• Donald Trump contributed $6,000 to Kamala Harris when she ran for California attorney general.
  • Trump donated $5,000 to her 2011 campaign and $1,000 in 2013 as a private citizen.
  • Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday and endorsed Kamala to replace him.
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    4 months ago

    People forget that Trump wasn’t a Republican until like 2012. The only reason he ran Republican was that someone convinced him that was the only way he’d ever win. Remember, winning at all costs is literally the only thing Donald Trump cares about.

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      Honestly, he’s never been a Democrat or a Republican. Even now, if you go by what the Republican party was before he took it over. He’s always been a Trumpist, nothing more and nothing less. He cares solely, without exception, for one thing: Donald Trump.

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        Absolutely true but he will give these fucks what they want in exchange for adoration

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          Will he actually, though? Or just say he will?

          I think the only way that could happen is if it just happened to be something he wanted.

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            I read that the project 2025 people were ecstatic since he delivered on like 75% (or more?) of their policy goals for his first term. Roe v Wade wasn’t an accident, for example

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              I don’t believe that’s why he’s doing what he’s doing. Unless it’s like a sick compulsion or something. He’s a 78 year old billionaire. Why whore yourself for money when you’ve already got enough to last you a lifetime? I think the power and whatever is more of a motivator.

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      That’s not entirely true, his turn to republicans was a little sooner. Trump was the “Long Form Birth Certificate” guy all during the Obama years.

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      i’m skeptical. but i think i’ll enjoy spending the next 3 months thinking about republicans flying into a blind frothing rage over losing to a black woman

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        She’s not much better than Biden. She doesn’t even have age as an excuse.

        Our imagination might be the only place she wins.

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          It would be more effective, the spreading of misery, if you went to the local pool and took a large shit in it. You could ruin several people’s day instead of like 3

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            You sell me short. I’ve got 15 down-votes already!
            Reality is miserable. Ignoring it is a bad idea.

            She’s not a forgone conclusion.
            There’s a good chance for an open convention. Pelosi is pushing for one.

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                At this rate, I’ll beat that in another 2 hours.
                Got 20 down-votes now! Lets Go People!

                Edit: There we go! 42 down-votes in 2 hours. Thank you everybody.

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    4 months ago

    She’s a conservative like most Democratic candidates and Trump used to be a moderate conservative.

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      Ranked most politically left compared to Senate Democrats

      Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.

      For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 116th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Harris’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

      Compare to all Senate Sophomores (0th percentile); Senate Democrats (0th percentile); All Senators (1st percentile).

      https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678/report-card/2020

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        Yeah, but all Senators in the Republican and Democratic party are right wing. Bernie Sanders is an independent so not included in the “Senate Democrats” label. He is a centrist and thus left of her slightly, but there are no leftists in the Senate. Their scale is just from most to least right leaning and not from left to right for a reason.

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    This is the best response when conspiracy nuts try to talk about the Trump shooter donating to a Dem PAC to prove he wasn’t one of their own.

    Plus he donated in response to whether or not Dems should pardon Trump.

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      I think the better response, even if a democrat voter DOES do something like this in the future is “Yeah, ok, but it’s your policies that allowed him to get a gun so easily without any mental wellbeing checks, or any gun control. Our policies would have stopped him. Your policies gave him free reign.”

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        "Yeah, ok, but it’s your policies that allowed him to get a gun so easily without any mental wellbeing checks

        That’s not an effective argument.

        It wasn’t his gun, it was his father’s, and he took it without the knowledge or permission of the gun’s legal owner.

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          Stricter storage requirements could have potentially have prevented this. Legally Pennsylvania doesn’t have any particular gun storage requirements, had his dad kept tighter control of his gun, perhaps to comply with a law mandating it be locked up and prevent his son from having access to it without his permission, it wouldn’t have happened.

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        I think it has been verified by address, but my source for that is a Legal Eagle video on YouTube, so take that with about a quarter pound of salt.

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    4 months ago

    So? This is NOTHING! But Thomas Crooks giving $15 to Democrats PROVES HE WAS ACTUALLY A DEMOCRAT!

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        Apparently not. The address of the donation matches the shooter, not the 60 year old.

        But still, a donation so small that it’s about the same as a McDonald’s meal is hardly what I would call a screaming endorsement.

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    No that wasn’t Trump! He just let them license his name for the donation. He didn’t make that donation! He can’t be held responsible for the things people do in his name! That’s crazy talk!

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      Well, guess that means he just can’t take credit for other things than either. Trump never picked up a hammer, never worked on that wall. Guess Trump never built that wall. Someone else just did it in his name…So I assume his base will be angry over the news that Trump failed to build them that damned wall. But that’s his problem.

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        You libs and yer damn logic! When will you ever learn people don’t care about all that nonsense!

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    Says more about Harris than Trump tbh. She hates Black people as much as he does and actively worked to harm them by arresting BLM protesters and fighting to keep them in jail when they should have been released.