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100 Things Biden has gotten wrong
« on: July 08, 2024, 04:19:48 AM »
Following up on the idea posted yesterday, let's develop a crisp list that we can use in debate/conversation elsewhere.

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Re: 100 Things Biden has gotten wrong
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2024, 04:39:46 AM »
Following up on the idea posted yesterday, let's develop a crisp list that we can use in debate/conversation elsewhere.

Sure, but ought that title figure have a couple more zeros, and perhaps even a comma?
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Top 100 Things Biden has gotten wrong
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2024, 07:01:20 AM »
1.  It's the spending stupid. And that will break into many followup points.  Driving up inflation - intentionally.

2.  Canceling the border enforcement.

3. Canceling the Keystone XL pipeline.  Driving up the price at the pump - intetntioally.

4.  Botched Afghan withdrawal.

5. Woke military.

6. Student loan 'forgiveness.  We should rename this one. The young people forgiven still owe the money and will pay.

7.  Canceling ANWR.

8.  Blowing up Nordstream?

9. Turning our back on Israel.

10.  EV credits for the wealthy.

As we continue, put them in either order of importance or chronological order.

11.  Telling China they are checkmated.

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Top 100 Things Biden has gotten wrong
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2024, 07:31:31 AM »
Inflation and border are 1 and 2.

Scroll right to see Biden years.  (Need charts resized, sorry.)

« Last Edit: July 08, 2024, 07:34:44 AM by DougMacG »

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Top 100 Things Biden has gotten wrong
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2024, 07:36:10 AM »
Federalist column along the lines, "it's the policies stupid".

https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/08/joe-bidens-mental-incapacity-is-only-half-the-problem/
« Last Edit: July 08, 2024, 09:27:27 AM by DougMacG »

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Re: Top 100 Things Biden has gotten wrong
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2024, 08:40:08 AM »
1.  It's the spending stupid. And that will break into many followup points.  Driving up inflation - intentionally.

2.  Canceling the border enforcement.

3. Canceling the Keystone XL pipeline.  Driving up the price at the pump - intetntioally.

4.  Botched Afghan withdrawal.

5. Woke military.

6. Student loan 'forgiveness.  We should rename this one. The young people forgiven still owe the money and will pay.

7.  Canceling ANWR.

8.  Blowing up Nordstream?

9. Turning our back on Israel.

10.  EV credits for the wealthy.

As we continue, put them in either order of importance or chronological order.

11.  Telling China they are checkmated.

12. Putting Hunter on the plane.

13.  Letting Hunter use your address for China wire transfers.

14. Leaving the classified document in the garage by the corvette while prosecuting Trump for having same locked and secured.

15.  Letting China go scot-free over covid - with $18T unrecovered damages.
« Last Edit: July 08, 2024, 09:28:42 AM by DougMacG »

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Biden's Doom Loop
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2024, 10:16:48 AM »
VDH has a decent inventory of Biden errors, lapses, and general pooch screwings:

Bidengate and the Doom Loop

The more Biden avoids the media, the more the public considers him an inadequate president. Yet the more he might welcome more exposure, the more his ensuing dementia becomes apparent.

By Victor Davis Hanson

July 8, 2024
The entire 2019-20 Biden candidacy and subsequent presidency were predicated on a rotten Faustian bargain. A hale Joe Biden would feign his aw-shucks, Joe from Scranton schtick. And an ossified working-class Joe’s camouflage would get the hard left elected—especially thanks to the changes in balloting laws that often saw only 30 percent of the electorate voting on Election Day in key states.

In exchange, the two narcissistic Bidens would bask in the power and attention of the presidency. From the start, Jill and the media would orchestrate deep cover for Joe’s escalating dementia as well as the true intentions of the now-in-power radical Democratic Party with its neo-socialist agenda. The former Obama acolytes would get their long-dreamed-of third presidential term. And this time they would enact a truly radical agenda while their string puppet mumbled to everyone that he was just old, familiar Joe working for the middle class.

The problem, inter alia, with the ruse was that it was based on a complete lie to the American people. Joe Biden was nowhere near cognitively competent. He could not campaign “normally” in 2020. And it would be impossible for his dementia to go undetected even in the ceremonial duties of the presidency for four, perhaps even eight, more years.


And there were plenty of other problems that transcended even Biden’s mental confusion.

First, the new Obama agenda—hyperinflation, open borders, woke crime theories, destroying deterrence abroad, green extremist mandates—was further to the left of the American people than in 2016.

And worse, it was nihilist and destructive. By the August 2021 Kabul withdrawal humiliation, Biden would never again win 50 percent approval from an increasingly exasperated public who felt they had been had by the mannequin Scranton Joe and his false 2020 calls for “unity” and “healing America.”

Second, Joe Biden, senator, vice president, quid-pro-quo sudden multimillionaire, was never a “nice guy.”

His (brief) 1984, 1988, and 2020 presidential runs were characterized by assorted gaffes, plagiarism, and racism (the first “clean” and “articulate” black presidential candidate, “junkie,” “you ain’t’ black,” and the corn-pop sagas).

He always displayed a short-fuse, mean streak (cf. his 1988 angry and falsified defense of his law school and stump speech plagiarism) and bullying (his 2020 slurs of “fat,” “lying dog-faced pony soldier,” etc.).

Biden’s scowls and outbursts grew as he seemed to come alive only when slurring and slandering half the country as “semi-fascists” and “ultra-MAGA” deplorables. So, in the recent debate, Biden at least admitted that he had written off half the nation that voted for Trump.

Third, if Trump was an exaggerator, Biden was a long-time mythologist, fabricating his bio, family history, and Trump’s record (from the yarn about cannibals eating his uncle to inheriting a completely unvaccinated country and 9 percent hyperinflation in 2021).

Fourth, there was a creepy side to Joe Biden—from stories of swimming nude in front of female Secret Service agents and the Tara Reade days to his 2020 apologies for sexual buffoonery and his fixations with pre-teen young girls, expressed by embarrassing crowd call-outs or blowing and touching “inappropriately” their hair, shoulders, and necks. Most Washington women knew in advance to avoid Joe’s too-long hugs and bizarre air blasts on their hair and ears.

In short, there were plenty of reasons why Joe Biden never got far as a presidential candidate, given he was a blowhard, cruel to people, a fabricator, of questionable ethics, and eerily interested in young girls—a far cry from ol’ Joe from Scranton, who, in a debilitated state, was supposed to offer the moderate veneer to a Jacobin agenda.

And now? Biden’s dementia has become so overt and so impossible to hide that the entire “crooked deal” has blown up. As a result, in the eleventh hour, there are very few pathways to salvation—as there never are when everything is birthed on a lie and its media-assisted cover-up.

Bidengate is far worse than Watergate. The media this time around was not exposing the wrongdoing of a conservative president but instead serving as a force multiplier in deceiving the very American people it was supposed to inform. “Democracy Dies in Deceit” is now the Washington Post’s de facto motto.

Remember, the left is worried only that Biden is so challenged that he cannot win an election. But they are not bothered that he has no business continuing in his dementia as commander-in-chief and putting the country in real danger each day he occupies the oval office—a bitter paradox that is beginning to infuriate the American people.

So, can Joe Biden just press ahead, sleep more, and fulfill his Faustian obligations? Or is he not in a doom loop? The more he rests, sleeps, and avoids the media, the more the public considers him an inadequate, one-quarter president. Yet the more he might welcome more exposure, interviews, press conferences, debates and town halls, the more his ensuing dementia becomes apparent to the public. So, his handlers haggle over the choice between an ensconced virtual president versus an all-too-real, obviously senile one.

Some House liberal presidential historians cite a failing FDR in 1944 who was visibly ill during the campaign and from a variety of serious ailments. They chirp in that Roosevelt nevertheless mocked his critics, got reelected, and entered his fourth term on January 20, 1945. But they forget; the end of the story negates their very point. FDR dropped dead in office, as his critics feared, just 11 weeks later, and as historians seem to pass over.

What if Biden does an FDR, ignores critics and runs—and likewise somehow wins?

Unlike a failing Biden, had FDR not given into intense pressure from the Democratic donor class, the big-city machine bosses, the Southern segregationists, and the liberal print media, and thus had he not removed then-current Vice President Henry Wallace as his running mate, then the wartime commander-in-chief overseeing the Okinawa campaign, the Potsdam Conference, the decision to drop the atomic bomb, and dealing with an ascendant Joseph Stalin and the postwar Soviet Union monster would have been socialist/communist President Henry Wallace.

But unlike FDR, Biden still has no plans to remove Vice President Kamala Harris. Most certainly, then, soon the next president of the United States in 2025-6 will be an unelected and more incompetent successor: President Kamala Harris. And that thought terrifies seasoned Democrat donors, insiders and politicos as much as it did in 1944.

More realistically, Biden is far more cognitively challenged than FDR was in 1944. The chances that he will stay cogent for the next five months and win the election are quickly vanishing. Even the Biden-inspired, now discredited lawfare campaign against Trump has not just failed but boomeranged by increasing Trump’s popularity.

And if a stubborn Biden stays on the ticket and more likely loses, he will destroy what is left of the vestigial Democratic Party of the once triangulating Clintons. He will forever discredit the old-boy hierarchy and final obstacle to the full and overt manifestation of a Democrat, woke European-socialist party of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, the Squad, and the DEI caucuses.

Note Biden has already taken down with him most of the Washington-New York media, who only now confess they participated in suppressing real evidence of Biden dementia—and this from the same “journalists” who used to insidiously shout “25th Amendment”  during the Donald Trump years.

Biden and the apparat that presses on with the current farce might well lose more than the presidency—by losing both houses of Congress and ensuring Trump an unobstructed legislative trajectory to implement a complete reversal of the Obama-Biden years.

Yet, if Biden should step down voluntarily, pundits have run through the endless ensuing problematics. They are considerable: will his successor be on the ballot in all 50 states? What will the Party’s leftist base do if the identity-politics-selected Harris is pushed aside (and what will it do if she is not and steps up to the presidency?).

And how would a successor to Biden emerge in a free-delegate luche libre at a Chicago carnival convention, with chaos both inside the convention hall and a more violent “Death to America!’ bedlam on the streets outside?

So given all these nihilist alternatives, the two Bidens’ choice for now is to bark at the public. They will insult their own toadish media and deny the obvious. They will put the country’s interest dead last and connive that Joe can scowl, scold, lie, and yell at his critics—with not a care that our enemies abroad will conclude this is a golden Biden moment to do something stupid that may not come again.

https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/08/bidengate-and-the-doom-loop/

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Biden Harris Accomplishments and failures, Foreign Policy, Venezuela
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2024, 07:16:38 AM »
Time to rename this thread since that didn't take off and Biden is sort of gone.

How a neutral title, Biden Harris Accomplishments and Failures
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Under failures, we can list almost all of foreign policy. 

Under failures, the list is gigantic and catastrophic.  The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan seemed to start it all off.  Still no admission of failure and no one held accountable.  If Harris was with him everyday and such a key player, where was her foreign policy chops (joking) on this one.  Weakness in America led to emboldenment of Putin in Ukraine and nearly a new world war, very openly threatened by Putin.  Likewise for Hamas, Iran, Houttis and China.  Biden Harris, mostly absent or on the wrong side.

Happening right now is the disaster of Venezuela.  We know Maduro lost reelection.  Venezuelans know it.  Blinken, Biden and Harris know it.  The world knows it.

2 days ago:  Overwhelming evidence Venezuela opposition won election - Blinken
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1d10453zno

2 critical days ago our Secretary of State knows of a coup happening under our nose and we do NOTHING.  Meanwhile via the military, Maduro is consolidating power making what is wrong and tragic irreversible.

Not even outrage.

Republicans speak out, call on Biden Harris to recognize rightful leader:
https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/2024/7/sen-rick-scott-urges-biden-harris-to-recognize-edmundo-gonz-lez-as-venezuelan-president-elect-lead-the-world-in-condemning-maduro-s-election-corruption-reimpose-sanctions

With Biden we don't have a President and Harris is more worried about her own pigmentation and what is a cloud.  Not a f*cking peep.  Maybe because the cheating communist authoritarian is their ally?

4 years of experience?  Experience doing WHAT?


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101 through 2000 or More: Foreign Policy
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2024, 02:02:50 PM »
Blinken brags about chaos and utter failure:

Blinken Puts Lipstick on the Pig
Cato Recent Op-eds / by Doug Bandow / Oct 11, 2024 at 10:46 AM

Doug Bandow

Reading Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s latest essay in Foreign Affairs was a lot like listening to the famous “Joe Isuzu” auto ads almost 40 years ago. Joe would make the most outrageous statements about a car, followed by the declaration “he’s lying.” In an article entitled “America’s Strategy of Renewal,” Blinken made a similar series of unbelievable statements. Only the “he’s lying,” was missing.

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Nearly four years into the Biden presidency, declared Blinken, “President Biden and Vice President Harris pursued a strategy of renewal, pairing historic investments in competitiveness at home with an intensive diplomatic campaign to revitalize partnerships abroad.”

Indeed, that understates the president’s influence, at least according to the president. Attempting to justify his abysmal performance in his debate against Donald Trump, Biden insisted: “Not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world. Not—and that’s not hi—sounds like hyperbole, but we are the essential nation of the world.”

That the president believed the results of his policy warranted praise demonstrated his mental decline. Blinken’s enthusiastic embrace of the results, claiming the U.S. to be “in a much stronger geopolitical position today than it was four years ago,” is less excusable, a desperate attempt to preserve what little remains of his reputation. After all, who can look at the world today and imagine the American people saying to Blinken, “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things.” (Matthew 25:23)

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The secretary of state insists the world is better off today than in January 2021, despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Unfortunately, the world wasn’t looking so good in January 2021 when Blinken took office. By almost every measure the world is a lot worse today.

Led by the United States, NATO is engaged in a proxy war against Russia, a nuclear-armed power, over Ukraine, which matters much more to Moscow than to the West. The conflict was tragically unnecessary, the result of Russian aggression, but only after three decades of Washington’s arrogant determination to treat Moscow like a defeated power and expand the transatlantic alliance up to Russia’s borders. Despite multiple warnings from Moscow, successive administrations challenged its security interests in ways the U.S. would never accept on its border. The Biden administration’s refusal to negotiate over NATO expansion in early 2022 was the final trigger for war.

The allies are now promoting a seemingly endless conflict with a country likely to expand and escalate the fight if it fears defeat. Cynical American policymakers defend the war as degrading Moscow’s military capabilities for just a few score billion dollars—while ignoring the tens or hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian deaths. Alas, there is no guarantee that the U.S. and its allies won’t be drawn into the struggle, especially if the Putin government decides to strike nations supplying Ukraine with arms or employ nuclear weapons against Kiev’s forces. Moscow also has embraced China, North Korea, and Iran, and such cooperation could grow even closer. Russia once promoted nonproliferation. Now Washington policymakers speculate on Moscow’s willingness to aid North Korean missile and nuclear development, which would put the American homeland at risk.

The Middle East is perhaps even more incendiary. The region’s multiple hostilities, conflicts, and crises, reflecting decades of counterproductive U.S. intervention in the region, are merging. Biden continues a long line of presidents putting foreign governments before the American people. The next iteration of today’s combat could involve full-scale war between Israel and Iran, with neighboring Arab states dragged in.

Regional stability and peace are impossible as long as Israel refuses to accept Palestinian self-determination. Yet Biden has provided essentially unconstrained financial, diplomatic, and military support for a government corrupted by violent ethno-nationalism. His administration also has left American personnel needlessly at risk in Iraq and Syria and would further entangle the U.S. in the region by turning the American military into a modern janissary corps, bodyguards to the Saudi royals, with the apparent mission to make the region safe for absolute monarchy.

Finally, Asia has slid closer to conflict on Biden’s watch. Almost delusional is Blinken’s description of administration policy toward North Korea, which is adding nuclear weapons and developing ICBMs, hoping to target the American homeland. He declared: “We were similarly clear-eyed when it came to” Pyongyang, making “clear our willingness to engage in direct talks with North Korea, but also that we would not submit to its saber rattling or its preconditions.” However, virtually no one believes that Kim Jong-un is willing to yield his nuclear arsenal. Unless Washington is prepared to adapt its approach to that reality and pursue more limited arms control, the North will become even more dangerous in the future.

Worse, the biggest potential conflict of all, between the U.S. and China, looms larger on Biden’s watch. Most importantly, the potential crisis over Taiwan has grown more acute, with the administration doing nothing to calm Chinese concerns over what it believes to be Taipei’s move, with American support, toward independence. With that a likely red line for Beijing to act militarily, Washington should press all sides to stand down. The administration also has put American credibility on the line over territorial disputes of little consequence, risking war over assorted rocks and other geographic features, such as Mischief Reef, Senkaku Islands, and Scarborough Shoal. The independence of Japan and the Philippines is important. Their control over every bit of territory they claim, not so much.

Worse is increasingly treating the People’s Republic of China as an enemy. The administration has engaged in an economic war against the PRC, intensifying Donald Trump’s protectionist campaign and seeking to deny China access to pacing technology. Although the administration has sought to expand official dialogue, it is reducing the shared economic interests which draw the two nations together. There are important issues over which Beijing must be confronted, but it is essential not to treat China as an enemy, which could help turn it into one. Today the PRC is increasingly willing to challenge the U.S. elsewhere—indirectly aiding Russia against Ukraine, significantly reducing pressure on North Korea, and aggressively challenging other Asian states.

Blinken makes much of the value of allies, treating them like Facebook Friends, the more the merrier. He declared, “The United States is in a demonstrably stronger position in both consequential regions today because of the bridge of allies we have built. And so, for that matter, are America’s friends.” Allies are useful when pursuing interests of mutual interest. Yet many, indeed, perhaps most, of Washington’s supposed friends and partners are security black holes, taking far more than they give.

At the very moment friendly states should be stepping up to take over responsibility for their own and their region’s security, the administration has been deepening allied dependence on the U.S. Biden has “reassured” governments which need to be scared to do more for themselves; he has “reaffirmed” security commitments to nations capable of defending themselves. Blinken’s policy undermined the very purpose of NATO. President Dwight Eisenhower insisted that the US military presence be temporary, a shield behind which the devastated continent could rebuild. He believed that if U.S. forces remained a decade later the policy would have failed. In contrast, Biden increased American force levels after the Russian invasion and devoted more money to Ukraine than any European nation. He continues those policies, despite growing opposition by Americans more concerned about the many challenges facing the U.S.

Particularly misguided is Blinken’s enthusiasm for “the most consequential shift” not “within regions but across them,” thereby “bringing about unprecedented convergence between Asia and Europe, which increasingly see their security as indivisible.” While the idea of allies promoting US objectives beyond their own areas sounds good in theory, it fails in practice.

First, security is not indivisible. Moscow is many things, but it poses no threat in Asia. Unlike China, Russia has never been at war with India, Vietnam, or Korea, and has no ongoing or prospective conflicts with Japan. The PRC has no territorial or other security issues with European governments.

Second, it is more important for friendly states in Europe and Asia to fulfill their most direct responsibilities. Europeans still fail miserably in creating effective militaries and integrating their forces with those of their neighbors. Japan continues to lag well behind deploying sufficient capabilities to restrain China. What would best aid the U.S. would be European allies taking over responsibility for their continent’s security, and Japan taking the lead in preserving peace and stability in Northeast Asia. Instead, having allies playacting—wasting valuable resources and effort far abroad better deployed close to home—ultimately increases the burden on Americans. (In contrast, there are abundant areas for cross-regional cooperation in other areas, including economics and cyber.)

Whatever his intentions, Blinken has been a failure as secretary of state. U.S. policy consists of constant demands and threats, endless sanctions and penalties, and promiscuous intervention and war. In many areas, such as reflexive support for Israel, the administration’s foreign policy hasn’t been much different from Trump’s approach. In other ways Blinken & Co. have done worse. At least Trump demonstrated some reluctance to use military force. Relations with China are less stable today, with the increasing likelihood of naval confrontation in the Asia-Pacific. The Biden administration failed to exhibit any creativity in attempting to engage North Korea. Most dangerous is Biden’s intense proxy war against Russia.

Overall, Americans are at greater risk today than in January 2021, when Blinken took over in Foggy Bottom. The administration’s policies, particularly its counterproductive intervention around the world, have put more distance between today’s reality and the ideal he says he sought to promote, “a world where countries are free to choose their own paths and partners, and … where international law, including the core principles of the UN Charter, is upheld, and universal human rights are respected.”

The United States is and should be engaged in the world. As Blinken observed, Americans benefit from “a free, open, secure, and prosperous world.” However, Washington’s ability to remake the world, at least at reasonable cost and risk, remains limited. And the interests of the American people should always come first. They are doing the paying and, more importantly, the dying, when it comes to Washington’s grandiose misadventures abroad. Something too often forgotten by Blinken, and so many other members of the foreign policy establishment. Renewing America at home doesn’t prevent Washington leading abroad. Nevertheless, renewing America should come first.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/blinken-puts-lipstick-pig

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Re: 101 through 2000 or More: Foreign Policy
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2024, 05:56:01 PM »
Wasn't Blinken the organizer of the group of 51 who said Hunter's laptop fit a pattern of Russian disinformation after the FBI had already authenticated it? Complete election interference. Clapper, Brennan, et al.  And he made Secretary of State for it, some say.

He denied being the organizer of the letter but then how do you explain him being Sec of Stat?  Merit??

He was not one of the signers.
https://firehydrantoffreedom.com/index.php?action=post;topic=2876.9;quote=174898


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Re: 100 Things Biden has gotten wrong
« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2024, 07:05:34 AM »
My uderstanding:

No question that Blinken organized the letter.  IIRC at the time he was high up in Biden's campaign hierarchy-- the head perhaps?

He had been Biden's right hand man on foreign affairs for many years.

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Afghan Women ...
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2024, 05:41:09 AM »
Are no longer allowed to:

The Taliban has decreed that Afghan women are forbidden to:

Go to high school or university
Work in the civil service
Attend a protest
Go abroad
Drive a car
Travel alone
Ride in a taxi
Speak in public
Speak loudly inside your house
Sing
Read the Quran aloud in public
Speak to a male doctor
Play sport
Go to the gym
Go to the park
Wear bright clothes
Wear high heels
Look at men they don’t know
Show their faces in public
Own a smartphone

https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1851478605693665711

Perhaps we should add Kamala's name to the title of this thread as she also owns the results of the Biden/Harris, particularly when a demographic her selection was meant to pander to proves to be so poorly served by the "voice she has in everything."

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NC Lineman Unpaid by FEMA for 8 Weeks on Strike
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2024, 06:22:56 PM »
This likely needs conformation, and is perhaps the reason Harris ended $2 million in NC ad buys & pulled out of that state. Rumor has it those resources have been moved to VA, which had been reliably blue….

https://x.com/repmtg/status/1851776751321465278?s=61