Kerry Eleveld

Jul 7, 2024 | dailykos.com | Kerry Eleveld

Hello, Daily Kos community. I write to you with bittersweet news: After nearly a decade of working here, I'm leaving for new opportunities. I will not be working for any specific news outlet, but I do plan to stay active in terms of writing posts with my personal views (here and elsewhere) and finding other means of contributing to the national political conversation.

Jun 30, 2024 | nationalmemo.com | Kerry Eleveld

If President Joe Biden is on his last leg as a candidate, you'd never know it by his effort to energize Democratic troops at a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina on Friday. "I know I'm not a young man. Let’s state the obvious" Biden said, in a nod to the halting performance he delivered at Thursday night's debate in Atlanta. He paused, and chants of "Joe!" began to sweep the crowd. "Folks, I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to.

Jun 29, 2024 | dailykos.com | Kerry Eleveld

If President Joe Biden is on his last leg as a candidate, you'd never know it by his effort to energize Democratic troops Friday at a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina. "I know I'm not a young man. Let’s state the obvious" Biden said, in a nod to the halting performance he delivered at Thursday night's debate in Atlanta. He paused, and chants of "Joe!" began to sweep the crowd. "Folks, I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to.

Jun 28, 2024 | dailykos.com | Kerry Eleveld

The thoughts of many Americans who tuned into Thursday night's first 2024 presidential debate were perhaps best summed up by an Arizona voter and self-identified Republican named Jeff. "The feeling I had inside was, Trump, hell no—he lied through the whole thing,” Jeff told MSNBC, “and Biden is like, oh no—he is really in bad shape."Jeff is exactly the type of swing voter President Joe Biden needs to win over in November and who the Biden campaign clearly hoped to assuage at the very least.

Jun 27, 2024 | dailykos.com | Kerry Eleveld

Thursday's inaugural presidential debate of the 2024 cycle is poised to be historic on multiple levels, but perhaps most notable is the level at which Americans plan to tune in. While a recent poll from the Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found about 60% of U.S. adults very likely to watch the debate, a Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday put the number of registered voters likely to watch at a gobsmacking 73%—nearly three-quarters of the electorate.