User contributions for Smobes

23 December 2024

• 21:4021:40, 23 December 2024 diff hist +78 2024 United States presidential election After where is says "The incumbent president, Joe Biden of the Democratic Party, initially ran for re-election as the party's presumptive nominee, facing little opposition and easily defeating Representative Dean Phillips" I added "during the primary elections". This helps make the Democratic part of the Top section consistent with the Republican part of the Top Section. current
• 21:3621:36, 23 December 2024 diff hist −24 2024 United States presidential election Undid revision 1264796180 by Qqars (talk) You did not give an explanation for removing that when Biden faced little opposition, he also easily defeated Representative Dean Phillips. Since in Wikipedia pages of past US presidential elections and for Trump in this article, the main opposition candidate of the party's nominee is mentioned in the background if they are an incumbent member of Congress/elected official. Tag: Undo
• 08:1508:15, 23 December 2024 diff hist +13 Timeline of the 2028 United States presidential election →2024: Added more detail.
• 08:1308:13, 23 December 2024 diff hist +818 Timeline of the 2028 United States presidential election →2024: Added that on Dec. 22, New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley states his intention to try to work to return the first in the nation Democratic Party primary status back to New Hampshire in the 2028 presidential nominating calendar. In an interview with WMUR-TV, Buckley states, "We believe we have a very strong case to make. It's two years away. We think it's important that people don't think someone put a thumb on it, and we are awarded our position because we earned it."
• 05:1805:18, 23 December 2024 diff hist +787 Presidency of Joe Biden →Initial Biden campaign and withdrawal: Added that Representative Dean Phillips ran against Biden in the primaries but was unsuccessful. In all three of the main articles mentioned in this section, Phillips's running for the Democratic nomination for President is referenced despite being unsuccessful, so its inclusion in this article with one sentence is due. current
• 04:4104:41, 23 December 2024 diff hist +644 Timeline of the 2024 United States presidential election →January 2024: Added more relevant references. current
• 04:3804:38, 23 December 2024 diff hist +644 Views of Elon Musk →US presidents and presidential candidates: Added relevant references.

22 December 2024

• 09:3309:33, 22 December 2024 diff hist +4 2024 Democratic National Convention Added a link for Abstention. current
• 09:2609:26, 22 December 2024 diff hist +23 2024 Democratic National Convention Added the Abstention results in the roll call to the total vote results for president in the infobox because it is a part of the total results that was left out, is referenced elsewhere in this article, and Abstention in the total vote results for president is included in the past years Democratic Conventions main infoboxes.
• 07:1307:13, 22 December 2024 diff hist +1 Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign Grammar fix: improved verb form.
• 07:0607:06, 22 December 2024 diff hist +54 Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign I removed where it said "did not face any significant primary challengers" because this claim was not supported anywhere in the reference provided. Changed the sentence to say "and easily defeated his primary challengers such as US Representative Dean Phillips" because Representative Phillips was "significant" enough to be mentioned in the referenced Associated Press article as a challenger to Biden that dropped out on March 6.
• 06:3706:37, 22 December 2024 diff hist +912 Views of Elon Musk →US presidents and presidential candidates: Added that in January 2024, Musk participated in a forum with Ackman and Democratic presidential primary challenger, Representative Dean Phillips. During the forum, after hearing about the various challenges the Democratic Party presented to Phillips, Musk stated, “Getting candidates, especially popular candidates that are quite viable, removed from ballots is taking that decision away from the public, which is fundamentally anti-democratic..."
• 05:4605:46, 22 December 2024 diff hist +643 Dean Phillips 2024 presidential campaign →Campaign developments: Added that Phillips said in his 100 days as President that he intends to build "the most extraordinary bipartisan cabinet in American history." As for other first 100-day priorities, Phillips also said he intends to use “zero-based budgeting” and hire an international consulting firm to conduct a “top-down assessment” of the federal government. current
• 05:2905:29, 22 December 2024 diff hist +777 Timeline of the 2024 United States presidential election →2024: Added that Jan 15, Dean Phillips participates in a forum with Bill Ackman and Elon Musk. During the forum, after hearing about the various challenges the Democratic Party presented to Phillips's campaign, Musk states, “Getting candidates, especially popular candidates that are quite viable, removed from ballots is taking that decision away from the public, which is fundamentally anti-democratic... Some political party shouldn’t think that they know better than the public.”
• 05:2005:20, 22 December 2024 diff hist +913 Elon Musk →Politics: Added that in January 2024, Musk participated in a forum with Ackman and Democratic presidential primary challenger, Representative Dean Phillips. During the forum, after hearing about the various challenges the Democratic Party presented to Phillips, Musk stated, “Getting candidates, especially popular candidates that are quite viable, removed from ballots is taking that decision away from the public, which is fundamentally anti-democratic..." Tag: Reverted

21 December 2024

• 22:4722:47, 21 December 2024 diff hist +4 Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign →Rallies and speeches: Fixed grammar.
• 18:4218:42, 21 December 2024 diff hist +97 Timeline of the 2024 United States presidential election →January 2024: Made wording more specific.
• 18:4018:40, 21 December 2024 diff hist +852 Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign →Rallies and speeches: Added that on January 20, 2024, Trump started his rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, by telling New Hampshire Democrats to vote for Representative Dean Phillips in 2024 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary to signal to Biden that “you don’t abandon us.”
• 18:2818:28, 21 December 2024 diff hist +739 Timeline of the 2024 United States presidential election →January 2024: Added that on January 20, 2024, Trump starts his rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, by telling New Hampshire Democrats to vote for Phillips on Tuesday to signal to Biden that “you don’t abandon us.”
• 07:2707:27, 21 December 2024 diff hist +1,347 Talk:Donald Trump →Inclusion in the Inter-Presidency section of Trump's role in the 2023 January and October Speaker of the House elections: new section Tag: New topic

20 December 2024

• 20:3920:39, 20 December 2024 diff hist +710 Bill Ackman →US politics: Added that on January 15, 2024, Phillips floated a possible Cabinet post for Ackman and Elon Musk in a forum with them. current
• 20:3020:30, 20 December 2024 diff hist +987 Rand Paul →118th Congress (2023–present): Added that on December 19, 2024, Paul and some other Republican lawmakers publicly announced that they are open to supporting Elon Musk to be the next Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Tag: Reverted
• 20:2420:24, 20 December 2024 diff hist +303 Elon Musk →Politics: Added another relevant reference. Tag: Reverted
• 20:1920:19, 20 December 2024 diff hist +37 Elon Musk →Politics: Added job title of Representative. Tag: Reverted
• 20:1620:16, 20 December 2024 diff hist +458 Elon Musk →Politics: Added that in January 2024, Democratic presidential primary challenger Dean Phillips floated a possible Cabinet post for Musk in a forum with him and his tech allies. Tag: Reverted
• 19:5919:59, 20 December 2024 diff hist +959 Elon Musk →Politics: Added that in December 2024, some Republican lawmakers publicly announced that they are open to supporting Musk to be the next Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Tag: Reverted
• 02:5502:55, 20 December 2024 diff hist −6 2024 United States presidential election →Democratic Party: I removed the term "minor" that was recently added by another editor when referring to Biden's primary challengers because although they may have been long shots, it is undue to interject bias that is subjective in characterizing the candidates.

19 December 2024

• 23:0123:01, 19 December 2024 diff hist +1,433 Age and health concerns about Joe Biden →Presidency: Added that on July 11, 2024, the House of Representatives voted on a resolution that could have held Attorney General Merrick Garland in inherent contempt of Congress. The resolution would have imposed a fine of $10,000 per day on Garland for defying a congressional subpoena until he handed over audio of former special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden. The attempt fell short 204 to 210.
• 22:4222:42, 19 December 2024 diff hist +6 2024 United States presidential election →Democratic Party: Biden's name needed to be added here for this sentence to make sense. Why was so much of this section removed?
• 22:3722:37, 19 December 2024 diff hist +604 Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election →Biden age and health concerns: Added that in February 2024, upon concluding the investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents, special counsel Robert Hur suggested that Biden would be able to present himself to a jury as an "elderly man with poor memory" and wrote that his memory "appeared to have significant limitations".
• 22:2522:25, 19 December 2024 diff hist +12 2024 United States presidential election →Joe Biden: Added lawmakers to the list of people that raised concerns about President Biden's age. Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers raised these concerns before the Presidential debate. For example, many Republican members of Congress and Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips. This is referenced in the main page: Age and health concerns about Joe Biden.
• 22:1022:10, 19 December 2024 diff hist +620 Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election →Biden age and health concerns: Added that on January 20, 2024, Phillips told Axios that he thought it would be "impossible" for Biden to do the job for four more years, and that "At that stage of life, it is impossible ultimately to conduct, to prosecute the office of the American presidency in the way that this country in the world needs right now. That is an absolute truth." This comes from the main article: "Age and health concerns about Joe Biden".

17 December 2024

• 18:1718:17, 17 December 2024 diff hist +1,343 Dean Phillips →Tenure: Added that on December 16, 2024, Phillips delivered his farewell address on the House of Representatives floor. In the speech, Phillips criticized America's two major political parties for "legalized corruption" that prioritizes their own "self-protection over principles." He also urged his colleagues to find commonsense solutions and focus on ideas over ideology to solve people's problems.
• 07:5307:53, 17 December 2024 diff hist +36 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries →July 2024: Fixed tense and added link.
• 07:5207:52, 17 December 2024 diff hist +4 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries →July 2024: Added a link for Senator Joe Manchin.
• 07:5107:51, 17 December 2024 diff hist −14 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries →July 2024: Fixed link.

16 December 2024

• 19:1619:16, 16 December 2024 diff hist +896 Dean Phillips →Tenure: Added that on March 5, 2022, Phillips was among the lawmakers who met with Ukrainian President Zelensky regarding the U.S. providing additional help to Ukraine in fending off Russia's invasion.
• 18:5318:53, 16 December 2024 diff hist +451 Dean Phillips →Tenure: Added that Phillips was among the U.S. Delegation that attended the 2022 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

13 December 2024

• 16:4116:41, 13 December 2024 diff hist +4 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries Added a link for venture capitalist.
• 16:3616:36, 13 December 2024 diff hist +127 User talk:Smobes →Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution: Reply current Tag: Reply
• 04:5104:51, 13 December 2024 diff hist +469 2028 United States presidential election →Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Added that pundits for Spectrum News NY1 proposed Ocasio-Cortez would be a “formidable contender” if she decided to make a run for the White House.
• 01:0801:08, 13 December 2024 diff hist +26 2028 United States presidential election →Dean Phillips: Added link for Minnetonka, Minnesota.

12 December 2024

• 23:2423:24, 12 December 2024 diff hist +8 2028 United States presidential election →Roy Cooper: Added symbols for sources.
• 23:2023:20, 12 December 2024 diff hist +478 2028 United States presidential election →Potential candidates: Added another Politico source for AOC being a potential candidate for President. According to Politico, there is also speculation amongst various media outlets that have begun for Ocasio-Cortez being a potential candidate for President in 2028.
• 22:4922:49, 12 December 2024 diff hist +11 2028 United States presidential election →Roy Cooper: Updated formatting.
• 22:4322:43, 12 December 2024 diff hist +3 2028 United States presidential election →Roy Cooper: Added quotes for Politico and The New York Times.
• 22:4222:42, 12 December 2024 diff hist +16 2028 United States presidential election Added quotes for when sources are mentioned.
• 21:3821:38, 12 December 2024 diff hist −2 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries →Process following Biden's withdrawal: Specified date.
• 21:3721:37, 12 December 2024 diff hist +2,350 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries →Process following Biden's withdrawal: Added that in July 2024, Black Lives Matter released a statement opposing the Democratic Party's decision to nominate Kamala Harris for president without a primary election, describing the process as "anointing" Harris as the nominee without a public vote. BLM argued that installing Harris as the Democratic nominee without a primary vote undermined democratic principles, stating that it "would make the modern Democratic Party a party of hypocrites."
• 21:1821:18, 12 December 2024 diff hist −185 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries →Process following Biden's withdrawal: Made the wording more precise.