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My impression is that a lot of political experts and other commenters are conflating winning a debate with winning an election. People might agree that Harris won the debate, but they still might vote for Trump. And there are thousands of potential voters who like his lies and like that he lies and then lies about his lies.

Trump is absurdly, pathetically, desperately "running from prison," as George Conway says. He's desperate to regain power, to hang on to his money, and to not be "the loser" …

I had the sense that this was occurring. UGGG. Small focus groups on CNN and elsewhere of undecided voters *seem to be leaning toward Vice President Harris. Those who say they prefer Trump were already leaning towards Trump.

People are really hung up on the economy.

Presidents Trump and Biden likely forestalled the collapse of the economy coming out of COVID by sending out all those checks; the resultant inflation came from ramping up the money supply to keep the economy afloat. A spat of inflati…

While I think that true, there is plenty of Greedflation in the mix, oligarchical, omnivorous conglomerates, raising prices because the can.

Here in Florida, where greed goes unchecked, people blame the high costs in the Biden Administration, not the greedy oligarchs who have bought and paid for Desantis.