It is very clear that Republicans, led by Donald Trump and JD Vance, but including many others, are demonstrating a lack of respect for Kamala Harris, based on race and gender.
The purposeful refusal of Trump, Vance, and other Republicans to pronounce Kamala Harris’s first name correctly is one sign of disrespect that is inexcusable, as that has never happened to any other candidate before now.
Also, the issue of Trump making an issue of Harris’s race identity is an insult, with his claim that he thought she was Asian Indian, until he discovered she was black, an outrageous racist comment, and utilized by other Republicans.
Also, the issue of Harris not having had her own biological children has become an issue, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Arkansas Governor and former White House Press Secretary, has just employed that issue as a personal attack on Harris.
The fact that Harris has step children with her husband, Doug Emhoff, and that his former wife is very supportive of Harris as a step parent to her children, is ridiculed.
But it is also an attack on the millions of women who are unable to have children of their own, including by choice, but also by the fact that many are not married or have medical issues that make it impossible to bear children.
To make it out that women without biological children are somehow inferior or to be ridiculed is heartless, when having children or not having them should not be a judgment of them, anymore than the millions of men who do not have children for whatever reason.
It should be pointed out that we have had five Presidents who never had biological children, but were never ridiculed or attacked for that fact. They include George Washington, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and James Buchanan (who never married). Washington, Madison and Jackson had step children since their wives had children with an earlier husband.
Also, Warren G Harding has been proved to have had an illegitimate child out of marriage, and many of the slave owning Presidents before the Civil War are believed to have had slave children, but difficult to prove.
The ultimate point is that race and gender discrimination of any kind is inexcusable in a Presidential campaign or otherwise!
Republicans are talking about nullifying the election if Harris wins.
I’ve heard about that as well. The Republicans on the Georgia State Election Board are trying to ensure that the election is determined by either the extremist House or by SCOTUS. New York Times reporter Nick Corasaniti talked about it on Nicolle Wallace’s show this afternoon.
So, Trump could lose, yet still become president. Ugh!
Trump is trying to get his MAGA allies in the House to shutdown the government at the end of the month.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/politics/house-gop-funding-plan-vote/index.html
Teamsters won’t endorse in presidential race after releasing internal polling showing most members support Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/politics/teamsters-will-not-endorse-us-president/index.html
Trump’s election fraud falsehoods might cost the GOP the House.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/trump-new-york-republicans-analysis/index.html
Teamsters Black Caucus is splitting off from the rest of the union and is supporting Harris.
New polls find Harris leading Trump in Michigan and Pennsylvania — but no clear leader in Wisconsin
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3905
Major Critics Of Gaza War Will Not Endorse Harris — But Say Trump Will ‘Accelerate The Killing’
In a careful Thursday statement, the “Uncommitted” movement decried the Republican presidential nominee and third parties who could help him win while expressing frustration with Democrats.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-war-harris-trump_n_66eb9ed6e4b00b7ce259a657
Trump Says He Will Go To Ohio City He’s Spread Racist Lies About
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-springfield_n_66ebc7a5e4b00b7ce259b29c
After the attacks on Hezbollah’s pagers and walkie-talkies this week, there is concern that Israel may be getting ready to launch a ground invasion of Lebanon.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/pentagon-worries-israel-is-close-to-launching-ground-war-in-lebanon-33683bf4?mod=hp_lead_pos2
West Coast Teamsters have also broken with the rest of the union to support Harris.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/18/west-coast-teamsters-endorse-harris-00179923
Georgia’s abortion ban killed a young mother. The Christian right now blames the victim
https://www.salon.com/2024/09/19/georgias-abortion-ban-a-young-mother-the-christian-right-now-the-victim/
More prominent Republicans have endorsed Harris.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kamala-harris-isnt-done-picking-support-republicans-rcna171785
Sen. Lindsey Graham visited Nebraska yesterday to meet Gov. Jim Pillen and GOP legislators as part of an effort to convince the Republican governor to call a legislative session to potentially change how the state allocates electoral votes ahead of November, a source told NBC News. Apparently this change would help Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/lindsey-graham-visits-nebraska-push-electoral-vote-change-rcna171760
Mark Robinson, the MAGA nut running for governor in NC, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html
In a speech to a GOP Jewish group, Trump says that Jewish Americans would be to blame if he lost the election.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hails-himself-israels-savior-in-fantastical-speech?ref=home?ref=home
Trump is bonkers, completely insane, and making VERY dangerous, irresponsible rhetoric!
Teamsters are breaking with their national union leaders:
Local Teamsters unions in swing states rush to endorse Harris
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/19/teamsters-endorsement-harris-trump/
In the end, it looks like the vast majority of Teamsters WILL have endorsed Harris-Walz!
Re: The Uncommitted movement declining to endorse Harris
They’re a bunch of morons!
Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifts North Carolina gubernatorial race toward Democrats amid Robinson controversy
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4889411-north-carolina-governor-race-shifts-democrats/
MAGA Republicans Pass New Election Rules in Georgia That Could Rig the State for Trump
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/repbulican-georgia-election-board-hand-count-rules-election-chaos/