The vice president's favorability rating rose 8 points in a week, while the Republican's fell 4 points during same period in one poll.
  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    157·
    2 months ago

    Option 1 - seasoned government professional who can navigate politics with diplomacy

    Option 2 - an old man who bankrupted a 4 _ casinos_ and has ties to russia, has zero political experience. edit - thanks everyone - traitor, felon, rapist, attempted a coup to overthrow the government, ex president consistently considered one of the worst terms america has seen.

    How is this difficult, america

          • Revan343@lemmy.ca
            6·
            2 months ago

            I don’t like Harris much, but I don’t like prosecutors.

            Still hope she wins, because I like fascists even less

            • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              3·
              2 months ago

              I’ve commented on this elsewhere - as far as prosecutors go, she’s been pretty progressive (drug cases aside, which I take issue with), focusing on jail time for violent offenders, and trying to avoid jail time for the non violent offenses. Her record, as well as the back on track program from her time as AG, speak to that well.

              So even in terms of prosecutors (definitely not my favorite group as well, for a variety of reasons), her approach was very progressive, and generically speaking pretty good in my book.

    • Omega@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 months ago

      Well, the old man had 4 years of being president where he broke everything he possibly could.

    • suburban_hillbillyEnglish
      22·
      2 months ago

      Those casinos were in Atlantic City. He also lost tens of millions of dollars on one of the most famous and prestigious hotels in New York City. He lost money trying to sell mail-order steaks and whiskey in the United States. He also lost money trying to operate a university during the biggest education bubble in history. He also stole classified documents, ‘lost’ them, and got huge numbers of foreign assets killed. He openly advocates for ending democracy. And as the cherry on top of that shit sandwich, brags about sexually battering women.

    • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      That option 2 is even being considered and still has a good shot at winning the presidency would seem to be proof that American democracy is deeply broken. Maybe it’s the education system, the two-party duopoly, the selling out of one party to Russia, foreign interference in general, corruption and the role of private money in elections/politics, a partisan Supreme Court, and/or just the election process itself. If a dipshit like that has a shot while blatantly campaigning on fascism, something’s not right.

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 months ago

      He does have political experience actually. Still has a huge ass following base where he can spout the most insane shit and they’ll still follow him. That’s why he’s so dangerous.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      2 months ago

      Article: People are abandoning Trump for Harris.

      Democrats: Oh my god, what is WRONG with you people?!

  • Wolfeh@lemmy.world
    1164·
    2 months ago

    This won’t matter if no one votes.

    Also, Newsweek has been going far out of their way to paint a picture of Trump doing poorly even when he’s not. Beware this source.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
      211·
      2 months ago

      But he was doing poorly. Newsweek has fallen off in quality, but so have lots of other papers too. The friggin New York Times was running articles about how trump was amazing and so much more vibrant than Biden. They had a big op-ed focusing on just Biden stepping down from the campaign, completely ignoring trump’s failings.

      Now it’s obvious that they just wanted to cover a Democratic primary horse race. Trump is clearly just as slow as Biden, compared to Kamala.

          • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            A lot of News Groups were purchased by Far Right Billionaires because of fears that if they didn’t then they’d “Keep making up Fake News about Trump!111” So yeah, the NYT is VERY transphobic.

    • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
      815·
      2 months ago

      I’ve seen the same numbers in many places. Always wonder why discounting a source is the first and only comment from someone.

      • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        201·
        2 months ago

        I’m not familiar with Newsweek’s history, but I discount this source because every link is back to their website, and they don’t present the data they’re citing. I had to go look it up to confirm. PDF link is here: https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2024-07/Topline ABC_Ipsos Poll July 27 2024.pdf

        Also presenting a view that Trump is destined to lose gets us in the situation in 2016 where people didn’t go vote because it was a given that Hillary would win. From a polling perspective, the information is really only useful to the campaign, to know where to focus and what is doing well. For everyone else, it’s a curiosity to see how the rest of the country is feeling. The only real way to ensure Trump doesn’t get back into the White House is to vote.

  • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    So far she started off by bullying the Republicans and having her campaign be calling them weird. I love it lol, it’s been very effective.

  • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    She’s got my vote when Biden didn’t. Everyone who said “nO oNE ElSe iS poLlInG bETter tHaN BiDEN” was ignoring the fact that Biden had the left’s entire media hype machine backing him up and still barely eeked out a few points above Trump.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Moderate Dems really want to take all the responsibility off of nominees and put it all on voters.

      Because of that, they couldn’t acknowledge a campaign would help, but they also have to justify the billions from corporate donors.

      There’s no logic to them, the far right wings of both parties just say anything in the moment that gets them what they want.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
    313·
    2 months ago

    Being pessimistic, this is how you have a clearly predictable election - put a clear villain as the other candidate, put a walking corpse as the “good” candidate, make everyone doubt but slowly-slowly accept that you have to vote for the corpse, and then replace the corpse with the person who some time before had kinda ominous reputation, and everybody is suddenly enthusiastic.

    “Better than Trump” is not arguable, but this is still the lesser evil.