Kamala Harris' approval rating surges as Donald Trump's falls

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
- Option 1 - No real controversies.
- Well, the old man had 4 years of being president where he broke everything he possibly could.
  
  and republicans want him to do it again
- How is this difficult, america
  Mostly because of racists.
- 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.
- You didn't even mention "serial rapist."
  
  Or "Epstein's BFF," or "multiple-times credibly accused child rapist."
- Option 2 is also a traitor, and convicted felon.
- 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.
- Option 2 bankrupted four casinos.
- You forgot “rapist”
  
  fixed!
- Tribalism
- Hate seems strong, but I hope I'm wrong
- 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.
- Article: People are abandoning Trump for Harris.
  Democrats: Oh my god, what is WRONG with you people?!
  
  Is that what you interpreted? The fact trump still has a single supporter is insane.

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.
- 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.
  
  Hasn't NYT become the Transphobia Express?
- I've seen the same numbers in many places. Always wonder why discounting a source is the first and only comment from someone.
  
  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%20ABC_Ipsos%20Poll%20July%2027%202024.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.
  
  Because Newsweek in particular deserves it? Post better sources.

Good for Kamala.
- Good for America.
  
  Good for the World sadly what happen in america have often worldwide repercussion

LFG
- Liquid fart gas?
  
  Don't be ridiculous. Lions Fear Gorgonzola. An ancient proverb.
  
  Looking For Girl?

Got my fingers crossed for her

Go girl!

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.
- We were not ignoring that. Everyone I've seen admitting they were wrong, including myself, said they felt no one else would be able to unite the party quickly enough to avoid a chaotic shit show. I still have no idea how Harris pulled it off, but it's awesome to behold.
  If this energy and momentum can last until the election I'm certain she can win.
  
  I still have no idea how Harris pulled it off
  Turns out, people respond well when their concerns are addressed.
  
  I’ve not really liked Harris since before 2020, but I’ll gladly vote for her if it means keeping Trump away from the Whitehouse for at least another 4 years. I didn’t think she had a chance in hell, but the trend line so far seems good for her.
  
  I hope the wave continues! If Biden had bailed earlier i think it would have been harder to sustain. 3 months is still a long time. Would be great if we could hold the election in 2 weeks.
  
  I still have no idea how Harris pulled it off, but it’s awesome to behold.
  She's not 80+ (with bonus points being under 70) and she not Trump.
  Those are the only things most people were wanting out of a candidate at this point. That's how Biden got elected last time and he only barely managed the under-80 requirement.
  
  I still have no idea how Harris pulled it off, but it’s awesome to behold.
  "Neither" was the top-polling candidate for 2024 when it was between Trump or Biden.. Of Dems and left-leaning voters, Biden's age factored heavily into that sentiment. Call it superficial but that was his "thing" since he took office. Harris solves both of those hang-ups.
  Other than that, Harris's name has been plastered on every accomplishment of the current administration in a way that I've not really seen before. It was always the Biden-Harris Administration on the headlines, she had plenty of name recognition already
  
  The only thing keeping people from voting against Trump was the other option was a corpse. People checked out because it was a joke. Apatgetic voters dont answer polls, and a lot of people weren't going to vote that now will. The idea that the party listened to its constituents goes a long way. Even if Kamala isn't ideal (she isn't) she is a step in the right direction.... NOT a corpse. She is hope that maybe the country isn't doomed and she staves off the apathy most of us were feeling. Especially when the argument was "if you don't go vote for the corpse, the incoming facism is your fault!". Now, they did the bare minimum, so do I, I need to vote.
- Biden had my vote but so does she.
- Welcome aboard!
  I'm sorry that other people are pissed at you. It's absurd. I'm genuinely happy to see another person joining the team, so thank you for that!
  I don't agree with you not voting for Biden beforehand, but that's water under the bridge and irrelevant as far as I'm concerned. It's time to unify under what we have in common instead. I'm glad you're here.
- Democrats netted a vote. Look at who that pisses off.
- 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.
- ~~This comment is a great example of the left going out of its way to piss off the left.~~
  This comment is a great example of a troll being a troll
  Edit: the point here was obviously that there was no reason to deride people with the same goal as yourself, especially considering Biden was the only safe choice until the moment he stepped down. Unless you called it that Harris could be this successful, you weren't correct about anything enough to gloat and shame but even if you did call it, acting like this now just makes you pointlessly rude and divisive
  
  I know she's not your first choice, but Netanyahu can't run.
  
  I do not identify with the American left.

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.
- If anyone ever gets tired of using the word weird, I've got a couple alternatives:

This is the number to beat: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/23/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-presidential-polls/index.html
For those who don't want to open it, the article showed Clinton having 50% versus Harris' 43%. And it has to be over 50% because of the severe degree of gerrymandering.

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.

- This wasn't satire? I expected Hell in a Cell, but got QAnon levels of paranoia
- Please take your medicine & stop flying the drones https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article230454999.html
- If KH used to be a prostitute it would actually make me more likely to vote for her
  Kudos for the entertaining satire