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Friday, September 20, 2024

Is Trump's campaign strategy to lose? Seems like it.

Donald Trump's presidential campaign seems to now be a mix of incoherent babbling and profoundly racist lies. Are they even trying to win? ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌  ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ 

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Fri Sep 20 2024

 
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks during a campaign rally at The Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas on September 13, 2024 in Las Vegas.

Donald Trump's presidential campaign seems to now be a mix of incoherent babbling and profoundly racist lies. Are they even trying to win?

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Voter Kelli Gambill, 42, fills out her ballot at the Jefferson Education Society polling place on June 2, 2020, in Erie, Pa. Pennsylvania's primary election was postponed from April 28 because of COVID-19 concerns.
 

Dead people and noncitizens aren't voting. That's the truth.

Poll workers and election officials didn't take on this work to get disparaged with disinformation or threatened by people unhinged by those lies.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump watches a video of Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Sept. 13, 2024.
 

Trump says he won't debate Harris again. Good.

The truth is that if you are going to vote, there is a good chance you already know which candidate you will support. We don't need more debates.

Republican U.S. vice presidential nominee Senator JD Vance speaks at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. September 5, 2024.
 

Vance's lies are a threat to public safety

Our children deserve better, our neighbors deserve better and our nation deserves better than Republicans' lies about immigrants.

Springfield City Manager Bryan Heck releases a statement in September 2024 saying there's no evidence of any cats or other pets being harmed or eaten by the Haitian immigrants. Springfield, a central Ohio city of 58,000 about 50 miles west of Columbus, is experiencing a "significant housing crisis," according to a letter from Heck. He says the city's Haitian population has increased to   15,000-20,000 in recent years.
 

Haitian immigrants need compassion, not hateful rhetoric

While Washington can be blamed for policy failures on immigration, the responsibility for how we treat one another rests with us.

Mohamed Al-Fayed, the late billionaire whose son died with Princess Diana in a car crash, is the subject of the 2024 BBC documentary "Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods." Al-Fayed died in 2023 at age 94.
 

BBC's Al-Fayed documentary makes a dangerous omission

Many, if not all, of the women the BBC highlighted as part of that documentary, were said to be victims of human trafficking.

The visitation courtyard at a correctional facility in Oklahoma City. The rate of women in U.S. prisons and jails rose 617% from 1982 to its peak in 2018. In 2022, there were about 181,000 women in local jails and state and federal prisons across the United States.
 

Our criminal justice system is failing incarcerated women

In 2016, the White House convened a summit on women in the criminal justice system. It was an important topic to me then, and it remains so today.

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