2024 Presidential Election Thread

[USUC]

It was a rough interview but I wouldn't call it brutal. Bill Whitaker forced her to answer the question asked. She struggled but at least showed up and did the interview. Trump is a coward. I suspect Vance is equally cowardly.

The funniest thing about the "problems" the Trump campaign has with being interrogated by adversarial media is about the election denial and Jan 6. A problem entirely of his own making. A lot of people love his pushing back against a biased legacy media. His tarrif proposals are indefensible, but so are some of Harris'. But they know the election denial stuff plays horribly.

[PaloAltoCougar]

The funniest thing about the "problems" the Trump campaign has with being interrogated by adversarial media is about the election denial and Jan 6. A problem entirely of his own making. A lot of people love his pushing back against a biased legacy media. His tarrif proposals are indefensible, but so are some of Harris'. But they know the election denial stuff plays horribly.

I hope 60 Minutes asks (has asked?) Vance for an interview. I'd love to hear again his ridiculous statements about how a Yale-trained lawyer was duped by mainstream media about the kind of person Trump is. Then they should ask how Trump "salvaged Obamacare," an absurd claim of his. And then finish with questions about Trump's health plan that Trump has said will be revealed within the next month or so (although he's repeated that forecast dozens of times since 2016)..

[Northwestcoug]

I hope 60 Minutes asks (has asked?) Vance for an interview. I'd love to hear again his ridiculous statements about how a Yale-trained lawyer was duped by mainstream media about the kind of person Trump is. Then they should ask how Trump "salvaged Obamacare," an absurd claim of his. And then finish with questions about Trump's health plan that Trump has said will be revealed within the next month or so (although he's repeated that forecast dozens of times since 2016)..

Just like the eternally postponed Infrastructure week, from what seems like a lifetime ago.

[wally]

Harris doing media events almost every day. Her 60 Minutes interview was pretty brutal. Kudos to them for asking tough questions.

Meanwhile, Trump chickened out of his 60 Minutes interview. Where is UT to call out his cowardice?

60 minutes is one of the few new shows still doing pretty well. If you accept that the news media is traditionally more biased in favor of left-leaning perspectives, then would you accept an interview of Donald Trump by Joe Rogan as an equivalent proxy to doing 60 minutes? Rogan I assume is kinda right-leaning and reaches more viewers.

Kamala needs to reach more critical thinking moderates to win them over. She needs to do the 60 minute interview. I am not sure 60 minutes is the interview Trump needs to reach the undecided moderates he is targeting. this whole media landscape as a backdrop to this election cycle is just so wild right now. It is looking like Kamala is losing ground to a slow and steady Trump surge in the swing states that matter. There is a very real chance of Trump Presidency. I am braced for maximal entertainment regardless of who the victor is.

[Copelius]

When I was in 2nd grade apparently I was given an IQ test. I have no recollection of it, so I wonder how robust it really was. She wouldn't tell me what my score was, but said it was above ###. I don't put much stock in that. I think she did, because my two older brothers and my sister just younger than me are exceptionally bright. Two of them skipped grades. I have always felt like the dummy in their company. That's also how I feel on this board. There are a lot of exceptionally bright people that post here, and I feel like the dummy. I come for the insights and the social interaction, so perhaps I'm the board blonde--except I'm really not very sexy.

You don't get to claim the board dummy by yourself. I am at least your dummy equal.

[Bo Diddley]

You don't get to claim the board dummy by yourself. I am at least your dummy equal.

[Jeff Lebowski]

When I was in 2nd grade apparently I was given an IQ test. I have no recollection of it, so I wonder how robust it really was. She wouldn't tell me what my score was, but said it was above ###. I don't put much stock in that. I think she did, because my two older brothers and my sister just younger than me are exceptionally bright. Two of them skipped grades. I have always felt like the dummy in their company. That's also how I feel on this board. There are a lot of exceptionally bright people that post here, and I feel like the dummy. I come for the insights and the social interaction, so perhaps I'm the board blonde--except I'm really not very sexy.

Nobody is buying this board dummy act. Knock it off.

[Bo Diddley]

Nobody is buying this board dummy act. Knock it off.

Remember when I struggled with the definition of controversial? (I think it was...)

[PaloAltoCougar]

Nobody is buying this board dummy act. Knock it off.

I'm not buying the "not very sexy" act either.

[Bo Diddley]

I'm not buying the "not very sexy" act either.

Ah well, you've never seen with my makeup off.

[Moliere]

60 minutes is one of the few new shows still doing pretty well. If you accept that the news media is traditionally more biased in favor of left-leaning perspectives, then would you accept an interview of Donald Trump by Joe Rogan as an equivalent proxy to doing 60 minutes? Rogan I assume is kinda right-leaning and reaches more viewers.

Kamala needs to reach more critical thinking moderates to win them over. She needs to do the 60 minute interview. I am not sure 60 minutes is the interview Trump needs to reach the undecided moderates he is targeting. this whole media landscape as a backdrop to this election cycle is just so wild right now. It is looking like Kamala is losing ground to a slow and steady Trump surge in the swing states that matter. There is a very real chance of Trump Presidency. I am braced for maximal entertainment regardless of who the victor is.

Harris is finally making the rounds in interviews as the data is showing people don’t know or trust her since she’s been in hiding. Now she starts to make the rounds and we find out why they’ve been hiding her.

[Uncle Ted]

Harris doing media events almost every day. Her 60 Minutes interview was pretty brutal. Kudos to them for asking tough questions.

Meanwhile, Trump chickened out of his 60 Minutes interview. Where is UT to call out his cowardice?

LOL@60 Minutes... They edited out her "word salad" answer and replaced it with an answer from a different question:

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I don't blame Trump for not going on this so called "news" program. Not to mention Leslie Stahl never corrected the misinformation she pushed from the last interview...

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She said the laptop "can't be verified". Not only was it verified it was entered as evidence in court. 60 Minutes is nothing less than a propaganda machine for the democrats.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Typical MAGA response.

[Uncle Ted]

Typical MAGA response.

Typical “I got my head in this hole in the ground so I am oblivious to the obvious” response.

Of course, these recent interviews that Harris is finally doing are making for good trump ads…

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[Northwestcoug]

I don't blame Trump for not going on this so called "news" program. Not to mention Leslie Stahl never corrected the misinformation she pushed from the last interview...

Walk me through this Ted. If the laptop is such a victory lap for Trump, what possible downside is there to go on 60 minutes, do the interview, and rub their faces in it? At the very least, he burnishes his MAGA bonifides and projects strength, no matter how bad 60 minutes might portray him. Instead, he's complaining about not getting an apology at his rallies. Very low energy, and might I say, pretty low IQ decision.