Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg discusses Vice President Harris’ remarks on the Afghanistan withdrawal and former President Trump’s hammering the vice president over the war in Ukraine during the ABC News Presidential Debate. (Courtesy: ABC News)
Take this for what it is worth. Swift did this to get attention as a singer and begging for people to buy more of her music. She can vote for whatever candidate she wants.
Asked to react to Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, Donald Trump heaped praise on the singer’s friend Brittany Mahomes as a “big MAGA fan,” claimed he was never a fan of Swift’s, and criticized President Joe Biden.
“I actually like Mrs. Mahomes much better, if you want to know the truth. She’s a big Trump fan,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy on Wednesday morning. “I was not a Taylor Swift fan. It was just a question of time. She couldn’t, you couldn’t possibly endorse Biden. You look at Biden, you couldn’t possibly endorse him.”
“But she’s a very liberal person. She seems to always endorse a Democrat and she’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace,” he said.
He added that Mahomes, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, is “a big MAGA fan.”
“That’s the one I like much better than Taylor Swift,” he said.
Representatives of Swift and Mahomes did not immediately return HuffPost’s request for comment.
Everything Trump said is dubious. Brittany Mahomes has not publicly stated her support for the Republican nominee. She recently “liked” one of his controversial posts on Instagram, and then “unliked” it following backlash.
(That’s good because that means more taxes in the coffers – cha ching!)
Trump’s statement that he’s not a fan is also suspect. In fact, it seems like he’s been pretty interested in what she has to say — he’s brought up her coveted endorsement repeatedly during his 2024 campaign, and even shared artificial intelligence-generated images purporting to show “Swifties for Trump.”
According to recorded interviews with Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh, Trump once gushed that the pop superstar is “unusually beautiful” and “talented” with “great star quality,” and wondered if she’s only pretending to be a liberal.
Setoodeh, who interviewed the former president at length for a book, said earlier this year that Trump is “absolutely fixated” on Swift because he sees fame as “one of the most valuable currencies in life.”
“And so Taylor Swift being one of the most famous people on the planet, and not endorsing him, is something that really matters to him,” the author said.
Swift, whose boyfriend Travis Kelce also plays for the Kansas City Chiefs, had already caught flak for remaining silent during the deeply consequential 2024 race. She endorsed Harris immediately after Tuesday night’s presidential debate.
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Nothing wrong with her making a choice; but, will it hurt her music sales?
President Biden is still the President using THE SOCIALISM BANNER and she is running for President. She/Democrats are trying to fool the people again with their brand of SOCIALISM and SHE has committed gross negligence/dishonesty by hiding President Biden’s dementia since 2020 from the voters and putting our country in danger with his condition as we see it unfold.
And, the fact the Democrats/Biden/Harris professed themselves as fake moderates; but, conducted a bait and switch on the voters by running/placing our country under SOCIALISM/MARXISM by not using the Constitution.
How can we trust any of them to tell us the truth IN WHAT THEY are PROFESSING FOR 2024?
As far as abortion is concerned – the DEMOCRAT SOCIALISTS dwell on abortion – it is a passion for them to kill babies and sell body parts.
The last count was 3.5 million abortions.
Federal abortion ban is now in the hands of each state. The Democrats have always loved abortions and selling baby body parts. Again, at one point 3.5 million babies were aborted. It took the citizens to put the Democrats to shame when the Democrats were complaining there were not enough workers in the U.S. so they could swell the country by open borders for illegals.
Duh – when you kill babies on a monumental basis and now with all of the pills – daily/before sex/after sex – we shouldn’t have to have any abortion plan if women would take care of themselves. If a women gets pregnant with all of the pills available to keep from getting pregnant – it means she is too lazy to take care of herself with a daily pill. A women can still have an abortion caused by incest/rape/health.
When the Democrat Socialist talk about abortion – it has become a farce.
Young people are not having babies because it calls for PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump met for the first time in Philadelphia for a presidential debate Tuesday.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump clashed in their first presidential debate Tuesday in Philadelphia, less than two months before Election Day.
Heading into the debate, Harris appeared to have more to gain — and more to lose. A New York Times/Siena College poll found that 28% said they “need to learn more about Kamala Harris,” compared with just 9% who said the same about Trump. Overall, Trump led Harris by 1 point among likely voters, with 5% unsure or not backing either.
The debate covered a wide range of issues and featured a series of intense exchanges between the two bitter rivals. Harris presented herself as a pragmatic problem-solver and diminished Trump as a wannabe dictator who can’t keep his rally crowds engaged. Trump attacked Harris as a radical and frequently returned to his theme of criticizing migration, sometimes veering into conspiracy theories.
Here are six key takeaways from the debate.
Harrisl leans in quickly on lowering costs
(She wants to use socialist values by using price controls on all goods/services.)
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Harris highlights her ‘opportunity economy’ in contrast to Trump
Harris used the first question to lean into her plan for an “opportunity economy,” seeking to cut into Trump’s advantage on the issue with swing voters by presenting herself as the candidate of the middle class while calling Trump a corporate tax-cutter.
“I was raised as a middle-class kid, and I am actually the only person on this stage who has a plan that is about lifting up the middle class and working people of America,” Harris said. “We know that we have a shortage of homes and housing, and the cost of housing is too expensive for far too many people. We know that young families need support to raise their children, and I intend on extending a tax cut for those families of $6,000, which is the largest child tax credit that we have given in a long time, so that those young families can afford to buy a crib, buy a car seat, buy clothes for their children.”
Trump blasted the Biden-Harris economy, saying, “I’ve never seen a worse period of time.” He also defended his tariff plans and called Harris “a Marxist,” even as he accused her of copying his policies:
“I was going to send her a MAGA hat.
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(Her change will be according to socialist guidelines – she will take your money and house and spend it like she wants (reparations have been promised to the black people, secretly).
In the opening minutes, both rivals sought to claim the mantle of change in a country full of voters who are hungry for it.
“In this debate tonight, you’re going to hear from the same old, tired playbook: a bunch of lies, grievances and name-calling,” Harris said of Trump. “What you’re going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected.”
Harris returned to that message later in the debate: “The American people are exhausted with the same old, tired playbook.” She went back to it later in criticizing Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 riot.
“Let’s turn the page on this. Let’s not go back,” she said.
Trump sought to portray Harris as a continuation of President Joe Biden on immigration and the economy.
On migrants coming into the U.S. illegally, he said: “These are the people that she and Biden led into our country, and they’re destroying our country. They’re dangerous.”
And on the economy, he said: “She copied Biden’s plan. And it’s, like, four sentences. Run, Spot, run.”
Trump attacks as Harris defends policy shifts
A significant weakness for Harris in the campaign has been the left-wing positions she took as a Democratic presidential primary candidate in 2020 that she has since abandoned or backtracked from — such as banning fracking, mandating buybacks of semiautomatic firearms and decriminalizing border crossings. She was asked about her evolution again.
“I made that very clear in 2020, I will not ban fracking,” Harris said. “I have not banned fracking as vice president. In fact, I was the tiebreaking vote on the inflation Reduction Act, which opened new leases for fracking,” an ecologically controversial way to extract oil and natural gas.
Harris added, “My values have not changed.”
Trump sought to capitalize.
“She wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison. This is a radical left liberal that would do this. She wants to confiscate your guns, and she will never allow fracking in Pennsylvania,” he said. “If she won the election, fracking in Pennsylvania will end on Day One.”
Trump dodges on vetoing federal abortion ban. (There is no Federal ban)
(Federal abortion ban is now in the hands of each state. The Democrats have always loved abortions and selling baby body parts. At one point 3.5 million babies were aborted. It took the citizens to put the Democrats to shame when the Democrats were complaining there were not enough workers in the U.S. Duh – when you kill babies on a monumental basis and now with all of the pills – before sex/after sex – we shouldn’t have to have any abortion plan if women would take care of themselves. If a women gets pregnant with all of the pills available to keep from getting pregnant – it means she is too lazy to take care of herself. A women can still have an abortion caused by incest/rape/health. For a while they were showing the body parts on TV – gross.)
Trump and Harris engaged in a lengthy clash over abortion, during which Trump declined twice to say whether he would veto a federal abortion ban if Congress passed one.
“Well, I won’t have to,” Trump replied. He said he’s “not signing” such a ban because there’s “no reason to,” arguing that “everybody” is happy with the termination of Roe v. Wade.
When told that his vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance, of Ohio, said he would veto such a ban, Trump contradicted Vance, who made his comments recently on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
“Well, I didn’t discuss it with JD, in all fairness. JD — and I don’t mind if he has a certain view, but I don’t think he was speaking for me,” he said, arguing that Congress won’t pass any major abortion bill.
Harris said: “I pledge to you: When Congress passes a bill to put back in place the protections of Roe v. Wade as president of the United States, I will proudly sign it in to law. But understand, if Donald Trump were to be re-elected, he will sign a national abortion ban.”
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‘She’s bleeding out in a car’: Harris addresses abortion rights
(If that happens, it is the individual’s problem to prepare for the baby’s arrival. That is a gross and stupid question by Harris.)
Harris baits Trump into missed opportunities
Harris came into the debate with the hope of rattling Trump, and she appeared to succeed at some moments, baiting him into a defensive posture rather than highlighting his strongest issue: concerns about inflation and the cost of living.
She attacked him on abortion rights, linked him to the right-wing policy blueprint Project 2025 and highlighted his praise for Chinese President Xi Jinping around the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Both times, he jumped in to defend himself. She invited Americans to watch a Trump rally.
“He talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about ‘windmills cause cancer.’ And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom,” Harris said, looking into the camera.
That didn’t sit well with Trump, who said he has “the most incredible rallies in the history of politics” and went on a tangent by citing a debunked conspiracy theory about some migrants’ eating pets. “They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” he said.
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Trump repeats false claim about immigrants harming animals at debate
Trump bashes Biden, sparking pithy Harris reply
Trump’s performance included a wide sprinkling of attacks on Biden, who dropped out after his disastrous late-June debate showing against Trump. He criticized Biden’s handling of classified documents, knocked him for opposing the Keystone XL pipeline and called the Biden’s administration “the most divisive presidency in the history of our country.”
“Where is our president? We don’t even know if he’s the president,” Trump said toward the end of the debate. “They threw him out of a campaign like a dog. We don’t even know. Is he our president? We have a president that doesn’t know he’s alive.”
Harris replied, “It is important to remind the former president: You’re not running against Joe Biden; you are running against me.”
When Trump said later, “She is Biden,” Harris responded: “Clearly, I am not Joe Biden. And I am certainly not Donald Trump.”
(President Biden is still the President and she is running for President. She has committed gross negligence/dishonesty by hiding President Biden’s dementia since 2020 from the voters and putting our country in danger with his condition as we see it unfold.)
(I thought the two coordinators were not effective in that they did not asked Harris in substantial valued questions. Nothing new here and I though the coordinators was boring.)
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
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