Showing posts with label Election 2024. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election 2024. Show all posts
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What Happens Next?
Volume 43 Issue Twelve December 2024
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“For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?” I Cor. 14:8
What Happens Next?
“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”
Matthew 6:9-13
Amid great anxiety and trepidation, the American people went to the polls on November 5, 2024, to elect the 47th President of the United States. The candidates, former President Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris, were said to be neck-and-neck in the polls in the weeks leading up to Election Day. An article published by Forbes Magazine in the early morning hours of November 5 claimed the candidates were essentially “deadlocked” with Harris holding a very slight edge over Trump. (1) The polling website known as FiveThirtyEight predicted there was a 50 percent chance that Harris would pull out the win while Trump had a 49 percent chance of emerging victorious. (2)
Given how close the polls were, there was a general expectation that the election would be very close and that it could take days or even weeks to tally every vote and determine a winner. The reality was much different from that expectation. In the end, Donald Trump won the election decisively, earning 312 electoral votes compared to Harris’ 226. This total put Trump well over the 270 electoral votes needed to secure the win. (3) Remarkably, Trump flipped the hotly contested states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, which had all been called for current President Joe Biden in 2020. (4) To make matters worse for the Democrats, the Republican Party retained control of the House of Representatives and took control of the Senate, which, in theory, should allow Trump to achieve many of his goals as President. (5)
In the days following the election, talking heads all over television and on the Internet offered their hot takes on why the Democrats performed so poorly in the 2024 election. A piece published by Axios on November 6, 2024, put it bluntly, declaring in its headline, “Democrats start clawing each other’s eyes out.” (6) Senator Bernie Sanders, the proud socialist from Vermont, lambasted the Democratic Party, stating, “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.” He then continued, “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.” (7) Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky also lashed out, stating in a segment on CNN, “I’m going to speak some hard truths to my friends in the Democratic Party. This is not Joe Biden’s fault. It’s not Kamala Harris’ fault. It’s not Barack Obama’s fault – it is the fault of the Democratic Party in not knowing how to communicate effectively to voters. We are not the party of common sense, which is the message the voters sent to us.” (8)
“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”
Matthew 6:9-13
Amid great anxiety and trepidation, the American people went to the polls on November 5, 2024, to elect the 47th President of the United States. The candidates, former President Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris, were said to be neck-and-neck in the polls in the weeks leading up to Election Day. An article published by Forbes Magazine in the early morning hours of November 5 claimed the candidates were essentially “deadlocked” with Harris holding a very slight edge over Trump. (1) The polling website known as FiveThirtyEight predicted there was a 50 percent chance that Harris would pull out the win while Trump had a 49 percent chance of emerging victorious. (2)
Given how close the polls were, there was a general expectation that the election would be very close and that it could take days or even weeks to tally every vote and determine a winner. The reality was much different from that expectation. In the end, Donald Trump won the election decisively, earning 312 electoral votes compared to Harris’ 226. This total put Trump well over the 270 electoral votes needed to secure the win. (3) Remarkably, Trump flipped the hotly contested states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, which had all been called for current President Joe Biden in 2020. (4) To make matters worse for the Democrats, the Republican Party retained control of the House of Representatives and took control of the Senate, which, in theory, should allow Trump to achieve many of his goals as President. (5)
In the days following the election, talking heads all over television and on the Internet offered their hot takes on why the Democrats performed so poorly in the 2024 election. A piece published by Axios on November 6, 2024, put it bluntly, declaring in its headline, “Democrats start clawing each other’s eyes out.” (6) Senator Bernie Sanders, the proud socialist from Vermont, lambasted the Democratic Party, stating, “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.” He then continued, “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.” (7) Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky also lashed out, stating in a segment on CNN, “I’m going to speak some hard truths to my friends in the Democratic Party. This is not Joe Biden’s fault. It’s not Kamala Harris’ fault. It’s not Barack Obama’s fault – it is the fault of the Democratic Party in not knowing how to communicate effectively to voters. We are not the party of common sense, which is the message the voters sent to us.” (8)
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Tuesday, November 05, 2024
Sunday, November 03, 2024
National Guard troops on standby in Washington state, Oregon and Nevada as a precaution for ‘potential’ election unrest
By Amanda Musa, CNN
4 minute read
Published 3:08 PM EDT, Sat November 2, 2024
Washington National Guard personnel walk on the Washington State Capitol campus on January 20, 2021 in Olympia, United States. David Ryder/Getty Images
CNN —
Ahead of potential civil unrest due to Tuesday’s presidential election, the National Guard is on standby as a precaution in several states, including Washington state and Oregon, where hundreds of ballots were damaged or destroyed after at least three ballot drop boxes were recently set on fire, officials say.
Almost all the ballots set ablaze on Monday were in a drop box in Vancouver, Washington, while most ballots in a drop box in Portland, Oregon, survived a fire set the same day, election officials said. The incidents are believed to be connected to a third fire on October 8, also in Vancouver. Portland police released a physical description of a suspect but said they’ve not identified him.
CNN —
Ahead of potential civil unrest due to Tuesday’s presidential election, the National Guard is on standby as a precaution in several states, including Washington state and Oregon, where hundreds of ballots were damaged or destroyed after at least three ballot drop boxes were recently set on fire, officials say.
Almost all the ballots set ablaze on Monday were in a drop box in Vancouver, Washington, while most ballots in a drop box in Portland, Oregon, survived a fire set the same day, election officials said. The incidents are believed to be connected to a third fire on October 8, also in Vancouver. Portland police released a physical description of a suspect but said they’ve not identified him.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee addressed the ballot box fires in a news release Friday announcing the National Guard being placed on standby, saying, “The southwest region of Washington state has already experienced specific instances of election-related unrest.”
The Kamala Harris enigma: A daughter of immigrants, now running for the highest office in the land
The Kamala Harris enigma: A daughter of immigrants, now running for the highest office in the land
Born to an Indian mother and Jamaican father, she’s been attorney general, senator, vice president and now, an unexpected presidential hopeful who might be able to stand in Trump’s way. She is defined by ambition, and has been underestimated countless times, says her biographer
Kamala Harris, at a 2021 White House event.
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The first plot twist in the quintessentially Californian story of Kamala Harris — whose first name means “lotus flower” — took place in Montreal, far from the San Francisco Bay Area where the U.S. vice president was born and raised as the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father. Her parents met through the circles of1970s (1960s) political activism and divorced soon after getting married. Harris’s mother Shyamala Gopalan had built a career as a reputable oncological researcher when she received a job offer from a Canadian university that she couldn’t refuse. “I was 12 years old, and the thought of moving away from sunny California in February, in the middle of the school year, to a French-speaking foreign city covered in 12 feet of snow was distressing,” writes Harris in her memoir.
Once she got over her distress, the young girl joined a dance group called Midnight Magic, in which she perfected a dance style that would turn the unexpected U.S. Democratic presidential candidate into the latest TikTok sensation. One day, when Wanda Kagan, her best friend in high school, told Harris that her stepfather had abused her, the future politician’s family, including Maya, her younger sister who today is a public policy expert, had her move in. Harris says that the experience convinced her to become a prosecutor, “to protect people like Wanda.”
“She more than fulfilled that goal,” says Dan Morain, a reporter who began following Harris’s career in 1994 and is the author of a superlative biography, Kamala’s Way (Simon & Schuster). “Kamala came back from Montreal, finished her studies and wound up working as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, was the district attorney of San Francisco and attorney general of California. Then she made the leap to national politics as a senator.” Now she’s on the brink of becoming the first woman president in the history of the United States.
The first plot twist in the quintessentially Californian story of Kamala Harris — whose first name means “lotus flower” — took place in Montreal, far from the San Francisco Bay Area where the U.S. vice president was born and raised as the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father. Her parents met through the circles of
Once she got over her distress, the young girl joined a dance group called Midnight Magic, in which she perfected a dance style that would turn the unexpected U.S. Democratic presidential candidate into the latest TikTok sensation. One day, when Wanda Kagan, her best friend in high school, told Harris that her stepfather had abused her, the future politician’s family, including Maya, her younger sister who today is a public policy expert, had her move in. Harris says that the experience convinced her to become a prosecutor, “to protect people like Wanda.”
“She more than fulfilled that goal,” says Dan Morain, a reporter who began following Harris’s career in 1994 and is the author of a superlative biography, Kamala’s Way (Simon & Schuster). “Kamala came back from Montreal, finished her studies and wound up working as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, was the district attorney of San Francisco and attorney general of California. Then she made the leap to national politics as a senator.” Now she’s on the brink of becoming the first woman president in the history of the United States.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Jimmy Carter Casts His Ballot for Harris in Georgia
The 39th president, who entered hospice care in February 2023, submitted an absentee ballot, according to a grandson. His family said he had been eager to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Former President Jimmy Carter emerged from hospice care to attend a memorial for his wife of nearly eight decades, Rosalynn Carter, in Atlanta last year. Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Oct. 16, 2024
The longest-lived president in American history has voted again.
Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 on Oct. 1 and has been in hospice care since February 2023, submitted his absentee ballot on Wednesday, according to Jason Carter, the former president’s grandson.
Jason Carter, the chairman of the Carter Center, said in a text message on Wednesday that his grandfather’s ballot had been deposited at a drop box at a courthouse in Americus, Ga. In Georgia, a relative may return a completed absentee ballot for a voter.
For weeks, according to the Carter family, the former president was privately playing down becoming a centenarian. Instead, Mr. Carter’s relatives said, he was most eager about voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Under Georgia law, Oct. 7 was the first day that county registrars could distribute domestic absentee ballots. Elections officials began mailing military and overseas ballots last month. Georgia’s in-person early voting period began on Tuesday, and regulators reported record turnout.
Elections officials said they were not certain when Mr. Carter, who spent many days of his post-presidency on Carter Center election-monitoring missions around the world, first cast a ballot of his own. But in 1943, Georgia became the first state to lower its voting age to 18; when Georgia voters decided to amend the state Constitution, Mr. Carter was months away from his 19th birthday.
Soon enough, though, he was in elected office himself. In 1962, he won a seat in the State Senate, after a chaotic scandal in which Mr. Carter’s opponent initially benefited from a ballot-stuffing scheme. (Decades later, Mr. Carter would recall that he was such an unknown then that a Georgia newspaper identified him as “Jerry Carter from Plains.”)
Mr. Carter cited the episode as a reason that he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, who died last year, founded the Carter Center, a nongovernmental organization, after they left the White House in 1981. But before his defeat by Ronald Reagan, one of Mr. Carter’s earliest lobbying efforts as president focused on his ideas about voter registration and campaign finance.
State records show that Mr. Carter has been an especially reliable voter as a former president. He has routinely cast ballots in general elections, of course, but has also been a fixture of primary runoffs and special elections. For more than a decade, he has exclusively voted by mail in the elections tracked by the state.
Mr. Carter still lives in Plains — the tidy city in southwest Georgia that he turned into an outpost of presidential politics nearly a half-century ago — and votes in Sumter County, where plenty of people still know him as “Mr. Jimmy.” A Republican presidential nominee last carried Sumter in 2004, when George W. Bush won it by 126 votes.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a 586-vote margin of victory there in 2020.
The margins have come to matter in Georgia, one of the most closely contested states in presidential elections. Had Mr. Carter gotten his way in the 1970s, though, they would matter less: He recommended abolishing the Electoral College.
Alan Blinder is a national correspondent for The Times, covering education. More about Alan Blinder
The longest-lived president in American history has voted again.
Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 on Oct. 1 and has been in hospice care since February 2023, submitted his absentee ballot on Wednesday, according to Jason Carter, the former president’s grandson.
Jason Carter, the chairman of the Carter Center, said in a text message on Wednesday that his grandfather’s ballot had been deposited at a drop box at a courthouse in Americus, Ga. In Georgia, a relative may return a completed absentee ballot for a voter.
For weeks, according to the Carter family, the former president was privately playing down becoming a centenarian. Instead, Mr. Carter’s relatives said, he was most eager about voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Under Georgia law, Oct. 7 was the first day that county registrars could distribute domestic absentee ballots. Elections officials began mailing military and overseas ballots last month. Georgia’s in-person early voting period began on Tuesday, and regulators reported record turnout.
Elections officials said they were not certain when Mr. Carter, who spent many days of his post-presidency on Carter Center election-monitoring missions around the world, first cast a ballot of his own. But in 1943, Georgia became the first state to lower its voting age to 18; when Georgia voters decided to amend the state Constitution, Mr. Carter was months away from his 19th birthday.
Soon enough, though, he was in elected office himself. In 1962, he won a seat in the State Senate, after a chaotic scandal in which Mr. Carter’s opponent initially benefited from a ballot-stuffing scheme. (Decades later, Mr. Carter would recall that he was such an unknown then that a Georgia newspaper identified him as “Jerry Carter from Plains.”)
Mr. Carter cited the episode as a reason that he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, who died last year, founded the Carter Center, a nongovernmental organization, after they left the White House in 1981. But before his defeat by Ronald Reagan, one of Mr. Carter’s earliest lobbying efforts as president focused on his ideas about voter registration and campaign finance.
State records show that Mr. Carter has been an especially reliable voter as a former president. He has routinely cast ballots in general elections, of course, but has also been a fixture of primary runoffs and special elections. For more than a decade, he has exclusively voted by mail in the elections tracked by the state.
Mr. Carter still lives in Plains — the tidy city in southwest Georgia that he turned into an outpost of presidential politics nearly a half-century ago — and votes in Sumter County, where plenty of people still know him as “Mr. Jimmy.” A Republican presidential nominee last carried Sumter in 2004, when George W. Bush won it by 126 votes.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a 586-vote margin of victory there in 2020.
The margins have come to matter in Georgia, one of the most closely contested states in presidential elections. Had Mr. Carter gotten his way in the 1970s, though, they would matter less: He recommended abolishing the Electoral College.
Alan Blinder is a national correspondent for The Times, covering education. More about Alan Blinder
Friday, October 11, 2024
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Thursday, July 04, 2024
What is this enigmatic political opportunist up to?
Recently, I've noticed that Vivek Ramaswamy is frequently in the news and on YouTube videos. I am amazed at how Ramaswamy lost his political venture during the Republican Presidential Primary, and despite the defeat, all of a sudden he is back in the limelight trying to become relevant again despite his failed attempt.
As I watch Ramaswamy's meandering, I wonder what he is up to?
Yesterday, I found an informative video posted in May 2023 that gives us a clearer understanding of who Vivek Ramaswamy is and further explains his persona's resemblance to ex-President Barack Obama, and considers both individuals' Jesuit background and their political ambition.
Yesterday, I found an informative video posted in May 2023 that gives us a clearer understanding of who Vivek Ramaswamy is and further explains his persona's resemblance to ex-President Barack Obama, and considers both individuals' Jesuit background and their political ambition.
Now I can understand why Ramaswamy is making headlines; he's searching for a new job. Just because London has a Pakistani descent Muslim Mayor (Sadiq Khan) and England has an Indian ancestry Hindu Prime Minister (Rishi Sunak), it doesn't mean that the United States is ready for a Hindu Indian descent Vice President. However, I acknowledge that if Vivek Ramaswamy is seeking a VP candidacy with the Trump campaign, we already have Vice President Kamala Harris who is of Indian and Jamaican heritage.
Considering Ramaswamy's political ambition and his Jesuit background, it all makes perfect sense.
P.S.
On July 5, 2024, one day after this post Rishi Sunak lost to Keir Starmer, the new Prime Minister of Britain.
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Nicole Shanahan (RFK Jr's VP pick)
Nicole Shanahan
Next election
November 5, 2024
Contact
Campaign website
Personal Twitter
Personal LinkedIn
Nicole Shanahan is running for vice president on a ticket with presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) in the 2024 presidential election. Kennedy selected Shanahan as his running mate on March 26, 2024. To read more about Kennedy's campaign, click here.
Shanahan is a patent attorney and entrepreneur. She serves as the president of the Bia-Echo Foundation, which invests in helping older women have children, criminal justice, and environmental issues.[1][2]
See Kennedy's presidential campaign overview and Presidential candidates, 2024, for more information about the 2024 presidential election.
Biography
Shanahan grew up in Oakland, California. She was raised in a single-parent household by her mother, who immigrated to the United States from China.[3] Shanahan received bachelor's degrees in Asian Studies, economics, and Mandarin Chinese from the University of Puget Sound in 2007.[3][2]
She began her career working as an intellectual property paralegal and patent specialist before receiving a law degree from the Santa Clara University School of Law in 2014. After graduating, Shanahan founded ClearAccessIP, a tech company that works in patent analytics and intellectual property asset management. She sold the company in 2020.[4]
As of 2024, she serves as the president of the Bia-Echo Foundation, which invests in helping older women have children, criminal justice, and environmental issues.[1][2]
Elections
2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) selected Shanahan as his running mate on March 26, 2024. Kennedy began his campaign for the 2024 presidential election on April 5, 2023. Click the links below to read more about the 2024 presidential election:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign, 2024
Presidential candidates, 2024
Democratic presidential nomination, 2024
Republican presidential nomination, 2024
See also
Presidential candidates, 2024
Democratic presidential nomination, 2024
Republican presidential nomination, 2024
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External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Jump up to:1.0 1.1 Reuters, "RFK Jr to pick lawyer Nicole Shanahan as VP in 2024 bid, WSJ reports," March 26, 2024
- ↑ Jump up to:2.0 2.1 2.2 LinkedIn, "Nicole Shanahan," accessed March 26, 2024
- ↑ Jump up to:3.0 3.1 Politico, "55 Things You Need to Know About Nicole Shanahan," March 26, 2024
- ↑ IP CloseUp, "ACQUISITION OF CLEARACCESS IP BY SPANGENBERG’S IPWE COULD BE A HARBINGER OF CHANGE IN THE PATENT SPACE," April 30, 2020
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