Every time you get owned, you run away after posting a lame one liner. There is nothing in my post you can refute, it's a fact that Trump funded the Wuhan lab the same year COVID-19 virus got released in the open. And Trump promoted the vaccine later, was he in on the conspiracy? Here is the government document from 2019, show us all the idiotic part. https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=9819304&icde=50011384
How exactly did I get owned? The democrat party claimed that the lab leak theory was a conspiracy theory and that anyone who claimed otherwise be silenced. exGOPer was in full agreement and compliance with this policy. For a person who is a Michael Avenatti supporter and in the Jussie Smollett fan club, its hard to take you too seriously. COVID CAME FROM THE WUHAN LAB. DEAL WITH IT.
When did the funding begin (U.S. sending money to the Wuhan Lab) and why did the Trump Administration not have the balls to end the funding to the lab as a consequence of causing the damn global Pandemic and killing so many Americans ??? Also, why did it take so long for the Biden Administration to end the funding to the Wuhan Lab...essentially doing what Trump should have done in the first place ??? Actually, for the above 2nd question...it would seem that the funding continue into the Biden Administration so that the U.S. would continue having access to the lab & data. When that option ran its course, the U.S. decided to end the funding and close the chapter on Wuhan Lab. wrbtrader
So typical for STOLEN ELECTION conspiratard to claim that evidence exists for something precisely because evidence doesn't exist for the opposite claim. COPE harder, if lab leak theory is indeed true then you should admit Trump funded it and he is responsible for it. Of course you can't do that since your whole life revolves around defending the onte term loser. Trump 2020
Presidential Historian Sums Up Second Trump Term With 2 Chilling Words https://news.yahoo.com/presidential-historian-sums-second-donald-091313108.html NBC News presidential historian and author Michael Beschloss on Sunday warned a second Donald Trump administration would be a “presidential dictatorship.” Earlier this month, a New York Times article said Trump would, if he won the 2024 election, look at seizing presidential authority “over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House.” “This is something that we have never seen before ever in American history,” Beschloss told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart. “This is a presidential candidate, Donald Trump, who’s actually telling us outright.” Trump appeared to be taking a page out of the European dictator playbook, he added, noting how Italy’s Benito Mussolini and Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler also revealed their plans to obtain sweeping powers before they took office. “God knows what’s in his mind that he’s not telling us,” Beschloss said of Trump.
The GOP is rushing headlong into huge election losses in 2024 https://thehill.com/opinion/campaig...g-headlong-into-huge-election-losses-in-2024/ The Republican Party appears to be following the playbook of those storied lemmings that rush to the edge of the cliff and throw themselves off in a suicidal frenzy. You’d think that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) would have warned his party that the lemming myth was a misleading invention of the Disney Company, not to be copied. Yet, as the 2024 elections approach, the GOP is doubling down on positions that will cause them great heartache on election day. The main problem for most of the party’s presidential contenders is sheer cowardice. Other than former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Trump’s top-tier opponents cannot muster the courage to take him on, to make the case that he is a clear and present danger to American democracy, as well as the future of the Republican Party. They merely tiptoe around Trump, while making throw-away comments about the “weaponization of government.” Such comments trivialize Trump’s criminal conduct, strengthening his grip on the GOP base. The fact is that Trump simply can’t and won’t win another term. He is wrong on the issues, he has no vision for a second term other than trying to establish an autocracy, and he will likely be convicted in one or more of the criminal cases that are currently in the works. The majority of American voters are still swayed by important issues, and Trump is wrong on most of them. Abortion extremism and gun safety will be major issues in 2024. Neither issue favors Trump and down-ballot Republicans. Abortion is particularly tricky for Republicans because they have doubled down on tighter restrictions, even though a majority of Americans disfavor that position. Trump has equivocated on abortion, claiming credit for the overturning of Roe v. Wade but cautioning Republicans against supporting further restrictions. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who seems to be gaining some support against Trump, has bravely stepped forward to oppose granting abortions “up to 52 weeks.” Perhaps he could benefit from studying a blue-state biology textbook. Another issue has surfaced that will loom large in the 2024 elections — our increasingly dangerous climate. In past years, Republican climate deniers were able to convince enough voters that global warming was not a looming disaster. They pointed to snowstorms as proof that climate scientists were wrong — a bona fide snow job. With the catastrophic weather that has been wreaking death and destruction across the U.S. and around the globe this year, that will no longer work to assuage the electorate. And, as they say, we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Tornadoes have become more widespread across the country and more destructive. Biblical downpours have ravaged Texas, California, Vermont and a host of other states. Historically high temperatures are plaguing a great portion of the country. This issue will likely have a major influence on the 2024 elections because the heat next year, as one scientist predicted, “will probably leap to a whole new level.” If that turns out to be the case, voter demand to combat global warming will also leap to a whole new level. Each of these issues will have an incremental effect on Trump’s election chances if he turns out to be the Republican presidential candidate next year. With the reluctance of his opponents to take him on, it is likely that he will be selected to run against President Biden. He will lose that election. The result will be more anti-Trump than pro-Biden. Biden has done a reasonably good job but has had trouble selling his record. And his age, magnified by a slight speech impediment, has allowed conservative media to paint an unfavorable picture of his performance in office. In the event, however, that Trump’s problems continue to mount and one of his opponents manages to find the courage to actually run against him, the Republicans will still have a heartbreaking election. If Trump loses his quest for the nomination, it is extremely unlikely that he will retire from the stage to lick his wounds. He has demonstrated exactly what he would do — loudly claim election fraud and act as a spoiler for whoever receives the nomination. Trump has demonstrated time and again that he has no loyalty to the Republican Party. His loyalty is strictly limited to Donald Trump, the party be damned if its fortunes conflict with his. Any late-blooming GOP candidate will be burdened by Trump’s conniptions, a dearth of funding, Biden’s favorable track record and concerns about unpopular Republican positions on abortion, guns, climate and a myriad of meritless culture war issues. I believe Republicans will lose the presidency by a wide margin, whoever the party’s candidate might be, the Democrats will end up with a House majority of at least 20 members and the Senate majority could go either way by one or two members. In defense of this forecast, I’d point to my Sept. 5 prediction last year that the off-year election would produce 48 GOP senators and a razor-thin margin, either way, in the House. I was off by one senator because it did not seem conceivable to me that Wisconsin voters would reelect Sen. Ron Johnson. It was a minor miscalculation. This prediction will be just as close.
Biden looks to put North Carolina on ’24 map Without the Tar Heel state, Democrats say, Republicans don’t have a path to the White House. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/22/bidens-north-carolina-24-00107703 President Joe Biden is eyeing redemption in North Carolina next year. Biden lost the Tar Heel state to Donald Trump by just 1.4 percentage points in 2020, and a Democrat at the top of the ticket hasn’t managed to turn North Carolina blue since Barack Obama did in 2008. Now Biden’s team sees opportunity in 2024 amid a fresh abortion ban, a contentious, expensive gubernatorial race and steady population growth that has ballooned urban and suburban areas. State and local party leaders are pointing to North Carolina as the next Arizona or Georgia for Democrats. They’re calling on the Biden campaign and DNC to invest heavily in the state because without it, they say, Republicans don’t have a path to the White House. “I think the road to reelection will run through North Carolina this time. And we’re encouraged by the [Biden] campaign’s early commitment to our state,” said Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, a member of the president’s national advisory board. “It’s pretty clear that they have decided that North Carolina is going to be one of their targeted states … I told the president that this investment is going to be critical to his reelection, and that I believe we can win this state for him.” This early in a presidential contest, it’s typical to hear campaigns talk about new prospects and plans to expand the electoral map, and it’s no surprise that the president’s team is looking to North Carolina, a battleground state Democrats have long set their sights on. But beyond campaign chatter and a string of early appearances by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in recent months, it won’t be clear just how seriously national Democrats are taking North Carolina until next year, when the campaign, DNC and top super PACs decide how much money and resources to pour into the state. The Biden campaign came out early in May with a strategy memo outlining its 2024 path to victory, including its plans to target the Tar Heel state. The DNC and campaign have already run ads in North Carolina this cycle, including on television and on two billboards in Charlotte and Rocky Mount highlighting Biden’s economic agenda. The campaign also tapped Cooper, who is legally barred from running for another term for governor, and Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, as members of the president’s national advisory board. “President Biden and Vice President Harris have a strong record that resonates with North Carolinians and will mobilize the voters we need to win in 2024, including creating thousands of jobs, lowering costs for families, and fighting against MAGA extremist abortion bans,” said Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz. “We fully expect North Carolina to be competitive, and plan to run an aggressive and winning campaign that builds on our significant investments throughout the state.” The DNC is also supplementing state Dems’ efforts to mobilize voters in the wake of North Carolina’s 12-week abortion ban, alongside increasing its investment to the NC Democratic Party to $12,500 a month, a 25 percent increase from 2020 and a 66 percent increase from 2016. Top Democratic super PACs are also eyeing North Carolina, though it’s too early to say where the groups will target the funds. Pat Dennis, president of American Bridge, said his PAC is running a major advertising program in 2024 and examining options — North Carolina among them. “We are excited the Biden campaign is investing in North Carolina as Republicans always encourage Democrats to light money on fire in places where voters have solidly rejected them cycle after cycle,” RNC spokesperson Emma Vaughn said in a statement, pointing to Cheri Beasley’s loss to Sen. Ted Budd in 2022 and a decline in voter registration among Democrats, while Republicans have seen slight gains. Biden and Harris have frequented the state in recent months, with the vice president traveling to Charlotte on the anniversary of the Dobbs Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights in June. In May, the state’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode Cooper’s veto, becoming the latest state to ban the medical procedure, a move Democrats expect will drive voters to the polls next year. GOP strategist Jonathan Felts said he’d welcome more Biden-Harris appearances, particularly those focused on the president’s message on the economy — the issue he thinks will take precedence in the state. He added that in 2022, Beasley often avoided appearing with the president, a nod to Biden’s sagging poll numbers. “In terms of real world impact right now, working families are still suffering,” said Felts, the founder of the Indie Group NC who headed the 2004 Bush-Cheney North Carolina reelect in 2004 and later served as the White House political director under Bush. “Having Joe Biden coming out here to talk about his economic record — it would probably be illegal campaign coordination activity — but I’m sure we can find a Republican super PAC to pay the cost of that, because that’ll be great footage for Republican TV ads.” Democrats argue the political environment in the state has only shifted in Biden’s advantage. Trump had a more favorable North Carolina electorate in 2020 compared with 2016, with a higher percentage of registered Republicans voting and higher rural and white turnout, but he still performed worse than he did against Hillary Clinton in 2016, said Democratic political consultant Morgan Jackson. That’s because Democrats have been able to overcome the strength of Republicans in rural areas in North Carolina — which is home to the second largest rural population in the U.S. behind Texas — due to the gains they’re making in urban and suburban counties. Democrats are now getting a higher percentage of the total vote, Jackson said. Jackson, a co-founder of Nexus Strategies and a consultant to both Cooper and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein, also argues that 2024 can’t be compared to the midterms, when national Democrats were accused of neglecting Beasley. Biden and the DNC’s map is different from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s in 2022, and based on near-daily conversations with the campaign, he expects to see a lot more of Biden and Harris over the next year, and that the money is coming with them. “We may not get Wisconsin money or Pennsylvania, but I don’t think anybody else is going to get that kind of money. I think we are that next level,” Jackson said. The Biden campaign is also betting that the gubernatorial election could offset some of its costs in the state, which could see its most expensive governor’s race in history. Democrats are hoping for a Trump-Mark Robinson ticket. The Republican lieutenant governor, who supports an outright abortion ban and opposes same-sex marriage, is leading the pack on the GOP side to face-off with Stein, who’s served as the state’s top law enforcement officer since he was elected in 2016. “A Donald Trump-Mark Robinson ticket is something Democrats look forward to here. Both of those guys have an ability to repel swing voters like nothing else,” Jackson said. Key to the Biden campaign’s strategy in North Carolina, Democrats also point to party leaders in the state like Cooper and Anderson Clayton, the state’s 25-year-old Democratic Party chair, surrogates they say can gin up enthusiasm among young voters in the state. Clayton, who took over the state party earlier this year, is already traveling across the state to energize young people, and plans to tap into the hundreds of thousands of voters enrolled in North Carolina colleges and universities this fall. She’s also leaning into year-round organizing, working to reengage with rural voters and to make sure no Republicans run uncontested in the state. “It’s absolutely absurd to think that a little more pixie dust on North Carolina wouldn’t have made our state go stronger for Joe Biden in 2020,” Clayton said. “All I can do is tell [national Democrats] that North Carolina is excited. Honestly we’re angry and energized … the energy on the ground is different.” Just how much money national Democrats are willing to throw into the state will likely depend on who Biden’s opponent is. While it’s looking to be the Biden-Trump repeat Democrats are hoping for, it’s still early, said Jordan Shaw, executive vice president at OnMessage Inc., and a former campaign manager and state director for Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). It would make sense for Democrats to invest heavily in the state if it’s Trump, but if another GOP contender like Tim Scott or Nikki Haley manages to break through, Shaw doesn’t see a path for a Biden win in the state. “The numbers we’ve seen, Biden is woefully unpopular with unaffiliated voters. But Trump is too, so it may be a scenario where we have one of the most unpopular presidential contests in American history,” Shaw said. “But I think if Trump is not the nominee, then I think North Carolina falls off the map pretty quickly for the Democrats.”