Some people are twisting the “only 75% of Black men under 50 are planning to vote for Harris instead of Trump” stat to mean that the Democrats have lost the Black vote, but that’s a bit disingenuous. There are hardly any demographics that skew that hard for one party over the other.
For example, the Evangelical Christian vote is the GOP’s most reliable constituency and their party affiliation splits approximately 56% Republican to 28% Democratic.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/11/walz-rural-america-minnesota-00182749
The strategy, said John Anzalone, a veteran pollster and Harris adviser, is simple: “If you can do a couple points better, five points better, in those rural areas, and you multiply that by all the rural areas in those states, it’s a big deal.” Small margins tallied county-by-county can lead to a state-wide win. And Walz, he said, “is the first nominee in modern history, maybe since [Jimmy] Carter, who can talk small town America, rural America.”
Milley spoke to Woodward for his previous reporting. Woodward now reports the former general as saying: “He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country.
“A fascist to the core.”
So TIL that is still a thing. I remember a similar ad in TX in the run up to the '92 election (whoever it was, wasn’t running for POTUS). They used to do this with billboards, as well. Evidently I’m fortunate because I had not encountered this since some time before I left TX, & that was 22 years ago.
Understood. His talk re “couch-sitters” is one part of a 46-minute speech (extemporaneous?), one that covered some good ground. Evidently, this rally was an unannounced event, sort of ad hoc, so I suppose it’s possible that the Harris campaign looked at the latest poll numbers and asked Obama to do what he does so well and thereby help to close areas of concern in what may be a tighter than anticipated contest next month.
Here’s the entire speech:
I don’t think that antimissile capabilities are what’s needed to protect Trump or any other politician against nutjob Americans armed with easily-attainable assault rifles, but whatever.
Now if the request is denied he’s going to claim that as further proof Biden and Harris are trying to have him killed. 
But how can he trust that Dark Brandon won’t send a tornado to take down his government plane?
About the military: Suckers and loser.
Later: Make them protect me.
Hear me out here, let’s give him a cybertruck and have Steven Segal shipped over from Russia to be his bodyguard. 
Even knowing rather well that all national opinion polling is shite, i too am yoyo
-sigh-
Still - I’d prefer that she was leading in the polls than behind in them.
Especially in the swing states.
Okay Don.
“If they had an honest election in California, I think I’d win it in a landslide. I really do,” the former president said on “The John Kobylt Show,” a Southern California talk radio show, while complaining about the state’s mail-in voting procedures.
And this…
From the very beginning of this journey, I have been on a mission to rescue our nation from a failed and corrupt political establishment.
I will NEVER QUIT, I will NEVER BEND, I will NEVER BREAK, and I will NEVER YIELD, not even in the face of death itself!
There is speculation online he’s scouting locations in CA and NY from which to make a quick exit from the US when his “mission” fails. If he’s unable to be a dictator, he’ll need another retirement / avoid paying his debts plan.
California has the largest number of registered Republicans, even though there are many more Democrats. More than Florida. Texas is hard to know due to how they do party affiliation.
And Trump raises tons of cash from California. So he has to show them a large consideration.
