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October 28, 2024

Monday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Bernie Sanders, Bill Maher, David Harsanyi, Michael Reagan, and more.

The BIG Lies

“If you look at Joe Biden’s popularity record, you know when he was most popular? It’s after we passed the American Rescue Plan. We saved child care. We saved hospitals. We saved colleges, so I don’t apologize.” —Senator Bernie Sanders

“If you want to ask my view and many economists, the reason that we saw a spike in inflation, which is now going down, was … because of corporate greed. Record-breaking profits on the part of [the] food industry, other corporations charging us off-the-wall prices. I think that had a lot to do with inflation.” —Bernie Sanders

Friendly Fire

“Kamala’s big, I think, challenge here to win over the undecided voters is to convince them that she’s not part of what they suspect she might be, sort of a stealth version of the worst excesses of the Left.” —liberal political pundit Bill Maher

For the Record

“[Harris] says she doesn’t want ‘concessions’ regarding ‘fundamental freedom’ over ‘your own body.’ What about forcing a doctor to use his body to perform a procedure he finds objectionable and abhorrent? In a sense, that makes him a slave, which is somewhat ironic given that the dehumanization so key to defending slavery is akin to the way pro-abortion zealots dehumanize the unborn.” —Nate Jackson

Political Futures

“It defies common sense for Americans to reelect the vice president from the administration responsible for so much misery. At some level, Democrats surely know this.” —Josh Hammer

“The upward turn of fortune for Trump that has Democrats in a panic is not because he was shot or because he suddenly transformed himself into Mitt Romney 2.0 or Mister Rogers. It’s because the whole country has been getting a better look at Kamala — and has seen what a goofy, unprepared, fourth-rate candidate she is.” —Michael Reagan

Reality Check

“When you look at the swing-state polls, Trump is definitely polling at a better ballot share than he’s ever polled in the three elections that he’s been running. I think that means there’s not a whole lot of shy Trump voters left. It’s possible that Trump’s support is being underrepresented, but the fact that his ballot share is higher shows that it’s not the same [extent] of underrepresentation [as in previous years].” —Republican pollster Brent Buchanan

“No matter how the Electoral College shakes out, there’s a decent chance that, next month, more Americans will cast a ballot for Kamala Harris than anyone else in U.S. history.” —Jim Geraghty

And Last…

“Spend some time trying to decipher Harris’ swirling, platitude-ridden, incoherent rhetoric and you will only be further convinced that we live in an idiocracy.” —David Harsanyi

“I know what it would be like if we let [Harris] in. And that ain’t good. Miserable track record. Appalling track record. No policies to speak of. And she’s got the IQ of a fence post.” —filmmaker Mel Gibson

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