Comment on An Election More Like 2000 or 2004

Speaker Mike Johnson says one of Trump’s top priorities will be to repeal the Affordable Care Act and rip away health care from tens of millions of Americans, “No Obamacare.” Nothing says good Christian family values like ripping away healthcare from tens of millions of Americans, right? Blowing up the ACA impacts Americans who aren't on the plan, taking us back to the days when insurance companies could charge more or deny care due to pre-existing conditions.

PHOENIX — Inside a squat building ringed with a chainlink fence and concrete barriers in downtown Phoenix, election workers on Nov. 5 will begin a grindingly slow tally of every ballot cast in the vast expanse of stucco and saguaro that is Maricopa County, Arizona. In what has become the nation’s ultimate swing county, the count here could determine whether Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump will be the next U.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. It happened when no one was really paying attention, but Democrats somehow climbed out of a decade-long, double-digit ditch with voters on the question about who they trust to handle the economy.

After Kamala Harris received the call this summer that President Joe Biden would be endorsing her for the Democratic nomination, she immediately sprung into action working the phones in her Howard University sweatshirt. The sweatshirt isn’t just a callback to the Vice President’s alma mater; it’s also a symbol of the historic nature of her candidacy.

Earlier Tuesday, Donald Trump gave a morose and downbeat talk to his friends at Mar-A-Lago by repeating his many campaign lies, including that the 2020 election had being stolen from him. Trump made it seem like all the swing states had already voted in this cycle, proclaiming he was leading in all of them, which was weird in itself. After he finally finished, Fox News cut to Trump supporting host Harris Faulkner to issue a correction on Trump's false stolen election lies. Her intro started out innocent enough when she opened with a fawning statement lying that Trump was more focused than ever and discussed problems that Americans cared about.

Here's Fox News's Sean Hannity whining like a child playing in a sandbox without his Tonka toy. Kamala Harris gave a scintillating speech to over 75,000 people at the former scene of the January 6 insurrection. Hannity cried crocodile tears because the Harris campaign has been blasting Trump for his neo-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden and the horrible idea he promotes and the many despicable lie he tells. Trump is the greatest liar that has ever run for political office, so baby Sean decided to use that against the Vice President.