Harris to debut running mate Tuesday night as part of battleground blitz [UPDATE: Tim Walz picked]

[Timber Rattler]

That all may be well and good, but doesn’t Trump have any responsibility in any of this?  He picks a vice presidential candidate from a red state who performed than any other Republican in the 2022 election, He fights with a popular swing state Republican governor, and somehow brings his wife into his little spat, he gets into spats with the Heritage Foundation, he recycles his old slogan from 2016, he   takes a market correction from and gleefully posts about how its Kamala’s crash and the Great Depression of 2024 yet is silent when it rallies again, and now he’s posting a new conspiracy theory that Joe Biden will crash the DNC convention and try to take back power.

Do you see Harris doing any of this?  It’s going to hurt a lot of feelings, but she is running a much stronger campaign than not only Donald Trump, but both Biden and Hillary as well. She’s not drawing in independent voters as of yet. But she is definitely solidifying and motivating and uniting her base. She’s not getting in spats with Democrat  governors and their spouses

Donald Trump is becoming his own undoing. He’s going back to his 2016 playbook but Kamala is not lazy like Hillary Clinton was

I read many of the posts here and then I read the posts in the Election 2022 part and all the same post are recycled.

Nikki Haley is probably going to end up being right when she warned that the first party to dump their geriatric candidate will win the White House

Someday the Republican party might get serious again and decide that it’s more important to win elections than entertain the base.

We actually agree.  Trump is his own worst enemy and the election is his to lose.  My point is that Harris is just another puppet and that the Democrat machine is now in full operation to try and get her elected.  Trump is really not running against her but that relentless machine.

[Timber Rattler]

Embarrassing: Harris Campaign's Attempt to Use Popular Streamers to Astroturf Support Backfires

https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2024/08/07/embarrassing-harris-campaigns-attempt-to-use-popular-streamers-to-astroturf-support-backfires-n2177839

The attempt by the Kamala Harris campaign to reach out to the new celebrities to help promote her campaign is not going well as huge streamers and influencers are turning her down, with a few even openly supporting Donald Trump.

As reported on Tuesday night by Rawsalerts, Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, a person with almost 13 million followers, said he'd been getting calls from the Secret Service and the Harris campaign, requesting they do a collaboration, but Cenat made it clear that he's not interested.

EXCERPT

So why is the Secret Service involved in Harris' campaign?

[LMAO]

We actually agree.  Trump is his own worst enemy and the election is his to lose.  My point is that Harris is just another puppet and that the Democrat machine is now in full operation to try and get her elected.  Trump is really not running against her but that relentless machine.

I hope the GOP has a plan for their down ticket races. If the down ticket  races are nothing more than a bunch of MAGA endorsed candidates, we are going to see a repeat of 2008 where the Democrats swept everything

[deb]

Embarrassing: Harris Campaign's Attempt to Use Popular Streamers to Astroturf Support Backfires

https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2024/08/07/embarrassing-harris-campaigns-attempt-to-use-popular-streamers-to-astroturf-support-backfires-n2177839

EXCERPT

So why is the Secret Service involved in Harris' campaign?

Why wouldn’t they be? The new and improved Secret Service. 

[LMAO]

Why wouldn’t they be? The new and improved Secret Service. 

This was the same Secret Service that was assigned to “protect” Donald Trump

Best election season ever

Maybe we should just privatize the Secret Service

[mountaineer]

Not only did Walz quit the National Guard to avoid going to a combat zone, he claimed to have reached a rank in the U.S. Army that he did not, in fact, achieve. Like a good commie, he doesn't exactly support the U.S. military.

Jim Banks
@Jim_Banks
I served my first two years in Congress with Tim Walz on the House Veterans Committee.  Walz opposed the most important pro-veteran legislation passed in decades just because it was President Trump’s.

The Mission Act was very bipartisan but Walz opposed giving our veterans better access to health care because he didn’t want to give President Trump a win.

Keep in mind, this is the same guy who wants to give illegal aliens free health care & drivers licenses. Walz is bad for our veterans and horrible for our country!

Vote for Trump!
9:56 AM · Aug 6, 2024

Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth
Yes, @Tim_Walz
 ABANDONED his Army unit—all his fellow soldiers—on the eve of their deployment to Iraq. What kind of leader is that? Decades of training. Rank of Sergeant Major. And then…slink away!?
Either political calculation…or a coward. Both unworthy of the White House.
9:38 PM · Aug 6, 2024


The Alan Sanders Show 🇺🇸⚓️🐕
@AlanJSanders
Here is the relevant part of my show from yesterday, discussing Gov. Tim Walz choice to abandon his oath, abandon the people of Minnesota, abandon the defense of our nation and abandon his fellow soldiers. Show me your history and I'll show you who you are.
https://x.com/AlanJSanders/status/1820957618229108836
6:17 AM · Aug 7, 2024

[rangerrebew]

‘Sanctuary state’ Gov. Tim Walz gave illegal migrants taxpayer-funded health care, tuition, driver’s licenses
By Jennie Taer
Published Aug. 6, 2024, 11:09 a.m. ET
 
President Biden’s “border czar,” Veep Kamala Harris, has chosen a fellow soft-on-illegal-immigration politician as her running mate.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, 60, who was named Harris’ vice presidential pick Tuesday, has supported efforts to turn his home state into a sanctuary state while also backing other stances that cater to undocumented migrants.
 
 
“My position on Minnesota becoming a sanctuary state boils down to who has the responsibility for enforcing immigration laws,” Walz told CBS News in 2018.
 
https://nypost.com/2024/08/06/us-news/tim-walz-signed-laws-catering-to-illegal-migrants-giving-them-free-healthcare-tuition/

[IsailedawayfromFR]

https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1820647218656756164

https://twitter.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1820539310409732217

That DUI mugshot was taken in Chadron Nebraska where my son lives.  Walz was a student at Chadron State University then began teaching at a nearby town when he got the DUI in Chadron.

Chadron locals my son knows tells me the DUI is the reason Walz left Nebraska for friendlier climes. Chadron is a conservative town known for its surrounding ranches and would not be prone to embrace the like of Walz, so he may have just been run out of town.

A great role model to admire, eh?

[Timber Rattler]

Meh..nobody really cares about 30 year old DUIs.  It's the same kind of "old news" they tried to hang around Todd Palin's neck back in the day.

[Bigun]

Anyone who lives in any state where there is any possibility of Harris/Walz being elected and refuses to vote for Trump/Vance is neither a friend of mine nor of this Republic.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Meh..nobody really cares about 30 year old DUIs.  It's the same kind of "old news" they tried to hang around Todd Palin's neck back in the day.

Speak for yourself, as plenty of people care about the the moral character that is revealed when someone trusted to teach your kids is arrested, lies to police, then flees the state.

He embraced the socialist state in Minnesota to propagate his own moral deficiencies., so he has been consistent for decades on what he believes.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Some people noted on social media that the comparison fell flat, due to the fact that JD Vance actually served during the Iraq War while Walz did not. Walz’s military record has also been called into question.

Technically, Walz did serve during the Iraq war.  Just not in Iraq.  Vance did serve in Iraq, but not in combat.

[mountaineer]

Technically, Walz did serve during the Iraq war.  Just not in Iraq.  Vance did serve in Iraq, but not in combat.

Vance wasn't on the front lines or in a combat unit, true, but I've read that other Marines doing the exact same job as he were injured and even killed. Walz, on the other hand, was at no risk of harm. Here's one:

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Vance wasn't on the front lines or in a combat unit, true, but I've read that other Marines doing the exact same job as he were injured and even killed. Walz, on the other hand, was at no risk of harm. Here's one:

In the Marines at least, you either have a Combat Action Ribbon, or you don't.  That's the accepted dividing line for whether or not you can claim to have been in combat.  Everything else is talk unless you've been wounded by hostile action, which is the criteria for a Purple Heart.

[mountaineer]

In the Marines at least, you either have a Combat Action Ribbon, or you don't.  That's the accepted dividing line for whether or not you can claim to have been in combat.  Everything else is talk.

I wasn't talking about ribbons. What I said was that she and Vance had the same job in Iraq. She got killed by the enemy. By implication, he also was at some risk during his time there, unlike the coward Walz, who was back home in Minnesota (or China).

McClung, who was 34 at the time of her death, was serving as a media relations officer when a roadside bomb killed her instantly in Ramadi, Iraq, Dec. 6, 2006.

USMC

[Wingnut]

In the Marines at least, you either have a Combat Action Ribbon, or you don't.  That's the accepted dividing line for whether or not you can claim to have been in combat.  Everything else is talk unless you've been wounded under combat conditions, which is the criteria for a Purple Heart.

Vance enlisted in the Corps as a combat correspondent, or 4341 military occupational specialty, according to his service record, which was provided to Military.com by the service on Monday. He served for four years, from 2003 to 2007.

During that time, he deployed to Iraq for six months. Vance earned the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, and some conventional honors awarded during the Global War on Terror.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Vance enlisted in the Corps as a combat correspondent, or 4341 military occupational specialty, according to his service record, which was provided to Military.com by the service on Monday. He served for four years, from 2003 to 2007.

During that time, he deployed to Iraq for six months. [/b]Vance earned the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, and some conventional honors awarded during the Global War on Terror.[/b]

Yes.  But he can't claim combat without a CAR.  Nor has he, btw.

[Wingnut]

Yes.  But he can't claim combat without a CAR.  Nor has he, btw.

Exactly.  But to Mountaineers point.  You can get killed just as dead deployed to a combat area without being a grunt out on patrol. 

[Maj. Bill Martin]

I wasn't talking about ribbons. What I said was that she and Vance had the same job in Iraq. She got killed by the enemy. By implication, he also was at some risk during his time there, unlike the coward Walz, who was back home in Minnesota (or China).USMC

I know - I'm an Academy grad myself and am familiar with her.   And yes, being over these is more dangerous than not being over there.  But it still doesn't qualify as active participation in combat, which is the prerequisite for a CAR.  As I said, Vance clearly has not claimed that - nor did DeSantis, btw.  Doesn't make it not dangerous.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Exactly.  But to Mountaineers point.  You can get killed just as dead deployed to a combat area without being a grunt out on patrol.

Yes.  Again, the only point is that the issue can't, and shouldn't, be pushed beyond the limited point that Walz said something that wasn't true.

[mountaineer]

Again, the only point is that the issue can't, and shouldn't, be pushed beyond the limited point that Walz said something that wasn't true.

That's all I was saying. I never said Vance claimed to be a combat veteran, because he hasn't.
Walz, on the other hand, has lied about several aspects of his military service, including his rank.

[mystery-ak]

You are all missing the point...Walz LIED about his service and rank...Vance did not...it's that simple.

[bigheadfred]

You are all missing the point...Walz LIED about his service and rank...Vance did not...it's that simple.

That is the way I understand it.

LIED about his service and rank.=stolen valor

[Fishrrman]

Revelation:
‘Sanctuary state’ Gov. Tim Walz gave illegal migrants taxpayer-funded health care, tuition, driver’s licenses...

(sigh)
If you're "of the left" (and a substantial portion of the once-United States now IS "of the left"), this is viewed as a plus, not a minus...

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1821637595438444733