2024 US Presidential Election

[Mister Agenda]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge in South Carolina ruled Friday that it is too late to reopen voter registration for nearly 1,900 teens after the state Department of Motor Vehicles failed to notify election officials that they checked the box to register as they got their driver’s licenses.

The teens were 17 at the time they went to the DMV, but would be 18 by Election Day. A glitch in the DMV’s computers did not identify the teens as qualified and did not present them with an additional electronic form certifying they were citizens, not felons and otherwise qualified to vote.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued to reopen registration on Tuesday, a day after early voting started in South Carolina. They provided several possible ways the teens could register and be allowed to cast ballots.

But Judge Daniel Coble said it is just too close to Election Day to do something so drastic as to alter the voting rolls.

[Thumpalumpacus]

The Trump campaign is struggling to contain an October surprise of its own making, just one week from Election Day.

A racist remark by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, one of many warm-up speakers for former President Trump at a Sunday rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden, is reverberating hard.

Vice President Harris and other Democrats are working to make sure the gibe reaches the ears of as many Latino voters as possible — especially in the swing states that will decide the election.

Republicans, including Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), are trying to minimize the damage — either by distancing themselves from what Hinchcliffe said or by suggesting that a remark made in jest should not spark such outrage.

At the rally, Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.” He also used other racist tropes including a reference to Black people and watermelons, and a crude reference linking procreation and immigration.

The comments were slammed as offensive in their own right. But they could also have serious electoral repercussions.

More than 400,000 people born in Puerto Rico or of Puerto Rican descent live in Pennsylvania, the largest of the seven battleground states. The state is essentially deadlocked, with Trump leading Harris by just four-tenths of a percentage point in the polling average maintained by The Hill/Decision Desk HQ.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/49...-surprise/

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Excellent move, Hinchcliffe! If you really want Trump back in the White House, start slurring Germans and Poles - Pennsylvanians LOVE a good ethnic joke!

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

Yeah, the thought that racism should be the subject of a joke only means that the joker is not only a bigot, but an exceptionally obtuse bigot.

[Fake Messiah]

This is terrifying.

RFK Jr. said Trump promised him ‘control’ of HHS and USDA

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told supporters on Monday that former President Donald Trump has promised to give him “control” of several public health agencies, including the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Agriculture, if he wins a second term in November.

“The key that I think I’m – you know, that President Trump has promised me is – is control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH and a few others, and then also the USDA, which is – which, you know, is key to making America healthy. Because we’ve got to get off of seed oils, and we’ve got to get off of pesticide intensive agriculture,” Kennedy said, according to video of the event obtained by CNN.

Kennedy has been one of the leading proponents of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories in the United States. He made false attacks on the safety and efficacy of vaccines and sharp criticisms of public health and agriculture policy a centerpiece of his presidential campaign.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/29/polit...index.html

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

[color=var(--primary-text)]NY currently hours before seeing Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden


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This has been circulating on various platforms to show you pitiful libtards how massively popular your President and Savior Donald J-for-Jesus Trump is.

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Trouble is, that not the Garden. It's not even New York. And it's not 2024. That's a crowd that turned out to see Barack Obama. In Dublin, Ireland. Thirteen years ago. Oppsie.

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Boru

[Silver]

Supreme Court allows Virginia to purge suspected noncitizens from voter registration rolls

CNN

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Supreme Court allows Virginia to purge suspected noncitizens from voter registration rolls

CNN

‘Suspected’ is the scary bit. I agreed that noncitizens shouldn’t be allowed to vote, but it strikes me that the denial of such a basic right should require proof, not merely suspicion.

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

The point, ofc, is to remove citizens who they think are likely to vote dem. The scary part is humoring them at all.

[Thumpalumpacus]

At least in Virginia they can re-register right up to the moment of voting.