Tournament: AV | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dougherty Valley PT | Judge: Paras Kumar
Clinton wins now but it’s way too close – polls have tightened and she’s ahead in just barely the states needed to win the electoral college.
Silver 11/3 Nate (founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight, predicted only one state incorrectly in the past 2 presidential election cycle) “Election Update: Why Clinton’s Position Is Worse Than Obama’s” http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-why-clintons-position-is-worse-than-obamas/
There’s been a … chain-link fence.
Trump gains support through bashing anti-police legislation: the aff would ruin Hillary’s chances. Alcindor 16
Yamiche Alcindor, Trump, Rallying White Crowd for Police, Accuses Democrats of Exploiting Blacks," New York Times, 8/16/16
Forty miles north of … occurred back then.”
Public perception about police brutality will determine who wins the major swing states and ultimately the election.
Eric Bradner '16 (), 9-21-2016, "Clinton, Trump navigate politics of police violence," CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/21/politics/police-shootings-politics-trump-clinton/ AHS-DM, 10-24-2016
Hillary Clinton and … really good man."
Courts don’t link to politics- evades electoral consequences
Stoutenborough et al. 06 (JamesStoutenborough, Political Science Dept @ Utah, Reassessing the Impact of Supreme Court Decisions on Public Opinion, Political Research Quarterly, p. 419)
In many cases… correct their mistake.86
A Trump presidency irreversibly damages the environment and kills U.S. softpower
Think Progress '16 (), 5-25-2016, "The Environmental Implications Of A Trump Presidency," Think Progress, https://thinkprogress.org/the-environmental-implications-of-a-trump-presidency-fc298e5fd83c AHS-DM, 9-11-2016
He will also …after their meeting.
We’re on the brink on collapse– global warming is real, anthropogenic and causes extinction – the largest impacts also affect the disadvantaged first.
Deborah Snow and Peter Hannam ’14, Climate change could make humans extinct, warns health expert, March 31, 2014
The Earth is … social development programs.
You have an ethical obligation to reject discourses that justify a Trump presidency—causes racism, xenophobia and a new age of totalitarianism that threatens the planet.
Giroux 3/16, (Henry A. Giroux currently is the McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and The Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy, “Henry A. Giroux | Why Are Liberal Commentators Acting as Apologists for Trump's Racism?” March 16, 2016, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35240-why-are-liberal-commentators-acting-as-apologists-for-trump-s-racism)
What is disturbing …on democracy itself.