Excellent analysis! One point that I think swayed some voters was the formation of the coalition that included RFK, Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy. They were quite effective surrogates on the campaign trail.
I knew very little of Tulsi until recently. On various podcasts I have seen that she is very knowledgeable on a wide spectrum of issues and is well spoken. As a former Democrat insider with leadership experience at the DNC, she has seen the unsavory occult workings of this organization. I believe this drove her out of the Democrat party. I can easily see her as a future Republican leader -- maybe even the first female POTUS? Go Tulsi!
I am in this group. I volunteered for RFK's campaign, collecting signatures to get him on the ballot. The DNC waged constant lawfare, draining campaign resources with lawsuits aiming to keep him off various state ballots (and then to keep him back _on_ some of those same ballots after his endorsement of Mr Trump!). My resentment toward them, which had been growing since their shenanigans with Bernie in 2016, reached new abd epic heights. With Bobby's and Gabbard's endorsements and promises that Trump would honor his promise to give them a role in his cabinet, I became willing to take the risk and pull the lever for Trump.
Yes, could not believe all that they did to him. Really disgusting. I sat next to the co- chair for his CA campaign on a flight a few months ago and learned a lot about this as well. If Congress approves, Bobby will be Secretary of HHS, and I very much look forward to that. As far as Tulsi, I’m hearing rumors of a Veteran’s Affairs post. I think she’d be terrific in that role.
I'm a retired anesthesiologist. I was a Never Trumper. I voted for Harris. But, having said that, I am not sorry Trump won. In fact, after watching the Vance/Rogan interview and some of the Trump/Rogan interview, I would have voted for Trump had I seen them prior to the election. The story I was getting from MSM was horribly biased. MSM is now calling half of the country racist and/or misogynistic. Really? The Dems will refuse to look at themselves for the real reasons they lost and dig deeper into identity politics. Vinay, you have shown with actual data how the Dems have been the 'anti-science' party. I'm so fed up. I now follow 'The Free Press' -- a wonderful news source that is absolutely non partisan. Keep up the good work, Dr. Prasad.
" MSM is now calling half of the country racist and/or misogynistic"
This is driving me nuts. Someone was saying this on a friend's Facebook page too - calling "white and brown women" mysogynists who couldn't bring themselves to vote for a Black woman. I don't even think of Kamala as a black woman. And I have black friends who voted for her, and black friends who voted for Trump. But the biggest insult is this assumption that because you're a POC you need to vote for another POC or you're a POS. That's just treating POC like slaves or robots instead of the intelligent and diverse humans with their own beliefs and opinions.
Spot on analysis, as usual. Need more common sense like this in doctors. We should be advocating in the political sphere for policies that help the public, our patients, and our professional fields, and steer clear of the kabuki theater histrionics of partisan politics. It's all a big show.
Just like many other decisions in life, voting preference is based on a combination of factors. There are some single-issue voters, but not too many.
One interesting way to consider is how many people voted based on their personal like/dislike of Trump vs. Harris, and how many voted based on a comparison of their policies (about abortion, immigration, war, censorship, taxes, etc).
My two major reasons for voting for Trump were Democratic support for censorship and vaccine mandates.
These two issues that have pushed me from supporting Democrats, possibly forever:
The Democrats not honoring the First Amendment: Censorship already manifested by the Biden administration's by its pressure on social media to remove their version of misinformation. There are plenty of instances when Democrat opinion leaders have voiced a desire to censor 'hate speech and misinformation'. The First Amendment was drafted for the exact reason to protect all speech, including 'hate speech and misinformation'. Much of the censorship directly impacts medicine, though all censorship is reprehensible.
The Democrat's mission to promote radical transgenderism: This abomination belongs in the history books in the same chapter as Dr Mengele's 'experiments'. It's astounding that this violation of medical ethics is so blithely promoted by progressives.
Much more could be added to this list, but these two remain foremost.
The Democrat elite completely lost touch with the average American on pretty much every issue. The average American isn’t rich enough to have immunity against grocery/gas prices, whole apartment complexes (and even towns) being overtaken by illegal aliens, and the weird perversion of guys dressing like girls while destroying females in athletics. The average American isn’t rich enough to take his mask off while dining at The French Laundry. The average American can’t buy his/her way out of heavy tax burdens.
Common sense is now a superpower. If Clark Kent is a democrat, he lost his cape about 4 years ago…
Same as me at age 68. JD and Tulsi are very inspirational. It's a bit jarring that they now wear the mantle of liberalism., which the Democrats have categorically abandoned.
A couple of big ones left out - RFK Jr. backing him - my desire to see RFK Jr. in Washington influencing policy in any manner possible far outweighed the stench of voting for DJT. The insanity of the DNC ousting Joe Biden, and handpicking Harris, with zero Americans (other than the ones in control of the DNC) having any say in the matter, and then that same party going on to say that DJT was a threat to democracy???? Has there ever been a greater irony?
" RFK Jr. backing him - my desire to see RFK Jr. in Washington influencing policy in any manner possible far outweighed the stench of voting for DJT."
Agreed. And I know couple of people who did follow RFK and were willing to risk voting for DJT if there was any chance RFK could have some power. For sure, Harris isn't going to clean up Pharma or care about health issues and was threatening Musk and free speech, so what was the loss?
Another thing I would add was the campaign and the media repeating ad nauseam that Trump was “literally Hitler”, MSNBC even going so far as to juxtapose the actual footage of Trump’s MSG rally to footage of the Nazi rally in the 30’s, the continued name calling by both, their taking things out of context and twisting them into the opposite of what was said or meant. And, I think in large part due to the lies we were told in the pandemic, more and more people don’t believe them anymore more. Sadly, I see a lot of physicians that whole heartedly believe what they have been told about Trump, and are now threatening to leave the county, put IUDs in their 12 year old daughter, or buy one to hoard for their seven year old daughter, because apparently he’s going to take away women’s access to birth control. All based on lies and fear, but they are living in fear. Oh, and doctors saying they couldn’t take care of a patient that voted for Trump, reminding me of the vitriol and hate toward the unvaccinated during the pandemic, all the while considering themselves the moral and upright person because they are opposing the “hate” of Trump supporters.
Nicely done. I'll just add a tidbit to the TDS section:
Sometime in the past year or two, a woman named Amanda in NJ gave my number as her own to a "left-wing" (I find the label inadequate, which is why I put it in quotation marks) group, which must have sold it to several other groups, because I have received about a dozen text messages meant for Amanda, like ones asking me to be part of a phone bank in support of a Democrat running for office in NJ.
On Wednesday night, I received a text (meant for Amanda, I assume) that opened with "Tonight, come together with loved ones to grieve" and then invited me to sign up for a virtual event this weekend to plan "action."
IMO, anyone thinking of any US election in my lifetime in terms of grief is an example of TDS (or some other derangement syndrome). There is still Congress and the courts, so the worst outcome for any individual is that a new president will enact policies that individual doesn't like. For me, that has never (and my preferred candidate has lost in about half the presidential elections since I began voting) risen to the level of grief.
I don't know to what degree these emotions come naturally to Trump haters or Trump supporters, and to what degree they are ginned up by texts like the one I received. There is a lot of propaganda the source of which I have not determined. It's unproductive, and I wish it would stop.
The Democratic Party left me - but their messaging persists. I too am trying to make it stop, but I also get texts from both sides. My mobile number lives on.
Leftist texts are particularly offensive - it seems the post-election Democratic party censorship persists in twisting the narrative — offering to soothe sniveling grief and continue to underline unproductive “processing”.
As a new Unity Party supporter, I haven’t been so happy since Obama won - the first time.
For Trump to have won, at least some registered D people must have voted for him. It's tone-deaf of whoever sends these texts to assume every D woke up crying on Wednesday. Some of them were just tired of paying 2x what they paid for peanut butter four years ago.
I read about a statistician who had worked with pollsters assert that the response rate has been declining over the years and is now around 3 percent. This screams selection bias. That they 'only' have a 3-4 percent sampling error is probably as good as they can get. I also read that 25% of respondents intentionally give a false answer 'to mess around with the results'. It seems exaggerated, but something to chew on. It's also evident that much of the polling is meant as a promotion by using dubious methodology to get their desired result and then falsely claiming that their candidate 'has momentum'.
On the women's rights: Democrats claim that Republican's are planning to eliminate a women's 'right to choose'. Vinay already deconstructs this point. A strong counterpoint is that the Democrat's excessive pro-gender stance is anti-feminist. The Republican's common sense argument is that biologic males do not belong in girls sports, locker rooms and women's prisons. On balance many women could easily conclude that Trump was the pro-feminist candidate. This point is supported by Harris's 2% decline in the overall women's vote compared to Biden 2020.
Another thing that pushed me was the weaponization of the justice system against Trump. The things he was convicted of with were deemed ridiculous by legal experts. I also was disgusted with the efforts to impeach him during his entire first term, including the Russian collusion hoax. All these things made me wonder why they hated him so much and made me more suspicious of their motivations to discredit him. Finally, after he was nearly assasinated I wondered why this rich old man who could just retire to Florida and play golf was continuing his efforts at re-election. I don't believe he is a wannabe dictator, just that he is a true patriot and wants to turn things back around in the right direction for his children, grandchildren and all of us.
I don't think he's a dictator, but that his ego wanted a redo of the 2020 election.
BUT have you read a lot about the assassination attempt? Secret Service refusing to do their job, refusing to cover that roof, refusing to do anything when someone said there was a person on the roof, and then the body of the shooter with no prior internet history was cremated within 2 weeks.....so that no one knows who he really was. I'm just wondering who in the Harris administration ordered it......
There was an investigation and a former secret service agent on the panel insisted that it was intentional. Just too many "oops"s for it to be incompetence.
That screen shot of the American Pediatrics advice on sending kids back to school is pretty scary. How many kids are now suffering because they weren’t in school? My then 13 year old daughter was institutionalized 3 times in a year between 2020 and 2021. There is no telling if she would have been in the same situation without the closures but I fully blame the policies of our local school system (and the policies of the Biden-Harris admin).
As a pediatrician I was appalled when the AAP took that position. I absolutely was seeing the damage to kids by school closures and mask mandates. Any one with a shred of common sense, or who has spent time around toddlers, knows they aren’t going to wear a mask correctly or effectively. It was ludicrous to even pretend that masking toddlers was necessary and not harmful to their health or speech development. And then to pretend that online school, sitting in front of screens all day was an adequate substitute for in person school was counter to everything I knew about how kids learned. I had a mom of a kindergartner say she thought it would be better if she read books to her son every day and let him play outside instead of spending all day on the screen. I told her she was right, she should read to him, teach him his letters, colors and numbers and encourage him to play outside. Fortunately I live in a state where in person was possible in the fall of 2020, and my one remaining child in the school system got to experience her senior year in person and not online. I had already left the AAP for previous stances I felt too political and contrary to the good of children, the pandemic showed that the good of kids was not their priority.
Why did President Trump win ? Because he's a damn hard worker - that's why. There's nobody that's unimportant that he won't spend the time to talk to. Doing 2-3 rallies a day. Going to deep blue areas where he had no chance to win and having thousands cheering for him. Brooklyn. Madison Square Garden. A Muslim mayor in Michigan supported him because he invited Trump who accepted his invitation. The mayor said Trump showed respect and earned his support. He also invited Kamala Harris who couldn't be bothered. This mayor supported Trump despite death threats.
There's Trump's brilliant McDonald's and garbage truck stunts. RFK Jr. came out to support Trump because he said the Democrat party has become the party of censorship, coastal elites and big tech. The parties have flipped. Trump has made the Republicans the party of people who work for a living (doesn't matter what capacity), the party of free speech and no wars.
Biden ran in 2020 as a "moderate". As soon as he got into the office he issued executive orders rescinding all the successful Trump policies and put into place a radical left administration. Kamala Harris was going to do the same. She tried to repeat Biden's performace of lying about everything she said in the past. If every got into that office, she was going to be a wrecking ball of censorship and control. She would destroy energy production and business with regulation. World leaders have no respect for her.
Trump appears younger than in 2016? Are you kidding me? He’s fatter, has even less ability to complete a sentence, and is just as crazy.
One demographic that I can’t understand is the Arab-American population in Michigan that voted against Harris because she couldn’t magically fix the destruction of Gaza. Do these voters think Trump will help Gazans? I expect “what Bibi wants, Bibi gets.”
Trump will do much more to get Iran back under control. The B/H (and O) administrations let them have billions of dollars. If Iran gets back under control, the entire region will calm down. Which is good for Gaza.
While I’m all for getting Iran under control, I would love to know how that would prevent Netanyahu from bombing Gaza. The events of October 7 were certainly horrific, but when is enough revenge enough? Lots of children dying.
I think the way Dr. P phrased this issue was good in the sense that his brief description was about perception. I do think voters' ideas about how (if at all) Trump and Harris differ on the Middle East are largely perception. One very anti-war person I know was seriously thinking about voting third-party for this reason, as she felt a moral distaste for voting for either candidate, based on their appetite for funding military operations overseas.
100% absolutely spot on! Thank you, as always, for sharing your wisdom, insight, and common sense with us all. I feel like this world needs more people like you, who can critically think and so clearly and concisely communicate important points.
Excellent analysis! One point that I think swayed some voters was the formation of the coalition that included RFK, Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy. They were quite effective surrogates on the campaign trail.
Elon Musk may have single-handedly flipped the election result by his purchase of Twitter and his $119 million donation to Trump's campaign.
RFK Jr. contributed many of his voters to Trump. And created a new powerful slogan: MAHA.
Vivek worked hard behind the scenes. He is one of the few intellectuals who will drive the Republican agenda going forward.
By switching her party, Tulsi led the way in encouraging other Democrats to do the same.
I knew very little of Tulsi until recently. On various podcasts I have seen that she is very knowledgeable on a wide spectrum of issues and is well spoken. As a former Democrat insider with leadership experience at the DNC, she has seen the unsavory occult workings of this organization. I believe this drove her out of the Democrat party. I can easily see her as a future Republican leader -- maybe even the first female POTUS? Go Tulsi!
I agree. Political experience, military experience, and she is a good speaker. And she doesn't come across as your condescending aunt.
This is exactly the dream team that pushed my vote. I am hopeful that Tulsi becomes the first female president.
I am in this group. I volunteered for RFK's campaign, collecting signatures to get him on the ballot. The DNC waged constant lawfare, draining campaign resources with lawsuits aiming to keep him off various state ballots (and then to keep him back _on_ some of those same ballots after his endorsement of Mr Trump!). My resentment toward them, which had been growing since their shenanigans with Bernie in 2016, reached new abd epic heights. With Bobby's and Gabbard's endorsements and promises that Trump would honor his promise to give them a role in his cabinet, I became willing to take the risk and pull the lever for Trump.
Yes, could not believe all that they did to him. Really disgusting. I sat next to the co- chair for his CA campaign on a flight a few months ago and learned a lot about this as well. If Congress approves, Bobby will be Secretary of HHS, and I very much look forward to that. As far as Tulsi, I’m hearing rumors of a Veteran’s Affairs post. I think she’d be terrific in that role.
I'm a retired anesthesiologist. I was a Never Trumper. I voted for Harris. But, having said that, I am not sorry Trump won. In fact, after watching the Vance/Rogan interview and some of the Trump/Rogan interview, I would have voted for Trump had I seen them prior to the election. The story I was getting from MSM was horribly biased. MSM is now calling half of the country racist and/or misogynistic. Really? The Dems will refuse to look at themselves for the real reasons they lost and dig deeper into identity politics. Vinay, you have shown with actual data how the Dems have been the 'anti-science' party. I'm so fed up. I now follow 'The Free Press' -- a wonderful news source that is absolutely non partisan. Keep up the good work, Dr. Prasad.
" MSM is now calling half of the country racist and/or misogynistic"
This is driving me nuts. Someone was saying this on a friend's Facebook page too - calling "white and brown women" mysogynists who couldn't bring themselves to vote for a Black woman. I don't even think of Kamala as a black woman. And I have black friends who voted for her, and black friends who voted for Trump. But the biggest insult is this assumption that because you're a POC you need to vote for another POC or you're a POS. That's just treating POC like slaves or robots instead of the intelligent and diverse humans with their own beliefs and opinions.
Yours' is a great advertisement for not voting too early, I guess that is why you did not hear the Rogan interviews?
Just hadn’t heard about them. I think it was ‘The Free Press’ that drew my attention to them.
Spot on analysis, as usual. Need more common sense like this in doctors. We should be advocating in the political sphere for policies that help the public, our patients, and our professional fields, and steer clear of the kabuki theater histrionics of partisan politics. It's all a big show.
Just like many other decisions in life, voting preference is based on a combination of factors. There are some single-issue voters, but not too many.
One interesting way to consider is how many people voted based on their personal like/dislike of Trump vs. Harris, and how many voted based on a comparison of their policies (about abortion, immigration, war, censorship, taxes, etc).
My two major reasons for voting for Trump were Democratic support for censorship and vaccine mandates.
These two issues that have pushed me from supporting Democrats, possibly forever:
The Democrats not honoring the First Amendment: Censorship already manifested by the Biden administration's by its pressure on social media to remove their version of misinformation. There are plenty of instances when Democrat opinion leaders have voiced a desire to censor 'hate speech and misinformation'. The First Amendment was drafted for the exact reason to protect all speech, including 'hate speech and misinformation'. Much of the censorship directly impacts medicine, though all censorship is reprehensible.
The Democrat's mission to promote radical transgenderism: This abomination belongs in the history books in the same chapter as Dr Mengele's 'experiments'. It's astounding that this violation of medical ethics is so blithely promoted by progressives.
Much more could be added to this list, but these two remain foremost.
The Democrat elite completely lost touch with the average American on pretty much every issue. The average American isn’t rich enough to have immunity against grocery/gas prices, whole apartment complexes (and even towns) being overtaken by illegal aliens, and the weird perversion of guys dressing like girls while destroying females in athletics. The average American isn’t rich enough to take his mask off while dining at The French Laundry. The average American can’t buy his/her way out of heavy tax burdens.
Common sense is now a superpower. If Clark Kent is a democrat, he lost his cape about 4 years ago…
Common sense is now a superpower.
Love it!
I was a first time ever Trump voter because I like JD Vance. I am all for anyone under the age 50! I am 76 and live in Blue Massachusetts
Same as me at age 68. JD and Tulsi are very inspirational. It's a bit jarring that they now wear the mantle of liberalism., which the Democrats have categorically abandoned.
A couple of big ones left out - RFK Jr. backing him - my desire to see RFK Jr. in Washington influencing policy in any manner possible far outweighed the stench of voting for DJT. The insanity of the DNC ousting Joe Biden, and handpicking Harris, with zero Americans (other than the ones in control of the DNC) having any say in the matter, and then that same party going on to say that DJT was a threat to democracy???? Has there ever been a greater irony?
" RFK Jr. backing him - my desire to see RFK Jr. in Washington influencing policy in any manner possible far outweighed the stench of voting for DJT."
Agreed. And I know couple of people who did follow RFK and were willing to risk voting for DJT if there was any chance RFK could have some power. For sure, Harris isn't going to clean up Pharma or care about health issues and was threatening Musk and free speech, so what was the loss?
Another thing I would add was the campaign and the media repeating ad nauseam that Trump was “literally Hitler”, MSNBC even going so far as to juxtapose the actual footage of Trump’s MSG rally to footage of the Nazi rally in the 30’s, the continued name calling by both, their taking things out of context and twisting them into the opposite of what was said or meant. And, I think in large part due to the lies we were told in the pandemic, more and more people don’t believe them anymore more. Sadly, I see a lot of physicians that whole heartedly believe what they have been told about Trump, and are now threatening to leave the county, put IUDs in their 12 year old daughter, or buy one to hoard for their seven year old daughter, because apparently he’s going to take away women’s access to birth control. All based on lies and fear, but they are living in fear. Oh, and doctors saying they couldn’t take care of a patient that voted for Trump, reminding me of the vitriol and hate toward the unvaccinated during the pandemic, all the while considering themselves the moral and upright person because they are opposing the “hate” of Trump supporters.
Nicely done. I'll just add a tidbit to the TDS section:
Sometime in the past year or two, a woman named Amanda in NJ gave my number as her own to a "left-wing" (I find the label inadequate, which is why I put it in quotation marks) group, which must have sold it to several other groups, because I have received about a dozen text messages meant for Amanda, like ones asking me to be part of a phone bank in support of a Democrat running for office in NJ.
On Wednesday night, I received a text (meant for Amanda, I assume) that opened with "Tonight, come together with loved ones to grieve" and then invited me to sign up for a virtual event this weekend to plan "action."
IMO, anyone thinking of any US election in my lifetime in terms of grief is an example of TDS (or some other derangement syndrome). There is still Congress and the courts, so the worst outcome for any individual is that a new president will enact policies that individual doesn't like. For me, that has never (and my preferred candidate has lost in about half the presidential elections since I began voting) risen to the level of grief.
I don't know to what degree these emotions come naturally to Trump haters or Trump supporters, and to what degree they are ginned up by texts like the one I received. There is a lot of propaganda the source of which I have not determined. It's unproductive, and I wish it would stop.
The Democratic Party left me - but their messaging persists. I too am trying to make it stop, but I also get texts from both sides. My mobile number lives on.
Leftist texts are particularly offensive - it seems the post-election Democratic party censorship persists in twisting the narrative — offering to soothe sniveling grief and continue to underline unproductive “processing”.
As a new Unity Party supporter, I haven’t been so happy since Obama won - the first time.
For Trump to have won, at least some registered D people must have voted for him. It's tone-deaf of whoever sends these texts to assume every D woke up crying on Wednesday. Some of them were just tired of paying 2x what they paid for peanut butter four years ago.
A couple of comments:
I read about a statistician who had worked with pollsters assert that the response rate has been declining over the years and is now around 3 percent. This screams selection bias. That they 'only' have a 3-4 percent sampling error is probably as good as they can get. I also read that 25% of respondents intentionally give a false answer 'to mess around with the results'. It seems exaggerated, but something to chew on. It's also evident that much of the polling is meant as a promotion by using dubious methodology to get their desired result and then falsely claiming that their candidate 'has momentum'.
On the women's rights: Democrats claim that Republican's are planning to eliminate a women's 'right to choose'. Vinay already deconstructs this point. A strong counterpoint is that the Democrat's excessive pro-gender stance is anti-feminist. The Republican's common sense argument is that biologic males do not belong in girls sports, locker rooms and women's prisons. On balance many women could easily conclude that Trump was the pro-feminist candidate. This point is supported by Harris's 2% decline in the overall women's vote compared to Biden 2020.
Another thing that pushed me was the weaponization of the justice system against Trump. The things he was convicted of with were deemed ridiculous by legal experts. I also was disgusted with the efforts to impeach him during his entire first term, including the Russian collusion hoax. All these things made me wonder why they hated him so much and made me more suspicious of their motivations to discredit him. Finally, after he was nearly assasinated I wondered why this rich old man who could just retire to Florida and play golf was continuing his efforts at re-election. I don't believe he is a wannabe dictator, just that he is a true patriot and wants to turn things back around in the right direction for his children, grandchildren and all of us.
I don't think he's a dictator, but that his ego wanted a redo of the 2020 election.
BUT have you read a lot about the assassination attempt? Secret Service refusing to do their job, refusing to cover that roof, refusing to do anything when someone said there was a person on the roof, and then the body of the shooter with no prior internet history was cremated within 2 weeks.....so that no one knows who he really was. I'm just wondering who in the Harris administration ordered it......
I agree there are a lot of odd things about the PA shooting. I wonder if it is as simple as incompetence?
There was an investigation and a former secret service agent on the panel insisted that it was intentional. Just too many "oops"s for it to be incompetence.
That screen shot of the American Pediatrics advice on sending kids back to school is pretty scary. How many kids are now suffering because they weren’t in school? My then 13 year old daughter was institutionalized 3 times in a year between 2020 and 2021. There is no telling if she would have been in the same situation without the closures but I fully blame the policies of our local school system (and the policies of the Biden-Harris admin).
As a pediatrician I was appalled when the AAP took that position. I absolutely was seeing the damage to kids by school closures and mask mandates. Any one with a shred of common sense, or who has spent time around toddlers, knows they aren’t going to wear a mask correctly or effectively. It was ludicrous to even pretend that masking toddlers was necessary and not harmful to their health or speech development. And then to pretend that online school, sitting in front of screens all day was an adequate substitute for in person school was counter to everything I knew about how kids learned. I had a mom of a kindergartner say she thought it would be better if she read books to her son every day and let him play outside instead of spending all day on the screen. I told her she was right, she should read to him, teach him his letters, colors and numbers and encourage him to play outside. Fortunately I live in a state where in person was possible in the fall of 2020, and my one remaining child in the school system got to experience her senior year in person and not online. I had already left the AAP for previous stances I felt too political and contrary to the good of children, the pandemic showed that the good of kids was not their priority.
Why did President Trump win ? Because he's a damn hard worker - that's why. There's nobody that's unimportant that he won't spend the time to talk to. Doing 2-3 rallies a day. Going to deep blue areas where he had no chance to win and having thousands cheering for him. Brooklyn. Madison Square Garden. A Muslim mayor in Michigan supported him because he invited Trump who accepted his invitation. The mayor said Trump showed respect and earned his support. He also invited Kamala Harris who couldn't be bothered. This mayor supported Trump despite death threats.
There's Trump's brilliant McDonald's and garbage truck stunts. RFK Jr. came out to support Trump because he said the Democrat party has become the party of censorship, coastal elites and big tech. The parties have flipped. Trump has made the Republicans the party of people who work for a living (doesn't matter what capacity), the party of free speech and no wars.
Biden ran in 2020 as a "moderate". As soon as he got into the office he issued executive orders rescinding all the successful Trump policies and put into place a radical left administration. Kamala Harris was going to do the same. She tried to repeat Biden's performace of lying about everything she said in the past. If every got into that office, she was going to be a wrecking ball of censorship and control. She would destroy energy production and business with regulation. World leaders have no respect for her.
Trump appears younger than in 2016? Are you kidding me? He’s fatter, has even less ability to complete a sentence, and is just as crazy.
One demographic that I can’t understand is the Arab-American population in Michigan that voted against Harris because she couldn’t magically fix the destruction of Gaza. Do these voters think Trump will help Gazans? I expect “what Bibi wants, Bibi gets.”
Trump will do much more to get Iran back under control. The B/H (and O) administrations let them have billions of dollars. If Iran gets back under control, the entire region will calm down. Which is good for Gaza.
While I’m all for getting Iran under control, I would love to know how that would prevent Netanyahu from bombing Gaza. The events of October 7 were certainly horrific, but when is enough revenge enough? Lots of children dying.
Maybe if the terrorists released the hostages.....
Are there really any still alive? :(
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/pas-abbas-voices-confidence-trump-will-back-palestinian-aspirations-for-statehood/
The non-terrorist Palestinians seem to support Trump. Perhaps they remember the Abraham Accords.
Wow! I don’t see the logic, but I’m getting out the popcorn and hoping Mr. Abbas is correct.
I think the way Dr. P phrased this issue was good in the sense that his brief description was about perception. I do think voters' ideas about how (if at all) Trump and Harris differ on the Middle East are largely perception. One very anti-war person I know was seriously thinking about voting third-party for this reason, as she felt a moral distaste for voting for either candidate, based on their appetite for funding military operations overseas.
100% absolutely spot on! Thank you, as always, for sharing your wisdom, insight, and common sense with us all. I feel like this world needs more people like you, who can critically think and so clearly and concisely communicate important points.