US Presidential Election 2024

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Derek27 wrote:
Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:32 pm
Euler wrote:
Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:27 pm
I think it will be almost impossible for anything to beat the 2020 campaign!

What an incredible market.
If Trump runs, anything could happen. I've noticed the market's no longer called "next president" but "election winner". I suspect Betfair will have learned from their mistakes.
I don't think there'll be many surprises in the 2024 market.

Republicans almost nailed on to win back control of the house in the midterms. If / when that happens the house investigations will all go away, Trump will announce his candidacy, win the Republican nomination and probably stroll to the presidency. Only other outcome I see is for whatever reason Trump doesn't run, then De Santis becomes president. Democrats have nobody whose electable imo.
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Trader Pat wrote:
Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:37 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:32 pm
Euler wrote:
Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:27 pm
I think it will be almost impossible for anything to beat the 2020 campaign!

What an incredible market.
If Trump runs, anything could happen. I've noticed the market's no longer called "next president" but "election winner". I suspect Betfair will have learned from their mistakes.
I don't think there'll be many surprises in the 2024 market.

Republicans almost nailed on to win back control of the house in the midterms. If / when that happens the house investigations will all go away, Trump will announce his candidacy, win the Republican nomination and probably stroll to the presidency. Only other outcome I see is for whatever reason Trump doesn't run, then De Santis becomes president. Democrats have nobody whose electable imo.
An assassination attempt on Trump, Biden being misreported to have passed away, Trump's fraud trial coming to a conclusion weeks before the election where he's facing 4 years in prison, topped with Trump refusing to accept defeat, it could be just as chaotic. :D
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Derek27 wrote:
Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:44 pm
Trader Pat wrote:
Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:37 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:32 pm

If Trump runs, anything could happen. I've noticed the market's no longer called "next president" but "election winner". I suspect Betfair will have learned from their mistakes.
I don't think there'll be many surprises in the 2024 market.

Republicans almost nailed on to win back control of the house in the midterms. If / when that happens the house investigations will all go away, Trump will announce his candidacy, win the Republican nomination and probably stroll to the presidency. Only other outcome I see is for whatever reason Trump doesn't run, then De Santis becomes president. Democrats have nobody whose electable imo.
An assassination attempt on Trump, Biden being misreported to have passed away, Trump's fraud trial coming to a conclusion weeks before the election where he's facing 4 years in prison, topped with Trump refusing to accept defeat, it could be just as chaotic. :D
There'll be lots of side shows and headlines but I don't think it will have a bearing on the market.

The only hope the Dems have is if the current investigations wrap up quickly and find Trump criminally liable for something that DQ's him from running for office. Then some skeleton will have to come out of De Santis's past which derails his campaign. Can't see either happening to be honest.

It is US politics I suppose so who knows what will happen next :D
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Back in 1982, at one of the cold war peaks, I was 7 years old and my dad got a job working in New York. So we moved from the UK for about 4 years to a beautiful lakeside community an hour outside the city. My "formative years". Many of my dearest friends are still those I grew up with in those years. It was a cookie cutter, stereotype American experience. Yellow school buses, summer camp, little league - imagine the Goonies without the actual movie plot!

Intertwined with all that was an amazing love of their own country. I remember getting in trouble at Boy Scouts when, during the pledge to the Flag, I genuinely simply poked my tongue out to wet my dry lips (was a cold evening) and got accused of a foreigner sticking his tongue out at the Flag!!!! Never did I think I'd see the day when Americans, mainly young, burn their own Flag and hate their own country.

Their reasoning is all bs.... we were educated on America's ills, even in Elementary School. We learned about slavery, civil rights movements... all the bad things that happened. But we did so from a position of balance and a general recognition that there was a lot more positive than negative to the country.

Trump as an individual is an utter bell-end. But when you look at the recent evidence of the polarisation of the country, you discover that the left have lurched far more to the extreme left than the right have to the extreme right. That is why more moderate Americans, when presented with a choice of Hilary led socialism vs Trump led conservative/America first-ism, we wound up with an idiot for President - a very dumbed down and uncouth version of Reagan.

In '24, they will have the same choice. They could well elect Trump. They would almost certainly elect DeSantis. But either way, I fear the last decade has been the beginning of the end for America.
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Jimmy2Bigg wrote:
Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:52 am
Back in 1982, at one of the cold war peaks, I was 7 years old and my dad got a job working in New York. So we moved from the UK for about 4 years to a beautiful lakeside community an hour outside the city. My "formative years". Many of my dearest friends are still those I grew up with in those years. It was a cookie cutter, stereotype American experience. Yellow school buses, summer camp, little league - imagine the Goonies without the actual movie plot!
sounds like a great childhood. out of interest, which summer camps did you go to?? my wife spent about 3-4 terms working for Camp America and always returned to Camp Michikamau. We actually ended up spending a month there before we were married and were able to take 3 of our kids too. We rounded that all off by actually getting married in Woodstock during the same visit - happy memories !!
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Is a summer camp a family holiday resort?
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Derek27 wrote:
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Is a summer camp a family holiday resort?
nope - usually only for the kids. however, due to my (now) wife having worked there for 4 years during the 90's, we managed to swing a month hanging out there. of course, had to pitch in and help with activities, but it was all good. it's a great experience for kids in the US. I guess the long hot summers help tho!!
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It really was. We water-skied on the lake in the summers and in the winters it froze over so thick you could happily walk across it.

The camp wasn't a "chain" type. Just a small local one run at a place called Sycamore Park in Putnam County New York. To Derek, yes, the camps were just for kids. Summer school vacations tend to be a lot longer than the UK. To help parents lots of places have day camps. Adult leaders helped by teenagers, usually around 15 yrs up. Great fun.
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This market might start getting interesting over the coming months.

There was a school of thought that De Santis would step aside and let Trump run unopposed for the Republican nomination but they've been trading insults in public recently so it looks like they're warming up for the debates. Amazingly De Santis is even further to the right than Trump! Trump has been encouraging people to get vaccinated and when he revealed he got boosted he was booed! The irony :D

And on the Dems side HIllary is doing a lot of interviews... I wonder ;)
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Trader Pat wrote:
Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:46 pm
And on the Dems side HIllary is doing a lot of interviews... I wonder ;)
Its all fascinating Pat. And we are still a couple of days shy of Biden's first full year.

In most other modern Western democracies Trump wouldn't stand a chance, his prior comments and actions would simply turn off too many people. Yet, and he said himself prior to being elected, he could shoot somone in fifth avenue and it still wouldn't impact his chances.

And in modern US politics a failed candiate like Hilary wouldn't normally be resurrected. Nixon of course came back from defeat against Kennedy to have another shot and so it can happen in the "modern" era, if we say that is post WWII.

What really strikes me is how the older generation in the US still has a grip on politics. McConnell - 79, Pelosi 81, Biden 79, Trump 75.

Hilary is the spring chicken at 74 - but the Clinton's are of course deeply flawed (which of us humans is not I guess).
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gazuty wrote:
Mon Jan 17, 2022 11:52 pm
Trader Pat wrote:
Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:46 pm
And on the Dems side HIllary is doing a lot of interviews... I wonder ;)
Its all fascinating Pat. And we are still a couple of days shy of Biden's first full year.

In most other modern Western democracies Trump wouldn't stand a chance, his prior comments and actions would simply turn off too many people. Yet, and he said himself prior to being elected, he could shoot somone in fifth avenue and it still wouldn't impact his chances.

And in modern US politics a failed candiate like Hilary wouldn't normally be resurrected. Nixon of course came back from defeat against Kennedy to have another shot and so it can happen in the "modern" era, if we say that is post WWII.

What really strikes me is how the older generation in the US still has a grip on politics. McConnell - 79, Pelosi 81, Biden 79, Trump 75.

Hilary is the spring chicken at 74 - but the Clinton's are of course deeply flawed (which of us humans is not I guess).
If I was an American I wouldn't vote for any of them :)

Trump - De Santis could be fascinating to watch. De Santis is making a play for Trump's base and seems to be having some success particularly with the Covid sceptics.

On the other side like you say Biden is 79 but he's only 1 year into his term. He'd be in his 80's if he was to run again. Can't see it happening but who's the alternative for the Dems? I can see a scenario where Hillary would appeal to a lot of Dems but only because there's nobody else to excite the base.

A nation of over 300m and it comes down to this lot! :)
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Another poor performance by Biden at a press conference.

When asked about Ukraine he said a Russian invasion would be a disaster for Russia but a 'minor incursion' would prompt a 'discussion'. Maybe if Russia just annex a little bit more of Ukraine its all good!

It's led to Ukrainian diplomats losing the plot and the White House having to release another statement explaining a Joe Biden press conference.
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Not surprised the Ukrainian president isn't happy with Biden, it's okay to invade Ukraine as long as you don't take too much land. :roll:
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Trump suggesting that if he's re-elected he may pardon the Jan 6th rioters and asking for mass protests if he's convicted by the 'racist' prosecutors (who happen to be black) who are investigating him. Plenty of dog whistles there for the base.

Worth keeping an eye on De Santis' price (8.6) in the coming months if that's how Trump is going to play it. If both Trump and De Santis run I can't see many outside Trump's base voting for him with that kind of rhetoric. He's basically encouraging another Jan 6th.
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Utterly amazing that he's favourite, albeit 4.4.
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