In her first campaign rally as the presumptive Democratic nominee to face Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris took aim at her Republican rival and a widely derided Trump-linked platform that provides a blueprint for the next GOP administration.
“Donald Trump wants to take our country backward,” she said in remarks from Milwaukee on Tuesday, just two days after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and endorsed his vice president.
Harris, who secured enough delegate pledges to clinch the Democratic Party’s nomination within a little over 24 hours after announcing her candidacy, linked Trump to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-backed plan for his administration, and one that his campaign is now furiously trying to distance itself from.
“He and his extreme Project 2025 agenda will weaken the middle class. We know we got to take that seriously,” Harris said. ”Can you believe they put that thing in writing? Read it. It’s 900 pages.”
The plan proposes cuts to Social Security and Medicare, tax breaks to corporations that will force “working families to foot the bill” and abolishes the Affordable Care Act, which “will take us back to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with preexisting conditions,” Harris said.
This idea right here needs to actually die for the sake of democracy.
No…close to 40% of the country will not turn out to vote for him. Close to 40% of people WHO VOTE will turn out to vote for him.
just under 155 million Americans voted in 2020 (out of a population of just over 331 million) which makes a voter turnout of 46%.
46% of the country (conservative and liberal) don’t vote because they just don’t care. Neither side truly represents them and, whether they consider themselves conservatives or liberals, they’re just folks who want to live their lives and let other people live theirs; what I call the “Your fist my nose” voting bloc; people who believe (regardless of their own leanings) that “your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins”.
more than half of America doesn’t vote. If they live a conservative lifestyle and they don’t vote…they’re NOT a Republican. If they have a liberal mindset and they don’t vote, they’re NOT a Democrat. That’s literally the definition of Republican and Democrat.
But instead of actually talking to those 46% of people people, everyone just pretends that every Conservative is just as bad as a Republican and every Liberal is just as bad as a Democrat and therefore there’s no point in conversing.
It’s absolutist shit like that that keeps the status quo in effect and prevents any meaningful change.
Just to note that the 18+ (eligible voting) population in 2020 was only 78% of the total.
You are correct. My fault. In my over-eagerness of typing I forgot to take the under 18s into account.
My point still stands though.
Actually, only 66% of American adults voted in the 2020 election, and it had the highest voter turnout in 120 years!