Clearing the tabs for the weekend…
From Ed: If Kamala wins, perhaps you might be planning to resign after the election?
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“About two weeks in the past, Democrats and Republicans alike felt as if Donald Trump was about to return to the White Home. Many thought Democrats had been in a entice, caught between a declining president who could not marketing campaign correctly and a possible successor whose fame. The vibe has been modified, some conservatives suspect, “as faux as his Taylor Swift-level evaluation of Hunter Biden’s laptop computer intelligence,” in a column titled “The Kamala Harris Psyop.” However Having seen Harris’ fandom up shut, I can attest that it is very actual.”
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“Beshear is the son of former two-term governor Steve Beshear, who served within the Kentucky State Home when his son was born, Andy Beshear turned state lawyer normal when he was 3, Andy served because the forty ninth lieutenant governor since age six, then Took over as governor when his son turned 30.
“”JD Vance just isn’t from right here,” Bessier quipped on MSNBC.
“For somebody with the privilege of questioning the geographic credentials of a person raised in Middletown, Ohio, and Kentucky, the previous proper on the sting of the federal government’s definition of Appalachia and the latter nicely in between, is curious at finest,” stated Tom Marafa, professor emeritus of geography at Youngstown State College.
From Ed: Particularly when a Nepo child like Beshear serves as Appalachia’s authenticity inspector.
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“My perspective is, it does not actually matter, as a lot because it hurts my ego,” Vance stated in an interview on the “Full Ship Podcast” that aired Friday. “Folks will primarily vote for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. That is the best way these items go. I believe my job over the subsequent few months is to drive residence the message that Kamala Harris was a nasty vp and he or she will probably be a fair worse president.”
From Ed: Vance is right; Folks do not vote for working mates. The election of Harris amply proves that.
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“This isn’t a traditional 12 months. He did not have two years to get clear. There’s solely 90 days so it is a 2020 Biden technique. Put him within the basement the best way they did Biden, no interviews, no impromptu rallies, nothing however scripted. After which 70 p.c of the individuals in these swing states do not vote on election day after which make him a average like previous Joe Biden in Scranton and conceal his actual political allegiances and document. Donald Trump does not also have a second to name out his document over and over, what are these positions within the Senate. I do know there have been different issues that we’re taking a look at, his ethnic identification or his connections in San Francisco, however they don’t seem to be necessary.”
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Kamala Harris in a lesson pic.twitter.com/UjrWNGER2J
— Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) August 1, 2024
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Orange — Unscripted for the primary time:
“It is a large testomony to the significance of getting a president who understands the facility of diplomacy and understands the facility of understanding the importance of diplomacy.”
What? pic.twitter.com/lxlhhG1xhT
— RNC Analysis (@RNCResearch) August 2, 2024