Harris urges voters to "chart a new way forward" at Atlanta rally amid early voting
Source: USA Today
Published 10:47 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2024 | Updated 10:47 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2024
Amid Georgia’s record-shattering early voter turnout, Vice President Kamala Harris returned to Atlanta to urge voters to usher in “a new and optimistic generation of leadership.”
Congresswoman Nikema Williams delivered opening remarks alongside Sen. Jon Ossoff, Georgia high school student and gun safety activist Tyler Lee, and eight-time Grammy-winning artist Usher.
“This is Georgia, and we know a little something about breaking history,” Williams, who chairs the Georgia Democratic Party, told the crowd.
Usher, who is performing at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on Sunday, told attendees that he had taken time away from his national tour in order to stump for Harris. “It doesn’t matter where you’re from — she has a vision for our future that includes everyone,” he said.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/19/harris-returns-to-georgia-for-a-rally-as-early-voting-breaks-records/75760537007/
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might be instructive to see where things are there. In the final run-off for that seat, Warnock beat Walker by almost 100,000 votes (~3%).
Meanwhile the-then Nate Silver-run 538 predicted a Walker win (seat flip back to R) and a U.S. Senate flip (back to (R)).
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They essentially said - "fuck those dumb women, they'll get over it". And when the opposite happened, Silver was finally shown the door. Meanwhile, they are STILL saying women "will get over it".
The media wants people to forget that 2020 and 2022 ever happened, and instead have rewound time back to 2016, BEFORE January 6, and the overturning of Roe.
Those 2 cataclysmic events would have impacted their "statistical models", but they refuse to believe there was any impact, and apparently don't want to adjust for that, instead focusing on fictional 45 voters ONLY because he got more in 2020 than 2016 - the so-called "shy" or "hidden" 45-voter.
But THAT IDIOCY IGNORES THAT BIDEN ALSO GOT MORE VOTES THAN WHAT CLINTON HAD IN 2016.
2016
45 = 62,984,828
Clinton = 65,853,514
(from here (PDF))
2020
45 = 74,223,975 = +11,239,147
Biden = 81,283,501 = +15,429,987
(from here (PDF))
^^^WHY IS THIS IGNORED??????^^^
They'll then say "well the popular vote is irrelevant".
Well if THAT is the case, why in the hell do they keep talking about "shy 45 voters" and continuing to over-sample them in polls, while ignoring that MORE "shy" Democrats (and/or indies and/or GOP) voted for Biden than those "shy" 45 voters voted for 45????????????????
(again sorry...
)I bet many of them were the ones who voted for Haley. She was literally picking up on average about 12% - 17% of the vote in state after state after (after she dropped out).
The media fixated on the protest "uncommitted" vote against Biden while they soft-pedaled or even ignored those Haley voters, who FAR outnumbered the "uncommitted".
When you have an election that is supposedly "working around the margins", even if 1/2 of those Haley voters went on and voted for 45, the others are going to be votes "against 45" - whether they are non-votes, write-in votes, votes for the Libertarians, or even votes for Harris/Walz.
This whole election cycle has been a shit-show from day one. 