Hello, and welcome to the Guardian’s brand new US election newsletter.
Here’s what you need to know …
1. Trump’s mouth gets him further into debt
Donald Trump already owes $454m as a result of his civil fraud case in New York, and has been ordered to pay $88.3m to E Jean Carroll over a defamation lawsuit. Given Trump struggled to find the money for the former, the last thing he needed was to be fined $9,000 in his New York criminal trial, after he attacked witnesses online. Could the judge give him jail time if he does it again?
2. Biden’s banter bus
“The 2024 election is in full swing and yes, age is an issue,” Joe Biden said at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday. “I’m a grown man running against a six-year-old.” The joke continued Biden’s transition from grownup-in-the-room to Burn King in Chief, with the president and his campaign increasing their mocking attacks on Trump’s golf game, finances and mental aptitude.
Could student protesters turn the 2024 election?
Tensions on university campuses, already high as a wave of pro-Palestinian encampment-style protests sweeps the US, got even higher overnight.
The protests, which have seen students pitch tents or occupy buildings at Columbia, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and others, began as an effort to get universities to ditch investments in companies which provide weapons and equipment to the Israeli military.
I have friends in their 70s who talk to me about their life experiences here in Canada and what they grew up with. A lot of them were in college during the 1970s so they got to live through the whole Vietnam war era.
They are proud of what students are doing now.
They keep reminding me that their generation helped to stop wars overseas … and if they did it in the past … students can do it again.
Yes, and I think that’s why we’re seeing such quick and drastic measures being taken against student protesters - too many powerful people know that these protests will be effective if allowed to continue.
Brown has already capitulated. It’s just a matter of time.
Never bet against youth.
Yeah, some of the most effective people are those that don’t know the task is “impossible”. They figure out a way.
If the news could get their collective heads out of their asses and stop validating the right wing freakshow by giving them tons of airtime, then yes, students could also potentially sway the election.
If they sway it, it’ll be to Trump. There is no chance of a third-party candidate getting elected, and Trump’s base will still vote for him even if he’s convicted of all 88 charges. It’s going to be worse for Palestinians, not to mention Ukrainians, Taiwanese, migrants/immigrants, and Americans.
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More cruel than separating parent from child, deporting the parents while keeping the children in detention centers, only to sexually and physically abuse them?
Biden repealed Title 42, Trump’s immigration policy. They are not the same.
I absolutely hate it when news corporations say any form of “here’s what you need to know”… What I hear is “here’s what we WANT you to know”… And I assume what follows well be mostly bullshit and propaganda
Give me all the information in an unbiased factual way, and let ME decide what I need to know
Could student protesters turn the 2024 election?
Turn it over to the fascist that is probably collecting the names of arrestees to strip citizenship from & exile from the USA?
If you think this SCotUS won’t allow it, you’re a fucking moron.
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Bidens response to the protests will probably lose him the election. It seems like he’s trying to lose to trump.
Ahh, the old “let’s underestimate the largest demographic of legal adults” strat.
Let’s see if it pays off.
I’m confused. Are you saying college students represent the largest demographic of legal adults? Because I don’t think that is correct.
No, 18-22 year olds do. Usually.
Just because an 18-22 year old isn’t enrolled in a college doesn’t mean they won’t go to a campus to protest.
Wait, so you are saying that there are more 18-22 year olds than everybody else aged 23 and older? That also does not sound correct.
There are MANY different sub groups of adults aged 23+. It doesn’t sound at all like they’re lumping 23-year olds with 93-year olds…
I hope that is the case and that I am just confused with how things were worded.
I still don’t know who the “largest demographic of legal adults” is that they referenced, but some mysteries are destined to remain unanswered.
Sadly that strategy does in fact ordinarily pay off because the young people that make up the largest demographic of legal adults notoriously underperforms when it comes to voting.
There is a growing movement that don’t want to vote this election on purpose as protest… yes I know it’s stupid, and I agree.
“Police sources say most of the protesters arrested were not Columbia students, but rather “mostly professionals.””
So if students aren’t even the ones protesting, how can they possibly turn an election? 🤔
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