US election 2020 thread

[krtek a houby]

The general line seems to be he's so full of shit he's attracting flies.

Either that, or he's switched allegiance to Beelzebub

 

[spring-peeper]

Does this mean that Trump is broke??

If he was worth a lot, he would be one of those evil people who are "white and rich'.

Nah - don't think people are stupid...

 

[Nylock]

Candace Owens: sticking up for rich white people. Until the grift dictates otherwise...

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[TomUS]

Harris wasn't nearly aggressive enough. It appears her handlers told her 'We're ahead, don't rock the boat, be cautious'. I think she blew it.

 

[belboid]

This is like the the two Ronnie's sketch with pence answering the previous question .

Exactly my thought half an hour earlier, glad I went to bed.

pence can’t have done the ticket much good by blatantly ignoring and insulting both women so consistently. The most interesting bit was the extent to which he repeatedly attacked the green new deal. Forcing Harris to repeatedly say they wouldn’t ban fracking probably lost them (b&h) a few left votes and shored up a few for T&P in the rust belt.

but he was still shit.

 

[existentialist]

Harris wasn't nearly aggressive enough. It appears her handlers told her 'We're ahead, don't rock the boat, be cautious'. I think she blew it.

Perhaps she should have set fire to a few dumpsters?

 

[TomUS]

Perhaps she should have set fire to a few dumpsters?

I didn't notice any on the stage,

 

[cupid_stunt]

Looks like Trump's recent actions are helping to increase Biden's lead.


Wiki link

And, the New Stateman's forecast of who will win, has gone from under 80% a week ago, to a 84.9% chance of Biden winning.

US 2020 presidential election forecast model: will Donald Trump or Joe Biden win?

The New Statesman's model, forecasting the upcoming US presidential election.

www.newstatesman.com

 

[agricola]

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Does this mean that Trump is broke??

If he was worth a lot, he would be one of those evil people who are "white and rich'.

Nah - don't think people are stupid...

Her father in law is a life peer, a former Treasurer of the Tory Party and has a fortune of around £140 million - so the hypocrisy is actually a lot closer to home than just her backing of Trump.

 

[Yossarian]

Harris wasn't nearly aggressive enough. It appears her handlers told her 'We're ahead, don't rock the boat, be cautious'. I think she blew it.

I think she did very well restraining her anger - if I'd had to debate Mike Pence, I would have been smashing his face against that partition within the first 5 minutes.

She was no doubt aware that if she did lose her patience with Pence, within the hour the Trump campaign would have tweeted out footage saying "Look at the scary angry Black woman who wants to turn America Communist!"

 

[Streathamite]

But still...in those figures he’d win Texas and Arizona!

texas is neck-and-neck, Arizona Biden has a good-ish lead, buoyed no doubt by the fact that Arizonans don't take kindly to the things Trump said about the late Arizona Senator John McCain

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I think she did very well restraining her anger - if I'd had to debate Mike Pence, I would have been smashing his face against that partition within the first 5 minutes.

Just watched a few clips - she seemed to do pretty well IMO, both in arguing calmly and clearly, and dealing with interruptions.

 

[Streathamite]

Florida also has a sizeable spanish-speaking population which is being herded into voting trump by scurrilous bollocks being shared over whatsapp in the same manner that shady right-wing types got Bolsanaro into power. Democrats are barely aware of this and doing nothing to counter it.

Sure, but plenty of Latinos are repelled by Trump's comments on mexicans and Puerto Rico, and the dems d have a fairly strong latino outreach movement going

 

[JimW]

Trump saying he won't do a virtual debate apparently, was breaking news on MSN just. Shithouse.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The Trump’s bottled it off the next debate.

 

[JimW]

Be too busy with his funeral arrangements.

 

[moochedit]

The Trump’s bottled it off the next debate.

No surprise there. Of course it'll all be biden's fault for being scared of covid. Etc.

 

[agricola]

I note they've dropped the drugs attack line, though. I wonder why?

 

[Streathamite]

Harris wasn't nearly aggressive enough. It appears her handlers told her 'We're ahead, don't rock the boat, be cautious'. I think she blew it.

I thought she was OK. Crisp, clear, concise, and put Pence firmly in his box with "Mr vice President, I'm talking".
Pence was much better than trump, but boy is that bar low. he also came across as a bit patronising.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I thought she was OK. Crisp, clear, concise, and put Pence firmly in his ox with "Mr vice President, I'm talking".
Pence was much better than trump, but boy is that bar low. he also came across as a bit patronising.

Well, yeah, it was actually like watching two normal-ish politicians from the clips I saw.

 

[Streathamite]

Trump saying he won't do a virtual debate apparently, was breaking news on MSN just. Shithouse.

yep, confirmed.
Thing is, by all measures he's far enough behind to need a big game changer, and only a debate could possibly do that at this stage. And he can't now credibly say Biden's chickening out. Also, it's bleeding obvious that a virtual debate is right for these circumstances.
Unless he's now resigned to losing, and is putting all his chips on crying 'rigged election!', this makes no sense.

 

[Streathamite]

Well, yeah, it was actually like watching two normal-ish politicians from the clips I saw.

yup, a return to the world of the sane and rational (even if Pence is a creepy queerbashing bigot)

 

[belboid]

Far too easy to cut his mike with a virtual debate, no fucking way he’d agree to that.

 

[prunus]

I didn't notice any on the stage,

There was one, it had a fly on it for a couple of minutes.

 

[Wilf]

There was one, it had a fly on it for a couple of minutes.

I think you mean there was a fly and it had a massive shit stuck to its arse for a couple of minutes.

 

[petee]

The Trump’s bottled it off the next debate.

that's a bit disappointing, as i was hoping biden would get shirty and demand that trump get another test beforehand or something like that.

 

[Streathamite]

I thought she was OK. Crisp, clear, concise, and put Pence firmly in his box with "Mr vice President, I'm talking".
Pence was much better than trump, but boy is that bar low. he also came across as a bit patronising.

e2a: this is what i should have posted, but my PC's playing up:
she also needs to project a bit more warmth and humour, nd to let her personality come through
all in all, a straight B for her, and a B- for Pence

 

[killer b]

this is perfect.

 

[spring-peeper]

The Biden campaign started selling fly swatters right after the debate. They're already sold out

The Biden campaign didn't miss a beat trying to capitalize on the, um, buzz of the vice presidential debate.

www.cnn.com