That's funny. Only the second time in 179 years. First time was uhhh 4 years ago. Speaks again to the urgency of avoiding Dotard II.
Continuously attacking women will certainly help out the Trump campaign as it continues to fall further behind in the polls. Right? WSJ reporter 'perplexed' by Trump and J.D. Vance tripling down on attacks on women https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-cat-ladies-childless-triple-down/
At this point the MAGA GOP and Russia are pretty much the same entity. Spreading endless false election propaganda full of disinformation. Microsoft says Russia’s election interference efforts have pivoted to Harris and Walz NPR - https://tinyurl.com/eyewkkhb Russia is using fake videos and phony social media accounts to target Vice President Kamala Harris as the U.S. presidential election draws closer, according to a new report from Microsoft. The Kremlin’s influence operations "initially struggled to pivot operations aimed at the Democratic campaign following President Biden’s departure from the US 2024 presidential race" in July, researchers at Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center wrote. But starting in August, influence campaigns the company has been tracking began to churn out content about Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. "The shift to focusing on the Harris-Walz campaign reflects a strategic move by Russian actors aimed at exploiting any perceived vulnerabilities in the new candidates," Clint Watts, the general manager of the Threat Analysis Center, wrote in a blog post accompanying the report. In recent weeks, the U.S. government has stepped up its efforts to call out and disrupt Russian influence operations targeting American voters that intelligence officials say are aimed at helping former President Donald Trump regain the White House. The Microsoft report identified a number of recent Russia-linked campaigns that have shifted focus to Harris. That included a baseless claim accusing Harris of being involved in a hit-and-run in 2011 that was spread via a website claiming to be a local San Francisco TV station. The article was accompanied by a video in which a woman, whom Microsoft identified as an actor, claimed to be the victim of the crash. There is no evidence any such incident occurred, and the purported TV station does not exist. Microsoft said the video and its laundering through a sham news site was consistent with the tactics of an influence operation it has tracked in previous reports. Researchers at the misinformation-tracking company NewsGuard have linked that operation to a former deputy sheriff from Florida who now lives in Moscow. Another inauthentic video Microsoft attributed to the same operation appeared to depict "an attack by alleged Harris supporters on what the video’s amplifiers claim is a Trump rally attendee." It racked up millions of views. Microsoft attributed other videos pushing conspiracy theories and falsehoods about Harris’s policies to a separate Russian influence operation that previously aimed to spread fear around the Paris Olympics. One video, purporting to show a fake billboard in Times Square with false claims about Harris, was posted on a Telegram channel that claimed the phone message was commissioned by Trump supporters "to troll the Democrats." It was viewed more than 100,000 times on the social media site X, formerly Twitter, within four hours of being posted on Telegram, Microsoft said. A third influence campaign noted in the report "continues to operate covert social media channels that target US audiences." It amplifies materials obtained by Russian-linked hackers and posts fake investigations, alongside attacks on Harris and posts about the U.S. southern border. The operations will likely ramp up their attacks on the Harris-Walz campaign in the run-up to Election Day, Microsoft said. Iran and China are also seeking to sway U.S. voters, Microsoft said, echoing assessments by federal intelligence officials and researchers at other companies.
Microsoft Executive Warns of Election Meddling in Final 48 Hours https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-executive-warns-election-meddling-220426538.html (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith warned the danger of foreign interference in the US election will surge in the final two days of the presidential campaign. “The most perilous moment will come, I think, 48 hours before the election,” Smith told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. Smith said that was the “lesson to be learned” from the Slovakian election last fall, in which fake audio of one of the top candidates circulated online days before the election. Foreign actors already have been spreading manipulated videos and false posts to sow discord around the US presidential election, Smith and other executives with the country’s largest tech companies testified. Smith said Microsoft earlier Wednesday had identified an “AI-enhanced” video from a Russian group showing Vice President Kamala Harris saying words she didn’t say at a recent rally. Groups from adversarial nations including Russia, China and Iran have spread false information and news reports about both Harris and Donald Trump’s campaigns, the executives said. The hearing featured testimony from Smith, Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s president and chief legal officer Kent Walker, and Nick Clegg, Meta Platforms Inc.’s president of global affairs. Those attacks are being shaped in part by new developments in artificial intelligence, Walker said. “We are seeing some foreign state actors experimenting with generative AI to improve existing cyber attacks, like probing for vulnerabilities or creating spear phishing emails,” Walker said. “We see generative AI being used to more efficiently create fake websites, misleading news articles and robot social media posts.” The Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, focused on foreign interference in US elections, comes on the heels of a Microsoft report that found Russian efforts to influence the US election have shifted to smearing Harris with doctored and misleading videos. Meta on Tuesday also announced it was banning Russian state media outlet Russia Today due to “foreign interference.” The Biden administration and the top tech companies stopped communicating about online threats to US elections over the past year as they waited for a ruling in Murthy v. Missouri, a case centered on whether it is constitutional for government officials to ask social media companies to take down certain posts. The US Supreme Court in June cleared the Biden administration to communicate freely with social media companies, an election-year ruling that bolstered the government’s ability to seek removal of what officials see as misinformation. The justices, voting 6-3, tossed out court-imposed restrictions on contacts by the White House and several federal agencies. Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, several times expressed frustration that Elon Musk’s X Corp. declined to send a representative to testify at the hearing.
Dipstick spends more time playing golf than campaigning. Trump running his 'laziest' campaign ever: analysis https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2024-laziest-campaign/ A new analysis shows that former President Donald Trump is not working nearly as hard on the campaign trail as he did back in 2016 and 2020. As documented by Washington Monthly's Bill Scher, the 78-year-old former president has held significantly fewer campaign events this year compared to what he had done by this time in the 2016 and 2020 campaign cycles. What is particularly remarkable, writes Scher, is that Trump hasn't significantly picked up the pace after Labor Day, which is traditionally when campaigns kick into overdrive for the final sprint to election day. "In that span, Trump has held four rallies, two town-hall-style events (one aired on Fox News’s Hannity), one speech at the Economic Club of New York, and one via satellite to the Republican Jewish Coalition," writes Scher. "One of the rallies was on Wednesday in New York, a not remotely competitive state. It was initially scheduled to coincide with Trump’s sentencing for his fraud convictions, but it was kept on the calendar after the sentencing was delayed." By this time in 2016, in contrast, Trump after Labor Day had already done 11 rallies, delivered seven speeches, did a town-hall-style event, and a small business roundtable. Trump wasn't quite as active in 2020 after Labor Day, but there was a good reason for that: The deadly COVID-19 pandemic made large-scale indoor campaign rallies a health hazard. Nonetheless, Trump still managed to do 11 rallies by this time in 2020. "If we count the days in which Trump held events, as opposed to the total number of events, Trump was on the trail seven out of 18 days since Labor Day versus 11 days in 2020 and 12 in 2016," Scher explains. Read the full analysis here.
Could be some serious implications here. No doubt the usual suspects on the Forum will pipe up and say "Stein will never win." Thus maintaining their perfect score when it comes to missing the point. Muslim Americans moving to Jill Stein in potential blow to Kamala Harris Summary 40% of Muslims back Stein in Michigan, 12% back Harris Trump leads Harris with Muslims there with 18%, poll shows Muslim voters may prove crucial in close White House race https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mu...tein-potential-blow-kamala-harris-2024-09-19/