Nope…..
The Democratic team is drawing THOUSANDS…..
Vance drew of a’ bored’ few hundred in his following Harris/Walz in Philly….
The Joe Biden run is just memory…..
Democrats HAVE gotten their ‘Mo’ Back…..
“He’s so weird! He’s so weird!” the crowd chanted in a sing-song, taunting voice that echoed across Temple University’s packed basketball stadium Tuesday evening. Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Penn., was the first person to mention Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, to the crowd that had packed the overflowing Philadelphia rally for Vice President Kamala Harris, as she introduced her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn. The spontaneous chant cracked Shapiro up, causing him to pause momentarily before laying back into the authoritarian threat posed by Donald Trump’s “weird” and beardy running mate.
The chanters didn’t know the half of it. Hours earlier, I had been at a South Philly venue where Vance spoke briefly to about 200 supporters and a group of bored journalists. Vance’s event was small, mean, and yes, weird, featuring the unjustified sarcasm of the candidate and a desperate feeling reminiscent of the mood at a strip mall shot bar at 2 AM on “ladies’ night.”
Meanwhile, the Harris/Walz rally felt like a rousing speech by Coach Eric Taylor of “Friday Night Lights” combined with the front row at Coachella. The cheers were so loud that I regretted not bringing my earplugs. The mood was jubilant, even though folks had to wait hours in the heat and humidity to even get into the place. The campaign claimed over 12,000 people showed up, which is not an exaggeration. Even as Harris and Walz gave the final speeches of the evening, the line to get into the overflow room — just to watch the event on TV — went on for multiple city blocks.
“Thank you for bringing back the joy,” Walz said, to a thunderous reception. A simple line, but it brought the house down because of the plain-spoken truth Walz has swiftly become famous for. “Joy” was the word of the night. People in the stands practically vibrated with it. In the air was a visceral hope that this campaign would be the end of the long national nightmare that is Trump and the MAGA movement…..
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The crowd was so exuberant that Harris and Walz could have done shadow puppets and the place would have erupted. Even before they spoke, DJ Diamond Kuts had the crowd repurposing classic hip-hop lyrics into political chants, with the funniest being “move, Trump, get out the way” rather than the expletive used in the original Ludacris tune. But both brought their A-game. Harris drew ecstatic applause with her promises to end Trump’s criminal career. Walz has honed “Minnesota nice” into a deadly rhetorical weapon, both making his desire to help people sincerely felt while also making “weird” burn like Dorothy Parker’s ghost had insulted you.
Vance’s speech, on the other hand, wasn’t just underwhelming but a little uncanny. Despite using room dividers to shrink the space, the campaign could not hide that the crowd felt like a medium-sized wedding, albeit a pathetic one where no one cares for the couple. Vance, perhaps recognizing charisma isn’t his strong suit, spoke briefly before bringing up a series of local citizens ready to blame Mexicans for their familial tragedies of drug addiction. He spoke for a couple more minutes, before taking the reporters’ questions about cat ladies.
Even in his short speech, it seemed Vance — like the Trump campaign overall — is still struggling to accept that they are running against Harris and not President Joe Biden.
Note….
Except for on-line?
Donald Trump seems to be in hiding ….
And Vance is a Political Optic disaster…
image….Minnesota Gov. Mike Walz (D), Vice President Harris’ newly-announced running mate, arrives on stage during his first rally at Liacouras Center at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa., on Tuesday, August 6, 2024.
Republicans are tanking.
Indeed Scott….
The compressed time line IS advantageous FOR Democrats….
If the initial ‘WAVE’ can be sustained?
It could prove to be disastrous to GOPer’s nationwide….
Remember ….
It IS Trump’s party….
‘Humpty Dumpty’ scenario?
I think a premise that the Republican ticket could not draw a large and enthusiastic crowd would be a mistaken one.
Vance did NOT
Trump has been whining about his from the jump
SOMETHING IS happening CG….
Again?
The tables HAVE TURNED going FORWARD
Exuberance much?
Look we all know your penchant for wild exaggeration,,faulty” logic,” and factless conclusions.Get a grip.The campaign is just getting under way.
Harris has had a great opening and has aroused an excitement which had been lacking as to the Biden reelection effort.We all remember your unabashed “ certainty “ that Biden was going to be the candidate ( ‘Joe Biden ain’t going nowhere,” pronounced by you 48 hours before his withdrawal)
Crowd sizes are no indicator of ultimate election results.( see Barry Goldwater and George McGovern mboth of whom drew enthusiastic audiences even days before being buried in landslide losses) .
I believe Harris has a good chance at victory but it certainly isn’t a done deal, the Republicans haven’t collapsed ,and there will be tough days ahead.
Put the Pom poms down Homer! Get to work helping the party and can the foolishness that this thing is anything other than a tough slog toward a hoped for victory in three months.
In fact crowd size HAS BEEN a indicator pof enthusiasm…..
I beg to differ with you
Biden lost support because he didn’t do them
They ARE ESSENTIAL for a candidate’s Optics
Trump has large rallies too. They are basically cult gatherings. He can draw a huge crowd anywhere in America.
Yesterday’s event with the official VP announcement joint rally is sort of a special event, at least traditionally, for a campaign, and cannot logically be compared to JD Vance’s smaller event. I do not think there was any intention to have it be equivalent in size.
Yes, Trump is very bad that Harris would have a large crowd also. He is especially pissed that celebrities and entertainers and pop culture figures are going to be doing things for her that could not really do for Biden in 2020 due to Covid and were not doing this year before he dropped out. He thinks famous people should be for him because he worships the concept of celebrity.
I WILL continue to display my enthusiastic support and energy fir who I LIKE….
Every one is encouraged and tends to do so here…
A agree with you that Harris/Walz HAVE the enthusiastic turn around support and Optics to do what Biden seemed incapable of doing…..
Defeating Trump and his GOP lemmings
You can just follow along…….
Should Harris start doing interviews? Speak to the press at all? Thus far as a Presidential candidate, she has not.
I notice that over the past month or so
“ optics”
Has become your go to word to explain everything.
Not ONLY ME Jack……
U might want to google that
Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
JD Vance after walking up to VP Harris’ plane in Eau Claire Wisconsin:
“Hopefully it’s going to be my plane in a few months.”
He’s so weird
Creepy and weird
i think he proclaimed “Joe Biden ain’t going nowhere” more like 48 minutes before it happened.
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