This doesn’t look accurate, however.
65% Trump to 34% Harris? Perhaps slightly off compared to actual polls. 
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Interestingly, this thread was all noise when Trump was running against Biden, but went silent when Harris entered the race.
It has been noted.
If Trump wins, will they emerge from hiding?
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Elon Musk has stayed unusually silent.
A thorough investigation into these allegations needs to be started by DOJ immediately!
Elon Musk Stays Silent After Bombshell Report on Secret Putin Contact
The newspaper reported that Musk has corresponded with Putin since 2022, discussing personal topics, business, and geopolitical tensions. Putin even made a request of Musk in one conversation: to refrain from setting up his satellite internet service, Starlink, over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Musk has been tweeting around the clock since the story broke at 9 p.m. EST Thursday, but has not mentioned the Journal article once, mostly sticking to right-wing conspiracies and promotion of Donald Trump. According to the Journal, Musk not only had conversations with Putin, but with other high-ranking Kremlin officials as well. He even faced “implicit threats against him,” one source said.
The report is especially concerning given that the tech mogul has come out as a strong supporter of the former president, spending millions to help Trump return to the White House. The Journal report notes that Putin and Musk have continued contact this year as Musk has ramped up his efforts to reelect Trump.
In addition to his political activism, Musk has billions of dollars in government contracts attached to his companies. SpaceX, which operates Starlink, has a $1.8 billion classified contract and launches rockets for the Pentagon and NASA. He also has a security clearance giving him access to classified information.
With all of these government connections, the fact that Musk is consistently talking to one of the United States’ foremost adversaries in Putin presents a danger to national security. His control of Starlink gives him immense power over international communications, too. And Musk’s ownership of X also potentially puts the personal information of anyone who uses the social media service at risk. An anonymous source told the Journal that the Biden administration is aware of Musk and Putin’s relationship, but hasn’t raised any concerns over security breaches.
However, “they don’t love it,” the source told the Journal.
The Russian government has denied that Putin and Musk speak extensively, and the tech CEO did not respond to the newspaper’s request for comment. But it fits a pattern for Musk: He’s met several times with autocrats like Javier Milei of Argentina as well as former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Putin, however, is currently under international sanctions for invading Ukraine, and has mounted disinformation campaigns in the United States to further his interests. If Musk is friendly with Putin, it raises the question of whether his activism for Trump is what the Russian leader wants as well.
Elon Musk Stays Silent After Bombshell Report on Secret Putin Contact
Could this become normal?
Freedom Caucus leader endorses radical proposal for North Carolina to hand its electoral votes to Trump
The chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus says the North Carolina Legislature should consider allocating the state’s presidential electors to Donald Trump even before votes are counted in the swing state.
Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) said Thursday that such a step by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Legislature “makes a lot of sense” given the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in the western part of the state. Counties in that region are expected to vote heavily for Trump.
Potential difficulties with voting in the hurricane-damaged area would be a basis for the state Legislature to declare in advance that Trump should win the state’s 16 electoral votes, Harris said at a Republican Party dinner in Maryland’s Talbot County.
“You statistically can go and say, ‘Look, you got disenfranchised in 25 counties. You know what that vote probably would have been,’” Harris said during an exchange with a speaker at the dinner. “Which would be — if I were in the Legislature — enough to go, ‘Yeah, we have to convene the Legislature. We can’t disenfranchise the voters.’”
Harris’ comments were in response to a keynote speech by Ivan Raiklin, a pro-Trump activist who has long embraced a radical strategy of state legislatures guaranteeing Trump’s reelection if they deem the 2024 election tainted by fraud and corruption. Raiklin posted a video of his full speech on X as well as a separate clip of his exchange with Harris.
In his remarks, Raiklin argued that in addition to North Carolina, Republican-controlled legislatures in New Hampshire, Arizona, Nebraska, Georgia and Wisconsin could take similar steps by meeting on Election Day and awarding their electors to Trump. Harris asked Raiklin how he could justify his plan in other states that were unaffected by storm damage.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/25/trump-freedom-caucus-north-carolina-electors-00185520
That area of NC has been devastated. Their options will definitely be limited given the infrastructure issues that are on-going.
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Looks like Polymarkets is a wash traders paradise. This had to be expected.
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That leads us here, you open up that box, and who knows how it ends
Specific changes only for affected areas. That seems the most reasonable.
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Trump says his New York rally marked by crude and racist insults was ‘an absolute lovefest’
Urged by some allies to apologize for racist comments made by speakers at his weekend rally, Donald Trump took the opposite approach on Tuesday, saying it was an “honor to be involved” in such an event and calling the scene a “lovefest” — the same term he has used to describe the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump gathered supporters and reporters to his Mar-a-Lago resort two days after a massive rally at Madison Square Garden featured a number of crude remarks by various speakers, including a set by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe in which he joked that Puerto Rico was a “floating island of garbage.” Some of Trump’s top Republican allies have condemned the remarks, and his campaign took the rare step of publicly distancing itself from Hinchcliffe’s joke, though not the other comments.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe Full Remarks at Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden in New York
So just a few days away! The big election. Amazingly, it is as tight as it can be. Trumps are so much like $GME Reddits, hodl on for your life even if what you are holding on to is absolute crap. For you Americans, if Trump is defeated, where does that leave the Republican Party? All key figures have kneeled for King Trump, if he loses he is gone. Is Ted Cruz then the new king?
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By any means necessary
Donald Trump and his allies have spent months undermining the 2024 election, seemingly priming his supporters to dispute the results if he loses. It’s the 2020 playbook all over again.
When you don’t like democracy when it doesn’t work out for you
National Guard troops on standby in Washington state, Oregon and Nevada as a precaution for ‘potential’ election unrest
Ahead of potential civil unrest due to Tuesday’s presidential election, the National Guard is on standby as a precaution in several states, including Washington state and Oregon, where hundreds of ballots were damaged or destroyed after at least three ballot drop boxes were recently set on fire, officials say.
There are different ways a politician can express how he truly feels.
How does America move forward when there is no longer a super majority ethnic group?
Puerto Rican politicians react to Trump rally racist, offensive comments
Power vacuum I think. Somebody always fills it. Maybe Florida governor Desantis steps in. But he needs Trump gone.
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Yea I saw the story this morning. Crazy, but after Jan 6th, anything is possible.
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What were they thinking putting this guy on!?!?!?!?!
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Let me help you out, you ave reach your max of 3 in a row and I see you are trying to post again.
Ron Desantis will most likely take over but the republican party has another problem, weak men.
The men in the party whimpered in fear when Trump entered the room and was willing to take any personal abuse trump dishes out.
Haha, thanks!
Hinchcliffe actually got warned that his Puerto Rico joke would get him into trouble, from another fellow comedian. But Hinchcliffe has a stance that he thinks comedians should never have to apologize for their jokes. Since it’s meant to be just that.
I don’t think the GOP is going anywhere. It’s all cycles.
