It “could have the effect of softening her husband’s image on abortion, something [he’s] sought to do as the issue has emerged as a potential game changer in the presidential race.” Therefore, reasonable people can be skeptical of her sincerity and see it as a gambit to help her [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2024 Election’
Trump rally crowd boos soldier over base name
Disrespecting our military personnel and veterans has been a Trump hallmark. That hasn’t changed and isn’t going to. At a townhall-style campaign event in North Carolina on Friday, October 4, 2024, Trump “chuckled” as his crowd booed an active-duty soldier. The soldier’[...]
Arrest made in Springfield, Ohio, goose killing
Well, if they weren’t eating pet dogs and cats, then they’re killing ducks and geese. That was the charge leveled by Republicans against Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian immigrants, who are in the U.S. legally on work visas. A cat did go missing. It turned up alive in its owner’s [...]
October 2nd, 2024 - 1:23 am § in Politics
J. D. Vance wins debate with dishonesty
According to viewers, J. D. Vance won his debate with Tim Walz, but just barely. In a CBS post-debate poll, 42% said Vance won, 41% said Walz won, and 17% called it a tie. CNN’s poll was equally close: Vance 51%, Walz 49%, with no tie option. (See Vox story here.) In a USA Today […][...]
Trading barbs ahead of Walz vs. Vance debate
A day before the 2024 vice presidential debate, CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins moderated a heated exchange between Van Jones, a Democrat, and Lee Zeldin, a Republican, in the video below. Predictably, Zeldin does two things you expect of a Republican: He lies and defends a despicable candidate. Zeldin r[...]
Trump lies about Biden’s hurricane response
While touring Hurricane Helene-ravaged areas of Georgia on Monday, Trump “repeatedly spread falsehoods … about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster,” the Associated Press reported on September 30, 2024 (read story here). Of c[...]
September 29th, 2024 - 2:01 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Should there be a minimum emotional age for presidents?
The Constitution prescribes a minimum physical age, and Republicans seem to want a maximum age, so why not an emotional age citeria, too? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
J. D. Vance’s jaw-dropping speaking engagement
“J. D. Vance will speak at an event on Saturday hosted by the self-styled prophet and political extremist Lance Wallnau, who has claimed Kamala Harris practices witchcraft and has written that the US is headed toward bloody internal conflict,” the Guardian reported on Friday, September 27, 2024[...]
Why political lies matter
You can’t solve our country’s problems if you don’t have rational policies. Here are two CNN headlines and stories posted on Friday, September 27, 2024 (here), as the 2024 campaign enters a climactic phase: Trump campaign highlights stories of those killed by undocumented immigrant[...]
Why you won’t know who won Pennsylvania on election night
Pennsylvania, unlike other states, doesn’t begin counting their mail ballots until election night. It’s a slow process. Signatures have to be matched, envelopes opened, and ballots removed and fed into the scanning machines. There are millions of these ballots, it’s done by hand, and it takes [...]