#2024-presidential-campaign

#2024-presidential-campaign

The most notable, and perhaps most effective, ad of the 2024 presidential campaign featured footage of the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, voicing her support for gender-affirming treatment for inmates in federal prisons. "Kamala is for they/ them. President Trump is for you," the narrator concluded. The spot was a crisp, 30-second encapsulation of one of the key Republican talking points of the cycle: that "wokeness" was sweeping the nation and upending established ways of life, and that Donald Trump would fight against it.

We have it down to a low level, but we're going to get it a little bit lower. We want perfection.

In a new book, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines," the former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre describes what she considers a betrayal of Joe Biden by the Democratic Party. "I watched Democratic leadership abandon, and in the end betray, a man who'd led our country through a pandemic and a time of historic political turmoil," she writes.

Prior to joining President Donald Trump's cabinet as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kennedy made a serious push for the Oval Office as a third-party candidate. As the election drew closer and polling data indicated that Kennedy may have been siphoning votes from Trump and increasing the likelihood of a Kamala Harris presidency Kennedy decided to drop out and formally endorse Trump. In return, Trump nominated him for HHS secretary shortly after the start of his term.

The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade made Trump anxious. He expressed concerns that abortion could endanger his political prospects after the 2022 midterms.

In the post-Dobbs environment, few Republican campaigns were willing to go there.

Well, not all of them, I think you have a lot of them that they don't know where they are right now. I think they don't know what to do, like men playing in women's sports. I saw a guy that I know, a good guy, Democrat, he's trying to justify, two days ago on television he's being hammered, and he's trying to justify men playing in women's sports, and it's sad.