October 28, 2024

Monday, October 28, 2024. Annette’s News Roundup.

Update about me. Plus another way to help Kamala win PA.

Despite all our plans, we weren't able to canvass in Pennsylvania this weekend.

On Saturday morning, I became sick right after we drove out of the Lincoln Tunnel. We turned around, went back to New York City, and, at my doctor’s suggestion, went to the hospital to be checked out. We were in the ER for 12 hours. The doctors said I was fine, likely I had what they called a “quick virus.” I feel fine.

We are planning to go to Pennsylvania again next weekend to canvass, making calls to fix (“cure”) ballots in PA from home on Tuesday, and will make calls to GOTV on Election Day.

What does it mean to cure ballots?

Voters in most Pennsylvania counties have the chance to fix errors with their mail ballots during this election and spare them from being rejected, according to a review of county policies by Votebeat and Spotlight PA.

Thirty-four counties allow voters to fix errors with their mail ballots in some way.

The practice, referred to as notice-and-cure, is a policy some counties have adopted to inform voters of errors with their mail ballots that put those ballots at risk of rejection and allow those voters to correct the mistakes. (Spotlightpa.com)

How to help voters fix ballots in Pennsylvania. 6-8 pm ET on Tuesday.

Sign up to make a motivated early voter’s vote count in Pennsylvania.👇

Philadelphia Ballot Cure Phone Bank! · Pennsylvania Working Families Party

Come make sure Philadelphia voters' rights are PROTECTED by curing ballots of mail in voters. With thousands of voters' whose ballots are undeliverable, or are facing signature or ID issues, your work is crucial to making sure EVERYONE'S VOICE is heard.

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Kamala is always busy.

Vice President Harris marks 6 years since 'unspeakable' Pittsburgh synagogue shooting - ABC News

Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday commemorated six years since the deadly shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue.

"This unspeakable act – fueled by antisemitic hate – was the deadliest attack on the American Jewish community in our Nation’s history," Harris said in a statement, in part.

On Oct. 27, 2018, a white supremacist gunman opened fire inside the synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, killing 11 people and wounding six others during Shabbat services.

In her statement Sunday, Harris mourned the lives that were taken that day and also hailed the resiliency and enduring strength of Pittsburgh's Jewish community. She also noted the rise in antisemitic incidents since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel and vowed to continue to combat antisemitism.

"I will always work to ensure the safety and security of Jewish people in the United States and around the world, and will always call out antisemitism whenever and wherever we see it," Harris said. "Doug and I are proud to have worked alongside President Biden to combat antisemitism, including through the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism."

"Today, Doug and I stand in solidarity with the survivors of this attack, the families who lost loved ones, and the entire Jewish community," Harris added, referring to her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff.

Earlier Sunday, President Joe Biden also marked the anniversary of the Tree of Life attack, saying in a statement that the shootings "shattered families, pierced the heart of the Jewish community, and struck the soul of our nation."

"For the families of the victims and the survivors, this difficult day of remembrance brings it all back like it just happened – and our country holds them and their loved ones close in our hearts," Biden added.

Biden said his administration remains committed to aggressively implementing the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.

"As the Talmud says, 'It is not your duty to finish the work but neither are you at liberty to neglect it,'" Biden said in the statement. "On this solemn day of remembrance for the attack in the Tree of Life Synagogue, let us come together as Americans to ensure antisemitism and hate in all its forms have no safe harbor in America – for all the lives we have lost and all those we can still save." (ABC News).

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Best new Harris ads

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Best campaigner for Kamala. Michelle.

This was in Michigan. Watch Michelle’s whole speech. 👇

Barack is pretty awesome too. He will be back in Philly with Springsteen tonight.

Like this guy too. 👇

Monday: Harris to MI, Walz to WI & MI
Tuesday: Harris's big DC speech at the Ellipse, Walz to GA
Wednesday: Harris to NC, PA, WI, Walz to NC
Thursday: Harris to NV & AZ, Walz to PA and MI

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Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans are now in play.

Puerto Ricans by state: Pennsylvania: 450k North Carolina: 100k Wisconsin: 65k Michigan: 50k Florida: 1.1 million New York: 1 million, 230K in Texas and 100k in Georgia.

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Trump is always crazy.

Trump is deranged and dangerous.

If you are not already doing everything you can to assure Trump’s defeat, please take action now. You have all day today and 7 days after that.

Trump says domestic foes worse than Kim Jong Un during meandering Joe Rogan interview.

Donald Trump on Friday said “the enemy from within” the United States poses a greater threat than the dictator of North Korea, a pariah state and long-standing American adversary — reprising a phrase that has drawn criticism during a meandering three-hour interview with the popular podcaster Joe Rogan.

“We had no problem with him,” Trump said of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, before adding, “I say it to people, we have a bigger problem, in my opinion, with the enemy from within.”


The Republican presidential nominee has used the term “enemy from within” to describe his domestic political opposition and has suggested Democratic politicians such as former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (California) fall into that category. He recently said the military could be deployed against such domestic foes, prompting concern from critics.
In his conversation with Rogan, he alluded to the alarm those comments sowed. “It drives them crazy when I use that term,” Trump said, just before using it again. “We have an enemy from within, we have people that are really bad people, that I really think want to make this country unsuccessful.”


The interview underscored Rogan’s shifting tone on Trump. The host once said he turned down the chance to interview Trump and called him a “threat to democracy.” But on Friday he gave Trump an influential platform on “The Joe Rogan Experience” — the most popular podcast on Spotify — where the Republican presidential nominee reiterated his false claims of election fraud, suggested there was life on Mars, mused about Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and made an aside about prophecies on the end of the world.

“You’re not a Kamala person, I know you,” Trump said to Rogan, referring to his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Rogan laughed.
Harris’s team has said they discussed a podcast appearance with Rogan but it did not work out. Rogan said in his conversation with Trump on Friday that Harris “might still do it, and I hope she does.”
Rogan also asked what Trump could do about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Trump has repeatedly said, without providing details, that he could negotiate an end to the conflict.
“If I told you exactly what I’d do, I could never make the deal,” Trump told Rogan.

The podcaster has a large audience of younger men, and Trump’s appearance reflected his strategy of trying to motivate such voters to support him in the election. Rogan’s program has stoked controversy for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus and giving airtime to far-right figures trafficking in racist and misogynist views.


Trump’s marathon sit-down with Rogan showcased the former president’s zigzagging speaking style — prompting Rogan to joke at one point about “the weave,” the phrase Trump uses to explain his frequent tangents.
“Your weave is getting wide,” Rogan said, trying unsuccessfully to redirect the conversation to tariffs.

When Trump mused that he gets publicity without trying and couldn’t explain why, Rogan said the answer was easy: Trump says “wild” things. (He used an expletive.)
The interview covered some policy areas, too: Rogan asked whether Trump was serious about getting rid of income taxes and relying instead on tariffs, an idea Trump has previously floated. “Yeah, sure, why not?” Trump said.
Rogan asked Trump about his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. “We’ll do it another time,” Trump said, suggesting he would bring “many different papers.” Rogan pressed Trump for examples and Trump eventually steered the conversation to other topics.


Trump also repeated his attacks on former aides turned critics, including his former chief of staff John F. Kelly, who this week said Trump met the definition of a fascist.
The interview also delved into an assortment of other topics.
“There’s no reason not to think that Mars and all these planets don’t have life,” Trump said at one point.


“The Middle East is rapidly changing. You know, there are prophets that say the world will come to an end in the Middle East, you know that, right?” Trump said at another. “And you have weapons today that are so scary.”


The former president talked at length about the beauty of the White House, saying he had thought it was going to be “all metal doors” inside and instead found it to be stylish.
The interview delayed Trump’s appearance at a rally in Traverse City, Michigan, where hundreds of supporters waited in frigid temperatures. Many left before or during his remarks, and he apologized as he got onstage.


“I am so sorry,” he said. “We got so tied up, and I figured you wouldn’t mind too much because we’re trying to win.”
Trump said that Rogan was “a great guy” he didn’t know well and that the interview was “the longest interview I’ve ever done in my life.” He added that his staff had suggested he cancel his event.
During the sit-down with Rogan, Trump claimed that his pollsters once told him — shortly before the coronavirus pandemic upended his presidency — that if George Washington came back from the dead with Abraham Lincoln as his vice president, the two would not have been able to win against Trump.


Trump said he “really [doesn’t] believe too much” in polls and speculated that the pollsters cut corners, even though he frequently touts his performance in public opinion surveys. (Washington Post)

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At the Trump Madison Square Garden rally.

Speakers at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally unleash ugly rhetoric.

NEW YORK — The beginning of Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden showcased opening speakers who made racist, sexist and crass remarks about Vice President Kamala Harris and Puerto Ricans.

Why it matters: Ugly comments by Trump and his supporters aren't new. But early speakers at MSG unleashed rhetoric unprecedented in modern American history so close to an election.
The big picture: Harris is betting that enough voters will be repulsed by Trump and his supporters' behavior to win next Tuesday.

The remarks at Trump's rally undermine his campaign's effort to soften the former president's image among voters who may like his policies but dislike his divisive and race-baiting rhetoric.

What they're saying: Businessman Grant Cardone told the crowd that Harris "and her pimp handlers will destroy our country."

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said: "I don't know if you know this but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it's called Puerto Rico."

Trump's childhood friend David Rem called Harris "the anti-Christ."

Some speakers were more crude than those at normal political rallies as they talked about "f***ing illegals" and called Hillary Clinton a "sick son of a bitch."
Between the lines: During the rally, Harris was visiting a Puerto Rican restaurant in northern Philadelphia.

While visiting Freddy & Tony's Restaurant, Harris pledged to help fix Puerto Rico's electrical grid and create a "Puerto Rican Opportunity Economy Task Force."

Spokespeople for the Harris campaign highlighted the split screen between Harris' event and the rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally.(Axios)

I took to echoing NY’s Governor Kathy Hochul. 👇

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The cowardice of Bezos at the Washington Post will not quickly be forgotten.

Responding to the Washington Post’s decision not to endorse.

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Your Daily Reminder.

Trump is a convicted felon.

On May 30th, he was found guilty on 34 felony counts by the unanimous vote of 12 ordinary citizens.

The Convicted Felon Donald J. Trump was scheduled to be sentenced on July 11th and September 18th. He will now be sentenced on November 26.

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