# Donald Trump and the runup to the 2024 election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 3, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196 "2024-08-03T16:49:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/281 "2024-09-15T18:08:27Z")
New campaign strategy. Win over the swifties. > ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/282 "2024-09-15T18:09:59Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump’s fans seem to like Melania, and he seems to like her too even though the feeling clearly isn’t mutual these days. I predict he’s gonna pull the “I don’t know anything about Laura Loomer” card soon. When recently asked about some of Loomer’s statements on X, Trump said he doesn’t know what she posts. This seems to stand in stark contrast to Trump fawning over Loomer in the past where he gushed over her attacking his rivals and telling the crowd, “You wouldn’t want to be Loomered.” If Trump has any pet bunnies I hope he’s keeping them safe. ---
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/283 "2024-09-15T18:52:59Z")
MSNBC’s Alex Witt (and a few other online outlets) are reporting that there were shots fired “in the vicinity” of West Palm Beach where the disgraced host of Celebrity Apprentice was golfing. I’m taking this with an oceanful of salt for now. > **[Shots Fired at Trump Property as Donald Trump Golfs: Everything We Know](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gunshots-trump-national-golf-club-1954146)** > > A spokesperson for the former president said "President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity." ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/284 "2024-09-15T19:01:32Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > New campaign strategy. Win over the swifties. If, please God, trump loses, there’ll be a lot of discussion about what was the last straw or death knell to his campaign. Harris entering the race? His awful debate performance against her? Or will it be his all caps declaration “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/285 "2024-09-16T01:18:37Z")
Trump’s wife is racing to his side to comfort him. (Clutches earpiece) Sorry, I’m being told I misspelled “side bitch”. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXitWsrXcAAsgFZ?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXitWsrXcAAsgFZ?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/286 "2024-09-16T01:32:30Z")
Has Donnie blamed this on Kamala, Tim, Joe, Hillary, Barak, or Nancy P yet? Or all of them? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/287 "2024-09-16T01:46:27Z")
Moderating: > [@Smapti](#): > > (Clutches earpiece) Sorry, I’m being told I misspelled “side bitch”. Let’s stop with the misogyny for cheap laffs. This comment adds nothing to the discussion, and it’s offensive. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/288 "2024-09-17T01:36:58Z")
Reggaeton singer Nicky Jam has withdrawn his endorsement of Trump after Trump mistook him for a woman and said “she’s hot”. > **[Reggaeton star scrubs endorsement after Trump misgenders him as 'hot' woman:...](https://www.rawstory.com/nicky-jam/)** > > A Reggaeton star reportedly scrubbed his presidential endorsement off social media after former President Donald Trump mistakenly introduced the singer as a "hot" woman at his weekend campaign rally in Las Vegas.Before realizing singer Nicky Jam was... Jam looks like this, for the record; [![](https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cover-nicky-jam-billboard-2024-rumbazo-devin-christopher-1-1260.jpg?w=1260&h=840&crop=1) ](https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cover-nicky-jam-billboard-2024-rumbazo-devin-christopher-1-1260.jpg?w=1260&h=840&crop=1) ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/289 "2024-09-17T01:49:00Z")
I wonder if he thought Nicky Jam was actually Nikki Haley… or Nancy Pelosi. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/290 "2024-09-17T02:01:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Reggaeton singer Nicky Jam has withdrawn his endorsement of Trump after Trump mistook him for a woman and said “she’s hot” It’s too bad that Jam didn’t withdraw his endorsement when Trump called him onto the stage in Las Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/291 "2024-09-17T03:48:23Z")
I’m dumbstruck not only at Nicky Jam’s initial endorsement but also his rescinding of that endorsement mostly because who the fuck is Nicky Jams? Never heard of him. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/292 "2024-09-17T04:12:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Reggaeton singer Nicky Jam has withdrawn his endorsement of Trump after Trump mistook him for a woman and said “she’s hot”. So I guess gender identity does matter! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/293 "2024-09-17T04:19:16Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Has Donnie blamed this on Kamala, Tim, Joe, Hillary, Barak, or Nancy P yet? Or all of them? Yes, of course! > **[Trump blames Biden and Harris' rhetoric toward him despite his own history of...](https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-2024-election-assassination-attempt-836523f3bbecf4a183dc46fbefd8230a)** > > Former President Donald Trump is blaming rhetoric from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the apparent assassination attempt on him in Florida despite his own history of going after rivals. > [Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump) claimed without evidence Monday that President [Joe Biden](https://apnews.com/hub/joe-biden) and Vice President [Kamala Harris’](https://apnews.com/hub/kamala-harris) comments that he is a threat to democracy had inspired the latest [apparent attempt on his life](https://apnews.com/article/trump-shooting-gunshots-florida-f62f8378d3a8ce7b2e99d6a8fb40aba9), despite his own long history of inflammatory campaign rhetoric and advocacy for jailing or prosecuting his political enemies. > > With the election now just 50 days away and early ballots already being mailed out in some places, this year’s presidential campaign was among the most turbulent in American history even before Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt. Trump was safe after the incident in Florida and praised the Secret Service for protecting him but didn’t shy away from blaming his opponents. > > “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out,” Trump said in comments to Fox News Digital. > In a post on his social media site on Monday, Trump again claimed that he had been the target of politically motivated attacks, writing that the left “has taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust.” He said “it will only get worse” and then veered into comments about immigration, even though there is no evidence the person arrested in connection with the apparent assassination attempt was an immigrant. And, of course, his adorers will eat this up. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/294 "2024-09-17T13:48:53Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > It’s too bad that Jam didn’t withdraw his endorsement when Trump called him onto the stage in Las Vegas. This news has finally motivated me to google Reggaeton. I’ve seen the word a few times, but was always confused. Turns out its a music genre. Electric hip hop and Latin roots. Returning to the subject of the thread, any idea why Nicky Jam originally endorsed Trump? ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/295 "2024-09-18T00:40:27Z")
From Truth Social: > [@Trump](#): > > Illegal Migrants who are POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY, in record numbers, are taking the JOBS away from Black and Hispanic people who have held them for years. It is devastating for the Black and Hispanic patriots of our Nation. KAMALA IS KILLING BLACK AND HISPANIC HERITAGE, SHE IS KILLING THEIR LEGACY AND THEIR RIGHTS. So he’s attempting to curry favor with black and hispanic voters by telling them that they are only worthy of shit jobs that can be easily taken by mentally ill terrorists and that losing those shit jobs will destroy their heritage and legacy (of working shit jobs)? I’m sure the white folks on TS are so very angry about people of color losing those jobs that are theirs by right. MAGA! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/296 "2024-09-18T01:17:34Z")
You just know he wants to say “they’re taking white jobs” and doesn’t understand why Kellyanne keeps taking his phone away from him every time he starts tapping it out. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/297 "2024-09-19T00:08:57Z")
[Trump Attacks the Post Office—and Democracy](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-attacks-the-post-office-and-democracy-mail-in-ballots-dejoy-usps) > [@](#): > > ” they’re gonna lose hundreds of thousands of ballots. Maybe purposely. Or maybe just through incompetence. > > \*We have very bad elections . . . they’re gonna lose hundreds of thousands of ballots.” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is [a celebrated Republican party fundraiser who contributed over $1.5 million to Trump’s campaigns in 2016 and 2020.](https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/8/7/21358946/postal-service-mail-delays-election-trump-mail-in-ballots) I leave it to others to check if he is again contributing to Trump’s campaign. I hope he has learned better. P.S. My last link has outdated information and is only included to document that DeJoy has a history of contributing to many GOP campaigns, including those of DJT. P.P.S. I have no suspicion DeJoy’s politics would impact ballot delivery. None. I just mention his Trumpy history to highlight the absurdity of Trump’s sore-loser-in-advance attack on the Post Office. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/298 "2024-09-19T04:04:13Z")
I keep seeing this anti-Harris ad (well, twice now tonight), and it doesn’t make a lick of sense to me. I haven’t been able to catch who’s paying for it (it’s not the Trump campaign). The narrator says: “Fifty bucks is too much to lose and not enough to win.” He then goes on to say Harris and Biden are to blame for this, but it’s not clear what he’s blaming them for. Then he says vote no on Harris. And that’s it. That’s the ad. Has anyone else seen this ad, and can anyone explain what the thing is with fifty bucks? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/299 "2024-09-19T04:14:06Z")
A Trump ad that bugs me is simply footage of Harris stating the fact that immigrants overall commit fewer crimes per capita than native-born residents; Trump then says “she’s dangerous” or some such. Bizarre. How about footage of Harris saying that one plus one is two? Or that the Pope shits in the woods? That someone could think that, by showing their opponent stating a simple fact, they could persuade people to vote for them (not the opponent)…this is just Orwellian. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/300 "2024-09-19T04:40:12Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > … by showing their opponent stating a simple fact, they could persuade people to vote for them (not the opponent)…this is just Orwellian. “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?” For the past 8 years? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196.md?page=16)