This tells you more about PolitiFacts' readers than it does about "The Lie of the Year"

Trump Wins 'Lie of the Year' for 4th Straight Time

Ellen Hine, PolitiFact

 

 I thought the biggest lie of the year was Nancy Pelosi insisting that Kamala Harris was legitimately elected (you know, in an open primary like Joe Biden was with 14 million votes) two weeks after calling Trump a threat to democracy. But I don't read PolitiFact.

For every Kamala Harris voter there were just 1.03 Donald Trump voters lol

Even Hillary's mandate was bigger than that in 2016 lol: 1.04.

The UK Daily Mail thinks Joe Biden dropped out on June 21, not July 21 lol

 Those UK reporters really don't have a firm grasp of the timeline. They prefer to concentrate on the gossip and innuendo.

A particular target for the First Couple is said to be former house speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led the effort to push Biden out of the 2024 election race – personally calling him and demanding he quit in the hours before he withdrew on June 21.

More.

No one really knows what Pelosi said to Joe, or when she said it, but it wasn't on June 21 lol.

CNN reported on Wednesday July 17 (updated Thursday July 18) that Pelosi had been in California since Friday July 12, one day before Trump was shot in Butler, PA, and that she claimed she hadn't spoken to Joe Biden from July 12-17 even though CNN said it had four sources saying she had: 

This phone call would mark the second known conversation between the California lawmaker and Biden since the president’s disastrous debate on June 27. While the exact date of the conversation was not clear, one source described it as being within the last week. Pelosi and Biden also spoke in early July. ...

A Pelosi spokesperson told CNN that the former House speaker has been in California since Friday and she has not spoken to Biden since. 

The CNN timeline leaves room for Pelosi talking to Joe Biden as described in the story on Friday July 12, or even the day or two days before that.

CNBC reported on Sunday July 21, the day Joe dropped out, and relying on one source, that Pelosi spoke with Joe on Saturday July 20, but Pelosi's spokesman also denied this, consistent with the denial to CNN:

A spokesman for Pelosi later told CNBC after publication of this story “not true. Speaker Pelosi has not spoken to the president since she left Washington more than a week ago.”

Pelosi was in North Carolina on Saturday July 20 giving a tepid pep talk about the accomplishments of the Biden-Harris ticket:

In her roughly half-hour speech, Pelosi said the president’s name only sparsely, and primarily in reference to his role in passing legislative priorities.

The lying media have taken a phrase from David Plouffe and blown it up into something he did not say, so that Republicans and Democrats both can pretend that everything was Kamala Harris' fault

 David Plouffe said the campaign did not ever have Harris in the lead specifically in late September and early October in their internal polling, and that this was only his recollection about a period one month before the election.

The guy must have had literally hundreds of polls in his head from throughout the campaign.

When we got in, my recollection is some of that [Biden deficit] snapped back, but you know, we were behind. I mean, I think it surprised people because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw. You know, I mean, it was just basically a race that in the battlegrounds was 46-47, 47-48. So that’s not where we started. We started behind. She was able to climb out.

Here.

Yes, they were behind, big time, in July and August.

But they climbed out indeed, to the point Harris led for the first time by Aug 29 in the public polling averages, and she retook the lead three times in September after losing it in her duel with Trump. 

And Harris kept her Sep 18 lead all the way to Sep 29 when Trump overtook her one last time. 

After that she never got the lead back again.

Should we be surprised Plouffe's internal polling from late September and early October never showed Harris leading?

Of course not. His internal polling showed him exactly what Real Clear's averages were showing us.

Dishonest media are trying to make Harris look as bad as possible by taking Plouffe's comments to mean she was never ahead at any time in the campaign's internal polling.

That's not what Plouffe said.

Harris Campaign's Polls Never Showed Her Leading Trump

Arthur Delaney, HuffPost

 

 

Harris for the win Aug 29

 

Harris for the win Sep 4

Harris for the win Sep 13

Harris for the win Sep 18

So the Harris campaign's David Plouffe saw public polls showing they might be ahead in early October when Real Clear Politics showed that Harris' last lead ended September 29th

. . . there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw.

 

Here. 

 

I'm scratching my head over that, but I think everyone's focusing on a fiction of their own making. Plouffe never said they never saw Harris ahead in their internal polling at all, only during the period in question.

 

In the public polling, Harris went ahead in the averages on August 30th and duked it out with Trump throughout September, with the lead changing hands six times. Plouffe can't be talking about that.

 

It would make sense that their internal polling never showed a lead in early October, because it had already disappeared by then.

 

Nevertheless, Harris had recaptured Michigan and Wisconsin by the end of October in the polling averages, even though Trump retained his lead in the Electoral College.

 

I think Plouffe's memory of early October is just a little faulty.

 

That's all.

 

September 19th Harris ahead with 276

September 29th Trump ahead 281

Mama said always look on the bright side

 

Kamala Harris is the 2028 Democrat frontrunner lol

 

Just a reminder that way back in February Emerson College Polling showed Democrats had no options other than Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, with Trump beating Joe by one point and Harris by three

 

 

 The Nancy Pelosi/Barack Obama/Jane Fonda-Rob Reiner cabal which ousted Joe Biden deserves all the scorn it has received, and more.

In February 2024, when 2023 articles from this cabal about dumping Kamala Harris were in the rearview mirror, Harris was under-performing Biden v Trump by just one point, and Harris v Trump was doing 7 points better than Gavin Newsom v Trump and 10 points better than Gretchen Whitmer v Trump. There was no alternative to Joe but Kamala.

Emerson here.

 

 

And Joe always knew that, which is why he immediately endorsed Harris on the Sunday of the July coup. He knew she was weak, but he knew her Democrat competition was weaker.

In the end Trump's win over Harris was by only 1.61 points, half what Emerson had predicted, and almost the one point by which Emerson had predicted Trump would beat Biden, the stronger candidate.

Democrats should never have dumped Joe Biden.

They panicked, and the panic lost them The White House. Had they rallied around their president, he might have survived. Instead they lost their nerve and abandoned him to the predator.

Democrats have too many herd followers, not enough leaders. And had Harris truly been a leader, she would have rallied the troops to her president, and she did not. And the pressure from the herd is also what made Joe Biden drop out, signaling his weakness.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, got bloodied by a gunman but defiantly got up and continued to fight, just as he's done all along, rallying his followers by himself to himself, the simple elemental difference between winning and losing.

 

 

The White House just does this to itself lol

 

Buh-bye.

I'm leavin' . . . on a jet plane . . .

J. D. Vance gets his sorry ass back in the US Senate after missing critical confirmation votes on Monday and Tuesday which confirmed at least one horrible Biden nomination to a lifetime judicial position

 

 If all Republicans had shown up and Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-Pa.) absence held, the GOP would have defeated the nomination [of Embry Kidd] temporarily.

If all senators had shown up, including Fetterman, it would likely have forced a tiebreaking vote by Vice President Harris.

Adding to the drama, Harris left Washington for Hawaii on Tuesday, depriving Democrats of a potential ability to break a 50-50 tie.

Despite the math, GOP members were incensed at the no-shows, which stretched into Tuesday as Vance did not show up for the morning vote.

Other senators, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), tagged along with Trump to the SpaceX Starship launch in Brownsville, Texas, further exacerbating the situation as Schumer prepared to hold another long night of nomination votes on Tuesday. ...

Vance, who missed all of Monday night’s votes in addition to the first one on Tuesday, received the lion’s share of criticism.

The outgoing Ohio senator initially defended his decision, saying that he was meeting with Trump as part of interviews for potential candidates to become FBI director and for other slots.

“I tend to think it’s more important to get an FBI director who will dismantle the deep state than it is for Republicans to lose a vote 49-46 rather than 49-45,” he added.

However, he backtracked and deleted his post on X. He also showed up for the pair of Senate votes during Tuesday’s afternoon session.

Full story here. 

Showing up is the easiest, most important thing senators can do, and they were too busy.

It's unforgivable.

 

So Republican Senators J. D. Vance and Marco Rubio were too busy yesterday to show up and vote against a soft-on-sex-crime Biden nominee to the 11th Circuit

 Roll call vote here.

And last but not least, the newly re-elected Republican governor of Vermont, Phil Scott, is far more popular there than either Harris or Trump in 2024

 Scott's approval rating in Vermont in 2021 made him the most popular governor in the entire country. He describes himself as fiscally conservative and socially liberal.

 

Extremely amusing: Famously defeated NeverTrump Senator Kelly Ayotte from 2016 is the new Republican governor of New Hampshire, getting more votes than both Harris and Trump

 Ayotte 435,990

Harris 418,351

Trump 395,397

And politics is nothing if it's not irrational:

 

Smiling, not smiling

 

In September Nancy Pelosi said we already had the open primary and Kamala won it, but now in November she says we never had it

And on June 30th Pelosi said Joe Biden was still good to go even after the bad debate, but now she says he should have dropped out earlier.

In addition to her many other titles, she is also The Lyin' Queen.

 

THE CHUTZPAH OF THE INGRATES!: Kamala Harris blew through $1 billion in 107 days and ended up $20 million in debt, DNC official echoes the new lie from Pelosi, BLAMES JOE BIDEN after THEY pushed him out

 Just think what Kamala could have done for the whole country, and how quickly!

And look how Nancy Pelosi's new lyin' narrative (he dropped out too late) becomes the official Democrat take after they pushed him out.

 

Alex Miller: DNC official calls Harris campaign a ‘$1 billion disaster’ :

 

  Democratic National Committee finance member Lindy Li trashed Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed bid for the White House, calling her loss to President-elect Donald Trump a “$1 billion disaster.” 

Ms. Li told “Fox & Friends” on Saturday that she and other Democrats feel that Campaign Chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon “misled” them into wasting millions of dollars. 

“The truth is, this is just an epic disaster — this is a $1 billion disaster,” Ms. Li said. “They’re $20 million or $18 million in debt. It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that.” 

She added, “I have friends I have to be accountable and explain things to because I told them it was a margin-of-error race. I was promised, Jen O’Malley Dillon promised all of us that Harris would win. She even put videos out saying Harris would win. I believed her, my donors believed her, and so they wrote massive checks.”

Mr. Trump’s resounding victory over Ms. Harris has had Democrats searching for what went wrong.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, blamed President Biden for Tuesday’s blowout loss because of his late exit from the race in July. 

She argued that if Democrats had an open primary to find a new party nominee, the election outcome might have been different. 

Ms. Li made a similar argument, that if Democrats truly viewed Mr. Trump as a threat to democracy and the country, they would have allowed for an open process to find a successor “instead of just coronating somebody.”

Mr. Biden’s decision to endorse Ms. Harris quickly shuttered that possibility, she said. 

“I actually think President Biden, the whole endorsing her 30 minutes after he dropped out, I think that was a big ‘F you’ to the party. ‘If you don’t want me, here’s somebody you may not like, deal with it,’” Ms. Li said.          

Nancy Pelosi, June 30th, defending President Applesauce-brains, right after Joe's disastrous debate with Trump:

"We know how attuned he is to the issues, we know how informed he is. I debate with him about the issues, not debate, but discuss it with him. He‘s right there."

Nancy Pelosi, September 18th, pushing back on the Kamala coronation: 

"We had an open primary and she won it. Nobody else got in the race."

 

"Yeah, F you."

 

 

I don't think Latinos are going to appreciate being called Uncle Toms by the black women supporters of Kamala Harris

 

Kamala Harris would have beaten Donald Trump but she had to stop on the way to victory and recharge her car

 

Hillary is the president of the Losers Club

 

Kammunism tossed on the ash heap of history