# 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:** 29
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/561 "2024-10-17T00:51:07Z")
Well, you wouldn’t expect Raw Story to use a headline like “Dems roll their eyes at more of the usual from the GOP,” now, woufd you? ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/562 "2024-10-17T01:31:06Z")
Potential October Surprise incoming: Rachel Maddow reports that Trump tried again A FEW MONTHS AGO to pay Stormy Daniels for her silence. > **[Maddow’s bombshell reporting: Trump trying to pay Stormy Daniels to be quiet...](https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maddow-s-bombshell-reporting-trump-trying-to-pay-stormy-daniels-to-be-quiet-again-221947973843)** > > Rachel Maddow breaks down her bombshell reporting on how Trump is once again trying to pay Stormy Daniels to be quiet. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/563 "2024-10-17T01:55:54Z")
Trump is going to stare at the fry cooker, hold up an empty basket and smile sagely. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/564 "2024-10-17T01:59:47Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I predict it takes him about five minutes to dunk his tie into the fryer, set it on fire while trying to dry it off, then try to put out the fire by splashing a bucket of water on himself. I’d like to see him on the Big Mac line. “Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, and Trump’s tie on a sesame seed bun.” ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/565 "2024-10-17T02:05:30Z")
They can’t legally allow him to really work, can they? Must be just a photo op. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/566 "2024-10-17T02:07:02Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > They can’t legally allow him to really work, can they? Why couldn’t they? He’s an adult. That said, it’s clearly going to be a photo op, and if he “works,” it’ll be for a couple of minutes, tops. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/567 "2024-10-17T02:07:35Z")
Legally? Really? Since when has Trump or his campaign concerned themselves with the legality of anything? Anything at all. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/568 "2024-10-17T02:57:57Z")
He will stand in front of the fryer, give a thumbs up and smile for a photo then report how it was the easiest job he ever had and if Harris thought it was tough than she is not qualified to be President then report that she lied and never actually worked at McDonalds. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/569 "2024-10-17T03:41:45Z")
I just saw Maddie’s report on the new Stormi Daniels hush money story. How absolutely stupid are Trump’s lawyers sending an email saying that they will knock $30K off what she owes him if she signs an NDA and agrees to not say anything bad about him. ( For those wondering, she had a failed defamation lawsuit against him and owes for his lawyers’ fees which have been climbing since she was unable to pay. They finally agreed on $635K all in without the NDA which she apparently paid and is now free of him). ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/570 "2024-10-17T03:45:24Z")
Apparently stoopid enough to claim hackers are responsible. Luckily, they are looking into it. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/571 "2024-10-17T03:53:29Z")
There’s a certain cleverness to it in that they aren’t offering her a payoff. They’re offering to let her keep more of her own (albeit crowdfunded) money. And since they wouldn’t have to launder that, Trump won’t get into the same kind of trouble as before. Interesting to see what her silence is worth to him though. Everybody already knows every detail of the story, Trump. Why bother trying to cover it up? It only makes you look guiltier, as hard as it is to believe that is even possible. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/572 "2024-10-17T11:12:41Z")
I didn’t watch it-how did his Univision interview go? Or is it tonight? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/573 "2024-10-17T11:18:13Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I didn’t watch it-how did his Univision interview go? Or is it tonight? I’m not sure if you’ve heard but they are eating pets in Springfield Ohio. No mention of the great taco salad at Trump Tower. > **[5 takeaways from Trump’s Univision town hall](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4938010-takeaways-trumps-univision-town-hall/amp/)** > > Former President Trump on Wednesday fielded questions from Latino voters at a Univision town hall as he seeks to court the key voting bloc in November’s election.  Trump detailed his plans to … ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/574 "2024-10-17T12:20:12Z")
Mitch McConnell’s admiration for Trump is on display in [a new biography](https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mcconnell-called-trump-stupid-despicable-private-after-2020-114884151) of the Kentucky senator. > [@](#): > > …he said in his oral history that “it’s not just the Democrats who are counting the days” until Trump left office, and that Trump’s behavior “only underscores the good judgment of the American people. They’ve had just enough of the misrepresentations, the outright lies almost on a daily basis, and they fired him.” > > “And for a narcissist like him,” McConnell continued, “that’s been really hard to take, and so his behavior since the election has been even worse, by far, than it was before, because he has no filter now at all.” > > Before those Georgia runoffs, McConnell said Trump is “stupid as well as being ill-tempered and can’t even figure out where his own best interests lie.” > > Trump was also holding up a [coronavirus aid package](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-bills-3cf97d6b39b80213ecd3d49ed4dcdc1e) at the time, despite bipartisan support. “This despicable human being,” McConnell said in his oral history, “is sitting on this package of relief that the American people desperately need.” And with all of that, McConnell has endorsed Trump in '24, because, y’know, Republicans gotta stick together, even if it means electing stupid, despicable, narcissistic candidates. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/575 "2024-10-17T12:51:35Z")
It’s mind blowing how many campaigns ads I’m seeing that focus on the tiny Venn diagram of misplaced, ignorant fears: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, CRIME, and…SEX-CHANGE OPERATIONS. I wish I were kidding. This is not the Onion, Andy Borowitz, or SNL. These are a barrage of real ads, claiming the most important problem our country faces are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS GETTING SEX-CHANGE OPERATIONS IN PRISONS. I’m very saddened that so many people will nod their heads in agreement…but I’m also happy, because _that’s all you got_? ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/576 "2024-10-17T13:00:46Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I’d like to see him on the Big Mac line. “Once again, _Mister_ Trump, you have to _serve the Big Mac to the customer_, not just _eat it yourself_.” ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/577 "2024-10-17T13:45:05Z")
Attacking on the border is a no-brainer, but I am a bit surprised at just how big a role anti-trans rhetoric is playing in the Republicans’ closing argument to voters. And how little they’re focusing on inflation and other “kitchen table” issues. The last few weeks of the election are generally where you make your pitch to that thin sliver of voters who may still be wavering. I have to think that the audience that would be receptive to an “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS GETTING SEX-CHANGE OPERATIONS IN PRISONS!!” message are already locked in for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/578 "2024-10-17T14:11:21Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > at just how big a role anti-trans rhetoric is playing in the Republicans’ closing argument to voters. Funny but my quick skim read initially read that as “ in the Republicans’ _losing_ argument to voters.” 😀 Anti-woke still resonates in the silo but it isn’t winning over anyone or driving up turnout. It distracts from the arguments that would likely be more winning for them, the economy along with immigration. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/579 "2024-10-17T14:14:01Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > I have to think that the audience that would be receptive to an “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS GETTING SEX-CHANGE OPERATIONS IN PRISONS!!” message are already locked in for Trump. The despiration in their ads reminds me of an old SNL skit called [“Talk Back”](https://www.tiktok.com/@huggyattack/video/7361283999769054506). It’s about a talk radio show that doesn’t have anyone calling in, so the host brings up more and more controversial topics. Eventually he gets to: > [@](#): > > How ’bout this? “Killing Puppies — It Doesn’t Bother Me” … That’s me, Frank Noland, and I LIKE dead puppies! Frankly,I’m totally in favor of using federally supported municipal bonds to pay for forced busing of Soviet Communists to come into your homes to kill your puppies! Give me a call, won’t you? The lines are open. Tell ME what you think about it. Dead, mangled puppies… I like ’em … ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196/580 "2024-10-17T16:19:46Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I hope he reaches in after a few fries. As always, the Simpsons did it first. [![](https://i.imgur.com/cBaxXnW.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/cBaxXnW.png) First thing that popped in my head. I’m surprised the Secret Service would be okay with it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/1005196.md?page=30)