"See, two years ago I wouldn't have had a fly up here. You're changing rapidly. But we can't take it any longer. We can't take it any longer. It takes centuries to build up the unique character of the United States of America. Centuries and centuries, it goes on forever."

No spokesflies were available after the event since the entire party congregated at the dumpster where Trump's overloaded Depends were placed after his rally.

Walz was a hit at the game today. They lovingly chanted 'Get out of here!'

What do you expect when Michigan fans were left standing in the pouring rain for 30 minutes to allow Walz inside before them?

Yea, I would not have gone with "perfect" in that sentence.

I think you missed that I used the word only as in a direct comparison to Trump's pick, JD., not in the sense that Walz is any more perfect than the rest of us imperfect beings.

In, THAT comparison, it's easy to call Walz a "perfect" choice by, and more importantly for Harris, namely for the very reasons you mentioned above added to my own: JD doesn't project a humane spirit - with his racist attacks on Haitians; he's visibly uncomfortable around regular people - namely because he doesn't see himself as one, so he can't help but reek of elitist superiority; and he's spent scant few months of his adult life helping or serving the public good and has no experience in government management outside of possibly his Senate staff - who's probably managed by his chief of staff. Yet he may end up heading the whole thing, something he's incredibly inexperienced to do.

I think you buried the lede - but thanks for this extremely important information being lost in the undertow of all things Trump.

A bigger deal than the indicted IRGC hackers in Iran. This man was here, working for our government.

The US can expect civil lawsuits.

Yet again, you prove how little you know about this nation and our laws. Numbers alone don't tell the entire story. And I've already corrected you once, yet you try again with statistics removed from context, conflating bureaucratic law and regulations as something reckless instead of the Congress-ordered reality of current US policy that one party continually tries to address and the other party refuses to just for politically convenient exploitation like you're doing. Read this as many times as it takes to sink in.

But then, after President Joe Biden's debate face-plant on June 27, and his exit from the campaign a few weeks later, Walz decided he might as well get himself out there a little more. He would shed his camouflage hat, throw on a tie, and try to fit some TV interviews into his busy schedule of changing air filters, hunting pheasants, and governing Minnesota.

And wouldn't you know it, Walz was an instant sensation: He relentlessly touted Harris and crushed Donald Trump and dismissed certain Republicans as "weird" in a punchy procession of appearances. Next thing he knew, in early August, Harris was on the phone asking him to be her running mate, and Walz was saying, Sure, why not, he'd be happy to help - just as he would if, say, Harris were his friend down the road who needed help shoveling out her car after a blizzard.

"As I told the vice president, whatever I can offer, I will do," Walz said in Grand Rapids, recounting Harris's fateful "Let's do this, buddy!" invitation. A sensation was born.

When Harris picked Walz, she knew that this would be an abbreviated race, with limited time to make an impression. The campaign clearly saw Walz as embodying an archetype of American masculinity that would stand in contrast with the noisy grievance guys in the red MAGA hats and creepy venture-capitalist types like Vance, who can't order a damn doughnut without breaking into hives. Walz is a much more approachable avatar for would-be Harris supporters, those classic rockers, tellers of dad jokes, and football-watching wearers of Taylor Swift friendship bracelets. They are content to sit at home and mind their own damn business unless called upon, in which case they're happy to pitch in and help. How could these dudes - who ideally live in places like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin - not relate to Tim Walz?

To judge Kamala Harris on hers is to instantly recognize what a perfect choice Tim Walz has been in contrast to everything JD Vance isn't, namely an actual humane soul, comfortable in his own skin with a lifelong record of service to both his nation and community.

I guess it shows how "regular" Tim Walz is in comparison to Vance's excentricities that I seldom see him mentioned in the news with the regularity of Vance and his sycophantic miming of Trumpisms often without the intentional ambiguity that is Trump's entire trademark and political brand.

Hopefully the upcoming debate will again focus America's attention on just who's better prepared to take over the White House if either presidential candidate has to be replaced.

It's funny to me that you tout the likes of Lindsay Graham when he says something you like.

Why is it "funny" to you when someone brings truth into a discussion regardless of the source? If Trump says "2+2=4" you expect us to reflexively oppose it just because he said it?

You repeatedly show that you have neither the intellectual capacity nor honesty to be considered a serious arbiter of anything other than half-truths, distortions and gaslighting. Perhaps try reading and comprehending just who said what and why instead of emoting like an impetuous child wanting the security of their blankee when confronted by actual facts and reality outside your desired narratives. I mentioned Lindsey, not Danforth, but he's an ankle biter? Not in the least, that would be you.

The American experiment in tri-cameral government is based on incremental change - sometimes over the course of decades and centuries - not wholesale change wanted by a minority which refuses to compromise unless they get everything they want immediately, just like the impetuous child mentioned above.

The GOP nominee, in an event moderated by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), remarked on himself after hearing from someone named Ashley who identified herself as an employee at a Chrysler auto plant in the battleground state.

"With many jobs being outsourced as we speak, what actions will you take to ensure that our jobs stay in America so we can continue to build the best cars in the world here in Michigan," asked the voter at the event in Warren, Michigan.

"So pretty much as we've been saying and what I want to do is that I want to be able to - look, your business - years ago, in this area, I was honored as the man of the year," said Trump as he revived a long-debunked claim.

"It was maybe 20 years ago, oh, and the fake news heard about it, they said it never happened, it never happened."

Investigations by HuffPost and CNN found no evidence evidence whatsoever of this happening.

All Biden had to do it filter the bad ones and things would have been fine.

You're a moron, right off the Kremlin hotline with insipid talking points assuming Americans are too stupid to read for themselves.

That immigration bill sucked.

No one said it was perfect. The question is, was it better than this? Absolutely. You can't always get everything you want.

You prove exactly why there's been no movement for decades. You won't take less than 100%.

It had strong opposition in the Senate and was DOA in the House.

Only because of Trump. It was the most right wing border bill EVER, Lindsey said so.

Trump is the gravity within Republican politics. What he says, goes.

I believe those ICE reported numbers also included over 200 thousand with charges pending.

All roaming our streets thanks to Uncle Joe.

Wow, and who's fault is it that the GOP-authored Immigration Reform Bill was nuked with its provisions of addressing the broken migration system when he told Republicans to vote against their own bill?

But better yet, why don't we read the document where ICE compiled all their bureaucratic statistics along with explanation of the current laws they operate under which would have been enhanced in the Trump-killed bill.

U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an annualized rate of 3 percent in the second quarter, showing an impressive performance for the economy through an elevated interest rate environment set by the Federal Reserve. Three percent growth in the Commerce Department's third estimate of GDP performance confirmed the second estimate, which also came in at 3 percent. Both were up from 1.6-percent growth in the first quarter.

The standard Republican line about Trump's economic performance is that 2020, when there was a recession as a direct result of a pandemic, shouldn't count. But even if we exclude 2020, economic growth in the United States has been stronger under Biden/Harris than under Trump/Pence.

With fewer than 40 days remaining before Election Day, this probably isn't the news Republicans wanted to see.

In the Republicans' version of reality, the brief August Wall Street slide was obviously Vice President Kamala Harris' fault. The Republican National Committee hyped the "Great Kamala Crash of 2024," and the Trump campaign had produced and circulated on social media a video tying the vice president to Monday's dip in the markets. By the afternoon, the Trump forces had turned "KamalaCrash" into a "trending" subject on X.

As September comes to end, Americans are no longer hearing much about the "Kamala Crash," in large part because there's been no crash. All of the Wall Street losses from earlier in the month have been regained, and economic growth in the United States continues to quite good.

If voters are supposed to believe that Harris is directly responsible for the world's largest economy, how much credit are Trump and the GOP prepared to give the incumbent vice president for 3% GDP growth?

As for the Republicans' crystal ball, four years ago, Trump told supporters that Democratic policies would "unleash an economic disaster of epic proportions" and force the country "into depression." He's begun making nearly identical predictions ahead of Election Day 2024.

Everything Trump said was wrong - and he hasn't even tried to explain why his predictions were so hilariously misplaced, or why anyone should believe his new predictions in light of his awful track record.

Reality has a very strong Biden/Harris bias these days regardless of what Trump's gaslighting tv commercials are telling Americans about our current economic state.

demolished her over her interview.

The article sited did nothing of the sort. Why do you insist on gaslighting every single topic? Why not actually READ what was written, not your insipid false spin on a fairly straightforward article.

Reid Epstein did - again - want to hold Harris to a standard no one holds Trump to - expecting details on policies not yet fully formed and then he obliviously noted the reason why Harris might be reticent to boldly promise what she cannot deliver without help.

Ms. Ruhle brought up the elephant in the room: How could any of this happen without Democratic control of the Senate?

This is a key question that hangs over the Harris campaign as Democrats increasingly fear Senator Jon Tester of Montana is in a perilous political situation. If he loses his re-election bid, Democrats would need to flip at least one Republican-held Senate seat to retain control of the chamber - an unlikely prospect given this year's daunting map for the party.

That is an argument she may find herself making to very skeptical Senate Republicans next year if she wins the White House.

It's political malfeasance to offer details when your opponent won't. When you do you create a target for negative ads. Speaking of which, Trump is still running ads that were accurate a year or two ago, but not now. Inflation has dropped from its highs and continues to do so. Unemployment is still near historic lows while his commercials claim its rising and that a recession is just around the corner. He falsely claims that wages are down, when they aren't. Anything of detail that Harris articulates now will only be used against her.

When she says trust her values, most people understand exactly what that means - look at her political life and what she's always placed at the forefront of efforts over decades of public service. No one can say what needs to happen after January 20th because so much can change before then. But America can decide who'd they'd rather have making those important decisions - the candidate whose spent her entire adult life serving the American people or the candidate whose spent his entire life serving himself and his own ego, to the extent he's hawking cheap branded goods simultaneously as he's running for President, blurring all lines between election laws not designed to address for-profit candidates.

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My guess would be zero if they're coming from Mexico due to NAFTA.

So, a general question ... with all the talk of tariffs that fmr Pres Trump spouts in his rally speeches, how does he balance the cost of those tariffs being passed on to consumers with his comments about lowering inflation?

He doesn't. It's that simple. In Trump's reality, tariffs are paid by foreign manufacturers, not American consumers and no one is going to change his mind on that. So his inability to tie higher domestic prices for goods to inflation is simply another liberal plot or fake news, no more no less.

This is why criticisms of Harris are so maddening. Trump talks complete gibberish or creates his own reality that doesn't exist, yet it's Harris who can't verbally communicate effectively according to our resident gaslighting champion.

If Trump and Trumpers didn't have projection, they'd never gained any political traction whatsoever. Whatever the accuse Democrats of doing is the very thing they're doing in spades.

It's obvious why her team has kept her from the press.

Hmmmmmm, who to believe, Mark Cuban or Strawlighter......

It could become a major Category 4 hurricane.

It is now officially a Cat 4 storm.

Even in the friendliest environments she fails to answer basic questions that should be a no- brained for a presidential candidate.

Name one question Trump has answered during his entire 3 year campaign to become President again.

Sometimes I think you just fell off a turnip truck. No candidate answers any question that they don't want to. Harris didn't start it, and she certainly won't be the last.

Binary idiots like you want to criticise others for what you allow in yourself and others you support. Questions about what someone would do NOW, or what someone thought THEN are wholly irrelevant to future decisions they might have to make because life isn't static, and what's true right now may be inoperative tomorrow, so why create an impression in simple minds that can be endlessly criticized if one needs to change approach or opinion? Intelligent people innately understand this, while morons stay chained to stupid zero sum mentalities of their own creation.

That describes you and Trump to a T.

Kamala Harris is roundly criticized for feeding America a steady diet of word salads

A career prosecutor whose entire adult life has been spent speaking in open court or in front of the public representing the offices she was elected to lead?

It's truly pathetic the extent you go in order to gaslight what any sentient person with ears has never thought when listening to the entirety of Harris' remarks about anything.

As a citizen, veteran and voter, I was not comfortable with many of the policy recommendations that Democrats offered at their convention in Chicago or those Republicans articulated in Milwaukee. My views tend more toward the center of the political spectrum. And although I have opinions on high-profile issues, like abortion, gun safety and immigration, that's not why I made my decision.

Character is the ultimate measure of leadership for those who seek the highest office in our land. The American revolutionary Thomas Paine is said to have written, "Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." Regardless of what a person says, character is ultimately laid bare in his or her actions. So I pay attention to what a leader does.

I've thought deeply about my choice and considered what I've seen and heard and what I owe my three granddaughters. I've concluded that it isn't political slogans or cultural tribalism; it is the best president my vote might help select. So I have cast my vote for character, and that vote is for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Ms. Harris has the strength, the temperament and, importantly, the values to serve as commander in chief. When she sits down with world leaders like President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, representing the United States on the global stage, I have no doubt that she is working in our national interest, not her own.

I would urge others to vote as I have. But whatever decision you make, let it be thoughtfully considered, carefully reached and yours alone. We'll all have to live with it.