(Master Thread) 2024 Election Strategies, Issues, & Candidates [merged threads]

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Thank heaven.

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Michelle Obama's office says the former first lady 'will not be running for president' in 2024

 

[...] In a statement to NBC News, the former first lady's office tried to rein in imaginations on the right and the left, making it clear her 2024 plans don't include running for office.  [...]

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/michelle-obama-former-first-lady-not-running-president-2024-rcna141767

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Not THAT big of a surprise, but still...

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Sen. Sinema Will Not Run for Reelection

 

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced today that she will not be running for reelection.  In her statement she focused on a kind of moderate politics that she says is just not what voters are interested in right now.  Rather than fight the tide, she has decided to bow out.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/03/05/sen-sinema-will-not-run-for-reelection-n3784137

[TBoneTX 45,288]

No Labels May Have No Donors As They Get Antsy About the Lack of a Presidential Ticket

 

[...] despite the stated intention of No Labels executives to meet on Friday in order to craft their bipartisan presidential ticket, it is of little comfort to donors who have poured money into this pipe dream.  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/03/05/no-labels-may-be-no-more-as-donors-bow-out-n2170972

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Oh, brother...  primaries...

 

1.  "Queen Sheila" (Sheila Jackson Lee) wiped out her very credible opponent in her U.S. House race.

 

2.  The 2- or 3-term District Attorney for the county encompassing Houston, Kim Ogg, who was flawed but not that bad, was massacred by her former employee Sean Teare, who uncannily resembles Gov. Hair Gel of California and plastered the airwaves with ads funded by George Soros.  Teare's ads mentioned nothing about faithful adherence to law; rather, the emphasis was on "justice" and discretion/diversion/etc.  It's highly likely that he'll be another Soros disaster.  The question is whether the public (and Houston's new mayor) will abide it.

[Crazy Cat 41,851]

I heard that Nikki Haley will not endorse Trump.  If so, it is political suicide....she gone from politics.

Edited March 6 by Crazy Cat

[Crazy Cat 41,851]

12 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Thank heaven.

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Michelle Obama's office says the former first lady 'will not be running for president' in 2024

 

[...] In a statement to NBC News, the former first lady's office tried to rein in imaginations on the right and the left, making it clear her 2024 plans don't include running for office.  [...]

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/michelle-obama-former-first-lady-not-running-president-2024-rcna141767

Then get ready for President Trump's victorious return to the White House.  The wailing from the left will be entertaining.  

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

8 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

Then get ready for President Trump's victorious return to the White House.  The wailing from the left will be entertaining.  

It will be quite satisfying 

[TBoneTX 45,288]

16 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

I heard that Nikki Haley will not endorse Trump.  If so, it is political suicide....she gone from politics.

Or, gone to No Labels or even the Demo-rats.

Certainly gone to a plush job with CNN or PMSNBC.

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Several of these truly are surprises, many of them pleasant.

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Insurgent Republicans make major gains in Texas primaries

 

The shockwaves rippled up and down the ballot as incumbent state House members, judges and other state leaders were forced into runoffs or defeated outright.  [...]

 

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/06/texas-primaries-gop-incumbents-defeated/

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Biden Congratulates His Opponent On A Hard-Fought Primary Race

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a brief statement to reporters following the Super Tuesday contests, a victorious President Joe Biden congratulated his opponent on a hard-fought primary race.

"I'd like to thank this fella here," Biden said, gesturing to the empty void on his right.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-congratulates-his-opponent-on-a-hard-fought-primary-race

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Raytheon Lowers Flags To Half-Staff After Nikki Haley Drops Out

 

WALTHAM, MA — A somber mood fell over one of the nation's foremost defense contractors this morning, as Raytheon lowered its flags to half-staff after Nikki Haley announced she was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/raytheon-lowers-flags-to-half-staff-after-nikki-haley-drops-out

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Jonathan Turley talks about the poorly hidden elephant in the room.

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A Trump criminal trial could run right up to and through the 2024 election

 

"This trial will not yield to the election cycle."  Those words of U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan last year made clear that she will not consider that Donald Trump will likely be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee in setting the schedule for his federal trial in Washington, D.C.

 

Most recently, in the federal prosecution in Florida, Special Counsel Jack Smith declared that he will not consider himself bound by the Justice Department's longstanding policy of not bringing charges or holding trials of candidates close to an election.

With the Supreme Court reviewing the immunity question (and a decision not expected until June), a nightmare scenario is unfolding in which Trump could be tried not just before the general election, but actually through November's election.  [...]

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4520212-a-trump-criminal-trial-could-run-right-up-to-and-through-the-2024-election/

[TBoneTX 45,288]

She may have to muster the one brain cell within her Occasional-Cortex.

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AOC Gets a Primary Challenge

 

Wall Street banker Marty Dolan launched a primary challenge against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), arguing New Yorkers will have the final say on the "radical" policies she supports in the June 25 primary.

 

"We are all for the 'progress' implied by the word Progressive.  However, within the Progressive movement, there are Radicals whose influence on the Democratic Party is overweight," he said on his campaign website.  [...]

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/03/14/aoc-primary-challenger-n2636480

[TBoneTX 45,288]

The DNC's Plan to Take Down Third-Party Candidates

 

Democrats are reportedly sounding the alarms as third-party candidates begin to pick up steam ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

According to NBC News, the Democratic National Convention is reportedly building a team to tackle third-party and independent presidential candidates, which the Biden Administration views as a threat to President Joe Biden's re-election chances.  [...]

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/03/14/dnc-goes-to-war-with-third-party-candidates-n2636513

[Crazy Cat 41,851]

23 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Well that theory did not pan out, I still don't see how that guy run an effective campaign or even have a debate. I really liked DeSantis, but that did not pan out. I thought he had Trumps polices with out acting like a petulant child. 

 

Of course I will vote for him

The next question is whom Trump will select as his VP..... I think Trump and Tulsi would be unstoppable.....I also think there is no democrat in sight who can beat Trump.  I just heard Tulsi say she would run on a Trump ticket.

Edited March 15 by Crazy Cat