[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 16 points 15 hours ago

There's a decent chance Walz runs to be president in the future if Harris wins and I think he'd probably do fairly well in a primary and general

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21635410

Early in-person voting starts today (Oct 21) in South Carolina!

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Looking a bit deeper, does seem like it varies by location. Will update the title to clarify that

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America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.


Vote, get active, volunteer against this

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He is, though he's wrong about Trump's plans being anything beneficial in the long term. But even what he's saying about any part of it being harmful is a contradiction of Trump's claims about the economy

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nevada, Wisconsin, and Michigan* have same day registration through election day

North Carolina has it only during early voting (ends Nov 2nd)

The rest of the battle ground states do not (i.e Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia)

Across the US, 23 states + DC have same day voter registration

* not at the polls in Michigan but at the clerk's office and then you can vote there after doing same day registration

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Good thing there's only 5 million people who once lived in Puerto Rico in the 50 states and hundreds of thousands in Pennsylvania particularly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateside_Puerto_Ricans

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 104 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Note that Girdusky is listed as one of the board of advisors of American Moment which is a group that's listed by the Heritage Foundation as a Project 2025 partner

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 days ago

Vote, get active, get involved

Talk to your dem-leaning friends, family, neighbors, etc. and encourage them to turnout

Volunteer and reach even more people

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They includes 3rd parties in 2016, but did not in 2020 and 2024, hence the different margins. And the 3rd party they included was of the Republican spoiler type rather than the Democratic spoiler type

They had way higher third party votes in their poll than actually occured - and the third party votes in 2016 were higher than usual (helping trump narrowly win in 2016)

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 28 points 4 days ago

There are large number of Puerto Ricans in many swing states (+ important downballot races), and Republicans have been trying to court their vote. This isn't doing them any favors

Peurto Ricans by state

  • Pennsylvania: 450k
  • North Carolina: 100k
  • Wisconsin: 65k
  • Michigan: 50k
  • Florida: 1.1 million
  • New York: 1 million

It doesn't even have to change minds all that much to matter. If any trump-leaning Puerto Ricans just don't turnout, it matters a lot

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 46 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

At Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden

EDIT: Him claiming to be "joking" is just an excuse and does not make it any less racist

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 68 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Puerto Ricans can and do move and there's large numbers of them in swing states. There's 450 thousand just in Pennsylvania

EDIT: also doesn't help that he also said

“These Latinos, they love making babies, too. Just know that they do,” Hinchcliffe said, setting up his joke: “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They c-- inside, just like they did to our country."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/comedian-trump-rally-makes-racist-jokes-latinos-puerto-rico-rcna177514

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