If Election 2024 hasn‘t been twisty enough for you…the newest move on this rollercoaster ride came last Friday, August 23, 2024.
While Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his presidential campaign, he joined in a rally in xxx to speak to why he now endorses for U.S. President Donald Trump.
RFK Jr. prefers the next four years to be not with the Democarts and Kamala Harris but with the Republicans and for the 45th U.S. president to be the 47th.
Jimmy Dore’s take on this is in sync with mine.
I think it is worthy of thought and consideration.
Tuesday [August 27, 2024] marks ten [10] weeks until Election Day.
The 1968 Democratic National Committee’s convention was held in Chicago, Illinois … as it is also the location here in 2024.
Lyndon Johnson, in 1968, and Joe Biden, in 2024, were—and are—unpopular even in their own party.
In 1968, the nomination went to sitting vice president Hubert Humphrey. In 2024, the nomination will be going to sitting vice president Kamala Harris.
Above is video harkening back 56 years. (The calendar, in leap years, repeats every 28 years. In 1968, August 19 was also on a Monday. Back then, though, the DNC Convention began August 26, 1968.)
In 1968, party insiders—regardless of the primaries—gave the nomination to Humphrey. In 2024, party insiders—regardless of the primaries—will be giving the nomination to Harris.
The 2024 convention, compared to 1968, appears to be much more controlled. (Technology.)
This Friday, August 16, 2024, will mark my 53rd birthday.
What I am going to do is present this topic—this “Birthday Week”—with a music video.
The year 1984 was when I started buying music. (I was a late bloomer.) I enjoyed immensely so many of the year’s hits that I didn’t just buy … I collected.
Given this is my birthday, I fondly recall being gifted with two related to music: First, I received tickets to see The Jacksons Victory Tour. Second, I was able to see, on my birthday [Thursday, August 16, 1984], the new motion-picture release, Purple Rain, starring Prince and Apollonia Kotero.
Purple Rain won Prince (1958–2016) the 1984 Oscar for Best Original Song Score.
I don’t tend to revisit the film, often, but I do that with the music. The above video is the electric—and fun—“Let’s Go Crazy.”
We are, as of this topic’s publishing date, three months out from the general election which is scheduled for Tuesday, November 5, 2024.
Last month, Democratic incumbent U.S. president Joe Biden was still in the race. He had enough pledged delegates for re-nomination. Biden looked poised to go down in flames. That Biden, with Gallup reporting June 3–24, 2024 his job approval is at 38 percent, was cooked.
In “Election 2024: A New Trajectory” (July 8, 2024), I wrote about a series of state polls which suggested Donald Trump was on pace for re-election to a level possibly reaching 40 carried states. A number of those states, like Minnesota and New Jersey, have not carried for a Republican in decades. A lot played out in July. There was the attempted assassination on Trump. Later in the month, Biden agreed, after pressure, to drop his bid for a second term. And now we have another twist.
The twist is that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has become more popular. Democrats, who were not energized about Biden, are now excited for Harris. Her approvals are on the rise. She is on par with Trump for the polls, national and in the “Swing States,” and may end up winning election to become the 47th president of the United States.
Is this believable?
I look at this in more ways than one.
I also consider the following for some insights…
Joe Rogan and guest Michael Malice consider whether Kamala Harris will win.
Due Dissidence, with guest Kit Cabello (Hard Lens Media), has its discussion. Popping in, briefly, cohost Keaton Weiss delivered a warning for anyone who thinks Trump will glide to re-election.
In response to a discussion between Due Dissidence cohost Russell Dobular and guest Misty Winston, I wrote and posted the following SuperChat:
“Rethinking Election 2024: On January 20, 2025 … Kamala Harris becomes the [47th] U.S. president. That The People are over not only Biden but also Trump.”
Russell concurred with, “You may be right.”
As a forum member of “Talk Elections,” on Dave Leip’s Atlas for U.S. Presidential Elections, I wrote the following:
My sense of this is that the 2024 Democrats may have saved their a**es by blinking first. Meaning … getting out Joe Biden.
What can be going on is that there are people who are done not only with Joe Biden but also with Donald Trump.
I am thinking especially of people who do not give their time to regularly following politics. That they are not watching such content on television, seeking and reading about this on the Internet, and engaging online with politics in discussion forums.
These individuals, who do participate in voting (presidential elections before any other cycles), may look forward to Election Season … like some people look forward to preparing and filing their income taxes.
What this election can mean for these people is that they had dreaded the initial 2024 rematch of Biden-vs.-Trump. To say to oneself, “These same two people are the best that we can do?!”
Having a different person as the 2024 general-election nominee for the Democratic Party may be enough for these individuals. It means … a turn-the-page opportunity which can be satisfying for a good number of these citizens and voters.
