October 24, 2024

Thursday, October 24, 2024. Annette’s News Roundup.

Optimism and Encouragement from an Expert.

Which we all can use. Worry less. Do more.

James Carville: Three Reasons I’m Certain Kamala Harris Will Win.

There is a palpable anxiety wailing on the winds of American life right now. More than in any other election in my lifetime, I’ve been consistently asked by people of all stripes and creeds: “Can Kamala Harris win this thing? Are we going to be OK?” This sentiment is heard over and over from sweaty Democratic operatives who all too often love to run to the press with their woes.

While I am not one to take part in the political prediction industry — recently ballooned by mysterious crypto investments gambling on a Donald Trump victory — today I am pulling my stool up to the political poker table to throw my chips all in: America, it will all be OK. Ms. Harris will be elected the next president of the United States. Of this, I am certain.

Here are three reasons:

Mr. Trump is a repeat electoral loser. This time will be no different.

The biggest reason Mr. Trump will lose is that the whole Republican Party has been on a losing streak since Mr. Trump took it over. See 2018: the largest House landslide for Democrats in a midterm election since Watergate. See 2020: He was decisively bucked from the White House by Joe Biden. See 2022: an embarrassment of a midterm for Republicans off the heels of Dobbs. And the Democrats have been performing well in special elections since Trump appointees on the Supreme Court helped take away a basic right of American women. Guess what? Abortion is on the ballot again — for president.

There simply do not seem to be enough voters — even in the battleground states — who turn out at Mr. Trump’s behest anymore when he’s simply preaching to his base. He has not learned from his electoral losses nor done the necessary work to assemble a broad electoral coalition in 2024. Let’s not forget that seven weeks after Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican primary, she received 158,000 votes in Pennsylvania — and some disaffected Haley voters are currently looking to move to Ms. Harris. Although Ms. Haley has endorsed Mr. Trump, losing even a fraction of those voters leaves Mr. Trump running the final leg of this race with a fundamental fracture of the femur. To add a cherry to the pie, most voters think Mr. Trump is too old to be president, but instead of easing their concerns, he’s spending the final days of the campaign jiving to the Village People and canceling interviews.

On the other side, in just three months Ms. Harris has assembled a unified and electrified coalition. From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Liz and Dick Cheney, it is the broadest we have seen in modern political history. And Ms. Harris’s coalition is just as excited as the smaller opposition. This is shaping out to be a record-turnout election — and if the bigger coalition turns out with equal enthusiasm, it will be lights out for Mr. Trump.

Money matters, and Ms. Harris has it in droves.

More reality: Money matters in politics. If this weren’t the case, somebody would be wasting an awful lot of time raising it. Take it from Lindsey Graham, who is whining that Republicans are getting creamed in fund-raising. He’s not wrong to complain, since Ms. Harris is processing Cheddar like a Wisconsin cheese factory.

Since joining the race, the vice president has raised an eye-boggling $1 billion, and last quarter one of her fund-raising committees reeled in $633 million — dwarfing what Mr. Trump raised with two committees combined. All this cash not only effectively offsets the flow of money funneling in for Mr. Trump from some tech billionaires, but it has also given Ms. Harris the resources she needs to persuade swing voters with ads and to organize on the ground. With her field operation moving like a tremendous machine, it seems likely there has never been a greater disparity in voter contact efforts. Mr. Trump can run all the high-profile TV ads he wants painting Ms. Harris as extreme, but what’s less discussed is that she is more than fighting back with ads reminding voters of how Mr. Trump betrayed his oath of office after the 2020 election and ended a woman’s right to choose. She is strapped with the necessary cash to forcefully remind suburban women and voters in the middle that Mr. Trump is, in fact, the extremist candidate.

It’s just a feeling.

My final reason is 100 percent emotional. We are constantly told that America is too divided, too hopelessly stricken by tribalism, to grasp the stakes. That is plain wrong. If the Cheneys and A.O.C. get that the Constitution and our democracy are on the ballot, every true conservative and every true progressive should get it too. A vast majority of Americans are rational, reasonable people of good will. I refuse to believe that the same country that has time and again overcome its mistakes to bend its future toward justice will make the same mistake twice. America overcame Mr. Trump in 2020. I know that we know we are better than this.

Now, I don’t mean for my prediction of a Harris victory to breed complacency. We still have days of vital work to do. I say all this because a movement that marches with hope is 1,000 times as thunderous as a movement that marches with dread.

For the past decade, Mr. Trump has infected American life with a malignant political sickness, one that would have wiped out many other global democracies. On Jan. 6, 2021, our democracy itself nearly succumbed to it. But Mr. Trump has stated clearly that this will be the last time he runs for president. That is exactly why we should be exhilarated by what comes next: Mr. Trump is a loser; he is going to lose again. And it is highly likely that there will be no other who can carry the MAGA mantle in his wake — certainly not his running mate.

In two weeks, we not only have a chance to elect Kamala Harris as president, but a chance to bring finality to the sordid career of Donald Trump and drive MAGA into a prolonged remission.

See you on the other side. (Op-ed, New York Times)

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Kamala is always busy.

Last night, she held a CNN Town Hall in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

Watch the Vice President’s full answer on whether Trump is a fascist.👇

At the Town Hall, Kamala also spoke about her faith. She said she prays every day, sometimes twice a day.

The New York Times on Monday also wrote about her faith -

The Rev. Dr. Amos Brown was taking his usual Sunday afternoon nap in late July when a longtime congregant, Vice President Kamala Harris, called.

“Pastor, I need for you to pray for Doug, for me and for this nation,” Dr. Brown, pastor of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, recalled her saying. “I’ve decided to run for president.”

President Biden had announced only a few hours before that he was abandoning his re-election campaign, and he endorsed Ms. Harris almost immediately.

The prayer Dr. Brown, 83, offered was drawn from a Bible verse that Ms. Harris quotes often herself: “What does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”

For about 20 years, Ms. Harris has been a member of Dr. Brown’s church, a congregation established before the Civil War where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached.

Kamala’s full town hall, in pieces.

Kamala Harris to give closing election speech at spot where Trump riled up crowd before Jan 6 attack.

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to give a major campaign speech this coming Tuesday at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., the park just outside the White House where Donald Trump in 2021 called on his supporters to march on Congress in the moments leading up to the January 6 insurrection.

Campaign officials said the speech, a week before election day, will serve as a “closing argument,” where Harris, a former prosecutor, will make her final case against Donald Trump before a “jury” of the American people.

According to a permit application obtained by CNN, the event is expected to draw a roughly 7,500-person crowd and feature four to five individuals speaking. (The Independent)

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The New York Times doubled down on its attacks on Trump this week.

I am not the only one reposting. The New York Times reposted its interactive editorial with 91 people “close to” the MAGA candidate telling why Trump shouldn’t be returned to the Oval Office.

In any election, it’s hard to know whose word to trust. And in a polarized country, many Americans distrust any information that comes from the other side of the political divide. That’s why the criticism of Donald Trump by those who served with him in the White House and by members of his own party is so striking.

Dozens of people who know him well, including the 91 listed here, have raised alarms about his character and fitness for office — his family and friends, world leaders and business associates, his fellow conservatives and his political appointees — even though they had nothing to gain from doing so. Some have even spoken out at the expense of their own careers or political interests.

The New York Times editorial board has made its case that Mr. Trump is unfit to lead. But the strongest case against him may come from his own people. For those Americans who are still tempted to return him to the presidency or to not vote in November, it is worth considering the assessment of Mr. Trump by those who have seen him up close.

Use this link 👇 to see what any or all of the 91 people close to Trump say about him. 👇

THE DANGERS OF DONALD TRUMP, FROM THOSE
WHO KNOW HIM

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On Tuesday, The Times posted multiple excerpts from its 3 interviews with John Kelly, yes, the former Marine general who was Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff.

As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator.

John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist.

Few top officials spent more time behind closed doors in the White House with President Donald J. Trump than John F. Kelly, the former Marine general who was his longest-serving chief of staff.

With Election Day looming, Mr. Kelly — deeply bothered by Mr. Trump’s recent comments about employing the military against his domestic opponents — agreed to three on-the-record, recorded discussions with a reporter for The New York Times about the former president, providing some of his most wide-ranging comments yet about Mr. Trump’s fitness and character.

Mr. Kelly was homeland security secretary under Mr. Trump before moving to the White House in July 2017. He worked to carry out Mr. Trump’s agenda for nearly a year and a half. It was a tumultuous period in which he drew internal criticism over his own performance and grew disenchanted and distressed by conduct on the part of the president that he considered at times to be inappropriate and reflecting no understanding of the Constitution.

In the interviews, Mr. Kelly expanded on his previously expressed concerns and stressed that voters, in his view, should consider fitness and character when selecting a president, even more than a candidate’s stances on the issues.

Here are excerpts from Mr. Kelly’s comments.

Kelly said that based on his experience, Trump met the definition of a “fascist.”

In response to a question about whether he thought Mr. Trump was a fascist, Mr. Kelly first read aloud a definition of fascism that he had found online.

“Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,” he said.

Mr. Kelly said that definition accurately described Mr. Trump.

“So certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running America,” Mr. Kelly said.

He added: “Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.”

Kelly said Trump chafed at limitations on his power.

“He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government,” Mr. Kelly said.

Mr. Trump “never accepted the fact that he wasn’t the most powerful man in the world — and by power, I mean an ability to do anything he wanted, anytime he wanted,” Mr. Kelly said.

He said he was deeply troubled by Trump’s recent comments about using the military against domestic opponents.

When Mr. Kelly left the White House in 2019, he decided he would speak out on the record only if Mr. Trump said something that he found deeply troubling or involved him and was wildly inaccurate.

Mr. Trump’s recent comments about using the military against what he called the “enemy within” were so dangerous, he said, that he felt he had to speak out.

And I think this issue of using the military on — to go after — American citizens is one of those things I think is a very, very bad thing — even to say it for political purposes to get elected — I think it’s a very, very bad thing, let alone actually doing it,” Mr. Kelly said.

Mr. Kelly said that Mr. Trump was repeatedly told dating back to his first year in office why he should not use the U.S. military against Americans and the limits on his authority to do so. Mr. Trump nevertheless continued while in office to push the issue and claim that he did have the authority to take such actions, Mr. Kelly said.

He said he believed Trump stood alone in his lack of understanding of history and the Constitution.

Mr. Kelly said Mr. Trump lacked a fundamental understanding of basic American values and what being president is about.

“He’s certainly the only president that has all but rejected what America is all about, and what makes America America, in terms of our Constitution, in terms of our values, the way we look at everything, to include family and government — he’s certainly the only president that I know of, certainly in my lifetime, that was like that,” Mr. Kelly said.

“He just doesn’t understand the values — he pretends, he talks, he knows more about America than anybody, but he doesn’t.”

He said Trump wanted personal loyalty to outweigh loyalty to the Constitution.

Mr. Kelly said that in the first few days of working for Mr. Trump as his chief of staff in the summer of 2017, he had to explain to the president that top government officials like himself had taken an oath to the Constitution and would place that oath over personal loyalty.

Mr. Kelly said Mr. Trump pressed him about that pledge and seemed to have no appreciation that top aides were supposed to put their pledge to the Constitution — and, by extension, the rule of law — above all else.

“Certainly, a big surprise for him, again, was if you remember at the beginning of the administration, he would talk about ‘his generals,’” Mr. Kelly said. “I don’t know why he thought that — but then a very big surprise for him was that we were — those of us who were former generals and certainly people still on active duty — that the commitment, the loyalty was to the Constitution, without question, without second thought.”

Mr. Kelly added: “That was a big surprise to him that the generals were not loyal to the boss, in this case him.”

Trump told him that “Hitler did some good things.”

Mr. Kelly confirmed previous reports that on more than one occasion Mr. Trump spoke positively of Hitler.

“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’” Mr. Kelly said Mr. Trump told him.

He said Trump called service members who were injured or killed “losers and suckers,” despite denials from Trump and some aides.

Confirming a statement he gave to CNN last year, Mr. Kelly said that on multiple occasions Mr. Trump told him that those Americans wounded, captured or killed in action were “losers and suckers.”

“The time in Paris was not the only time that he ever said it,” Mr. Kelly said, referring to reports that Mr. Trump told him that he did not want to visit a cemetery where American service members killed during World War I were buried.

“Whenever John McCain’s name came up, he’d go through this rant about him being a loser, and all those people were suckers, and why do you people think that people getting killed are heroes? And he’d go through this rant.”

“To me, I could never understand why he was that way — he may be the only American citizen that feels that way about those who gave their lives or served their country,” Mr. Kelly said.

Mr. Kelly had nothing good to say about Mr. Trump.

Mr. Kelly was asked whether Mr. Trump had any empathy.

“No,” Mr. Kelly said.

For the full New York Times account of the John Kelly interviews including audio, click here.

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Harris Calls Trump’s Reported Remarks on Hitler and Nazis ‘Deeply Troubling’

This was early in the day yesterday. Later, as you read above, she would amplify her comments at her CNN Town Hall.

The vice president seized on reports in which John Kelly, a former chief of staff to Donald J. Trump, recounted explosive comments by Mr. Trump and said he met the definition of a “fascist.”

Vice President Kamala Harris said on Wednesday that former President Donald J. Trump’s reported comments praising Nazi generals offered “a window into who Donald Trump really is,” calling it “deeply troubling” that her Republican rival had apparently invoked Hitler in conversations with one of his former chiefs of staff, John F. Kelly.

Ms. Harris and her campaign have pounced on Mr. Kelly’s comments, recounted in recent news stories and in on-the-record interviews, in the hopes that she will benefit with undecided voters and a slice of conservative-leaning ones by refreshing their memories of a Trump presidency 13 days before Election Day.

In her brief remarks, delivered at the vice president’s residency in Washington, Ms. Harris warned that Mr. Trump had grown “increasingly unhinged and unstable” and said that he would require that the U.S. military “be loyal to him personally,” even if Mr. Trump did not obey the law during the course of a second term.

“It is clear, from John Kelly’s words, that Trump is someone who, I quote, ‘certainly falls into the general definition of ‘fascist,’” Ms. Harris said.

Mr. Kelly, the retired Marine general who served as Mr. Trump’s longest-running chief of staff, is one of the highest-ranking former Trump administration officials to publicly denounce the former president’s character and question his ability to serve.

In several interviews with The New York Times, which published an article about them on Tuesday, Mr. Kelly said Mr. Trump met the definition of a “fascist” based on what he had seen working closely with him.

“Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,” Mr. Kelly said, adding that “those are the kinds of things” that Mr. Trump “thinks would work better in terms of running America.”

The former chief of staff also said that Mr. Trump “never accepted the fact that he wasn’t the most powerful man in the world — and by power, I mean an ability to do anything he wanted, anytime he wanted.”

Mr. Kelly recounted that Mr. Trump had told him that “Hitler did some good things,” and also confirmed a 2020 report in The Atlantic that Mr. Trump had referred to service members killed on the battlefield as “losers” and “suckers.” The Atlantic reported on Tuesday that Mr. Trump had told Mr. Kelly: “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”

Mr. Kelly stressed that he was not endorsing either candidate in the presidential race, but said he was deeply troubled by Mr. Trump’s recent comments about using the military against domestic opponents.

Ms. Harris and her advisers have been working to draw attention to Mr. Trump’s comments and character in recent days, and have even played clips of his remarks at her recent rallies.

The Harris campaign is also trying to emphasize its support from Republican former military and national security leaders repelled by Mr. Trump’s conduct. On Wednesday, it hosted a call for reporters featuring Kevin Carroll, a senior counselor to Mr. Kelly when he served as Mr. Trump’s secretary of homeland security, who said that his former boss’s comments about Mr. Trump were “damning.”

“The only reason Trump was stopped the last time was because people like General Kelly stood in the breach and acted as a check to Trump’s worst impulses,” Mr. Carroll said. “A second time around, those guardrails won’t exist.”

Steve Anderson, a retired Army brigadier general who also spoke on the call, said Mr. Trump “constantly seemed to confuse loyalty to the Constitution to loyalty to him.”

But he said he wished Mr. Kelly had spoken out about Mr. Trump “earlier.”

“I am disappointed that he hasn’t embraced Kamala Harris,” Mr. Anderson said.

Mr. Kelly is part of a long line of former Trump administration officials who have condemned him, including his former vice president and the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Other former officials still support Mr. Trump, including a White House trade adviser; his former budget director; John Ratcliffe, his final director of national intelligence; and Hope Hicks, a former top adviser.

And in the conservative news media, Mr. Trump drew some words of support. On Wednesday, Brian Kilmeade, a host of “Fox & Friends,” questioned whether Mr. Trump, in fact, had known that Hitler’s generals were Nazis.

“Play this out: If your general, who’s your chief of staff and your secretary of defense, is not doing what you say on an everyday basis, I could see him going, ‘I’d love generals that listened, that would be great,’” Mr. Kilmeade said, basing his argument on Mr. Trump’s past as the leader of a family-run business whose employees did as they were told. (New York Times).

Non-election News

- No prescriptions, no cost.

The Biden administration is proposing that over-the-counter contraception, like Plan B and condoms, are available without prescriptions and at no cost for patients. This rule would affect 52 million American women who are of reproductive age and have private health insurance. (New York Times)

- Players protest.

More than 100 women’s soccer players signed an open letter in protest of FIFA’s sponsorship deal with Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company. “The safety of those women [imprisoned in Saudi Arabia], the rights of women, LGBTQ+ rights and the health of the planet need to take a much bigger priority over FIFA making more money,” said Becky Sauerbrunn, former U.S. national team captain. (Associated Press).

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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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I think you may have missed this post too, so here it is, updated.👇

Hey, it’s Liberty Day in NYC.

Historic W.N.B.A. Championship followed by an historic decision.

Sunday’s WNBA Finals Game 5 of the Championship was most-watched Finals game in 25 years, peaked with 3.3 million viewers. (The Athletic).

Today there will be an historic ticker tape parade in NYC honoring the 2024 W.N.B.A. Champions, the New York Liberty, which brought home the first major professional basketball championship in New York City in more than four decades.

Here, the New York Liberty mascot, Ellie the elephant featured in Vogue, the New York Liberty’s mascot.

While tunnel walks have become something of a fashion show for players to flaunt their style off the court, Ellie is her own kind of scene-stealer. The anthropomorphized elephant with a growing TikTok fanbase was always dressed for the halftime show, boasting a turquoise Liberty jersey from Rare Breed BX, Statue of Liberty crown, and a long, multicolored braid that she likes to whip around.

Everyone watches women sports 🏀 has been a big slogan in 2024. As to women sports itself - with record ratings, record crowd size, record television contracts, record sponsorship dollars, and record social media followings -, we should expect that record salaries inevitably must follow.

Currently, the WNBA pays its rookies about $75,000/yr.

Here, Coach Dawn Staley, of the NCAA Champion-winning South Carolina Gamecocks, shows women sports pride. FYI, her new salary is $3.2 million.

A landmark WNBA season has ended—and players are using the offseason to fight for a better deal.

– Play ball. On Sunday night, the New York Liberty won the team’s first-ever WNBA championship in 28 seasons. Team owner Clara Wu Tsai took advantage of that historic moment to remind viewers what made that achievement possible: investing in female athletes.

“When we bought the team four years ago, they were playing at Westchester County Center to a crowd of 2,000,” Wu Tsai said during the trophy presentation by commissioner Cathy Engelbert. “And the first thing we wanted to do was bring the team to Barclays Center so that they could have a bigger stage. And then we wanted to give them facilities and performance and nutrition and everything that they deserved because they’re such elite professional athletes.” Her point was echoed by ESPN reporter Holly Rowe, who has covered the league for years. “This is what women’s sports can be,” Rowe told the sold-out arena of more than 18,000 people.

So it was perfect timing for the WNBA’s players yesterday to announce some major news: the players’ association, known as the WNBPA, said they’re opting out of their collective bargaining agreement with the league two years early. While every metric for the WNBA has risen over the past season—attendance, TV viewership, merch sales, and more, as I explored in a recent Fortune magazine feature profiling the commissioner—players were locked into a negotiated contract that didn’t allow them to earn more money as part of their official salaries. Superstar Caitlin Clark’s rookie salary was about $75,000 while the top-paid players earn around $250,000. The league, too, is waiting for more revenue to come in with a renegotiated media rights deal set to begin with the 2026 season.

Players and the league were both permitted to opt out by a November 2024 deadline, and the players chose to announce their decision the day after championships—seemingly for maximum impact. Nneka Ogwumike, the Seattle Storm player who serves as president of the WNBPA, said: “Opting out isn’t just about bigger paychecks—it’s about claiming our rightful share of the business we’ve built, improving working conditions, and securing a future where the success we create benefits today’s players and the generations to come. We’re not just asking for a CBA that reflects our value; we’re demanding it, because we’ve earned it.”

The WNBA is a high-growth product, and players want the league to think creatively about how to better compensate them; as Ogwumike noted, salaries aren’t the only way to do that. “Working conditions,” as Ogwumike mentioned, include practice facilities like Wu Tsai provided for the Liberty, as have the Seattle Storm, Las Vegas Aces, and other teams; the league could play a role in making other teams catch up to the new standard.

With one year to reach a contract, there’s the possibility of a WNBA work stoppage if the two sides can’t come to an agreement. With all eyes on women’s basketball over the past year, fans will be rooting for a deal good enough to ensure the game goes on. (Emma Hinchcliffe, MPW, Fortune)

One more thing. About today’s celebrations.

Here’s everything to know about the celebrating the Liberty — and for getting around the area:

Where and when will it be?

The parade will take place Thursday morning along the “Canyon of Heroes,” the stretch of Broadway between Battery Place and City Hall in Manhattan's Financial District. It will begin at Battery Place and West Street, with the formation area extending east to Thames Street, before heading east to Broadway, north to Chambers Street, east to Centre Street and finally north to Lafayette and Worth.

The parade kicks off at 10 a.m., but the city recommends arriving at Broadway by 9 a.m. to secure a viewing spot.

Spectators can view the parade from Morris Street to Park Row on Broadway's east side and from Battery Place to Chambers Street on Broadway's west side. There will be accessible viewing at Zuccotti Park.

The area around City Hall will be closed to spectators.

There will be pedestrian crossings at Broadway and Exchange Alley, Cedar Street, Cortlandt Street, Vesey Street, Chambers Street and Reade Street, plus one crossing on Reade and Centre.

Straphangers should note that trains will skip the City Hall R/W station. The Bowling Green 4/5 station directly north of the National Museum of the American Indian will be reserved for passengers using accessibility accommodations and west side exits on Centre Street for the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall 4/5/6 station will be closed.

What happens after the parade?

There will be a ticketed ceremony at City Hall from noon to 1 p.m., during which Mayor Eric Adams will give the team the Key to the City. In the evening, the members of the public who snatched up free tickets early will attend a free championship celebration from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. However, tickets are no longer available for either event. (The Gothamist).

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How you can help Kamala and help keep the White House and Senate Blue and turn the House Blue.

## First Choice Activity to help Kamala.

VOTE! Either VOTE Blue all through yourself or make a plan for when you will vote. Bring at least one other voter with you.

“Election Follow the Leader.”

Play “Election Follow the Leader” yourself!

Each of us can “self-delegate” ourselves as the “leader” by voting and spreading the word that you voted. Everyone else lines up and follows the leader mimicking what the leader did.

With regard to the 2024 Elections, it’s simple game, but it has very important ramifications.

1. Call 2 or 3 other people and ask them when they are voting.
2. Remind them to tell others when they themselves have voted.
3. Let them know they will be reminding others to vote when they do that.

“The result of Election Follow the Leader.”

Second Choice Activity to help Kamala.

Canvass or phonebank?

We are in mobilization phase. You are needed just to remind people that early voting is happening in their state and the best time for them to vote is now!

When you volunteer to knock on doors or phonebank, you will be given lists of Democrats who the campaign thinks are supporting Kamala and Tim. Your “Touch” (visit or call) reminds them to vote.

Volunteer | Kamala Harris for President

Grassroots supporters power our campaign. Join us today and find a volunteer opportunity near you to help elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

One more thing.

Are you in the NYC area? We will canvass for Mondaire Jones in Rockland County, 40 minutes outside NYC, on November 2nd.

You can beat us to it by signing up to go to Rockland this weekend.

Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Mondaire For Congress on Mobilize

Mondaire is running to return to Congress to finish the work he started to lower costs for Lower Hudson Valley residents, defend our democracy, raise wages, and stop Republicans from banning abortion.

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