The 2024 election is here. Which races are you watching?

[AgnosticBoy]

The day has come. Finally!

Which races are you watching? Any one of those surprise? I know the Elizabeth Warren race surprised me because of the margin she won by. Then again only 13% of the vote is in as of now, but she ran against someone who i thought was a solid candidate, i.e. John Deaton.

Then I've been watching all the election results from the major news networks, mainly Fox News and CNN, and even Google's election map. Interestingly, Fox News is quick to call races for a candidate, esp. when it's a Republican. For instance, they already projected for Trump to win Kansas before any other news network announced. I question if they are wrong on that since only 45% of the vote is in and Trump is only ahead by 1 percentage point.

 

[AgnosticBoy]

I'm also surprised Rick Scott of Florida won another Senate term. He's gotten a bad rap for being the guy that wants to kill Medicaid.

I'm watching Georgia because Trump hotly contested that state in 2020. I believe it used to be reliably Republican, but some of the metro areas are becoming more populated and mostly vote Democrat. It will be interesting to see who wins state.

Edit for Update:
CNN and MSNBC called Georgia for Trump before Fox News. Thought the reverse would have happened.

 

[AgnosticBoy]

On Texas, I was keeping an eye on Sen. Ted Cruz vs. Colin Allred. Cruz won. Allred seemed pretty good at communicating although I'm not sure how Texans felt about his policy plans.

 

[Multicolored Lemur]

Allred seemed pretty good at communicating

Not good enough.

Back in August or September, the Cruz campaign starting running a commercial in which Allred said a border wall was racist. And it may well be at the end of the day.

But Colin Allred needs to run a “can do” campaign explaining how he’ll achieve a decent and honorable guest worker program, border security including a wall both high tech and low tech. And you might make E-Verify mandatory so that companies onky hire who they’re suppose to hire.

Colin needed to respond right way to negative ads.

He might even draw a lesson from defense attorneys. If there’s a major negative fact about your client, you need to be the one to give it to the jury. For example, if your client lied to the police because he’s scared, you probably need to bring this up during the “voir dire” jury selection. Go down the row in sets of 3, and ask them, “Do you believe someone’s automatically guilty because they lied to the police?” “Well, they were hiding something right?”

This will do two things. It will help you find jurors who may be open to that the guy’s not guilty of the main crime. It will also inoculate the jury members against claims the other attorney will make. Will steal a little bit of this person’s thunder.

Colin didn’t lie. But he did change his mind.

He should have led with this.

He should have said, Hey, ai believe in being a good listener. And I’m a much better listener than Ted Cruz. I did change my views on immigration and gets why . . .