, along with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who also endorsed Harris on Sunday, and Whitmer.
Whitmer did not endorse anyone Sunday but said that her “job in this election will remain the same: doing everything I can to elect Democrats and stop Donald Trump, a convicted felon whose agenda of raising families’ costs, banning abortion nationwide and abusing the power of the White House to settle his own scores is completely wrong for Michigan.” Other officials being floated as potential running mates for Harris include Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Kentucky Gov.
Andy Beshear, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly.
We need a Harris-Whitmer ticket now! Think of the excitement and energy that would bring! @KamalaHarris and @GovWhitmer : That’s a team we can win with. https://t.co/Pz2Kc7CqzV — Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) July 22, 2024 While some have indicated they believe Harris may select a male running mate to “balance” the ticket, de Blasio urged delegates to “think of the excitement and energy” a Harris-Whitmer ticket would bring.
“We need a Harris-Whitmer ticket now!” de Blasio said. GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX SUBSCRIBE Michigan Advance is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Michigan Advance maintains editorial independence.
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Follow Michigan Advance on Facebook and X . CONTINUE READING Show less MAGA resurfaced decades-old allegations against Kamala Harris as it tried to cripple her run for president as soon as it got started. Rumors from 30 years ago that Harris had an affair with the future mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown reignited accusations from the right-wing that she slept her way to the top.
She “got her start in politics by sleeping with Willie Brown,” wrote conservative columnist Matt Walsh on X. His post was reported by The Daily Beast. “She became Vice President because Biden needed a non-white female on the ticket.
Now she likely becomes the Democratic nominee for president because the guy at the top of the ticket has dementia," he wrote. “She’s made a career out of begging for handouts from powerful men. A thoroughly unimpressive human being.
” The slurs continued, as right-wing lawyer Clay Travis compared Harris to Stormy Daniels, the adult movie star that Donald Trump paid to keep quiet about a sexual relationship the pair had. ALSO READ: 'You babbling baboon': Nonsensical Trump post spurs Truth Social taunts “So how is Kamala Harris starting her career in politics as the side chick of the married mayor of San Francisco not a hugely important story?” he asked on X. The Beast reported that a fact check by Reuters in 2020 confirmed Brown and Harris dated in 1994, when Brown had been separated from his wife for more than a decade.
“Harris and Brown’s relationship was not secret and they made public appearances as a couple,” the fact check stated. CONTINUE READING Show less.
