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A jittery Harris campaign makes big plans to clinch a narrow win
CNN ^ | October 22, 2024 | Edward-Isaac Dovere

Posted on 10/22/2024 7:44:29 PM PDT by Salman

With two weeks to go until Election Day, Kamala Harris’ top advisers are staring down numbers that show a wide majority of Americans saying the country is on the wrong track.

They’re also confident that the next two weeks will include Donald Trump dropping more references to the “enemy within” or January 6 as a “day of love” and going off on rambling tangents like his lewd remarks about golf legend Arnold Palmer at a Pennsylvania rally last week. And they expect they’ll be able to trigger him into making more outlandish claims.

Getting Americans to focus on that over the next two weeks, to see a second Trump term as taking the country further off track and to view Harris as an acceptable agent of change is likely to decide the presidency, a dozen top aides and outside allies told CNN. As Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told top donors in Philadelphia during a retreat last week, they may not believe that the race could still be tied, but in the battleground states where the presidency will be won, it is.

“Historically, it would be unusual to have seven states come down to a point or less,” David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager who now serves as a senior adviser to Harris, said of the battleground landscape. “But I think at this point, you have to assume that’s a distinct possibility.”

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1 posted on 10/22/2024 7:44:29 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

“And they expect they’ll be able to trigger him . . .”

They have already pulled the trigger on him twice.

Well, technically just once that we know.


2 posted on 10/22/2024 7:53:22 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Salman

Would you like fries with that?


3 posted on 10/22/2024 7:55:21 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Salman
Ah. Their grand battle plan is to wait on Trump to "mess up"?


4 posted on 10/22/2024 7:56:07 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Salman

It all comes down to whether or not The Steal is big enough.

Based on the polls, they need a Steal in the neighborhood of
10,000,000 votes.

They may very well have it.

I believe on Election Day Trump will be ahead by 8 million votes. That is nearly 5% of votes cast last election.

They will have to manufacture another 10 Million votes overnight to steal the day after.


5 posted on 10/22/2024 7:59:12 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Salman
Lewd remarks? Heck, Johnny Carson probably already told that joke years ago. Or Don Rickles. Or Rodney Dangerfield.

6 posted on 10/22/2024 8:03:58 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: FlyingEagle

That would be a monumental scam.


7 posted on 10/22/2024 8:12:13 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Salman

Kamala Harris obviously was not well educated.

The original quotation about the danger posed by the “enemy within” is credited to Cicero.

Another gentleman who repeated the quotation was none other than Abraham Lincoln.

Donald J. Trump is good company when he refers to the threats posed domestic radicals.

In Lincoln’s opinion, the United States of America was not likely to be undermined by external or foreign powers, but was at risk solely due to the presence of internal enemies.


8 posted on 10/22/2024 8:12:20 PM PDT by PBRCat
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In Lincoln’s opinion, the United States of America was not likely to be undermined by external or foreign powers, but was at risk solely due to the presence of internal enemies

As everyone who has visited DisneyLand for the past 50 years has heard him say. Or I assume so, since i haven’t been there during the woke era.


9 posted on 10/22/2024 8:42:18 PM PDT by sopo
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To: PBRCat

And didn’t Khrushchev make a similar threat?


10 posted on 10/22/2024 8:49:34 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Salman
They’re also confident that the next two weeks will include Donald Trump dropping more references to the “enemy within” or January 6 as a “day of love” and going off on rambling tangents like his lewd remarks about golf legend Arnold Palmer at a Pennsylvania rally last week. And they expect they’ll be able to trigger him into making more outlandish claims.

I call BS. 99% of voters don't even know what any of this is referring to. No way Plouffe believes this.

I think at this point, they're just putting the best possible face on it so that the down-ballot races don't all collapse.

11 posted on 10/22/2024 9:10:04 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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To: Salman

The biatches in the DNC’s “media mafia” sure have gone on the attack of McDonalds. I’m going to have to go to McDonalds tomorrow and pickup a burger and fries.


12 posted on 10/22/2024 9:12:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I've come to the conclusion that the world is made up of millions of Three Stooges comedians.)
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13 posted on 10/22/2024 9:16:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: sopo
Wiki...
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address was delivered to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois on January 27, 1838, titled "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions." In his speech, a 28-year-old Lincoln warned that mobs or people who disrespected U.S. laws and courts could destroy the United States. He went on to say the Constitution and rule of law in the United States should be "the political religion of the nation."

The topic of Lincoln's speech was citizenship in a constitutional republic and threats to U.S. institutions. In the speech, Lincoln discussed in glowing terms the political regime established by the Founding Fathers, but warned of a destructive force from within. He asked his listeners:

Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.
Stirring words. Harris is demonstrating her appalling ignorance when she misconstrues President Trump's "enemy within" remarks.
14 posted on 10/22/2024 10:02:23 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (It should be illegal to be here illegally. It should be a crime to be committing crimes in the USA.)
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To: FlyingEagle

Yes they are priming the pump for the steal.

Trump will be ahead at midnight on election night. Then they will work the fix.


15 posted on 10/22/2024 10:13:24 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

and then they will not concede


16 posted on 10/23/2024 3:15:46 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Salman

Meanwhile...

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg

JUST IN: The sister of Vanessa Guillén absolutely rips The Atlantic after they released a hit piece on Trump about her sister’s de*th.

Mayra Guillen says she is voting for Trump after unleashing on the outlet for politicizing Vanessa’s de*th.

The Atlantic tried claiming Trump disparaged Vanessa and refused to pay for her funeral expenses.

Vanessa was a 20-year-old Army private who was m*rdered at Fort Hood, in Texas.

Vanessa was k*lled by a soldier and his girlfriend. Her body was burned and found two months after she had gone missing.

Mayra Guillen says the accusations made by The Atlantic are false and says Trump “did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa.”

“I don’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics- hurtful & disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members,”
@mguilen_
said on X.

“President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today.”

5:13 PM · Oct 22, 2024 1.8M Views

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1848835154795458944


17 posted on 10/23/2024 3:17:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; GOPJ; Liz
Thanks for hunting down that Lincoln quote there, ProtectOurFreedom... In our time, it was Michael Savage who zeroed in on the problem in his 2005 book, The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Schools, Faith and Military.

From his promo for the book:


18 posted on 10/23/2024 3:54:37 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA isn’t a slogan it’s a matter of Americas survival.)
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To: poconopundit

The corrosive influence of “psycho liberals”..... IOW, Democrats.
<><>They’re speeding down the pathway of good intentions.
<><>Their mantra: Celebrate perversity,
<><>embrace ultra-tolerance,
<><>pay rape-a-nations (so-called reparations),
<><>support affirmative racism,
<><>govt subsidies for every illegal who sneaks across the border.

“In their haste to push failed socialism, libs have placed us on a crash course of total destruction.”

(Source Michael Savage in his 2005 book, The Enemy Within:
Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Schools, Faith and Military.)


19 posted on 10/23/2024 4:10:55 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: poconopundit

I totally forgot about Savages book almost 20 years ago. He sure nailed it, didn’t he?


20 posted on 10/23/2024 4:16:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (It should be illegal to be here illegally. It should be a crime to be committing crimes in the USA.)
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