The age factor election: "A vote for Trump could easily be a vote for a President Vance"
With less than a month to go until Election Day, the American people and the world will soon find out if the epic that is the Age of Trump is about to be over or if they will be forced to suffer through a sequel featuring the various characters and spin-offs that the MAGAverse 2.0 may spawn. In these final weeks, the story that is the Age of Trump most closely resembles some type of crime novel, one in which the crimes are announced and planned in public and then committed in plain sight.
Donald Trump is amplifying the Big Lie 2.0 as he primes his MAGA followers to preemptively reject the results of the 2024 election and to engage in acts of civil unrest and violence. Trump and the MAGAfied Republican Party are also attempting to recruit tens of thousands of “poll watchers” to stop virtually non-existent “voter fraud”, i.e. to intimidate Black and brown voters. On the state and local level, through legal, extra-legal, and illegal means Trump’s agents and other MAGA supporters are also attempting to infiltrate, manipulate or through acts of outright fraud to steal the 2024 election on his behalf. As Reuters recently highlighted, this danger is especially acute in the key battleground states. Georgia is one such battleground state where a small group of local Trump election deniers are in key positions to overturn the results of the 2024 presidential election. And as they did in 2020, Trump’s agents and allies are already preparing to flood the courts with specious lawsuits to stop Kamala Harris from assuming office if she wins the 2024 election.
America’s democracy crisis is global. Donald Trump’s campaign is being supported by hostile foreign actors such as Russia who are engaging in a sophisticated propaganda disinformation psyops campaign online, via social media and across the wider right-wing media space with the goal of weakening America’s democracy at home and the country’s influence and power abroad. One of Trump’s main propaganda points is that America is imperiled by an “enemy within.” This appears to be an act of projection. Bob Woodward reports in his new book that Trump appears to be beholden to Vladimir Putin – and has acted in service to that loyalty in ways that have imperiled the collective safety and well-being of the American people.
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The choice between Kamala Harris, a responsible leader and defender of American democracy, and Donald Trump, a demonstrated enemy of democracy and the nation’s interests, who has promised to be a dictator on “day one” of his “presidency,” should not be easier or clearer. Nonetheless, public opinion polls continue to show that the 2024 election is one of the closest in modern American history. A new poll by the New York Times and Siena shows that an increasing number of Americans view the vice president as representing a force for positive change (Harris leads Trump by 2 points on this question). These findings complement other polls that show Harris with momentum and leading Trump in the national vote (again by relatively small percentages that tend to be within the margin of error). While approximately half the voters want the book and story that is the Age of Trump to be over and done with there are likely just as many who want many more stories and........
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