2024 U.S. Elections | Trump wins

It would be solid pushback if the standard was Trump, but the standard is simply telling the truth and not exaggerating. Two wrongs - however disparate from one another - don't make a right. Walz seems like a good guy and can probably make a few jokes out of it, but if we see yet another thing come up, it will become a problem for him.
You would hope the vetting process however quickly it was done weeded out anything too damaging. Secret unclaimed child, unpaid child support, 3 secret wives and a secret husband in a compound in New Mexico.
 
It would be solid pushback if the standard was Trump, but the standard is simply telling the truth and not exaggerating. Two wrongs - however disparate from one another - don't make a right. Walz seems like a good guy and can probably make a few jokes out of it, but if we see yet another thing come up, it will become a problem for him.
I really think this is a road to nowhere. If your bar for candidates on one side is non-existent and the other is clean as a virgin baby, it just sets you up for failure. The playing field isn't level, I think some recognition of that has to be taken into account.
 
I really think this is a road to nowhere. If your bar for candidates on one side is non-existent and the other is clean as a virgin baby, it just sets you up for failure. The playing field isn't level, I think some recognition of that has to be taken into account.

In my view, the two sides can't be compared since MAGA voters have been successfully gaslit into not believing any bad things Trump has previously done. Dem voters on the other hand, will always have a higher moral bar than what is acceptable on the right. That's not to say this news about Walz will be a game changer, but the Harris campaign won't want this to be a pattern in Walz's past.
 
This should have broad appeal to most Americans seeing the direct impact of these practices in their weekly budgets. And now that we are starting to see her independent, as opposed to Biden's, policies and proposals this is where an interview format to further explain would start being helpful after more of these policies have had time to be formulated.
Why just food and groceries? Surely price gouging should cover everything
 

Sales at stores are suddenly surging in the US economy’s latest show of strength​

(“Suddenly”…)

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/15/economy/retail-sales-july/index.html

In the 25 years or so that I studied or taught Economics, I don’t recall such a talk about recession that didn’t happen as we had over the past three years. Each time they give it another label: recession, technical recession, manufacturing recession, vibecession, etc. They will keep saying that a recession is coming, until one day, some day, it happens. Then they will say “we told you so…”.

It’s like a team wins 3 games in a row. Then someone says “they will lose the next game”, but they don’t. “They will lose the next”… they don’t… then after many games they do lose, and he says “I told you so…”!
 
Why just food and groceries? Surely price gouging should cover everything
Laws may be for different situations or have specific limitations. Like Texas for example has laws for gouging but it's generally after a disaster specifically. Hurricane, flooding can't gouge on food, fuel, lodging, or medicine. So I am assuming this Harris proposal would be Federal clearly, and all the time not specific circumstances.
 
The Consumer Price Index here uses a set of good and services that people typically use. They come from something called the Household Budget Survey which is conducted every 5 years.

Does the US have anything like this? You could start with controlling the prices of the most useful/common items on a list like that.
That would be considered communism or socialism in the land of the free, yeah that's never happening
 
A part of me thinks that had Kamala, or anyone else for that matter, been the candidate from the get go, things would not be looking this good for Democrats three months before elections. The momentum shift caused by Biden dropping off is unprecedented and has backed Trump into the corner, all his moves so far (including Musk interview) have failed spectacularly and have only pushed him further behind. And it took almost no action at all from Kamala to cause this, she started off being largely deemed an underwhelming candidate, did virtually nothing and is now being looked at in a much more positive way simply because she hasn't been able to feck things up.

Far from over but things definitely looking good. Realistically even if Kamala wins now, the nutjob will be back in 4 years trying to claim the 'stolen' elections back again.
Tinfoil hat suggests it was almost planned because it seems to have fallen exactly how you'd want it to.

Laid a nice trap for Trump and his cohort to bang on about being a senile old fart and then have it flipped on them too.

Obviously it was just a case of Biden trying to pretend he's not a fossil but still...
 
There is a clear line of pushback on that. The top of the GOP ticket has more felonies and cases against him that he outright ignores and willfully disregards and can't say **** about anyone else. If I were Waltz and the Harris camp I would only address this as DUI is wrong and no one should ever do it I made that mistake and paid for it decades ago, the end. Pivot right back to trump and his dozens of felony counts and convictions and never ever showing even a hint of contrition in any of them. Not even stealing money from charities.
According to the replies, Walz himself addressed it years ago.

He calls it a life-changing moment and he no longer drinks at all.
 
A part of me thinks that had Kamala, or anyone else for that matter, been the candidate from the get go, things would not be looking this good for Democrats three months before elections. The momentum shift caused by Biden dropping off is unprecedented and has backed Trump into the corner, all his moves so far (including Musk interview) have failed spectacularly and have only pushed him further behind. And it took almost no action at all from Kamala to cause this, she started off being largely deemed an underwhelming candidate, did virtually nothing and is now being looked at in a much more positive way simply because she hasn't been able to feck things up.

Far from over but things definitely looking good. Realistically even if Kamala wins now, the nutjob will be back in 4 years trying to claim the 'stolen' elections back again.

She was definitely planning for Biden to drop out given she had the Beyonce song ready to go the instant it happened. I'd love to know how much Harris was involved through backchannels to pressure the likes of Pelosi and others to publicly call for Biden to drop out.
 
If he loses again, he will run again in 2028.
You serious? He will be 82 by then. His physical and cognitive decline, which is clearly showing already in 2024, will only be worse.
Actually, it would be the best thing that could happen to Democrat party.
 
Although most don't care about this sort of thing, it only adds to the media narrative of Walz exaggerating or omitting things from his past, which will be a needless annoyance to the Harris campaign.
Is it a narrative if it actually happened?
 

Harris campaign says it will participate in 2 presidential debates and 1 VP debate


The Harris campaign said Thursday it will participate in a total of three debates this election season: two presidential debates and one vice presidential debate.

The campaign in a statement sought to put an end to the Trump campaign’s suggestion of additional debates before Election Day, declaring the “debate about debates is over.”
No Fox News debate is the right decision. They don't deserve to be treated like they are a legitimate news agency.
 
It probably is but they’re also missing a chance to speak to a huge non-liberal audience.

Most importantly, she will want to avoid getting humiliated on Fox by getting asked more difficult questions. Trump would probably also stack the audience with MAGA trolls who jeer her every comment and applaud his.
 
"Thieves going into stores with calculators in California because you're allowed to rob them as long as you don't steal more than $950 worth"

Hmm, I'm gonna guess that's not true.
 
This press conference is a carbon copy of the one he did in Mar-a-lago

It's just rambling. It's almost feels half hearted and going through the motions. There's no energy there either
 
you can tell the moment when he decides I'm just gonna ad lib a little bit here to spice things up
 
it's shocking seeing Trump answering these questions. No where near answering them. He thinks of whatever pops in his head and goes into a monologue about himself and how "it's never been done in the history of our country"

No substance, no energy, no thought, no focus etc
 
it's shocking seeing Trump answering these questions. No where near answering them. He thinks of whatever pops in his head and goes into a monologue about himself and how "it's never been done in the history of our country"

No substance, no energy, no thought, no focus etc

You're asking for a lot here :p
 
it's shocking seeing Trump answering these questions. No where near answering them. He thinks of whatever pops in his head and goes into a monologue about himself and how "it's never been done in the history of our country"

No substance, no energy, no thought, no focus etc
Immigrants now stealing imaginary jobs is up there with his claims that democrats abort children after they are born. Its verbal static, just noises emanating from an orange hole. But his cult eats it up because all they want is legitimacy for violence.