To be bloody delighted MAGA is dying

Ossoff is terrific. Not super left, by the way. Georgia ia a very purple state. Newsom will not play well. He comes off poorly.

there’s quite a lot of good candidates. Also statistically the economy actually does better under Democrats. The best run states in the US are Democratic run, with the best outcomes for education and health care.

His personality is repellent.

For example, he lied (and admitted he had lied) about Haitian refugees stealing people's pets and eating them.

He talked about Democratic women as childless cat ladies

He opposes abortion and reproductive rights even in cases of rape or incest, has suggested that women stick out abusive marriages

In the last few weeks, he defended the ad by Ohio gubernatorial candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, in which the estranged mother of Ramaswamy's opponent called her daughter (Amy Acton) a liar about her background. The background she was not lying about: the mother married a man who was found guilty in court of raping Acton at the age of 12 (after having raped his biological daughter) and abusing her brother. The children were removed from the mother and have had no contact with her since. The stepfather fled the state and the mother went with him and stayed with him until his death.
While campaigning in Ohio, Vance defended the commercial, stating that "Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is, and calls Amy Acton a liar," while urging Republicans to "stop whining about an advertisement and go win the race"

And that's without going into his flipflop from Democrat to Republican when Peter Thiel bought him. Before that he referred to Trump as "America's Hitler.'

Yup. Current approval rating is approaching -30..

Being Trump's VP was political suicide for him tbh. He looks like the sniveling little weasel, hiding behind the bully and sniggering, out of a sense of self-preservation (hoping the bully wont turn their ire on him, which Trump has done so, from time to time).

He could have been a force, but optics have not been kind, and he's not going to win hearts and minds of a country that already cant stand him.

Ok ive not googled.

Im going for Chuck Schumer for D and Mitch Mcdonnell for R (assuming he is alive...ive not seen any update on him).

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I don't disagree with you, but you could write all that an more for Trump.

Trump, though, has charisma in spades.

JD Vance, despite his many achievements despite his background, just reads as a bit of a loser. Inauthentic, unsure of himself, desperate for Trump's approval (fails to get it) and an unengaging speaker.

His little red face when Trump refused to agree with a claim Vance had made to the press the previous day, that Trump would endorse him in 2028, was a sight to behold. Absolutely humiliated, and he deserves it!

He stands for nothing other than furthering his own career and doing the bidding of Peter Thiel. I mean he's gone from describing Trump as 'America's Hitler' and himself as a 'never Trump guy', to being his biggest toady, and now (predictably) trying to distance himself from him now that Trump's star is on the wane. Definitely a snivelling weasel.

I want Trump's downfall to be sudden, spectacular, humiliating, and involve imprisonment. And all his lackeys turning on him, and spilling the beans.

Trump may have lost the plot.

Trump is a probable senile, serial sex offender with no plot whatsoever. Putin is the overall winner from Trump's presidency. That's why he bought it.🤷‍♀️

Musk is making millions from his presidency. That's why he bought it too. See DOGE. He'll re-locate to China, Russia, NK, Space, Mars, as soon as it's profitable for him to do so.

Netenyahu is milking him like a cow. Getting as much as he can before Trump crashes and burns.

The GOP needs to deal with all this shit before they can hope to rebuild.

I am quite excited. This is the blue wave, followed by a blue tsunami, that I hoped would occur in 2024. It's so intense in magnitude. It makes me hopeful for the future, because the world has been on a dark path for a long time now.

Yes! Fuck you Elon. Fuck you Vivek. I’m dancing in delight here!

It works differently in the US. There isn’t a single party leader right now.

Harris lost because she was a poor candidate and failed to differentiate herself from an unpopular President Biden.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr4l5j2v9do

Oh, I agree. Trump makes my skin crawl with revulsion but it's undeniable that a lot of people see something in him. Very few people, other than the financial puppet masters seem to see anything in Vance. He's utterly charmless, at best.

I also think it might not sit well with the people who aren't racists that he has an Indian wife but sucks up to the massive racists, never defending her, or with the actual racists that he has an Indian wife.

He's also now trying to walk a fine line. Staying ingratiated with those voters who love Trump while simultaneously trying to distance himself from this disaster of an administration.

Pretty sure Mitch McConnell is undead rather than dead. At least, he's been doing a remarkably convincing impersonation of a shambling zombie for years.

There are plenty of people who support maga who are high iq and have gone to universities. They support him because it makes them rich.

I listened to an interview with a young Dem voter about the speculations that Kamala Harris might run again in 2028. She said young people just wouldn't vote in that case. I really do hope the Democrats have had a big reality check and won't make the same mistakes again.

US parties don’t have one leader. Each party has a leader in the House and the Senate and other leadership roles at state level. In the lead up to a presidential election each party will select a candidate for president. None of those people are the leader of the party though. It’s not the UK and the political system and parties are completely different because of the primary system.

Quite a bit of Biden's unpopularity came from rising cost of living, and people didn't think that Harris would be able to impact it, so again, it's economics. Not sure if you read the article that you linked or if you just thought the headline refuted me, but it actually explains this.

I've learnt this today! It's also amusing to see the smartarse hoisted by their own petard.

John Thune is now senate majority leader.

Harris might run again. That’s honestly fine with me. We’ll have a proper set of primaries and either she’ll prove herself or not. She wasn’t an awful candidate in 2024, but she was hobbled by Biden’s record and how she walked into the race. I don’t think anyone in her position could really have done better than her.

what’s a shame is what happened to Tim
Walz, her running mate. He’s been effectively forced out of politics.

Agree. I really hope she realises that she shouldn't run. She may feel that she wasn't given a fair crack of the whip in 2024, but that's just too bad, and elections are more important than the feelings or career aspirations of one person. Harris can't deliver change.

Uncontrolled illegal immigration and cultural issues were hugely important as well.

Women shifted their vote en masse from the porn advocating, paedophile apologist Republicans lead by a proven sex offender.

Yet another problem for the GOP to deal with in the next 2 years.🤷‍♀️

Vivek's campaign highlighted the misogyny of the GOP and shone a light on their anti-woman agenda. Many MAGA and Trump supporters oppose women's right to bodily autonomy as well as their right to vote. And hold positions in the military.

American women took it all onboard and voted accordingly.❤️
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I'm not denying that you're right, but why didn't they do it in 2024? Trump's first admin massively attacked abortion rights, but women didn't come out against him.