# 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:** 13
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/241 "2024-08-03T17:26:14Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > So you obviously weren’t alive in 1964, or 1972, or 1980. That was clearly the point Velocity was making. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/242 "2024-08-03T17:27:25Z")
Even more so 1984 when Reagan got 525 of the 538. But let’s drop the 400+ Electoral votes now. It isn’t really on-topic or likely. **Moderating** ---
**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:** [August 4, 2024, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/243 "2024-08-04T09:40:26Z")
Doug Emhoff had an affair during his first marriage. Why this matters in the race to be President I don’t know, but I’m sure the Republicans (was going to go with Weird Old Party but the acronym isn’t great) will try to make gold out of hay, like Rumplstilzkin. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/244 "2024-08-04T12:11:19Z")
The colorful Obama Hope type poster with trump and “weird”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/245 "2024-08-04T14:27:51Z")
Not sure the Republicans want to go on about “affairs” while the NY trial sentencing is coming up… ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/246 "2024-08-04T14:32:42Z")
It’s laughable to think that Republicans could make an issue of Doug Emhoff having an affair when Donald Trump has had three wives and cheated on all of them. And yet, if they do, his supporters will have absolutely no trouble maintaining the cognitive dissonance that Doug Emhoff is a dirty, immoral cheater while Donald Trump is the savior of Christian virtue. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/247 "2024-08-04T15:08:46Z")
never mind ---
**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:** [August 4, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/248 "2024-08-04T16:04:32Z")
More Republicans are supporting Kamala. Here’s hoping they can sway some votes without having her make too many concessions. > **[Republicans for Harris launches, aiming for Biden-like appeal to anti-Trump...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/04/politics/republicans-for-harris-anti-trump-gop-voters/index.html)** > > The group known as Republicans for Biden is officially relaunching Sunday as Republicans for Harris, and aides on the revamped Democratic campaign are hoping that a much different candidate will be able to... ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/249 "2024-08-04T17:38:06Z")
Republicans should shitcan trump and focus on down ballot and 2028. It will hurt them to reject him. It’s like someone with a huge infested abscess on their ass that they they’ve let get out of hand visits Dr Pimplepopper. They’re usually embarrassed that they’ve let the stinky thing get so big, and they’re relieved when she gets it all out, liner and all, and neatly sews it up. There will always be a little scar to remind them. It’s just like that. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/250 "2024-08-04T17:42:15Z")
Moderating: > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Republicans should shitcan trump and focus on down ballot and 2028. It will hurt them to reject him. It’s like someone with a huge infested abscess on their ass that they they’ve let get out of hand visits Dr Pimplepopper. They’re usually embarrassed that they’ve let the stinky thing get so big, and they’re relieved when she gets it all out, liner and all, and neatly sews it up. There will always be a little scar to remind them. It’s just like that. Please don’t post about Trump in a Harris thread unless it’s about Republicans supporting Harris. It’s confusing. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/251 "2024-08-04T18:02:34Z")
The latest CBS poll has Harris ahead by 1%. Some State numbers: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/3X/9/9/9946f6110afb7ff82a315b586d62de2846014be6.jpeg) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/3X/2/0/20025c7c3d1d622b58a433ccd66f7c6e38cf40eb.jpeg) Overall good news and hopefully the numbers increase for Kamala Harris. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/252 "2024-08-04T18:02:57Z")
Nate Silver’s updated forecast was released this morning and for the first time Trump is behind! Harris: 50.5 Trump: 48.8 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/253 "2024-08-04T18:30:24Z")
Is she really improving that much? I don’t want to believe there is concrete hope. I mean, I do, but I don’t want to get too much false hope. If she can hit 75% chance to win by October, I’ll begin to think, “Yeah, probably.” I figured Joe Biden would win, though God…the electoral college made it stressful. I would love for her to get 80 million votes. I don’t believe Trump is getting 74 million again. I mean, come on. I hope not. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/254 "2024-08-05T01:39:29Z")
A summary of the wild political rollercoaster we’ve all been experiencing. From the debate to the shot to the Decision to Weirdstown, Pop: Vance. The parts about their disarray after Biden left are particularly nice to read. > **[How two topsy-turvy weeks upended Trump’s 2024 campaign | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/04/politics/donald-trump-campaign-topsy-turvy/index.html)** > > A 17-day stretch with few parallels in American history has upended what looked to Donald Trump’s campaign like a clear path to victory when the former president stepped on the Republican convention stage in Milwaukee. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/255 "2024-08-05T02:03:29Z")
Just came across this TikTok video reposted on Xitter, a good old boy who’s voting for Harris: > ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/256 "2024-08-05T02:12:14Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > “I’m a 56-year-old, white, gun owner country boy, and If Kamala Harris thinks she can get my vote, well, she’d be right.” Ha! I’m a 56 year old, white, gun owner, country-adjacent boy and she’s got my vote. My brother. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/257 "2024-08-05T03:03:48Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > More Republicans are supporting Kamala. Here’s hoping they can sway some votes without having her make too many concessions. I want to take this seriously but . . . Bill Weld? Joe Walsh? Christine Todd Whitman? This is the same group of attention-starved Republican has-beens who’ve glommed onto every “never Trump” and third-party movement since 2106 to absolutely zero effect. Isn’t Bill Weld supposed to be a Libertarian? And isn’t Christine Todd Whitman a proud member of the Forward Party? Forward Party? Remember them? Positionless “centrist” political party founded by Andrew Yang? Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/258 "2024-08-05T05:29:31Z")
There is a song on youtube- Kamala, sung to Shabala. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/259 "2024-08-05T17:49:33Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Nate Silver’s updated forecast was released this morning and for the first time Trump is behind! > > Harris: 50.5 > Trump: 48.8 Today it is Harris: 53.0 Trump: 46.4 Harris’s has a 67.7% chance of winning the popular vote according to the model. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571/260 "2024-08-05T17:51:05Z")
Do you know what changed? I saw several of the swing states basically tie up, but not enough to give her a 67% chance of winning. Is he factoring in some sort of momentum? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-presidential-election-no-more-on-guns/1004571.md?page=14)