Only One President On TV Last Night

Tim with Jimmy last night and Kamala does Stephen tonight.

Governor Tim Walz talks about the anniversary of the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel, being a teacher, one lesson he wishes every adult remembered from social studies, being the lunchroom supervisor, building the sets for prom with his wife Gwen, how he became the VP nominee, Donald Trump having thin skin, his thoughts on the gun violence epidemic in our schools and our country, being endorsed by Bruce Springsteen, his enticing way of raising money, ignoring an unknown caller not knowing it was Vice President Kamala Harris asking him to be her running mate, who he has her listed as in his phone, and Jimmy quizzes him on what’s weird and not weird.

BTW, on the walz-kimmel vid, loved the line about food fights in the lunchroom preparing Tim for his time in congress. 

there were other really good asides that unfortunately got buried under audience laughter. any one would make a nifty sound bite between now and election day  and lead-ins to GOTV cartoons like

Attribution: Voting encouragement by Guy Parsons, PoliticalCartoons.com

this election’s October surprise might be Helene & Milton.   back in January subsections of an article in politico hinted to such a likelihood.

The Unpredictable But Entirely Possible Events That Could Throw the 2024 Election Into Turmoil – POLITICO

[…]
A hurricane meets Jan. 6
By Jacob Soll
Jacob Soll is a professor of philosophy, history and accounting at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Free Market: The History of an Idea (Basic Books).
Not a day goes by without an unexpected climate event: fires in the Northwest, tornadoes in Tennessee and hurricanes in Los Angeles. But imagine, for a moment, that one of these events happens during the upcoming presidential election. Indeed, imagine a monster hurricane hits the Mid-Atlantic seaboard on Election Day, shutting down D.C. and moving into Pennsylvania. Such an event could, very possibly, upend our democracy.
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Mother Nature wreaks havoc on the election
By Alec Ross
Alec Ross is the author of The Raging 2020s and a former senior State Department official during the Obama administration.
The latest-breaking event that will shape the 2024 presidential election will be a spectacularly destructive Category 5 hurricane that tears through the country just weeks before the election creating a Climate v. Christ binary in the electorate.
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A Katrina-level catastrophe could change the political game
By Eric Easter
Eric Easter is a writer and producer in Washington. He is a veteran of the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson, L Douglas Wilder and Howard Dean.
If I’m honest, I think we’re overthinking the whole election process. I think we underestimate the sense of responsibility most people feel when they step into the voting booth, and we’ve seen the evidence of that in recent elections and who’s won and lost across the country over the last four years or so. We’ll see some significant shifts in voting blocs, particularly in the 18-24 crowd, but not enough to change the outcome.
That said, I think this year might bring a major climate catastrophe to an American city — Katrina-level but much worse — that’s going to force us to see the need for having an adult in the Oval Office and a government that works and still exists. But it will have to be something naturally occurring and undeniable. I’m afraid we’re too far gone into our own silos for anything political to change the game.