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Harris and Walz whip up crowd at packed Phoenix rally – but ‘we are the underdog’
Guardian ^ | Fri 9 Aug 2024 22.29 EDT | Cecilia Nowell

Posted on 08/10/2024 8:53:13 AM PDT by Zhang Fei

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz rallied a packed arena outside Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday – drawing perhaps the largest Democratic crowd of the election cycle this year.

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, her running mate and the local leaders who joined them on stage whipped up the crowd, discussing immigration, abortion rights and Indigenous sovereignty.

Noting the Indigenous leaders in the room, Harris also said: “I will always honor tribal sovereignty and respect tribal self-determination.” Indigenous voters are credited with helping deliver Arizona to Joe Biden in 2020; the state is home to 22 federally recognized tribes.

At one point during her speech, Harris was interrupted by protesters chanting “free, free Palestine” and other messages in support of Gaza. She stopped her speech to address the protesters.

“We’re here to fight for our democracy, which includes respecting the voices that I think we are hearing from. Let me just speak to that for a moment and then I’ll get back to the business at hand,” she said. “I have been clear: now is the time to get a ceasefire deal and get the hostage deal done. Now is the time. And the president and I are working around the clock every day to get that ceasefire deal done and bring the hostages home.” Her statement represented a noticeable change in tone from her approach to Gaza protesters in Detroit on Thursday.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: az; fakenews; harris; trump
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To: Zhang Fei

15000 in a room that holds 20000 isn’t a ‘packed crowd”.
How many were local Democrat/communist officials?


81 posted on 08/10/2024 12:20:31 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Zhang Fei

The Guardian lies. It wasn’t packed. The interwebs has pictures of many sections “blacked out” to make it look more full.

There were a lot of people there for a Demon Rat party event, don’t get me wrong, but it wasn’t packed.

One interweb guy supposedly did some electronic tracking of cell phone data and found lots of the signatures came from individuals that are normally far far away from the site of the rally...which, if true, means people were coming from other sites to “fill up” the room.

astroturf.


82 posted on 08/10/2024 12:20:46 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Round Earther

You got that right.


83 posted on 08/10/2024 12:31:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you liked the Joe Pedo show, you're going to love the Jamaican Queen's "White Dude" Job Corp.show)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Ahem, correction: Harris is a hoe!


84 posted on 08/10/2024 12:37:34 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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To: Recovering_Democrat
................... The interwebs has pictures of many sections “blacked out” to make it look more full.

I have heard this is true but have not seen the pictures. Very careful staging.

85 posted on 08/10/2024 1:42:44 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: nwrep

In the 2 weeks since she was selected the “nominee” sure thing— it is wearing off FRiend, rather quickly and notably within the demonrat machinery. Cracks in the team— because the leader is a dolt and obamaumao cannot put humpty dumpty back in her shell, and they are noting the rather gaping holes in the walz “nomination”.

The point is being made in all demonrat pubs— that this nominee was not decided by primary— not ever, not in 2020 either.


86 posted on 08/10/2024 2:00:43 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: rockabyebaby

Not a Navaho or an Arapaho. A Jamaicanho.


87 posted on 08/10/2024 2:01:11 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you liked the Joe Pedo show, you're going to love the Jamaican Queen's "White Dude" Job Corp.show)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Not a Navaho or an Arapaho. A Jamaicanho.

LMAO, good one!

88 posted on 08/10/2024 3:07:22 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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To: Recovering_Democrat

[One interweb guy supposedly did some electronic tracking of cell phone data and found lots of the signatures came from individuals that are normally far far away from the site of the rally...which, if true, means people were coming from other sites to “fill up” the room.]


There are Trump rally attendees with three or four hour drives. One guy was explaining, on Twitter, why he had to leave the Montana Trump rally early, because it was delayed for hours due to engine problems. As it was, he got home at 2:30 AM. Rallies attract zealots, the political equivalent of Deadheads. That’s why big rallies aren’t just expensive, they’re pointless. I hope Harris does more of them, and Trump does less. That cash would be better spent hiring people to get out the vote. That’s the only rally that matters - the one that directly fills ballot boxes.


89 posted on 08/10/2024 3:38:22 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Zhang Fei
a packed arena outside Phoenix

That ain't no thang.

They can get a packed house (pardon the pun) in any capital or large population center just by requiring all the bureaucRATs to attend. There are millions of the overpaid/do nothing leaches.

Government "employees" are the ultimate welfare class.

90 posted on 08/10/2024 5:49:12 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Steve_Seattle

I was born and raised in Bremerton, and still live here but in the boonies around Centralia. The Natives were also given the right to open stores, and open malls where they can collect sales tax, and keep it as income. Cigarette tax? Booze tax? They stopped the private clubs from allowing smoking, because it cut into Native casino business.


91 posted on 08/10/2024 6:59:28 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: All
A stroll down memory lane.


92 posted on 08/11/2024 12:40:44 AM PDT by Liz
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