Mr. Beat on the 2024 Presidential race

 

[VIDEO] Here it is!

Mr. Beat's official 2024 election video. That race proved to be such a wild race. Who knew that President Donald Trump would make his return to the Oval Office after what happened in the aftermath of the 2020 Presidential race?

One thing that caught my eye in this video is a return to the spoils system. Basically insuring that those within the government are loyalists to your administration. What has been discussed within the populist right has been how the professional bureaucrats of the federal gov't helped undermind administrations they don't like.

America has already had a spoils system and at some point in the past our gov't were often staffed by a permanent bureacracy. And another argument made is that these bureacrats make some decisions over our lives and they're not elected.

With discussions of buyouts and more recently outright firings and even head of "D.O.G.E." Elon Musk declaring in a tweet that the Dept. of Education no longer exists. I'd say as they attempt to make gov't more efficient it seems more and more likely what Trump's priority is, perhaps he doesn't want a professional bureacracy. Perhaps more Presidents should staff the executive branch the way they see fit.

Now I'm sorry for not paying attention to what Trump was talking about during the campaign. And the fact that someone was attempting to kill him during that campaign. It helped to tip the odds in his favor. The use of weaponized "lawfare" was terrible and probably showed that someone was veyr concerned about him. Everything they tried to do seemed designed to keep him from running for President again and they may know full well after 2020 he had unfinished business. I wonder if they had just left him alone would he have just gone away on his own.

Meanwhile you had a President who was showing he couldn't handle the rigors of the job and while it's noted that his Vice President and her running mate breathed new life into the Democratic Party, it became clear to me that the Harris/Walz ticket was going to have their clock cleaned. Yeah Trump didn't perform well in his debate against Kamala Harris, however, it became clear that she wasn't the one either.

I'm curious what many of you think of the 47th President so far?

ALSO, feel free to watch what set up the 2024 race. Mr. Beat's video about the 2020 race.

Today is January 6, the day to certify the 2024 Presidential Race

 This shows how in tune I am with the political scene right now.

This time four years ago, outgoing President Donald Trump held a rally where he asked his supporters to go to the U.S. Capitol to protest the count of those electoral votes in a joint session of the U.S. Congress. Which quickly became an "insurrection". It was a very scary day and I just couldn't believe that our democracy, our republic seemed to be underseige by "mob violence".

It seemed one side had to defend themselves and the other side played offense trying to paint the insurrectionists as anti-democracy or traitors. January 6 for some became a day of great rememberance. However, seemingly this day was also forgotten by a number of Americans.

Furthermore the man who won the Presidential Election for 2024 was not supposed to be in that race. There were court cases, even an impeachment trial commenced even before he left office. And guess what on this day, in 2024 he's the one who's vote are being certified in front of Congress.

If the so-called insurrection was used to try to keep him out of the White House, it helped to bring him right back in. I'm sure someone out there is protesting this. I see the incumbent President who beat him in 2020 isn't exactly organizing a rally to fight this. And the woman, the 2024 winner vanquished has to preside over the count to certify the 2024 electoral votes.

Barring any news reports of any "trouble" this should go relatively smooth. Though since President-elect Donald Trump is definitely a very polarizing figure there probably will be some protests from some members of Congress trying to object..

And just think with the "insurrection" of 2020, whatever objections to that race between President Trump and then President-elect Joe Biden fell apart once the U.S. Capitol was secured.

At this point whatever unfolds, you can see on C-Span if you don't want any editorializing of the proceedings. Or you can watch this live stream via FOX News. [VIDEO]

Sept. 10, 2024 - Presidential Debate

 

[VIDEO] So far there will only be two debates between these two Presidential candidates - Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

Back in June, former President Donald Trump debated current President Joe Biden and it was such a disaster that people were calling for President Biden to drop out of the race which he did before the DNC Convention in Chicago. Republicans already were contending since he became President in 2021 that he was not mentally capable of being president and for many even some Democrats he showed how much he slowed down in the June debate.

His Vice President Kamala Harris replaced him as the Democrat's nominee for President. She accepted her party's nomination for President in Chicago at the convention. And she took Pres. Biden's place in the debate which was held and broadcast on ABC in early September.

Some takeaways, even though it has been a whole month.

What dominated the headlines on FOX News and perhaps more conservative outlets was that there was a Haitian migrant problem in Springfield, Ohio. There were reports of migrants eating wild animals and also preying upon people's pets. 

For Trump, immigration is an issue he has campaigned on. We all have something to say about the migrants that have been transported from the southern border to mostly "sanctuary" cities & states. However, in my head this who issue of migrants eating pets shouldn't have been brought up in this debate as even police in Springfield have dismissed the allegations that these migrants were eating pets.

Also the Vice President isn't exactly known for her policy chops. She doesn't answer questions and she hardly does press conferences and the interviews she has done weren't exactly slam dunks either. She may have outperformed Trump in this debate, however, I'm not sure if that's saying much.

We know what Trump brings to the table in these debates and I would dare say VP Harris brings things to these debates also. Harris was likely to use the woman and race card in these debates and unfortunately there are those who will respond to that.

We're closer to election day now than we were in September and its likely there will be no other debates before November. When this debate was over Harris publicly declared she was ready for another one and Trump put the brakes on any future debates.

I'm sure Trump knows he didn't perform well and Harris found out what she could do to make him respond. Regardless, how beneficial are these debates when in such a polarized nation performance by either side isn't going to move the needle significantly in either direction?

CBS News VP Debate

 

[VIDEO] CBS News had broadcast this debate (and aired on all the major news networks) between US Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN).

Unlike the debate last month between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris I will show this one today. That debate will come later.

This wasn't a particularly exciting debate, but I didn't detect any attacks or even any baits between these two candidates. There were some common ground seen between these two men, especially when on some issues there were a stark divide.

Both men by my eyes came off very well. I'm not so sure about Gov. Walz but then again I have no real issues with Sen. Vance. I'm glad to see Vance would be supportive of Walz if he gets elected. Hopefully Walz would do they same.

What was noted by some pundits and by my eyes Walz seemed very nervous. I would day say for me Walz at times seemed to have the "deer in headlights" look. Some will say he didn't belong on that stage, and well who am I to judge as I'm not up there. And nor is anyone else saying that although many of them are on TV and I'm not.

What I would say is that both VP Harris and Gov. Walz come from states that are most favorable to them as far as electoral process. Especially the Vice President. I don't know what the margin of victory for Walz in his elections for the Governor of Minnesota, however, that state is considered a solid blue state so who knows being on that national stage for a debate might be new territory for him.

I didn't see this debate from the beginning, missed out on the main event for NXT on The CW network (not a major network). So there were some portions of the debate that was missed but I'm glad I saw it.

Kamala Harris #DNCChicago acceptance speech

 

[VIDEO] Well the 2024 Democrat Nat'l Convention in Chicago is a wrap and Vice President Kamala Harris made her acceptance speech on Thursday night.

It wasn't a bad speech, there were two things I could hit her on which is the border especially. She was the border tsar and she was famously interviewed by NBC News anchor Lester Holt as far as whether or not she went to the border. When she's caught off guard or forced to answer a question she doesn't want to answer she's so awkward.

Either way it wasn't a bad speech. Having seen enough of this convention we see what the Democrats represents. There were some vignettes from those four nights which well it was just strange.

The themes are women's rights, love who you want to love, reproductive rights (and not so much abortion, they talked a lot about in-vitro fertilization), of course they hit on racial issues. Oprah Winfrey on the final night of the convention talked about integrating schools and mentioned one brave child - who passed away as a grandmother recently - who had to endure the possibility of a sniper.

I mean who'd have thought in order to integrate a public school in the south someone would be willing to shoot a child. It just shows how far we've come as a nation though we still have some work to do it seems.

Anyway, I'm a long way from prognosticating the 2024 Presidential Race. The Vice President isn't a great candidate and we could argue Democratic delegates...no Democratic voters didn't really get a chance to vote for her. Most of them voted for the incumbent President who dropped out of the race just last month.

And I look forward to whatever debates the Vice President will have with the 45th President. Certainly it would be great to see her running mate MN Gov. Tim Walz debate OH U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance debate each other as well.

Gov. Tim Walz acceptance speech at #DNCChicago

 

[VIDEO] The Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz speech last night at the Democrat Nat'l Convention in Chicago. He accepts his party's nomination for Vice President and running mate to the presumptive Democrat nominee and sitting Vice President Kamala Harris.

Tonight Kamala Harris will accept the Democrat nomination for President of the United States.

VP Kamala Harris has chosen her running mate.

 Allow me to share her tweet from about an hour ago. She chooses Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as her running mate against former President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).

I am proud to announce that I've asked @Tim_Walz to be my running mate.

As a governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran, he's delivered for working families like his.

It's great to have him on the team.

Now let’s get to work. Join us:https://t.co/W4AE2WlMTj

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 6, 2024

Allow me to share a livestream going on as I share this post from Mr. Beat who did the same thing when Trump announced Sen. Vance as his running mate last month. [VIDEO]

Gov. Walz is from a blue state and certainly might share some of the same ideals as Harris (that is if she has an real ideas or ideology or core values). More than likely she'll win Minnesota so I'm not sure what real benefit Walz pick would be.

In general people will still vote for who they want as President more so than who they want as Vice President. And just as we have to get to know Sen. Vance (whom Democrats have started calling "weird"), we'll have to get to know Gov. Walz.

I may point out that the unrest and anxiety of 2020 is in the rearview mirror I wonder if in any future Vice Presidential debates that questions might be asked about his response to the riots in Minneapolis in the wake of George Floyd's death while being arrested by police. We shall see...