Originally published at: We Suddenly Have A Real Campaign On Our Hands
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. ‘We Are Not Going Back’ It was so hard to imagine an incumbent president ditching his reelection campaign as late as the July before Election Day and equally difficult to envision a smooth passing of…
With excitement for Harris heating up, Trump and gang are melting down. And Democratic voters are champing to start chomping on Trump’s metaphorical ass!
Team Trump is in full panic mode
That their share of support will erode
Like the shark near the boat
Dems are champing to vote
Fear of Harris has Trump dropping a load
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We do!
Had to come in the back door this morning. 
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Backdoor for me too.
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Heather Cox Richardson had some meaty (as usual) info in her latest post. For example:
Trump has continued to post angrily on his social media feed but is otherwise sticking close to home. His lack of visibility highlights that the Republicans are now on the receiving end of the same age and coherence concerns they had used against Biden, and there might be more attention paid to Trump’s lapses now that Biden has stepped aside. CNN’s Kate Sullivan noted today, for example, that “Trump said he’d consider Jamie Dimon for Treasury secretary, but now says he doesn’t know who said that.”
Jamie Dimon? Is that why he was saying nice things about Trump? Oy.
On Vance:
As Tim Alberta noted Sunday in The Atlantic , the Trump campaign tapped J.D. Vance in an attempt to harden the Republican base, only to find now that he cannot bring to the ticket any of the new supporters they suddenly need.
According to Harry Enten of CNN, Vance is the first vice presidential pick since 1980 who has entered the race with a negative favorability rating: in his case, –6 points. Since 2000, the usual average is +19 points. Vance won his Senate seat in 2022 by +6 points in an election Republican governor Mike DeWine won by +25 points. Vance “was the worst performing Republican candidate in 2022 up and down the ballot in the state of Ohio,” Enten said. “The J.D. Vance pick makes no sense from a statistical polling perspective.”
Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark , who specializes in focus groups, noted that swing voters groups “simply do not like” Vance. “Both his flip flopping on Trump and his extreme abortion position are what breaks through,” she wrote.
Nice going, Beavis and Butthead, You really know how to pick them (with Peter Thiel’s help, of course).
And this, which I hope brings about much needed results:
The 2024 election is not consuming all of the political oxygen, even in this astonishing week. Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that eight large companies must turn over information about the data they collect about consumers, product sales, and how the surveillance the companies used affected consumer prices.
“Firms that harvest Americans’ personal data can put people’s privacy at risk. Now firms could be exploiting this vast trove of personal information to charge people higher prices,” FTC chair Lina M. Khan said. “Americans deserve to know whether businesses are using detailed consumer data to deploy surveillance pricing, and the FTC’s inquiry will shed light on this shadowy ecosystem of pricing middlemen.”
The eight companies are: Mastercard, Revionics, Bloomreach, JPMorgan Chase, Task Software, PROS, Accenture, and McKinsey & Co.
JPMorgan Chase. 
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I really don’t want Dems to make any holes in our Senatorial slate but…
What do we really think about Mark Kelly as a Veep fit? Do he and Kamala have any synergy? I don’t know much about him, what his ‘presence’ would be like on the ticket. His wife is Gabby Gifford, gunned down in a rampage shooting. Not only is he military and LE, and tough on The Border, but could talk about gun control.
Vice President Kamala Harris has reportedly narrowed down her choice for presidential running mate to a small number of choices, and Arizona Republic columnist Phil Boas believes that his state’s United States senator would be the perfect fit.
In his latest piece, Boas argues that Republicans aren’t afraid of running against Harris, but they “absolutely should” be scared if she picks Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) as her running mate.
In particular, he argued that Kelly’s biography as a Navy fighter pilot and NASA astronaut were likely to be highly appealing to swing voters.
Added to this, he writes, Kelly’s parents were both police officers, which would make him an ideal messenger to rebut Republicans’ attacks that Democrats are “soft on crime.”
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When I read about Harris and “We are not going back,” the first thing I thought of was a retort to “You will not replace us” – Charlottesville’s white supremacists and the whole MAGA return-to-white-Christian-men thing.
Keep it up, Kamala!
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In the wake of the attempt on Donald Trump’s life, the Secret Service is encouraging the Trump campaign not to hold outdoor events with large crowds.
Given that he apparently hates paying more for indoors, this may slow down his Nuremberg habit considerably.
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I live in PA and would love Shapiro (or Beshear), but Kelly is my top choice for all the reasons listed. Plus he grew up in New Jersey, so he (I hope) would be able to connect with the regular folks in the East.
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Will Trump listen to the Secret Service? We shall see.
In the wake of the attempt on Donald Trump’s life, the Secret Service is encouraging the Trump campaign not to hold outdoor events with large crowds.
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In by the back door again.
“The mods don’t know,
But the commenters understand.”
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I am a whole-hearted, enthusiastic supporter of Mark Kelly. He is my Senator, I have campaigned and voted for him twice. I would vote for him for President.
But, I want him as my Senator. I think he is more effective as a Senator than he would be as a Vice-President. I think a governor is a better pick.
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You always impress me with your optimism.
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Yeah I think it a bad idea to grab from the senate. The senate map this year is bad enough as it is.
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I thought they had this fixed.
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It might be to his advantage, whether he thinks so or not, in that it’s in these events where he’s most likely to off script into degenerate thanksgiving uncle territory. Also, the audience members are open targets for satirists and “People of Walmart” aficionados. The rallies are a periodic reminder of the campaign’s unserious circus atmosphere and his degenerate leader qualities
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Greetings from the back door.
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