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Battenfeld: Panicked Democrats try desperate tactics to prevent a 2016 repeat
Boston Herald ^

Posted on 10/12/2024 11:15:57 AM PDT by TigerClaws

Increasingly desperate Democrats – fearing a repeat of 2016 – are resorting to a round of last-minute tactics like demanding more debates, shaming voters, changing the rules and doctoring interviews in a sign that panic may be setting in the party.

Kamala Harris is making a failed attempt to debate Donald Trump again – a surefire loser of an issue – while running mate bust Tim Walz is advocating getting rid of the Electoral College, created by the Founding Fathers to give more power to smaller states.

Democrats like Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey also want to rewrite the rules by packing the Supreme Court with more justices and undoing high court decisions like the ruling abolishing Roe v. Wade.

“Republicans have hijacked the confirmation process and stolen the Supreme Court majority – all to appeal to far-right judicial activists who for years have wanted to wield the gavel to roll back fundamental rights,” Markey said.

Former President Barack Obama, in another sign of desperation, wagged his finger at Black male voters at a rally in Pennsylvania for not being enthusiastic enough about Harris’s candidacy.

“We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running,” Obama said. “Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.”

Talk about a guilt trip. Democrats are clearly worried that some of the Black vote will stay home or even support Trump. Polls show Trump gaining a greater percentage of Latino and Black voters than he did four years ago.

“Part of it makes me think, and I’m speaking to men directly….that well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,” he said condescendingly.

Obama’s comments also make Harris seem small and weak by comparison, that she’s unable to generate the enthusiasm the former president got in 2008 and 2012.

Whether it’s Obama’s speech, or Hillary Clinton pushing for social media companies to “moderate” content, or Joe Biden’s increasingly bizarre rants against Trump, you can almost hear the panic in their voices.

Then there is the media resorting to propping up Harris. “60 Minutes” producers with Democratic sympathies selectively edited Harris’s recent interview to make her answers seem more coherent.

CNN recently carried Harris’s Zoom press conference on Hurricane Milton live, while Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis had a briefing in person and CNN ignored it because he won’t talk to Harris.

In Boston, city councilors are weighing whether to go with ranked choice voting, where a candidate who loses during the first round of vote-counting could go on to win. So if Democrats don’t get what they want, they’ll try again.

All this as polls repeatedly show Harris has been unable to build a lead, with Trump ahead or tied in battleground states like Pennsylvania, which could single-handedly win him the election.

So Democrats cling to the hope that another debate or perhaps an October surprise like Joe Biden resigning might turn around their White House hopes.

It’s not going to work.

Trump isn’t going to be trapped into debating again and Congress isn’t going to rewrite the Constitution to make the popular vote the deciding factor in the election.

But Democrats and the media are trying anyway. They’ll keep trying until they win every election and have complete authoritarian control over the government forever.


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1 posted on 10/12/2024 11:15:57 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

They’re trying to prevent a repeat of the 1980 and 1984 Elections.


2 posted on 10/12/2024 11:17:48 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: TigerClaws

Why are they trying to prevent a 2916 problem when it’s more likely they’ll use the ‘2020 solution’?

And how can we keep them from doing so?


3 posted on 10/12/2024 11:18:27 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Don't let evil win again!)
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To: TigerClaws

Try NOT nominating Commie Bags.


4 posted on 10/12/2024 11:23:35 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: TigerClaws

This coming from a liberal communist rag? Her internal numbers are worse than what we have been lead to believe ! She is imploding fast ! Such JOY and good VIBES!


5 posted on 10/12/2024 11:39:20 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: grey_whiskers

Yes. That’s more like it. 👍


6 posted on 10/12/2024 11:40:49 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: TigerClaws
So Democrats cling to the hope that another debate

Why? Trump offered to do three debates. Harris agreed to do one debate on ABC.

Now she is desperate to do two more debates.

Too bad. She told Trump "no". She had her chance.

7 posted on 10/12/2024 11:42:43 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: TigerClaws
he said condescendingly

Don't they teach writing anymore?

8 posted on 10/12/2024 11:46:15 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: grey_whiskers

I’d take 1980 any day of the week. But CA, the Left Coast, IL and New England aren’t going for Trump.


9 posted on 10/12/2024 11:59:08 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: TigerClaws

They need another phony pandemic.


10 posted on 10/12/2024 12:57:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: RoseofTexas

Welp, I guess that seals the deal. Trump 2024 baby! https://t.co/6XbkJIMbP1— Gadsden Herald (@GadsdenHerald) October 12, 2024


11 posted on 10/12/2024 1:20:10 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: TigerClaws
<>getting rid of the Electoral College, created by the Founding Fathers to give more power to smaller states<>.

Not so.

Read Federalist 68.

12 posted on 10/12/2024 1:31:54 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: TigerClaws

THEY CANNOT SUDDENLY APPLY “RANKED CHOICE VOTING”

USSC will shoot that down before INK is dry.


13 posted on 10/12/2024 4:06:42 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: RoseofTexas

The Boston herald isn’t the liberal paper. That would be the Boston globe.


14 posted on 10/12/2024 4:36:41 PM PDT by brooklin
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To: TigerClaws

There was a repeat, that’s why in 2020 they halted voting in some states so they could monkey with the numbers when while most slept.
2024 will be a three-peat !


15 posted on 10/12/2024 4:51:21 PM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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