RFK Jr.’s Endorsement, A Turning Political Tide & The Unifying Candidate – Top 3 Takeaways – August 26th, 2024
- The tide is shifting. For all of the talk of good vibes and unity at the DNC last week – was it really a unifying event? Is Kamala Harris really a unifying candidate? As I’ve previously outlined using Kamala Harris’ 4-year voting record in the United States Senate, which was precisely juxtaposed to the four years that Donald Trump was president: There were 120 senators that cast votes during Trump’s four years in office. Of them, only six senators were less likely to vote for President Trump’s position on issues brought before the senate. In other words, if President Trump’s position on the issues is used as the barometer of a “conservative position” Kamala Harris’ voting record in the senate was the 7th most liberal, or in other words, more liberal than the voting record of 94% her collogues. By comparison, Senate Democrat leader Chuck Shumer’s voting record was 7% more conservative than Harris’ and only Senators Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Elisabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, Kirsten Gillibrand and Ben Lujan had harder left voting records (and Bernie Sanders’ voting record was almost identical with only a 0.3% difference in the votes between Harris and Sanders). So, in other words, if one is attempting to infer the ideological shift this country might see should Kamala Harris become president, the closest comparison is Bernie Sanders. How many people consider Bernie Sanders to be a “unifying candidate”? And that’s precisely what Kamala’s voting record suggests she is. Bernie Sanders in a different package. For those still wondering why Kamala didn’t address any actual policy position in her DNC acceptance speech, why she doesn’t do any interviews and why she doesn’t do any press conferences...? This is it. Because she’s a radical left-wing candidate who knows she can’t expose it – because her policy is anything but unifying. My top takeaway on Friday was this: I don’t think it’ll work. I have a saying. You can lie to people about what policies will do and those who are inclined to believe you will, but you can't lie to people about what is or isn’t in their wallet because they know. From Joe Biden to the three Big O’s, former assistant football coach Tim Walz (yes, we’ve learned that he wasn’t even the head football coach) and Comrade Kamala Harris last night there was one very peculiar theme. That Donald Trump is the boogey man and all of the things that are wrong with this country are because of him. But let me ask you...
- Would you like to go back? Would the average American like to go back to when inflation averaged 1.3% while wage growth averaged 4.7%? Would the average American like to go back to paying $2.30 for a gallon of gas? Would the average American like to go back to having access to sub-3% mortgage rates? Would the average American like to go back to having an enforced southern border where any illegal border crossers were deported and those seeking asylum were made to remain in Mexico until they had a hearing? Would the average American like to go back to having 30% less crime? I have no doubt, none whatsoever, that the average non-Marxist whacko American would go back to the way things were when Donald Trump was president in a heartbeat. And that’s because Donald Trump’s message is the unifying message. No, Donald Trump’s rhetoric often isn’t unifying. But Donald Trump’s policies are unifying. So, unifying that a lifelong Democrat, from the most popular Democrat family in American history, who started his presidential cycle in the Democrat primary, has joined forces with Trump. In Kennedy’s speech on Friday endorsing Trump he said this (referring to Democrats and Harris): They installed a candidate that was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate. Right, Harris, who has now been on the national political scene for eight years, hasn’t even been a unifying force within her own party let alone across the political spectrum. He added this: Following my first discussion with President Trump, I tried unsuccessfully to open similar discussions with Vice President Harris. Vice President Harris declined to meet or even to speak with me. Doesn’t sound very unifying of Harris, does it? Neither does this. California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has long had his eyes on the White House, was asked in an interview during the DNC about the process to anoint Kamala as the party’s nominee. He said something that truly sums up just how “unifying” Harris’ candidacy really is. To Pod Save America he somewhat jokingly said this: We went through a very open process, a very inclusive process, it was bottom-up a 30-minute convention between tweets and other tweets. It's amazing and you know what is amazing is how unified everyone is. I mean it's next level. I don't know if you know that, at least that's what I've been told to say. Right,
- It’s all been faked. The enthusiasm, the alleged unification, the momentum. That’s what Democrats, in conjunction with their allies in the Godless, soulless and slanderous news media, have been told to say...that Kamala Harris has enthusiasm behind her, that the momentum’s behind her, that she’s a unifier... that there was still a democratic process in the selection of the Democrat’s presidential nominee. It’s all been faked. But the tide is shifting and as I mentioned on Friday – these Democrat tactics likely won’t work. When even Gavin Newsom can’t pretend to fake the party line in an interview... It tells you all you need to know. I’ll be interested to see the results of this week’s polls. The next round of polling, reflecting the impact of the positive coverage presented by news media of the DNC (which has historically been worth a 2% bounce in the polls), will likely be the high-water mark for Kamala Harris and Democrats generally in this year’s race. The tide is turning, it started on Friday and while this will almost certainly be a super close race coming down to key states yet again, it’s my belief that there’s reason for Trump’s supporters to once again feel optimistic. It's likely that this week’s polls will show Trump still polling ahead of where he was in 2020 and 2016. If that’s the case, and if this week proves to be the high-water mark in polling for Democrats...Trump and Republicans down ballot will be well positioned for a unifying victory this November.