Vice President Harris is closing the gap with former President Trump in several key battleground states as the election inches closer, according to a new survey.
The poll, published Saturday, from The New York Times/Siena College found Harris is leading Trump in Arizona (50 percent to 45 percent) and North Carolina (49 percent to 47 percent). The vice president’s momentum has in recent weeks led her campaign to declare that the Tar Heel Sate, where Trump had built a solid lead when facing former President Biden, is back in play for Democrats.
The latest poll results also come after the independent election handicapper Cook Political Report shifted Arizona, Georgia and Nevada from “lean Republican” to “toss-up,” as Harris continues to chip away at Trump’s lead in most battleground states.
Democrats are also far more excited about the presidential race with Harris at the top of the ticket compared to Biden, with 85 percent saying they are at least somewhat excited for their candidate and the election, which is also far higher than the May poll.
That is good news. Even though it is till too far out in time from the election, the shifts in poll data in the last few weeks seems to reflect a meaningful change in voter sentiment toward Harris. Time will tell if that dissipates as DJT, the GOP and their authoritarian radical right propaganda Leviathan crank up a torrent of lies, slanders and crackpottery to smear and discredit Harris with.
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Trans Voters Are Mobilizing Around Kamala Harris
“We know our rights and our progress are on the line, but so is our very sense of belonging,” said Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBrideThe first-ever mobilization of trans voters around a presidential candidate took place on Zoom on Tuesday, as around 1,000 transgender people, including lawmakers, advocates, health care workers and celebrities, logged on to show support for Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid for the presidency.
Trans Folks For Harris was one of numerous identity-based webinars to support Harris after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race last month. Over the last few weeks, many LGBTQ+ advocates have embraced Harris, touting her decadeslong record of supporting LGBTQ+ rights, and her decision to make Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who transformed the state into a “trans refuge,” her running mate.
This came just after Advocates for Trans Equality released a report showing that 75% of eligible trans voters turned up to the polls in the 2020 presidential election, compared to 67% of the general U.S. population — and that trans voters make up a crucial part of the electorate.
Maybe the trans folk are getting woke about DJT and the GOP!
Images like those never made a lick of sense to me. Maybe I was premature in thinking that LGBQT people who supported DJT were insane. Maybe they were just sleepy but have had their coffee now. Or something. Seems like a switch has been flipped.
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Abortion wars: Axios reports:
Former President Trump tried to avoid taking a hardline abortion stance with his leave-it-to-the-states platform, but a new survey shows resistance from women across the political spectrum.
Why it matters: While Trump tries to downplay abortion as a political issue, 74% of women ages 18–49 said in a KFF survey that they "somewhat" or "strongly" oppose leaving it up to the states to decide whether abortion is legal.
- 3 in 4 women of the same age group say they think it should be legal, per a new survey from KFF.
By the numbers: 53% of Republican women voters ages 18–49 oppose leaving abortion rights up to the states, compared to 86% of Democratic women, per the survey.
- That's in stark contrast to Trump's statements that people are happy to have abortion made into a state issue.
- 73% of independent women voters, a coveted voter bloc for both candidates, also oppose leaving abortion to the states.
- 74% of urban and suburban women oppose leaving abortion rights to the states, and 68% of rural women voters oppose leaving restrictions to the states.
Looks like abortion is an issue that is not going to go away, and that is something to be cautiously optimistic about.
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How to make nice with the US military: The Hill reports:
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), one of the nation’s largest and oldest veteran advocacy organizations, on Friday condemned former President Trump’s recent statement comparing the Medal of Honor to a presidential award for civilians, calling his remarks “asinine.”
“These asinine comments not only diminish the significance of our nation’s highest award for valor, but also crassly characterized the sacrifices of those who have risked their lives above and beyond the call of duty,” wrote VFW National Commander Al Lipphardt in a statement Friday.
The VFW’s reaction comes after Trump equated the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded to civilians, to the Medal of Honor, which is awarded to soldiers wounded in the line of combat.
“That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian. It’s the equivalent of the congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version,” Trump told attendees at an event at his Bedminister, N.J. club, attended by GOP mega donor Miriam Adelson, who was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 2018.
Miriam Adelson is one of DJT's emotional support billionaires. She is waaay radical, authoritarian and beyond hyper-pro-Israel. And she is rich, rich, rich.
About Miriam: In the 2020 election, Miriam Adelson and her late husband Sheldon Adelson were the largest donors to Trump's campaign. They spent approximately $75 million in support of Trump's campaign. They donated about $90 million to Preserve America, a pro-Trump super PAC, which accounted for roughly 85% of the organization's total funds. For the 2024 campaign, Miriam Adelson is planning to donate as much as $100 million to Trump through her super PAC, Preserve America. The exact amount is not specified, but her political advisor has indicated that they are committed to doing "whatever it takes" to secure Trump's victory. Adelson's support for Trump goes beyond campaign contributions. She is also a vocal supporter, urging Jewish voters to back Trump and praising his actions related to Israel.
DJT awarding Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom, calling it a "much better" award than the top military honor, the Medal of Honor, because military recipients (losers and suckers) are often dead or injured
Sheldon (died in 2021), Miriam & the beast
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