November 2, 2024

Saturday, November 2, 2024. Annette’s News Roundup.

Kamala is always busy.

Biden-Harris did this.👇 More coming.

Bill Clinton to appear at Charlotte church for Kamala Harris | Charlotte Observer.

Former President Bill Clinton will stump for Kamala Harris at a Charlotte church service on Sunday, a Harris presidential campaign spokeswoman said Friday. Clinton will appear a day after the vice president is scheduled to visit the Queen City again. Saturday is the last day of early voting in North Carolina. At least 3 million residents have already voted.

For security reasons, the Harris-Walz campaign will not release in advance where and when Clinton will appear, the spokeswoman said.

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article294878304.html#storylink=cpy

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Endorsements.

Jennifer Lopez spoke for Kamala in Las Vegas, Nevada on Thursday.

Cardi B was with Kamala in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Friday.

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Trump is always crazy.

Trump is deranged and dangerous.

Threatening Liz Cheney.

Liz Cheney answers.

The Vice President answers.
https://youtu.be/jtQcruCVKls

Gabby Giffords answers.

Arizona’s Attorney General opens an Investigation on Trump.

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George W., are you listening?

Liz Cheney Tells George W. Bush to Endorse Kamala Harris: ‘It’s Time.’

The Republican publicly urged Bush to speak out in the wake of his daughter’s shock endorsement.

Liz Cheney is calling on George W. Bush to make his voice heard on the “danger that Donald Trump poses.”

During a live interview that aired Friday on The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast, Cheney said, “I can’t explain why George W. Bush hasn’t spoken out, but I think it’s time, and I wish that he would.” (The Daily Beast)

Nicolle Wallace Calls on Her Former Boss, George W. Bush, to Denounce Trump.

Ms. Wallace, who served as the communications director in the Bush White House, made the appeal on her MSNBC program.

Nicolle Wallace, who was a White House communications director in George W. Bush’s administration, called on Friday for Mr. Bush to have a late-hour “change of heart” and speak out against former President Donald J. Trump.

Speaking on her “Deadline: White House” program on MSNBC, Ms. Wallace said Mr. Trump’s violent language about former Representative Liz Cheney had pushed her to publicly raise the question she gets “asked more than any other” off the set: “Where is George W. Bush?”

Ms. Cheney, a former congresswoman from Wyoming, has emerged as one of Mr. Trump’s most prominent Republican critics, and she has campaigned extensively for his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Her father, Dick Cheney, who served as Mr. Bush’s vice president, has also said he would vote for Ms. Harris.

On Thursday, Mr. Trump criticized Ms. Cheney for her hawkish foreign policy views and said she should be put on a battlefield “with nine barrels shooting at her” — a remark that drew condemnations from a number of leaders. On her program, Ms. Wallace seemed to be imploring her former boss to join that group. (New York Times).

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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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Trump’s ‘grab them’ comment was history. Now TikTok is showing it to young voters.

It’s been eight years since leaked audio from a conversation between Donald Trump and TV host Billy Bush made waves for the former president’s descriptions of kissing and grabbing women without their consent.


Now, young people are encountering the tape for the first time on TikTok, where users are sharing videos of their reactions and, in some cases, reaching large audiences.


Many first-time voters were young teens in 2016 when The Washington Post first reported the incident, in which the former president seemed to endorse sexual assault during a behind-the-scenes conversation on an “Access Hollywood” set when he didn’t realize his microphone was on. Despite widespread criticism of Trump’s comments at the time, he went on to win the 2016 presidential election, and the mainstream news cycle moved on.

Now, the generation that came of age during the #MeToo era is turning to social media for information about candidates and elections — 39 percent of young adults say they frequently get their news from TikTok, according to Pew Research.

This week, many said on the social network they were shocked by the former president’s words and confused why the episode wasn’t a dealbreaker in 2016.

“I don’t think any of my friends had heard it,” said Kate Sullivan, a 21-year-old student in Ohio who heard the tape for the first time on her TikTok For You feed this week. “We all felt equally shocked.”

People her age have less tolerance for sexual misconduct after growing up amid a series of high-profile harassment and assault cases involving major celebrities, Sullivan said. She immediately felt compelled to share the audio in her own video, with the superimposed text, “Fathers are voting for this man.”

The video has been viewed 2.5 million times and was reshared by singer Billie Eilish to her 68 million followers.

Brigid Quinn, a 15-year-old in Georgia, knew that Trump had been accused of making sexist comments, she said. But she had never heard the words he actually said — including the ‘grab them by the pussy’ quote. She “didn’t understand how people thought this was normal.

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She made her own video featuring Trump’s audio in hopes her school friends of voting age would see it.
“I’m around a lot of [18-year-olds] on my sports team, and I thought maybe I could show them who to vote for,” she said. Some people came up to her at school saying her TikTok was the first they had ever heard of the tape.


This election season, Trump’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaigns have run sprawling operations on TikTok, both posting to their own accounts and paying influencers to reach the video app’s large share of Gen Z and millennial users. Notably, TikTok is the only platform that confirmed to The Post that users can use the word “vote” in their videos without being suppressed. But neither candidate can control the narrative on the app’s algorithmic feed, where videos shoot to viral fame regardless of whether they’re tied to the current news cycle.


The infamous tape came about a month before the 2016 presidential election and set off a crisis within the Republican Party, which was already grappling with Trump’s insurgent campaign. Trump apologized for his comments in the video but also sought to downplay them as “locker room banter.”

A number of prominent Republicans announced they were no longer supporting Trump, and some even called on him to end his candidacy. The Republican speaker of the House at the time, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, said he was “sickened” by the tape and told colleagues he would no longer defend Trump.


Now, Trump is running for president with the backing of the Republican Party. But in the internet era, content never dies. Some social media users must carefully manage their so-called digital footprints to avoid blowback from colleges, jobs or their social circles. The same goes for public figures. In July, for example, the personal blog that vice-presidential nominee JD Vance kept during college made the rounds on X.


News cycles on social media often take their cues from evocative posts and videos, rather than the mainstream media.
“Thanks to social apps, things that weren’t necessarily relevant for one election cycle may come back to haunt in subsequent election cycles,” said Jeffrey Blevins, a professor of journalism and political science at University of Cincinnati.


Some of the trending “Access Hollywood” TikToks came from older users who heard Trump’s comments the first time around. But for people like Sullivan, who will vote for the first time in Tuesday’s election, the discovery cast both the 2016 and 2024 elections in a new light.

Did people know about the tape before they voted in 2016? she asked a Post reporter.
Yes, the tape came out before Election Day.
“I just recently got into politics,” she said. “The fact that people knew about this, and he still won, is pretty wild to me.” (Washington Post).

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