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Polling is done variously and by various pollsters on: the general public, likely voters, and registered voters. Trump is about as popular across all three categories.

Worst Halloween ever.

People like the ones you're responding to struggle to fully comprehend that they're literally attempting to characterize half the country.

A different thread wants to put them all into a "magat map." Putting aside the dubious idea that mapping the locations of a group of people they're referring to as literal vermin isn't gross to begin with, you would be mapping the location of half the population of the United States.

Harris is losing momentum according to polls and Trump is slowly but steadily rising. It's on average every other person you meet. Disparaging them does nothing except fuel the the charges of elitism, as you note.

Yeah. The surprise nominee change and DNC bumps are ebbing and the debate will likely be a blip at best.

It's like there's an unceasing gravity to Trump's numbers, like being choked by a boa constrictor. I think that's largely a result of his polling numbers being much "harder" than Harris, i.e. the percent of each candidates numbers that will never change their mind for and reason whatsoever and will always and fully support their candidate no matter what is much higher for Trump than Harris.

So you support genocide. Got it.

Precisely. Harris is losing ground nationally and is losing ground in battleground states. Unless this debate significantly moves the needle, which I don't think it will for the very elegant reasons you summed, current trend lines indicate Harris losing steam and Trump continuing to pick up voters. No amount of wishful thinking will change that.

You first.

Well put it this way: Kamala Harris, the democratic presidential nominee, just made clear in the debate that she and her VP nominee Walz are both gun owners because it will help their campaign. So...

Most people aren't watching it. It will be the clips and soundbytes on social media. We don't really know how the debate is going, because the actual reception of this debate hasn't fully occurred yet.

In some meaningful sense, this debate will actually be broadcast, as in seen by a broad audience, over the next 24-36 hours in fragmented form.

Yeah except he keeps going.

That's unnecessary simplistic. He also has the "immigrants will eat your pets" strategy.

I wish they just had 45min clocks, and whenever their microphone are hot, their timer goes down. It would be hilarious to see Trump yelling inaudibly for the last 25min of all debates.