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Where did Trump voters get their news? 📰 Yes, there's social and partisan sites, but there is another influential strategy that isn't getting enough attention: Manipulated, pay-to-play and all out fake news sites I've been covering a mix of those for years. Here's a primer 🧵

The type of excitement and grassroots energy i saw for Kamala Harris campaign resembled 2008 Obama. The fact she lost by millions in the popular vote just confounds me.

Where did Trump voters get their news? 📰 Yes, there's social and partisan sites, but there is another influential strategy that isn't getting enough attention: Manipulated, pay-to-play and all out fake news sites I've been covering a mix of those for years. Here's a primer 🧵

Source in Georgia says yet more bomb threats coming into heavily black polling stations there.

“Picking a husband, dad, farmer, coach, teacher and veteran who flipped a congressional seat and held it for 12 years before earning election as Governor twice where he signed major policies into law and is now helping unite the party was a bad move by Harris” is quite a take.

If future historians have to ask why the US collapsed into authoritarianism, I suggest they start by comparing the page A1 of the Times on Oct. 29, 2016, to page A12 of the Times on Oct. 24, 2024

Stray observation + some mild speculation: Beshear is technically a conservative Democrat in a hard-won Governorship in a red state. For him to have focussed so strongly on abortion at the DNC is note-worthy. It says something about where the party is. More importantly, it says something about where the *country* is. Last night, it was *safe* for a conservative Dem from KY to speak on a national stage about abortion. That would have been unfathomable in, say, 2010. Now some speculation: my thinking, as Beshear was speaking, was that Democrats must have their hands on some truly devastating numbers for Republicans re: white women & the post-Dobbs world. Again, it is *wildly* contrary to the conventional wisdom of the past to specifically highlight Beshear, from a red state, on the issue of abortion. I believe that Democrats have analyzed the polls & have determined that Beshear's speech would not be a political risk for the party or for Beshear himself. That's meaningful.