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America is strong because its leaders are strong. President Trump proves that every day. Naturally, his son Barron is more than ready to defend the country his father so boldly commands. Service is honor. Strength is inherited. Dog Bless Barron.


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Apparently, to Caius Marcius Coriolanus, Jews, Israel, and especially so-called APAIC-Democrats - are the reason why Harris lost in 2024.

It was Jews, Israel, and especially so-called APAIC-Democrats

And, yet ...

Five Reasons Harris Lost

Why Kamala Harris lost: A flawed candidate or doomed campaign?

Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives' autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures

Why Kamala Harris lost the election

Brookings: Why Donald Trump won and Kamala Harris lost: An early analysis of the results

There is no one reason Harris lost

Politicians and activists are trying to sell disingenuous and nonfactual explanations of why Harris lost to push their ideology. Don't fall for it.
Democrats were united and turned out. Harris lost anyway.
Voters issued a broad repudiation of not only Harris' campaign but the Democratic Party's vision for the country.
A Former Republican Strategist on Why Harris Lost
Inflation, moderation, and candidate effects
What Was the Biggest Factor in Kamala Harris's Defeat?
I keep saying that the They/Them ads in the 7 swing states did it.

But it is clear that that was just one input into the outcome of November, 2024.

And, yes, Gaza definitely affected the votes of many normally Democratic voters.

But, as for the deciding factors... Jews, Israel, and especially so-called APAIC-Democrats are not the be-all and end-all of failed American politics.

To a hammer everything looks like a nail.

Apparently, to Caius Marcius Coriolanus, every Democratic Party loss is due to Jews, Israel, and especially so-called APAIC-Democrats.

#11 Caius Marcius Coriolanus states, And still the DNC does not release the official autopsy report of how their 2024 incumbent ticket lost and why 6,265,888 of their former supporters stayed home on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024 rather than vote for Dummkopf Trumpf or Jill Stein."

Actually, the reason is obvious...

Throughout the month of October, 2024, the Trump campaign (and associated entities) spent $300,000,000.00 on ads in all 7 swing states during televised NFL and NCAA football games. The topic of all of those ads? Then-CA Attorney General Kamala Harris' 2019 response to a question about a Trump administration dictate on gender-affirming (read: trans) care for federal inmates

click graphic above for actual She's for They/Them ad

And the amount of money the Harris campaign spent countering those She's for They/Them ads in the swing states during NFL and NCAA football games? You know, to point out the truth that she was simply responding to a question about a Trump administration dictate on gender-affirming for federal inmates? To counter the deceptive, the lying-by-omission ads run by Trump & company?

Zero dollars

The efficacy of this strategy was born out election night, 2024, when Steve Kornacki was calling individual counties (starting with Pennsylvania) and highlighting that the Harris/Walz ticket was falling short of votes as opposed to the votes in the 2020 election for the Biden/Harris ticket. His reporting was, in effect, a death by 1,000 cuts for Harris/Walz.

Trump & company knew that all it would take would be the suppression of Biden votes in 2024 by just a point or two for Trump to carry those counties, all 7 swing states and, ultimately, the election. They judged, correctly, that men - men of color and white - would be turned off enough by the "pro-trans" Harris that they voted for Trump, or didn't vote at all.

Either way, mission accomplished.

#44 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You believe that Republicans are better than Democrats ("Whether THEY (the dems who stuck to tradition and chose to do nothing after fascists attempted a coup and russia installed operatives in the white house) are worse than republicans is a matter of semantics.")

Not semantics:

Clarence Thomas
Samuel Alito
Sonia Sotomayor
Elena Kagan
Neil Gorsuch
Brett Kavanaugh
Amy Coney Barrett
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Joh Roberts
Not semantics:
President Donald Trump 2025"present
Vice President JD Vance 2025"present
Secretary of State Marco Rubio 2025"present
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent 2025"present
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth 2025"present
Attorney General Pam Bondi 2025"2026
Todd Blanche (Acting) 2026"present
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum 2025"present
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins 2025"present
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick 2025"present
Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer 2025"present
Secretary of Health and
Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2025"present
Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development Scott Turner 2025"present
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy 2025"present
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright 2025"present
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon 2025"present
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins 2025"present
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem 2025"2026
Markwayne Mullin 2026"present
Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin 2025"present
Director of the Office of
Management and Budget Russell Vought 2025"present
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard 2025"present
Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency John Ratcliffe 2025"present
United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer 2025"present
Administrator of the
Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler 2025"present
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles 2025"present

Speaks states, "...it is kicking the DNC tools to the curb and calling out their failures."

Okay.

There are over 400 official members of the Democratic National Committee. Generally speaking, they are people from all 50 states (and all the territories). In addition, there are thousands of Americans who work with and volunteer for the Democratic Party. at the (very) local level (voting precincts), county/parish level, state-level, regional level, and national. This group also includes elected Democratic officials, from Mayor Mamdani in the Big Apple to your very own precinct committeeperson in your neighborhood.

Again, generally speaking, they are people from all walks of life who share a commitment to the Democratic Party.

Please list which ones are "DNC tools" and which ones are not, so we know where to call out the failures.

Meanwhile, the DNC has been doing pretty good, as of late ...

-> Georgia voters ousted two Republican members of the state's Public Service Commission in favor of two Democrats - the first Democrats to win statewide nonfederal offices in decades.

-> Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.'s State House Supermajority

-> Every single county in Virginia - even deeply red counties - saw shifts TOWARDS the Democrats, as opposed to how they voted 1 year ago.

-> Dems flip Wichita School Board from a 4-3 GOP majority to a 5-2 Democratic majority. Democratic candidates Amy Warren and Amy Jensen defeated Republican incumbents Hazel Stabler and Kathy Bond.

-> Two of Tuesday's school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered "ground zero" for right-wing groups' takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

---> Democrats flipped control of both boards in 2023, and on Tuesday, they ousted every Republican from both of these boards, except for one. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. The Central Bucks school board is 9-0.

-> In Texas, we even won in Lockhart, which sits in a district so red that Democrats normally don't even run. We had a clean sweep in Cy-Fair ISD, another deeply red area that not even Greg Abbott could save your party.

-> In SD-9, another red district, we saw an 8 point shift for the Democrat

-> Eileen Higgins elected as first Democratic mayor of Miami in three decades

Or are all those failures, too?

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