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The Chaos of the 2024 Election Has Already Begun

My Spy editorial for October 30, 2024

John Dean
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6 min readOct 30, 2024

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Election Day 2024 is six days away. That meant that my weekly column in Spy Community Media’s newspapers serving the Eastern Shore of Maryland would be my last before November 5. Knowing that, I commented on Trump’s bizarre event at Madison Square Garden and explained why I am voting for Kamala Harris.

Like most civilized people, I was appalled at the misogyny, race hate, vulgarity, and lies told at the event. I disregarded J.D. Vance’s advice that I get over complaining about offensive language.

The column as published in the Spy may be found here.

The chaos of the 2024 election has already begun

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