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Dulcinea

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Wed Sep 4, 2024, 08:17 AM Sep 2024

'A dogfight': Harris and Trump enter the final election stretch after Labor Day

(NBC News) WASHINGTON — An unprecedented summer has turned the presidential race on its head with two months to go until Election Day, showing a dead heat in key states between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump as both candidates gear up for a final blitz after the Labor Day holiday weekend.

A race that was slipping away from President Joe Biden is competitive again after he withdrew July 21 and passed the baton to his vice president, who has captured support from key groups that had soured on him, most notably young and Black voters.

Harris, 59, has turned the issue of age from a potentially fatal liability to an asset for Democrats against the 78-year-old Trump. The former president, who was running with confidence against Biden, has appeared rattled at times by Harris, launching personal and racial attacks against a rival who would be the first woman and the first Indian American to be president. She has brushed them off.

“It’s a toss-up race,” Republican strategist Brad Todd said, cautioning that the GOP's fortunes are not as bright as they were when the Democratic nominee was the 81-year-old Biden.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dogfight-harris-trump-enter-final-110040109.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO&ncid=crm_19908-1202929-20240904-0&bt_user_id=P%2BMgeeR2xw%2BKABSK3BGOcWqleE20VsVHRlx4VE1h8%2F7vdB7HvRRV2KRd%2FJftT2MK&bt_ts=1725451051280

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'A dogfight': Harris and Trump enter the final election stretch after Labor Day (Original Post) Dulcinea Sep 2024 OP
Why is it a story every friggin day? displacedvermoter Sep 2024 #1
What I Think of as 'Empty Calorie' News roscoeroscoe Sep 2024 #2

displacedvermoter

(3,577 posts)
1. Why is it a story every friggin day?
Wed Sep 4, 2024, 08:54 AM
Sep 2024

It is a tossup of a horse race of a nail biter as we enter the final blitz of the last lap of the home stretch!

And what the hell, the former president has "appeared rattled at times"? Do they even read the shit they write?

Jeezus....

roscoeroscoe

(1,696 posts)
2. What I Think of as 'Empty Calorie' News
Wed Sep 4, 2024, 09:05 AM
Sep 2024

Bland, no information, no depth. Junk food, junk news.

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