Widespread Panic & Sheer Desperation – A Kamala Campaign Story – Top 3 Takeaways – October 25th, 2024
- Widespread Panic. I’ve already made a slightly more contemporary Panic at the Disco reference in my top three takeaways this cycle. That came on July 19th when I was speaking of the collective Democrat Party panic associated with Joe Biden’s collapsing presidential campaign. As I said that day... The Democrat Party is in full fledge panic as we’re only three and a half months away from Election Day and they’re trying harder than ever to throw their nominee, the sitting President, overboard...and not because he’s demonstrably one of the worst presidents in American history, not because they even remotely care about this country, but because they no longer think he can win. The left has High Hopes this weekend will be the weekend they push Bernie overboard. And that proved true. It was that weekend that Nancy Pelosi and company ganged up on ‘Ole Joe and told him to go home. The panic I spoke of in the Democrat Party was real, so real that they did what had never been done before. They took a candidate, a sitting president no less, who’d already clinched the party’s nomination through the primary process and kicked him to the curb for opportunist-in-waiting Kamala Harris. At first her campaign saw a surge in support riding good vibes almost entirely because she was a candidate without dementia. But now as we’re only 11 days away from Election Day we’ve reached what’s rapidly becoming widespread panic. Much like the 80’s rock band from Athens, Georgia – she's spent a lot of time in the critical swing state lately. Much like the name of the band, her campaign and the extension of it in the news media is now starting to outwardly panic. On Wednesday we heard of the potentially baseless seven-year-old claims made by former fired Trump White House Chief of Staff John Kelly about Trump, along with Kelly calling him a fascist. Because, ya know, after seven years, Wednesday, 13 days away from Election Day, was finally the day that Americans needed to hear what Kelly had to say. So desperate was Kamala Harris that she wrapped her campaign around the message. First calling an impromptu news conference (with no reporter questions addressed of course) to address her grave concerns about the likely baseless seven-year-old Kelly claims. Then by going on CNN’s town hall and calling Trump a fascist. It was a performance so sad and pathetic that if Donald Trump were to campaign at her level the appropriate response would be “I know you are but what am I?”. Now try to consider for a moment that you’re one of the 0.9% of likely voters who’s still undecided about who to vote for in this election. After four years of Donald Trump having served as president of the United States and having been twice impeached, four times indicted, convicted once and shot once amid two assassination attempts...what are the odds that you – the rare species that’s an undecided voter, thought long and hard Thursday after Wednesday’s stunts and thought gee-whiz... I guess Trump really is a fascist...that’s the message I’ve been waiting for? I’ll vote for Harris. It’s hard to know what’s more pathetic. The stunt or the expectation that it would work. I mean Trump is really a threat to democracy don’t you know...so a yeah apparently Harris’s closing argument is back to being what the Democrats have argued since he was still president of the United States. Anyone with eyes or ears who’s paying attention sees this for what it is –
- Sheer desperation as the political polls and votes cast at actual polls show the race slipping away. Enter these headlines from several mainstream and leftwing news outlets: Harris' Blue-Collar Blues - City Journal. As cited in the story: Harris is struggling with blue-collar voters. As part of a secular shift within American politics, working-class voters are migrating from their old base in the Democratic Party to join the Republican coalition. And what is her answer to blue collar voters who feel crushed by open borders and inflation? Trump is a fascist. From leftwing outlet The Nation... How Did the Democrats Get Here? The in-depth soul-searching story published less than two weeks before Election Day starts with a picture of a sign that says Abandon Harris ‘24 and asks the question “Does the left not find itself adrift”? In The Hill you could find this story: Senate Dems Running Away From Harris in Key States. As cited in the story: Democrats running for the Senate in “blue wall” states that will be critical to determining the outcome of the 2024 election are running away from Vice President Harris, signaling that they are hoping to win over some of former President Trump’s voters to keep their seats. Now this isn’t terribly complicated. The presidential race in these states and the senate races in these states are decided by the same voters. They’re both statewide elections. If you’re an incumbent Democrat senator in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and you believed the Democrat candidate for president was going to win your state, why on earth would you be running the other way? There’s an easy answer that tells you what the internal polling of each of those campaigns is saying about what’s happening in those states. The only reason they would need Trump votes to win their races is if Trump going to win the presidential race in those states. And that takes us to this one from USA Today:
- I've Had Enough--Harris Is Making Me Vote for Trump. In this opinion piece for USA Today by Never Trumper Ingrid Jacques it is stated: Harris has so poorly defined what her presidency would look like and what she actually believes, she’s resorted to focusing squarely on Trump and what’s happened in the past. This week, she and former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney toured several battleground states touting the slogan “Country Over Party.” Their focus? The threat they believe Trump poses to our democracy, given what happened after he lost the election in 2020 and the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Between Harris’ nonsensical preaching on democracy, the media’s harping against Trump and liberals playing the woman card, I’ve had enough. And I may do exactly what they’re hoping people don’t: Vote for Trump. If Kamala Harris has sounded desperate on the campaign trail this week, as she attempted to leverage seven-year-old John Kelly claims, focusing on January 6th with Liz Cheney, and resorting to calling Donald Trump a fascist... It’s because she is. Ironically, over the prior two years preceding this election, I pontificated that this election would come down to the past. And specifically, whether Donald Trump would be able to move on from it. As I noted on May 12th of 2023, after Donald Trump took the 2020 election bait from CNN’s Kaitlin Collins in a town hall: It isn’t possible to win over new voters by running on the past. In fact, there’s only the potential to lose some you already had. Trump can win the 2024 Presidential Election. However, he only will if he leaves the past behind. Trump has successfully put the past behind him in his presidential campaign and he’s been squarely focused on the future. It’s ironically Kamala Harris who’s so stuck in the past that she’s moved on from what happened at the Capitol nearly four years ago, to what Donald Trump allegedly said during a staff meeting seven years ago. Just as I said a year and a half ago... It isn’t possible to win over new voters by running on the past. In fact, there’s only the potential to lose some you already had. That’s exactly what was articulated by a former Never-Trumper in USA Today. Elections are always about the future. Kamala Harris’s closing argument is stuck in the past and that’s why there’s widespread panic. With eleven days until Election Day – the left’s got nothing left.