# 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:** 18
**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 22, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/341 "2024-09-22T16:44:54Z")
Of course, no worries at all. ---
**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 22, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/342 "2024-09-22T16:51:33Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > It looks real But it’s not. Look closely at the lower right-hand corner of the supposed xitter from DJT. ---
**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 22, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/343 "2024-09-22T16:53:50Z")
Well shit, I sincerely apologize to everyone. I missed that it was satire. I hate it more that I thought him capable of such a statement. ---
**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 22, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/344 "2024-09-22T17:07:00Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Has trump been associating with any criminals in violation of his parole? He’s not on parole. Parole is for people who have been sentenced to prison (as opposed to jail) and have served their term. When Trump is sentenced by Justice Merchan for the one state criminal case for which he has been convicted, he will be placed on probation or parole depending on if a jail or prison sentence is imposed, if any. He is currently on conditional release pending sentencing, with one of those conditions being that he not fraternize with convicted felons. He can fraternize with criminals, just not convicted felons. Just to clarify. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/345 "2024-09-22T18:51:16Z")
I hope that this article is accurate and the Trump campaign is such a bunch of stumblebums that they destroy their own campaign without any outside help. Though a carefully-aimed lighting bolt wouldn’t go amiss either. > **[Republicans in swing states say they see scant signs of groups door-knocking...](https://apnews.com/article/trump-political-action-committees-voter-canvassing-musk-0c1c095a6516b7bcbc80bf94fe0fe45a)** > > Republican activists in swing states say they’ve seen little sign of the teams tasked with knocking on doors and turning out infrequent voters on behalf of Donald Trump. ---
**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 22, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/346 "2024-09-22T19:45:03Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > | KNOW I SAID THIS IN 2016, BUT THIS TIME I REALLY > MEAN IT! LET’S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN! I know I’m late to the party, but this last sentence is a straight tell that this isn’t real. Trump would NEVER admit to having been wrong in the past - the real guy would have said that everything was perfect when he was president, and then Kamala Harris ruined it. ---
**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 22, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/347 "2024-09-22T20:27:12Z")
I feel very stupid. I should have known, but he’s been saying the craziest things. I hate that I fell for it. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/348 "2024-09-22T21:43:41Z")
Though is anyone who’d vote for Trump at this point an “infrequent voter”? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/349 "2024-09-22T21:50:43Z")
Apparently if Trump doesn’t make it this time he won’t run again. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/350 "2024-09-22T21:53:28Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Though is anyone who’d vote for Trump at this point an “infrequent voter”? Based just on the vote turnout, I’m going to say that there’s lots of people who have only voted in the two elections where Trump was on the ballot. And many who only did in 2020. I also saw some article (which I’m too lazy to hunt down) that the Trump campaign’s main ground game efforts will be in the way of polling place observers. In other words, voter suppression. ---
**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 22, 2024, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/351 "2024-09-22T22:35:45Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > polling place observers. In other words, voter suppression. Honest question, though: will these observers (who will be inside the polling place legally, assumedly) cause voters to turn around and leave before they vote? Or are these observers outside the location, placed there to harass or intimidate potential voters? (Which is illegal, of course, but that won’t stop them.) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/352 "2024-09-22T22:52:36Z")
Trump has a meeting with some of his friends from Qutar: > **['It's going to cost you the presidency': Trump fans enraged by his latest action](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fans-enraged-qatar-meeting/)** > > Donald Trump over the weekend boasted about meeting his foreign leader "friends" at Mar-a-Lago, but the ex-president's supporters didn't take it very well. > > Trump took to his own social media network, Truth Social, on Sunday to thank multiple Middle... ---
**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 22, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/353 "2024-09-22T23:22:52Z")
No better way to show your support for Israel than sucking up to the leaders of the country that are harboring Hamas’ leadership, eh Donald? [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYF9dRCW0AAYaZY?format=jpg&name=large) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYF9dRCW0AAYaZY?format=jpg&name=large) ---
**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 22, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/354 "2024-09-22T23:29:35Z")
> [@from Darren\_Garrison's link](#): > > ['It's going to cost you the presidency': Trump fans enraged by his latest action](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fans-enraged-qatar-meeting/) And every one of them will still vote for him. ---
**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 22, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/355 "2024-09-22T23:52:22Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Apparently if Trump doesn’t make it this time he won’t run again. Here’s a cite, but there are plenty of them out there. > **[Trump says he won’t run again if he loses 2024 election. Why Brownstein isn’t...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/22/politics/video/trump-2028-if-loses-2024-election-brownstein-digvid)** > > Donald Trump says that if he were to lose the 2024 presidential election to Vice President Kamala Harris he would not seek the presidency in 2028. CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein says he thinks Trump would backtrack a little on that if it... Hmmm…it seems very out of character for him to allow the possibility that he might not win. 🤔 That doesn’t sound like the Donnie we love to hate. ---
**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 23, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/356 "2024-09-23T00:05:03Z")
I speculated in another thread that Trump has a health issue that he is aware of but hasn’t made public yet. But since he’s no good at keeping secrets… ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/357 "2024-09-23T00:08:14Z")
I predict: Anal-Cranial inversion. ---
**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 23, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/358 "2024-09-23T00:16:46Z")
B-b-b-but only losers get sick! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/359 "2024-09-23T00:35:40Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Honest question, though: will these observers (who will be inside the polling place legally, assumedly) cause voters to turn around and leave before they vote? Or are these observers outside the location, placed there to harass or intimidate potential voters? (Which is illegal, of course, but that won’t stop them.) I’m an actual poll worker. Assuming that the policies and procedures in my county are universal: observers are welcome. They check in with the site manager (they don’t have to state any particular affiliation) and then they sit in chairs inside the polling location, at a distance from the voting machines, and watch. That’s it. They’re not allowed to speak to any voters. It’s the most boring job imaginable. Electioneering outside the polling place (within 100’ of the entrance) is illegal. If the poll workers see it happening, they’d call the cops. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/360 "2024-09-23T00:38:47Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Well shit, I sincerely apologize to everyone. I missed that it was satire. I’m more disappointed that it wasn’t about life being a mess if you’re broke and everything you love is DOA, what with your breakfast being burnt and your job being a joke. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196.md?page=19)