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Sure. Any time I quote polls, it is generally Real Clear Politics polling average. They tend to be accurate. https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris

It can be a winning strategy....IF the corporate media lets her get away with it. Any journalist worth his/her salt should be apoplectic about it though. It says a lot about the sad state of journalism in America that they acquiese instead of making it THE story. Latest national polling shows her up by 1.7%, which means a loss in the election. Trump still ahead in 5 of 7 swing states. Not much of a convention bump it seems.

Maybe she will want Uncle Tim to hold her hand during the debate too? Pathetic. Forty days until doing a single interview on a completely friendly network. I wonder if CNN will provide her (and Tim) with the questions in advance?

Yeah, totally true. We need to find the time to discuss the Trump hush money case. It has been ignored and covered up for too long. Maybe you could be the first to start a separate thread about it, and not derail this one?

Kamala explains DEI. If this is the best she has, then Trump wins in a landslide.

GovSpeak is insidious. I get sick of hearing how the government will "ask" people to pay more in taxes, when they really mean that they will force people to pay more taxes at the point of a gun and threat of imprisonment if necessary. This is the same.

She has a platform? Care to share a link to it?

If she learned debating from Joe Biden, then God help her. Her record in congress and delivering the tie breaking votes in the Senate will haunt her. You are right, she HAS learned her lesson. She has learned that she has no skills in extemporaneous communication, and no skills at debate.

Keep up the deflecting my friend. And the xenophobia. Both are good looks for you. I have never hidden where I am from or where I live. Why are you so obsessed? It makes you sound insecure. Now back to the topic. Where is your evidence that Kamala is anything other than a mediocre debater?

Hey, maybe Kamala can just debate against herself...

...and this has what exactly to do with the topic of the debate/debates? More deflection and dissembling. Trump has debated better, smarter, and more experienced politicians than Kamala and acquited himself well. Kamala, by contrast, has done very little except get humbled by a member of Congress from Hawaii. Just curious, can you cite any of her debate performances that strike you as particularly skilful and erudite?

Funny how the previously agreed to rules are suddenly no good. The Democrats always try to guilt advantages. I remember how they were crowing about how having the microphone cut was a huge disadvantage for Trump.

Yes. Love to see her in China, protesting outside a coal mine. That would last about 30 seconds. Easy to be an eco-warrior when there are no consequences.

They are comedians, not journalists. Now, compare to the lockstep fanboying done by all the rest, the late night so-called comedy shows.

Nice deflection. The topic is the Obamas.

He did what a lot of young men who were in the same situation did. Student deferments and then a final medical. Can't say as I blame any of them for avoiding that terrible, misbegotten conflict.

That is an awfully long diatribe to paper over the fact that Walz quit in the middle of his enlistment contract once he learned that his unit would be going overseas. And lied about his service after he quit. Lied repeatedly. Let others lie for him and didnt correct them. My father used to say that some people like to throw a lot of <deleted> against the wall until some of it sticks. Keep throwing, my friend.

Ah, yet another xenophobe, bringing nothing but spittle and rage to the discussion. Again assuming others are similar to his own ill informed stances. But to give you just a little information... the fact is that what happens in the US has a huge impact on the rest of the world. So the rest of the world is curious and also has some skin in the game. What happens in Canada barely matters in Canada to be frank. So that is why topics on American politics, especially in an election year, attract attention from myriad places.

You could tell the host was completely unprepared for the move by his stuttering and prevarication. Obviously he had a producer screaming in his ear, "go live, we are cutting the feed!!!!" Can't have the bad old man saying mean things about Saint Kamala of Berkeley now, can we....

Harris is no Obama. Jeez.

Ah yes, the usual xenophobic answer. Just because you are ignorant of other nations my friend, don't make the mistake of assuming that other people share your defect. Trump will surely destroy America, just like he did in 2016.... oh wait, never mind. Love how you sidestepped being wrong about Florida and went straight to ad hom attacks. Standard for the left these days. Well played.

Her convention surge has brought her to basically dead even in the betting odds. You are getting high on your own supply if you think Florida is in play. Trump is up more than 6 points in a state he won in 2020. To give you an idea of how far wrong you are, at this point in 2020 Biden was up by 4 in Florida. Trump eventually won by 3. BTW, guess who is slated to be on the Sunday morning news shows? RFK and JD. Guess who isn't showing up? Kamala and shirker Tim.

One who served his country, went to Iraq with his unit, and completed his enlistment. And one who didn't. One with private sector experience and one who is a lifelong "nose in the government trough" guy. I Know which I would choose.

Impressive timing, stomping all over the DNC and the news cycle. Now the weekend has something interesting to discuss, rather than the tired old bromides from the Democrats. RFK gave a heartfelt and engaging speech, delineating exactly why he chose to leave the Democratic Party. It was similar to a lot of folks, who actually said that the Democratic Party had left THEM. Money quote, "who needs policy when you've got Trump to hate?". Summed up the Democrats in 9 words.

Could have happened a LOT sooner if Biden hadnt spent money like a drunken sailor. Actually, worse than a drunken sailor. At least a drunken sailor is spending his own money. Biden was borrowing and expecting his grandkids and future generations to pay it off.