Who Is Favored, Biden or Trump?

 

From 538 Blog, July 18, 2024

Rachel Maddow lists the ways J.D. Vance attacked Trump

Art and Artifice

 Art

Artifice

 

Wanna-Be Trump Assassin: White Registered Republican Gun Nut

Posted earlier at Schools Matter:

Had Trump been neutralized, one may wonder if his supporters would alter their views on the legality of assault rifles. 

From The Daily Beast:

The FBI identified Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, as the gunman who fired multiple shots with an AR-style rifle in a failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. . . . During the attack, Crooks wore a gray T-shirt with an American flag on the sleeve, matching merchandise sold by the popular YouTube firearm channel Demolition Ranch. The channel has over 11 million subscribers and frequently posts videos about various types of weaponry.

'So much for Trump as genius': Conservative WSJ editorial drops the hammer on president's trade blunders

'So much for Trump as genius': Conservative WSJ editorial drops the hammer on president's trade blunders: The conservative Wall Street Journal’s editorial page on Friday published a scathing editorial attacking President Donald Trump’s decision to slap key American allies with hefty tariffs on steel and aluminum. “So much for Donald Trump as genius deal-maker,” the editorial begins. “We are supposed to believe his tariff threats are a clever negotiation strategy, but on Thursday he revealed he’s merely an old-fashioned protectionist.” The editorial goes on to slam the president for hitting Canada, …

Former associates confess what a horrible deal-maker Trump was -- who regularly botched his own negotiations

Former associates confess what a horrible deal-maker Trump was -- who regularly botched his own negotiations: Even the conservative Wall Street Journal has figured out that President Donald Trump isn’t the master negotiator he’s long branded himself as — but Trump’s former business associates say they’ve known Trump was bad at making deals for years. Jack O’Donnell, a former Trump casino executive, tells Politico that Trump’s typical negotiating style is to act, as the publication puts it, as a “for-show tough guy.” However, when it comes to the details of negotiating, …

Trump dehumanizes minorities to gain the approval of angry whites -- according to science

Trump dehumanizes minorities to gain the approval of angry whites -- according to science: Writing for the New York Times, demographics expert Thomas Edsall looked askance on President Donald Trump calling members of MS-13 “animals” during a rant on undocumented immigrants and tried to figure out a more scientific approach as to why Trump using the highly inflammatory rhetoric. According to Edsall, “Through gut (or gutter) instinct, Trump has adopted a political strategy designed to exploit anger at and resentment toward immigrants as well as racial and ethnic minorities. …