September 14th
We’ll have a new President in less than 2 months
First, I wanna start out with a question – how often should I put out new posts on Substack? Should we do every day, every other day, a couple times a week? Send me a message either on here or on Instagram and let me know what you think.
Speaking of Instagram, some of you noticed that I have been posting on there a lot less recently, in comparison to the amount of posts that were coming out in the middle of the summer. This is due to the fact that Instagram has been suppressing some of our posts recently. Again another reason why the transition over to Substack felt necessary to me.
With this new mixture of trying to post on here , on YouTube, on Instagram, and other platforms that we occasionally dabble with, I’m not sure exactly how much content will be coming out to each platform. As time goes on, I’m sure that picture will be a lot more clear.
I can say this, my goal with YouTube is to eventually get to a point where we are posting at least every single day, and hopefully multiple times a day. I absolutely want the YouTube platform to be our number one source of content at some point in the future. I’m hoping that with collaborations that can be a reality sooner rather than later
Speaking of YouTube, I wanted to share with you videos, five and six. In video five, I briefly touch on my feelings about Tim Walz’s entrance into this election and how it changed the dynamic of the race.
In the sixth video I talk about my feelings regarding Dick Cheney’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. Should Kamala Harris embrace this endorsement, the reaction I’ve seen from people online regarding this endorsement, and my thoughts on Dick Cheney as a person.
Here’s an important article that I think people should be aware of. Let’s look at how Kamala Harris’s internal polling is looking at the election.
Okay, so first thing that caught my attention with this article is the fact that it came from CNN. While CNN hasn’t been as nice to Democrats as they have been in the past, they’re still a platform that gives favorable coverage to Democrats. So the chances of them putting out a story that wasn’t based in merit doesn’t feel likely. Also, no one has come out to refute this article since it was released.
With that being said, here is a quote from the manager of the Kamala Harris campaign.
“Pennsylvania looks rough, though very possible, by their internal numbers before the debate. North Carolina, disappointing Democrats every election for the last 15 years, is feeling better to them this time around than Arizona, which Biden narrowly won four years ago. Nevada and Georgia both seem possible, though depending on the poll, can take a lot of squinting. Michigan and Wisconsin are looking like the best of the bunch for Harris, according to the campaign’s internal numbers.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/politics/kamala-harris-campaign-momentum/index.html
The main reason I think this is so important to bring up, is because of the social media bubbles that we all live in. If you’re a person who votes on the left, you’ll probably see a bunch of posts that would make it seem as though Kamala is going to easily win the election.
When you see the amount out of money that she’s raised, given the polls that are all favoring her, given registration numbers going up, celebrity endorsements, arenas she’s selling out, it feels like everything is pointing towards her becoming the 47th president of the United States.
However, I’ve been trying to warn everyone who has been following me that I don’t think anything about this election is given. In fact, I think it’s also just as likely that Donald Trump landslides Kamala Harris as it is that Kamala Harris, landslides Donald Trump. From the looks of this internal polling, that’s the reality Kamala Harris team is also seeing. I think that’s an important thing to be taking into the final stretches of the election.
They go on in this article to talk about how they do not believe that the debate is going to give them a significant bump whatsoever. That Kamala Harris needs to focus more on having big “media moments” and not focus so much on policy, in order to get across the finish line in this election. I don’t know how smart of a strategy this is, but it’s a strategy that they’re going with. Time will tell if it works out or not.
I do know that this election will probably be just as close as the last one, if not even closer. I think that everyone who gets caught up in the hype that we all see online, is just not really interpreting the playing field for what it actually is.
When I think about the biggest variable left in the election, it truly is how many people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020, are either voting for Jill Stein this election, or choosing not to vote at all. That is really what the election is gonna come down to in my opinion.
I do believe that the people who showed up for Donald Trump in 2020 are gonna show up for him again in 2024. I just don’t know how many people who voted for Biden in 2020 are going to show up for Kamala Harris now in 2024. It’s hard to tell right now what that will ultimately be but I’m hoping to see at least some signs in the data between now and Election Day, to give us some kind of a heads up for how the election might be breaking in the final stretch.
Finally, while I believe the map is ever changing, this is where I think the election is today. Let me know your thoughts on all this. Send me a message on here or on Instagram. Let me know what you’re thinking about in regards to how this election is going to turn out.
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Ngl ‘Big Media Moments’ as a strategy is kinda scary