Stop 2024 predictions

I blame the media for all of the 2024 coverage. Once again, they are helping Trump.

Why we need to stop with the 2024 predictions… The general election polls for an election 3 years away tell us NADA about what will happen in 2024. Biden's approval rating now tells us nothing about what will happen in 3 years. TY. https://t.co/EzRQrzb0YR
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) November 28, 2021

https://t.co/CBgJR87AEG
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) November 28, 2021

The media still gives Trump excess coverage

I wrote about why we stopped reading the news https://t.co/8sRTj0Byiu
— Lili Loofbourow (@Millicentsomer) November 15, 2021

https://t.co/CBgJR87AEG
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) November 23, 2021

Examples of what I mean:

Biden is president. The lead story on national politics should be how the House passed the Build Back Better bill and what could happen in the Senate. The media is addicted to Trump.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) November 19, 2021

"From Mar-a-Lago, Trump is happily playing kingmaker, and it's working. New Republican candidates are afraid to challenge him; Republican incumbents cower, too. And it's only getting worse," writes @GloriaBorger | Analysis https://t.co/5FSFqpunRK
— CNN (@CNN) November 18, 2021

Even negative coverage of Trump takes up space that could be used for other stories.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) November 18, 2021

Trump has already undermined confidence in the 2024 elections

So if the Democrat wins in 2024 Republicans will again believe it’s cheating. They have decided this three years before the election. It could certainly result in more right-wing violence.

If your candidate for president does not win in 2024, do you trust that the results are accurate via new NPR/PBS/Marist poll:

Democrats:
82% yes, trust results
13% no, don't trust results

Republicans:
33% yes, trust results
59% no, don't trust results
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) November 1, 2021

While Democrats have stayed steady on the issue, Republican confidence in the vote has fallen dramatically as former President Trump spent much of the past year making baseless and false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, @NBCNews poll finds. https://t.co/32JC2dunlP
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 1, 2021

The 2024 election will be worse than the 2020 election

Hard to believe but it’s true. The Trump cult is already undermining confidence in our elections. Republicans are doing phony audits, implementing voter suppression and making it possible for politicians to overturn election results.

Trump’s Big Lie campaign now about 2024 not 2020 @TimNaftali @niaCNN @kasie discuss pic.twitter.com/cfENBLM1lj
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 27, 2021

Hola, please find the unroll here: The risk of election subversion and a stolen election in 2024 became… https://t.co/dh0WyHAJyI Enjoy 🙂 🤖
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) September 27, 2021

Perspective | How scared should we be about 2024? https://t.co/1nEMatvHNH
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) September 27, 2021

Look what we have to look forward to in 2022 (and 2024). The RNC "will massively step up its poll watching, poll challenging, and litigation efforts." https://t.co/2vNXBSl0wH
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) September 27, 2021

This is worth watching.

Also I’m now worried sick again https://t.co/wdxzzofmwh
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 27, 2021

In terms of “bad 2024 outcomes,”
I continue to think that “Trump does a coup” is a lot less likely than “Trump wins a GOP trifecta based on actual votes + skewed maps.”
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 26, 2021

Nov 2024 through Jan 2025 will be a very dangerous time to be in the United States. One goal of many of these state voter suppression bills, which include giving politicians power to create chaos by rejecting the outcome, is to spark Jan 6-style violence on a larger scale.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) September 26, 2021

Georgia. Michigan. Now Arizona. Swing state by swing state, Trump is trying to get people who tried to get the 2020 election overturned elected to be in charge of running the 2024 election: https://t.co/MtIz1ZlJk8
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 16, 2021

Nothing about Trump has changed since 2015. One thing that has changed since then, should he declare his candidacy for 2024, is that he has a vocal, large base that is indifferent to his dishonesty and primed to reject the process. https://t.co/L5vrmwFgWO
— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 9, 2021

.@ChuckTodd: "What are close elections going to look like on November of '22?"

"Well that's the thing," @LACaldwellDC said on MTP: "It's not about the past election anymore. They're still talking about the past election, but they're trying to delegitimize future elections."
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 27, 2021

A coup in 2024 would be worse

I got lots of likes and some good comments on my reply to this tweet. 2024 will be awful.

Republicans definitely won’t accept a loss in 2024. Democrats won’t accept one either if it’s due to voter suppression and overturning results. 2024 will be so bad, we’ll be nostalgic for 2020 when we had a failed coup.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 6, 2021

60% think it would be bad for the US if Trump ran in 2024

The media should listen to the majority and give him less coverage.

Quinnipiac poll:

60% of Americans think it would be bad for the country if Trump ran for president in 2024. Just 32% think it would be good.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 5, 2021

The media is already giving Trump a head start for 2024

Didn’t they learn anything from their mistakes in 2016? It’s too early to star the 2024 campaign.

Let’s not give Trump a head start for 2024. Excessive media coverage helped him win the nomination in 2016. Be fair to other potential candidates.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) July 23, 2021

Best argument for why Trump will run again (revenge) that I’ve heard. I’m still not sure, but interesting… https://t.co/qFOZCDSNKo
— Mike Murphy (@murphymike) July 24, 2021

Biden is wrong to think Republicans will support voting rights

Republicans have made it very clear that they will suppress voting and make it easier to overturn elections. Biden is wrong to think Republicans will do anything to support voting rights.

Listening carefully again to Biden's answer on voting rights at #BidenTownHall I think it revealed his deepest instincts on the issue in three distinct ways. And all of them will likely be very discouraging to voting rights advocates.
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 22, 2021

Sigh. This is frustrating,

My friends on here, “why are you critical of the POTUS?”

3 reasons. He’s wrong on this and weed. And I can.

Ppl paid the ultimate cost for voting rights and the Dem caucus won’t do the bare minimum. It’s also more than JM and KS. We see y’all. https://t.co/mQ8USAWZ51
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) July 22, 2021

This @ElieNYC analysis of the futility of voting rights legislation without Supreme Court expansion is good and unsparing and correct, and this sentence made me audibly wince at how doomed we are https://t.co/CZcZIjW8pB pic.twitter.com/NJVQMSlQNs
— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) July 21, 2021

One day when Mitch McConnell kills the filibuster and a president is elected by voter suppression and state legislators picking the winner, I’m sure both sides will work super hard together to pass a voting rights bill because the rights of others is what the powerful care about. pic.twitter.com/sqUJzWW7fW
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 22, 2021

GOP is opposing real Voting Rights because it doesn’t want all of us voting; doesn’t want a public investigation of a white supremacist insurrection, but if we #EndTheFilibusterNow, a relic of segregation, there will be chaos? https://t.co/zuUfu22MMn
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) July 22, 2021

Biden saying he wants Republicans who "know better" to support voting rights legislation is the most unconvincing thing he's said tonight. There aren't 10 Republicans of that sort in the Senate. Not even close. https://t.co/l7ZE9sasyT
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 22, 2021

They can’t out-organize this:https://t.co/qnrW4pRGSn
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) July 23, 2021

I don’t expect Republicans to accept the results if they lose the 2024 presidential election. The issue is how to prevent them from overturning elections. Organizing people to vote won’t solve this problem in red states.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) July 23, 2021

One in five new US COVID cases is in Florida

It’s scary that DeSantis is the second most popular Republican choice for 2024 after Trump.

Very real stat here: 1 in 5 new COVID cases occurred in Florida *alone* over the last week, according to WH COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients.

Remember this when you see FL Gov. Ron DeSantis’s “Don’t Fauci My Florida” merch. pic.twitter.com/CjlOhiYmXV
— The Recount (@therecount) July 16, 2021

In the US, 20% of Covid-19 cases this week were in Florida, the White House coronavirus coordinator says. https://t.co/TWVgM9i3Ve
— CNN (@CNN) July 16, 2021

With 1 in 5 COVID cases in FL, DeSantis–while popular now– could be cruising for a political bruising. https://t.co/VU0f2bo46q
— Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter) July 16, 2021

Coach Guy Thomas should have had a leader assuring him that the vaccine is not only safe but necessary—not profiting off anti-Fauci gear as cases surged again and he lay dying https://t.co/MPNIlee9ZP
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 16, 2021

You left this statistic out: https://t.co/D7MIcQQhlZ
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) July 16, 2021

Gov. DeSantis' campaign is selling 'Don't Fauci my Florida' beer koozies.

"Here's the thing, though. The gov. of Florida is selling this while his state is currently experiencing nearly four times the national average of new covid cases," @Maddow says. https://t.co/ax5ArzXcHa
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 16, 2021

The media’s ratings after Trump are down but the media still gives him too much attention

Here are tweets from Paul Farhi from the Washington Post and an email I sent him. (It’s similar to an email I sent to Ben White at Politico which I posted on the blog but was rejected by their email system.)

The media still gives Trump lots of coverage but ratings may be down because people have lost interest. Here’s a link to an article I linked to in the email.

Trump’s blog has staggeringly small audience – The Washington Post

–NYTimes: 78.8 million (-8.2/month, -37.3/year).
–WashPost: 75.0 million (-3.6/month, -25.0/year).
–BuzzFeed: 72.3 million (-2.0/month, -13.5/year).
–NBCNews: 71.4 million (-12.6/month, -29.3/year).
–CBSNews: 70.6 million (-3.2/month, -13.8/year). More…
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) June 23, 2021

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