Former President Donald Trump has denounced Vice President Kamala Harris’ nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate as “not fair,” escalating his rhetoric as new polls show Harris gaining substantial ground in key battleground states.

In a fiery statement on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump accused the Democratic Party of staging “the first ever ‘Coup’ in America.”

His outburst comes in the wake of President Joe Biden’s unexpected withdrawal from the 2024 race, which paved the way for Harris to become the Democratic nominee.

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          Asking for and accepting help from a foreign country in the federal election should mean he’s not eligible, but here we are.

          Right Moscow Mitch? Right!

    • @dhork@lemmy.world
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      He says he hasn’t changed that much since he was in first grade, so you’re not that far off.

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    Dude absolutely just likes how buzzy the word coup is. Like, saying it’s not fair is one thing, even though it very clearly is. And even suggesting it should be against the rules is a valid opinion, even if it’s not based on facts.

    But calling it a coup, not even an attempt at a coup, is silly. Even if she used a private army to storm the DNC to secure the nomination, it’s not a coup until she gets inaugurated.

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      It’s just a key part of the DARVO thing. They accuse the opposition of whatever they are getting accused of. Russia was accused of trying to interfere with the election on his behalf? Now everything is “election interference”. People complain about Trump’s criminal cases? Keep talking about the “Biden crime family”, without evidence, as if it’s a real thing. And after they tried and failed on Jan 6 to stage a coup, now everything they don’t like is a “coup”.

      It’s also the reason why “every accusation is a confession” with Republicans. If they come out with a bullshit accusation out of nowhere and start pushing it without evidence, you know its because they’ve either done the thing or are thinking about doing it.

      After this latest round of bogus SC rulings, there was a lot of introspection into how the Court got this way. Someone pointed out that there was a book written during the Obama years accusing Democrats of undermining the Federal Judiciary to subert the rule of law – and the process in the book exactly matched what Trump and McConnell did. They wrote it out in plain sight – but since it was written as a baseless accusation, nobody paid attention.

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      The effect is to water down the word “coup.” Now, I wonder why Smelly Orange would want to do that?

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        You’re also seeing him use the word cheater recently. I noticed it front and center when he was trying to say that Harris’ rally audience was AI generated and called her a cheater… guess what he’s going to say come election time?

    • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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      Repubs deliberately accuse the other side of crimes and corruption they are actively doing, to muddy the waters.

  • @frezik@midwest.social
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    “If the enemy does something unexpected, they owe you for the resources you wasted planning for the wrong strategy” - Sun Tzu, The Art of Being an Upwards Failing Fuckup

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    i can just imagine the orange turd sitting in a shack in nowwhere florida with ‘laces out’ ‘election interference’ written over every surface as he mutters to himself

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    Is it a ‘coup’ where the ‘deposed leader’ shows up and actively praises his own replacement (who was literally his deputy)?

    Why not just go all the way and call it a ‘revolution?’ Sheesh.

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      Why not just go all the way and call it a ‘revolution?’ Sheesh.

      We can push harder. Mention how this is the great white replacement theory in action.

  • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    Tim is doing pretty well…unfair!

    A new Remington Research Group ® poll in Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district shows Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in the district, 50% to 42%.

    Jane Kleeb, the chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party, said she had seen at least one other poll recently that indicated Harris was leading outside of the margin of error.

    Nebraska…

    What’s next Utah?

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      Nebraska divides its electoral college votes by congressional district. The second district is “where all the people are,” and so traditionally votes blue.