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DONALD TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN team has filed a complaint with the United States’ Federal Election Commission which argues Vice President Kamala Harris cannot use donations which were given to President Joe Biden’s campaign, local media reports.
Biden dropped out of the election race on Sunday evening after weeks of coverage about internal party concerns over his ability to run, given his age and health, and endorsed Harris shortly after his announcement.
According to reports, Biden’s team had raised over $90 million during his campaign and Trump is alleging that the team cannot transfer those funds to Harris by re-naming its campaign.
The complaint, filed by former President Trump’s campaign team lawyer, seeks to block Harris’ access to Biden’s war chest and argues that the fund should be defunct now that the President has dropped out of the race.
Soon after his announcement on Sunday, big donors, who had previously stopped their cash flow due to concerns over the Biden campaign, had come back in their droves to support Harris and the Democratic party.
If Trump is successful in his bid, the Harris campaign would have to ramp up its fundraising efforts quickly to in order to keep up – despite raising more than $46.7 million from grassroots supporters on Monday alone.
However, it is unlikely that the complaint will be investigated – let alone upheld – by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) before the election.
Last night, the FEC commissioner Dara Lindenbaum wrote on X, formerly Twitter, before reports of the Trump team’s complaint that Harris should get access to Biden’s campaign funds, if she becomes the Democratic Party presidential nominee.
Yesterday, the incumbent Vice President said she had already earned enough support from Democratic delegates to become the party’s presidential nominee.
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Desperation tactics from Trump already.
#yeswecan
@Argus Romsworth: a prosecutor against a convicted criminal! #MadamPresident2024
@9QRixo8H: Steve Bannon warned Trump not to debate Biden as they suspected he would be pulled after. They were confident in beating him without debate. But unsure if they could win against what might come after. Trump ploughed on against this advice.
@Argus Romsworth: Except Trump did not beat Biden in that debate.
Unless you consider gobbledygook rational debate.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Ah that’s not what he meant ,Bannon rightly called it ,Joe would eliminate himself with gaffes …If that’s correct information he is some strategist.
@Argus Romsworth: the gloves are off! Well, hopefully JD’s are anyway.
@Argus Romsworth: He will win anyway. DEI Harris has always been useless.
@Alex: low intelligence, proven rap ist, convicted felon whose single qualification for the job is that he is white and becomes the outlet for white grievance all over struggling parts of America. This Maga DEI talking point is spectacularly inane.
@Argus Romsworth: lmao… ‘yes we can’… look around you Argus
@9QRixo8H: she is boasting that she wants to make it easier for mothers to end the lives of their unborn children. What Trump has done pales into insignificance compared to that. There are approximately 1 million lives of the unborn ended each year in the USA but that isn’t enough for her and the Democrats
@Tommy Mullally: “Can you think of any laws that give the government the power to make decisions exclusively about the male body?” – Madam President.
@Bobby Digital: Last time we checked he hasn’t been convicted right? He will win anyway. I am not a Maga by any means but I can see it clearly as day. Kamala DEI has no chances. Alzheimer’s Joe was doomed, Kamala will be no better.
@Alex: Trump?
Yes, Trump is a convicted felon.
He is still awaiting sentence.
But as a felon, he is already barred from voting in Florida, and he has lost his licences to sell alcohol at his resorts in New Jersey.
@Alex:
You say you are not a MAGA, but your text certainly implys you may be text like Alzheimer’s Joe. Firstly, there is no proof that man has that illness. You could just use his title President Biden. I truly hope you or your family never have to deal with this illness
@Argus Romsworth:
Republican whingers complaining while Trump has squeezed the Maga cult dry.
He’s at it already and she’s not even nominated. Here we go . Going to be some do da coming her way now and it won’t be nice. But I wish her well. Anybody bar that person who will stop at nothing to get his way.
@John Flanagan: Her name was on the ticket when the funds came in. It will still be after confirmed at convention. She has enough of the delegates votes.
This is nothing but another grasp at straws by lawyers, and is going to get struck down like ?62 of their cases claiming election fraud.
@John Flanagan: Humanity files complaint against Trump for being a jacka$$.
Trump is nicely rattled – throwing the toys out of the pram already.
Not a vote has put her where she is since 2020…………..democracy
@Oh Mammy: not a vote put liz truss or sunak in power either…id rathar her than a convicted sexual predator whos in capable of stringing a coherent sentence together
@David Clarke: I counted at least seven grammatical or spelling errors in your comment.
@Eamon: Make that eight.
@Eamon: Make that nine.
@Eamon: 10!
@Oh Mammy: Trump lost the 2020 election by claiming imaginary votes
@Oh Mammy: she was elected, the campaign was Biden/Harris just like Trump was Trump/Pence, then all vice presidents in history are unelected officials by your definition. Now people will get the chance to vote directly for her and indirectly for JD Vance
@Eamon: oh your so precious. Nothing much else to say then eamon. Says a lot about u OK. Don’t be so condescending
@John Flanagan: Well, David was going on about stringing a sentence together.
@Eamon: He’s not running for president
@Oh Mammy: lad lassie or anything who want to be named, why are you so conservative
@Eamon: take a day off Eamon. By dissing Harris one must assume your preference is a multiple sexual assaulter of women and convicted felon. Says a lot about you.
@Ted Daly: Point out to me where I dissed Harris.
@Eamon: and it only took you 4 attempts to count to 10. Bravo eamon you’ll thrive in senior infants!
@Eamon: Your all pathetic children
@Karen Marten: You’re, not your.
@Oh Mammy: how many votes did Mike Pence get? Or JD Vance.
@Oh Mammy: there isn’t a election till later this year. Thump has never had a majority vote.
@Robert Halvey: I am middle of the road. I try to be fair and honest. I admit when I am wrong. I do not get emotional. I support others in their choices when those choices are not my cup of tea. I do not like others dictating to me. I would like my decisions I make be supported even if someone else disagrees. All of the above within the law, and the people concerned adults. Thank you for asking.
@Eamon: you’re my hero!
@Eamon: omg the grammer teacher is at it again
@Karen Marten: he is another elitist wa.ker that thinks he is on some higher ground, attempting to shame people away from their right to opinion. I did not go to some elitist school looking down on others. My written word may not pass muster with those non producing, smarmy, pri.ks, but they will not deter me. I got my view out there and it was understood. Eamon and his ilk are one of the very reasons people vote in the extreme. He can shove his condescension.
@Oh Mammy: I’m a troll, stop feeding me.
@Eamon: some times dyslexic people spell things wrong !!!!!
@Oh Mammy: she’s a nominee chosen by her party. There hasn’t been an election since 2020. The vote will be in November.
Oh, how quickly the wheel has come ‘full circle’….. For 3 years the Dems weaponized the justice department against an innocent man…..now the President of Peace can show that justice is ( supposedly) a two way street. Hopefully they won’t try again with their assassination attempts.
Vote Peace
Vote A TEAM
TRUMP/VANCE 2024
@Buster Lawless: “President of Peace” Ha ha, good one
@Buster Lawless: Ohh my god. We may not be perfect in many ways in this little country of our. But thank god we don’t see that do da very often. Crawl back in sir please.
@Buster Lawless: You mean president in pieces. Which after last week he isn’t.Pity
@John Flanagan: like Ghandi or Mandela…. It’ll take a lot more than mere bullets to derail the juggernaut of peace
@Buster Lawless: I keep asking you how will trump bring peace to ukraine and you won’t answer me.
@Buster Lawless: “Presidents of Peace”, have you seen the speakers at Republican Convention openly speaking about a Civil War if Trump does not win the next election or even JD Vance proudly talking about his Grandma having 19 loaded guns around her house. These people are not about peace but are about Guns and Violence, just like forcibly taking Capitol Hill to stop the Electoral College Vote taking place and being encouraged by “The President of Peace”
@Buster Lawless: You misspelled his name “President of the (non)-peace(ful transition of power)
@Buster Lawless: stopped reading your comment when I saw the word innocent. You can’t be taken seriously when you ignore the facts.
@Mick Duvanny: yeah have you forgotten the riot he induced in capital hill where two police officers were killed and all because he lost. What kind of leader does that to his own country men and women
@Karen Marten: He doesn’t care about anyone except himself.
@Tricia G28: grow up Tricia
@Buster Lawless: vomit
It’s all about the money with Trump, Musk just pulled 45 million back from them and he’s in panic mode, he can’t stomach an intelligent woman beating him. What’s his behaviour going to be like when he loses in November..
@Jamie Hinch: We already know.
He’ll claim the election was fraudulent and incite his supporters to violence. AGAIN.
@Tricia G28: Think the Military will step now given the violence he started. They can’t let this happen again..
@Jamie Hinch: JD Vance has already stated that had he been in Pence’s position in 2020 he would have refused to certify the Electoral College results.
And the Ohio governor stated that “I’m afraid if we lose this one, it’s going to take a civil war to save the country, and it will be saved,” words which he later rowed back on.
@Jamie Hinch: Trump will not lose.
@John John: But every word of that is true, is it not?
Numerous investigations – including by Trump’s Justice Dept – have shown that.
But Democrats continued to behave lawfully.
They did not stage an insurrection.
They did not plan to overturn US Democracy.
They did not plan to do any of these things in the months before the election, plans to be put into effect should they lose.
The Trump Republicans did these things.
Democrats cheating yet again
@John D Doe: trump is running scared. He doesn’t know how to handle women.
@brian madden: find it hard to believe there was never a capable women to be president in all of North America’s history! Only men. Until now. Will they get their first Madam President?!
@9QRixo8H: they will.
@9QRixo8H: they might get their first woman president but they’ll still have to wait for a competent one.
@brian madden: The sc@mbag tried often enough
@9QRixo8H: I doubt it
@John D Doe: From the article “Last night, the FEC commissioner Dara Lindenbaum wrote on X, formerly Twitter, before reports of the Trump team’s complaint that Harris should get access to Biden’s campaign funds, if she becomes the Democratic Party presidential nominee.”.
Which part of that don’t you understand?
The “minds” of racists in the US exploded when Obama was elected, leading to Trump and MAGA.
Wait ’till you see what happens when a Black Woman is elected president.
@John D Doe: it’s trump who is the felon. You support a man who fiddles with strange women’s genitalia and them boasts about it. Creepy
@brian madden: yes he does. Grab them by the p…y according to himself.
@brian madden: that will all be overturned when the great man wins :)
@brian madden: Correction, he doesn’t know how to handle them legally.
@brian madden: trouble is he does know how to handle women. Just not legally
@John D Doe: If you want to know what cheating is, look at Trump’s career history and especially his political years which are very few!!
@brian madden: except when hes grabbing them by the p**sy.
@John D Doe: cheating like Trump cheats on his wives or cheating like Trump on his taxes or cheating like when Trump doesn’t pay people. Could you be more specific?
@brian madden: he knows how to mid-handle them
Panic mode setting in with trump,hope she rips him a new one
Bound yo backfire on the orange one.
@Willie Marty: “to” I think this lawless lad is beginning to fret just like his master the orange lad.
@Willie Marty: Are you talking about couch-humping JD?
@Willie Marty: Buster is narciss…..Ken from West Cork. He has multiple profiles but continually posts the same rubbish about Trump or his own great life.
@Bobby Digital: him too
Biden and Harris named on the fundraising forms when submitted at the time required this was clarified on several news formats over the last few days. All of the funding raised since the announcement of Harris running has been to her campaign.
Is this the same Trump who took control of the RNC to pay his legal bills and max out their spending on his campaign to the exclusion of other GOP candidates? Is the idea just to tie the Harris campaign up in legal paperwork for a while? It won’t work. Trump is Trump. Everyone knows who and what he is.
Who is Harris? She is only after coming out of the woodwork now and nowhere to be seen the last few years, I sincerely hope Trump gets elected again.
@Noel: * sad trombone *
@Noel: One might ask who Harris is not. She is not a crooked property developer who never paid bills, and put hundreds of small businesses out of business. She is not a sexual predator, or someone who tried to hold on to power after losing an election. She did not tell 30,573 documented lies over a four-year period.
All good reasons to vote for her.
@Brendan O’Brien: She is not a convicted felon.
She did not steal classified documents, and refuse to return them. Many of which are still missing.
She did not hold private meetings with Putin, after which many US informants and agents died or mysteriously disappeared.
She did not plan a coup to overthrow US democracy.
She did not give Christo-fascists, Racists and White Supremacists control over US agencies and policies.
She did not use a pandemic for political purposes, condemning hundreds of thousands of Americans to a nasty death.
She did not weaponise the judicial system to go after opponents (neither did Biden).
She did not encourage supporter violence against protestors.
She did not turn the security forces of the state on protestors.
I am sure there is much more evil that she did not do.
@honey badger: Thank you :)
@John John: You mean Fascists?
Stephen Miller, the Proud Boys, The Oath Keepers, Moms for Liberty, Flynn, Bannon, Manafort, …
The US Republican Party is infested with them.
And their idol.
@John John: Yes I do know.
Mom for Liberty are another Christo-fascist group that tried to impose its authoritarian belief system onto others.
They are classed as a hate group.
The founders have been accused of rape, and have admitted to unusual sexual activities – why don’t you know these things?
The weird sexual proclivities and actual harm comes from people like these.
That is what US Republicans do – they create groups or laws with lovely nice sounding names that take away rights from people.
Like those ‘Right-to-Work’ states.
Which should properly be called ‘ExploitersRUs’ states.
The lying treacherous sex offender fraudster orange things whinging and crying to the poorly educated magrats is going to get hysterical
Keep the faith lads, Trump will win back the White House, now 4-6, other thing 13-8.
@Robert Bell: even money now here at Boyles sports. “The other thing” as you refer to her(in a racist tone) is en route to the White House.
@James Leahy: Yes: she has all the momentum against a bitter and desperate old man with nothing new to offer.
@Robert Bell: Delusional Sl0b.!!
@James Leahy: what are you talking about, 4-7 trump v 11-8 thing boyles.
@Robert Bell: you missed the special. Looking forward to collecting in November. So long sucker.
@Robert Bell: so your money is on vonschitzinpants over an intelligent educated successful woman of colour that you can’t even name, the emotional damage and insecurity of your childhood is there for all to see. Have you considered therapy before it’s too late?
@James Leahy: i backed trump @ 7-1, cashed out most of it plus laid the corpse biden @ 6-4, so i aint doing any losing on this!!!
@Justin Mcnulty: i have cleaned up on it, got 7-1 trump, hes now 4-6 at best & cashed out most of my bet plus laid biden @ 6-4. Have you never heard of Betfair!! i will now lay KH when she gets near 5-4.
@Robert Bell: Boyles don’t elect anyone and the betting odds are determined by how much money is being laid, It’s not a scientific way of predicting a result, bookies favourites lose every single day.
It’s absolutely gas sitting back and watching Irish people attack each other over American politics.
@Ger Whelan: US politics affects the whole world. It’s extremely important. Another Trump presidency would be a disaster for the environment, for example.
@Ger Whelan: Astonishing comment from the guy who’d argue with himself if he was left alone for 5 minutes…
@Brendan O’Brien: And there is Brendan first in and brought up the environment..
@honey badger: Good to see the Israelis let you off the front lines in Gaza.
@Ger Whelan: Yes: the environment is kind of important, don’t you think?
@Brendan O’Brien: it’s extremely important. Your daily rants about it not so much.
@Ger Whelan: See! Thank you for illustrating how ironic your original comment was, Roy!
@Ger Whelan: As usual, your complaint has been filed in the appropriate place.
@Brendan O’Brien: How many times have you told the same people trump is bad and the climate change is bad etc? Has anyone of them ever listened? No none for them. But you’re like a broken record and repeat the same thing every day.
@honey badger: How long before you have to go back to the front honey?
@honey badger: Yes, and not long ago he was berating me over China/Taiwan. Ironic indeed.
@Brendan O’Brien: Berating you? Nope I was correcting the misinformation you posted claiming Taiwan is an independent nation. For a man who complains about other posting misinformation you seem to enjoy posting a lot yourself?.
@Ger Whelan: You claimed that because Taiwan is part of China, it follows that it must be part of the PRC, a brutal communist dictatorship. I merely pointed out that the Taiwanese people beg to differ and like their freedom. Deal with it.
And how is this any different from discussing US politics: the thing you turn up your nose at?
@Brendan O’Brien: Taiwan is part of china that’s a fact. Not once did I say it should follow the PRC. So why lie again Brendan. The people of Taiwan cannot just say they are free just like the people of Catalonia couldn’t in 2017. Now please don’t come back telling more lies.
@Ger Whelan: How could it be ruled from Beijing and not part of the PRC?
@Brendan O’Brien: idiotic comment.
@Brendan O’Brien: Is Scotland ruled by London. No it has its own government and can make it’s own laws but still part of the United kingdom. But don’t let that fact ruin your fantasy. Why do you continue to post misinformation that Taiwan isn’t part of China. Ask your government and any other democratic government is Taiwan and an independent nation and they’ll tell you no
@Ger Whelan: Taiwan is not part of the PRC. That is not misinformation. The UK is a democracy. The PRC is a totalitarian dictatorship.
And Scotland *is* ultimately ruled by Westminster, notwithstanding its limited autonomy.
@Brendan O’Brien: I never said it was part of the PRC I said it’s part of China. And it doesn’t matter if China is a totalitarian dictatorship or not. Taiwan cannot claim to be a sovereign independent nation unless Beijing agrees to it. Just like the governments of Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales cannot say they are sovereign independent countries without London agreeing to it. You claiming otherwise is misinformation to suit your agenda.
@Ger Whelan: My ‘agenda’ is to point to the fact that wishing to be free rather than to live under a brutal totalitarian dictatorship is a natural human impulse, and one with which I can sympathise. I have no idea why this makes you get so hot and bothered.
You still think it’s ‘gas’ to see Irish people argue over US politics?
@Brendan O’Brien: Doesn’t matter what you or I want Brendan The fact is by international laws Taiwan cannot claim to be an independent nation without Beijing saying so. Whether they get it by referendum with Beijing permission or by fighting for its independence and winning. All I’m doing now is correcting your misinformation. You stop posting misinformation I’ll stop correcting you.
@Ger Whelan: Taiwan is de facto an independent country. It runs itself. If it is part of the PRC, why does the PRC test its ability to “seize power” over Taiwan? That acknowledges that it does not already have power.
In May, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Wang Wenbin, said: “Taiwan independence forces will be left with their heads broken and blood flowing after colliding against the great … trend of China achieving complete unification,” according to a Reuters translation. Not something that you’re likely to hear from London ministers over Scottish independence efforts.
@Brendan O’Brien: What did the Spanish government do when the people of Catalonia held an illegal referendum and declared its independence? Did it accept it or put it down with hostile force and arrest those that challenged the Spanish government’s authority. Funny how that was acceptable to you and you don’t recognise Catalonia’s independence. I would imagine if the Americans left Taiwan alone and stopped doing military drills with it China would stop there’s. But of course it’s okay when the Americans interfere in other countries’politics that have nothing to do with them. Brendan all your misinformation will not change the fact that Taiwan is part of China. Keep posting all the misinformation you want that won’t change. All your doing is proving you’ll lie when it suits your agenda
@Ger Whelan: Taiwan did not secede from the PRC. Taiwan was never part of the PRC. You’re confused and incoherent.
@Ger Whelan: @Ger Whelan: Taiwan has its own government, elected by its own people.
They make and apply their own laws.
The laws of the PRC have no meaning or effect in Taiwan.
By definition, Taiwan is an independent nation.
@Brendan O’Brien: if I’m “confused and incoherent” so is your government, the American government, the British government, the EU parliament and every single democratic country that recognises Taiwan as part of china. I’ll take all there recognition over a guy who has different opinions to suit his agenda.
@Ger Whelan: The situation on recognition is not as simple as you are making out.
‘But a study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an American think tank, found that 51 member states officially used wording the same or similar to China’s.
And across the UN membership of 193 countries, the study found, there were ten different “one China” policies at the UN.
Most start off the same way – recognising the People’s Republic of China as the legal government of China.
But after that, things begin to diverge.
Some countries “respect” or “recognise” China’s claim over Taiwan, others “take note of it.” Others still make no mention of Taiwan’s sovereignty at all.
And there remain 12 UN member states that officially recognise the Republic of China in Taiwan as China’s legal government.
These Taiwan loyalists have dwindled over the years as the People’s Republic has gained economic and political might. The tiny Micronesian state of Nauru was the most recent to jump ship, just last Monday.
Perhaps the definition of the one China policy is so elusive largely because the architects of the most famous one, drawn up by the United States as it set about normalising relations with Beijing, intended it to be.
Not because they wanted to confuse future politicians, as other countries established diplomatic ties with Beijing and severed them with Taipei.
It was because ambiguity was the only way they could get the deal over the line – that was to officially recognise Beijing while maintaining cultural, commercial and other unofficial ties with Taiwan.
And so was constructed an artful diplomatic fudge where the two sides agreed on a form of words but walked away with quite different interpretations.’
https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2024/0121/1427634-one-china-policy/
@Brendan O’Brien: President Joe Biden had a blunt message after voters in Taiwan elected a new president Saturday: We do not support independence for Taiwan. Last I’ll say on the matter. Funny how you accuse me of supposedly looking for “argument” when here you are doing all you can to argue against your own government, and pretty much every government on the planet. Good man Brendan you clearly know better than everyone else.
@Ger Whelan: Governments have to be cognisant of China’s power: you may have heard of realpolitik. Individuals can take matters like freedom, democracy and human rights into account. You choose not to do that and instead to back the bully: good for you, but to be consistent you should also be backing Israel and Russia.
So he believes the election commission will help him..the same commission he’s been telling anyone that will listen stole the last election from him?
That country is I dunno..I find it really hard to believe they got to the moon
The Democrats are clearly misusing campaign funds…in Diaper Donny’s opinion the only time they can be transferred to a woman is when she’s a porn star shaking you down for hush money.
He just can’t stand that a woman may beat him so he plays dirty no surprise there
@Karen Marten: Didn’t he beat one of the most powerful women in American politics to win the presidency in 2016?
@Ger Whelan: Not on the popular vote.
@Brendan O’Brien: Does the American president get elected on the popular vote? No it doesn’t and that’s why he became president. Will you now argue against American democracy?
@Ger Whelan: Obviously it would be more democratic to go by the popular vote.
(I can take it as read that you will argue against this till the cows come home.)
@Brendan O’Brien: I am not arguing anything your the one disputing trump beating Clinton for the presidency. you say in one breath we must protect American democracy and in the other breath say you’d prefer it to work another way. Man you’re unbelievable.
@Ger Whelan: Yes, I would prefer if the candidate with the most votes were deemed elected.
Seems reasonable to me, but there’s no accounting for taste.
@Brendan O’Brien: Tell that to your own government which doesn’t use the popular vote. Our current Taoiseach was not elected to the Dail on the popular vote was he. It took 15 pass downs of preference voted to see him elected to the dail. But we won’t talk about that will we?
A run-off between individual candidates is clearly a different matter from a parliamentary election, which is why the president of Ireland is elected on the popular vote.
@Brendan O’Brien: president of Ireland has no power in Ireland to make laws in Ireland does he. Again you’ll change the facts to suit your agenda.
@Ger Whelan: That is irrelevant. I believe that in a two-horse presidential race, it is more democratic that the winner should be the one with more votes. The US system evolved out of circumstances that no longer pertain, and it would be fairer to change it.
@Brendan O’Brien: I’d feel Ireland would be more democratic if our leader was elected on the first count like the British Pm and not the 15th. The popular vote works for the British parliament so it would work for here don’t you think? But you’ll say no of course won’t you. Because Simon Harris wasn’t elected fairly was he?
@Ger Whelan: But any system where a minority can win an election cannot be described as a democracy.
No Republican has been able to win the presidency for over 30 years.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Who mentioned the republicans?. Are you suggesting that the US isn’t a democracy?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: “…No Republican has been able to democratically win the presidency for over 30 years.’
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: So are you saying the US isn’t a democracy Yes/No?
@Ger Whelan: I wouldn’t know was not interested in American or any politics for that matter but seeing him as a.president and as a riot inducer and his latest guilty verdict he is not a good man and USA would be better off with out him .
@Ger Whelan: The election of president by the Electoral College – as it is currently configured – can lead to undemocratic results.
Not US Republican president in the last 30+ years has been able to garner the support of the majority, and have only been elected by the vagaries of the Electoral College.
By definition, those presidents were elected by an undemocratic process.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: By definition then Simon Harris was voted in by an undemocratic process. So he shouldn’t be leading this nation. He didn’t get in on the first count. Less people voted for him so by your own definition the minority won.
@Ger Whelan: @Ger Whelan: How do you make that out?
We elect representatives to parliament.
Those representatives select – or elect, because they do it by vote – a Prime Minister.
Can you really be Irish, when you seem to know so little about our form of Representative Democracy?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Did Simon Harris get elected to be a TD in Wicklow by popular vote?. No he didn’t he needed 15 counts of preference votes to get elected. The majority of Wicklows population didn’t elect him. He needs 15 counts. So he was elected by a minority thus he shouldn’t have been elected to represent Wicklow as only the minority wanted him.
@Ger Whelan: And?
There are TDs elected to parliament.
Simon Harris was one.
The TDs in parliament choose a Prime Minister from among their ranks.
A majority of elected TDs chose Simon Harris.
Unlike the US Electoral College, where those representing a minority might get to decide their president.
Maybe Trump is realising he stood a better chance of being elected going against Biden instead if Harris. And now realises he needs to play dirty to stand a chance of winning.
Sad really!
@Brian Martin: oh! He wasn’t playing dirty already. Surely an old man like him with cognitive decline should step aside for a younger candidate. He can’t hold a coherent thought and seems to ramble rather incoherently. But hey racism, misogyny and whatever floats your boat.
It’s a bit rich people claiming foul or that its vindictive of the Trump campaign to file this complaint against the Harris campaign, given its the Democratic Party that has made the presidential campaign about cluster bombing legal actions in the hope that any hit the target, making allegations about election funding abd using dirty tricks to smear all opposing candidates, but primarily Trump.
Dirty tricks have always been part of politics, but they were carried out in the shadows and to prevent people from seeking election or to drop out early on.
It seemed like a great strategy to the Democratic Party to openly utilise these dirty tricks against Trump, but as many stated when they adopted these methods, sooner or later these methods will be weaponised right back at them..
@Dvsespaña: What ‘dirty tricks’ are these?
@Dvsespaña: you know Trump sh*ts his pants, literally sh*ts his pants!
@Dvsespaña: If by ‘cluster bombing’ you mean ‘prosecuting someone justifiably as a result of their own actions’ you are bang on the money. Holding someone to task for sexual assault and money laundering/misuse of campaign funds is not ‘dirty tricks’. The evidence against him in the Georgia case is also irrefutable. If you want to talk about frivilous lawsuits maybe have a look into the 60+ Trump filed trying to overturn a free and democratic election which didn’t uncover a shred of evidence of wrongdoing. Or the literal thousands he filed in his previous business career as an intimidation tactic towards rivals.
@Brendan O’Brien: If you want me to give you a specific answer, you will need to ask a specific question?
It’s game over for America. The politicians have destroyed the country. Migrants are flowing in over the border. The countries debt is running away. The US dollar is not longer being used as the world reserve currency. The petrodollar is dead and inflation is going to destroy the country. America is going bankrupt. They printed too much money and it’s coming back to haunt them.
@Washpenrebel: Those migrants coming over the Southern border are doing so not least because the destabilisation done to their countries by the US, particularly by Reagan making killing fields of Central America, and by the effects of climate Change, which US Republicans are largely responsible for.
Trump blew out the US national debt to give tax breaks to corporations and billionaires.
Biden’s admin instead started investments in US infrastructure which will reap future economic and social rewards.
The US dollar is still the world’s trading currency.
Oil is still priced in US dollars.
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