# Kamala Harris and the runup to the 2024 Presidential Election {No more on Guns} **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** kamala-harris\ **Created:** [July 22, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571 "2024-07-22T00:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 105
**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:** [October 29, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2104 "2024-10-29T23:43:28Z")
Nnnope! But she has done everything right, all the metrics point to her win, and I’m feeling it. 🙂 _Someone_ has to be the goat if I’m wrong! (I’m not.) Which isn’t to say the MAGAs won’t fight the win. They will try. But they won’t prevail. I believe in the goodness of the majority. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2105 "2024-10-29T23:45:47Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Which isn’t to say the MAGAs won’t fight the win. They will try. But they won’t prevail. I believe in the goodness of the majority. What if MAGAs are the majority? Just saying. ---
**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 29, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2106 "2024-10-29T23:45:52Z")
She’s making her points, and making them well. I like how she started with Trump’s plan, implied what it meant for the US, and now is moving on to more palatable things. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2107 "2024-10-29T23:46:31Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > What if MAGAs are the majority? They aren’t, and they have never been. That’s just a fact. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2108 "2024-10-29T23:47:53Z")
I hope you’re right. ---
**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 29, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2109 "2024-10-29T23:49:58Z")
“On Day One, Donald Trump will walk into the Oval Office with an enemies list. On Day One, I will walk into the Oval Office with a To Do list.” Great stuff! ---
**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:** [October 29, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2110 "2024-10-29T23:52:12Z")
I’m not the only one who’s confident. I posted this link in another thread, but I can give it again and again, so I’ll give it again here: > **[Harris Aides Quietly Grow More Bullish on Defeating Trump](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/us/politics/kamala-harris-donald-trump-2024-election.html?ogrp=dpl&unlocked_article_code=1.V04.stMx.qI4Ywv65vm3M&smid=url-share)** > > While still cautious, advisers and allies believe that casting Donald Trump as a fascist is working, and that their expansive ground game and appeals on abortion rights may carry the day. Stuff like this doesn’t leak unless there’s a basis for them to have a strong belief that it’s true. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2111 "2024-10-29T23:53:14Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > What if MAGAs are the majority? Just saying. That’s precisely what they want us to believe, like Nixon’s “silent majority” except puffing themselves up and making weird noises like a sage grouse instead of being silent. Just saying. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2112 "2024-10-29T23:56:50Z")
I’m shocked that there are as many MAGAs as there are, and that the race is as close as it is. It should’ve be. It’s become a contest largely between urban/rural, between educated/uneducated, and thanks to Trump and the MAGAs, between women/men. That Lincoln Project ad was a good one. I hope that that’s the way it plays out. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2113 "2024-10-30T00:15:24Z")
She looked nervous initially and stumbled over some of her lines but she finished strong. She didn’t say anything new but she leaned into the American vision and dream. I liked that she got cheers as she called out to each constituency, young voters, women, men, LQBTQ voters, union workers and even Republicans. I think she stressed that there is a place for everyone in her vision. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2114 "2024-10-30T00:22:18Z")
Did anyone else hear the annoying siren at the beginning of her speech? Seemed like she was competing with that noise, which made her sound unsteady and rushed. ---
**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 30, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2115 "2024-10-30T00:23:48Z")
I heard the siren. Yes, she seemed a little unnerved by it, but was just fine when it stopped. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2116 "2024-10-30T00:25:09Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > They did, but that crowd of 75,000 is pretty impressive! > > Does everyone feel the shift in the energy? Ha! Yes, I do! I think it was an awesome speech all around. I moved to CA in ‘99, so I’m familiar with her work here, so I expected a great “Closing” argument. Was that “down with Trump” chanted? ---
**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 30, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2117 "2024-10-30T00:29:09Z")
Trump’s been working towards this for however many years. Harris was thrust into this ninety days ago. And they’re neck-and-neck. Everything else aside, that’s amazing. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2118 "2024-10-30T00:30:52Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Was that “down with Trump” chanted? LOL, I can never tell what’s being chanted unless someone tells me. But it sounds about right. 🙂 Kamalamentum! ---
**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 30, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2119 "2024-10-30T00:35:32Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Kamalamentum! Word of the week! Nicely done! ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2120 "2024-10-30T00:42:58Z")
Again I say, _Do not tempt_ _the wrath of the Whatever, from high atop the Thing_ . This election is one stand up comic from disaster. ---
**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 30, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2121 "2024-10-30T00:44:25Z")
I think the LP ad is a very clever strategy. I’m also utterly sickened that in 2024 there are women who have to cook up a scheme, I Love Lucy style, to cast their own vote. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/2122 "2024-10-30T01:15:52Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > What if MAGAs are the majority? Trump has never won a majority of voters. And since he ascended to office in 2016, the Republicans have failed in the next 3 national elections. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > …that crowd of 75,000 is pretty impressive! I’m so glad she took my advice! Obama ended his campaign in ‘08 with very large crowds, and I was hoping that she’d also gather together a huge group of supporters. I think people want to be a part of something big, and she’s given them that feeling of representing a winning side. ---
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