On July 26, in the aftermath of the Democratic Party’s ruthless midsummer coup against its own democratically elected presidential candidate, this column features the unintelligent and abusive Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s president. He predicted that elevating him to the quota would “backfire spectacularly.”
More specifically, I wrote: “Effectively, the path to 270 Electoral College votes still runs through the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, making the man who talks constantly about his rough upbringing in Scranton the most leftist in modern history.” It would be frankly strange for Democrats to replace them with Californians who boast a voting record of
I’m feeling pretty good about that prognosis these days.
recent harris I ran a campaign with Erie, Pennsylvania — A key regional center in this election cycle’s most important battleground state. Conspicuously absent from that snoozefest was incumbent Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey Jr. Harris, who has the more important job of knocking on doors and getting votes. He suggested that he was trying to replace the person he despised with nothing. This doesn’t pass the laugh test. In the face of a fierce challenge from Republican candidate Dave McCormick, Mr. Casey is pushing back on Mr. Harris’s vast baggage of Bay Area lefties: the Green New Deal, a national fracking ban and an electric vehicle mandate. I have clearly concluded that my history of support is an albatross hanging around my neck in the election.
It’s hard to blame Casey. Other vulnerable Senate Democratic incumbents, including Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), reached the same conclusion some time ago. Such a conclusion makes a lot of sense. recent marist For example, national election polls show former President Donald Trump holding a 10-point lead over Harris among registered independents. If this margin ends up being approximately accurate, it becomes extremely difficult to see a scenario in which Trump loses.
Harris has recently been grappling with a phenomenon that psychology experts call “projection,” and her infamous avoidance of one-on-one sit-down interviews for weeks on end after Biden’s coup was in fact the case. Even though it was Harris, she humorously criticized Trump for avoiding the media. In fact, Trump recently gave two interviews with Time magazine, an avid Harris donor. Despite this, Harris declined to be interviewed by Time magazine. Before this week’s desperate last-minute change of course; I saw her sitting Along with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Harris was meant to sit with the most despicable media imaginable.
It took an internal Harris Waltz poll to push her to abandon the friendly ladies of the far-left podcasts “Call Her Daddy” and “The View” for the much more mainstream Mr. Baier. I can’t help but wonder how bad things are. Desperate times certainly call for desperate measures. Democrats regularly accuse Republicans of misogyny, but the Republicans’ own chronic misandry is so bad that Kamala is apparently considering a meeting with podcast king Joe Rogan. Logan’s woke, skeptical irreverence clashes sharply with Harris’s obsession with identity politics and overt race. Base pandering. The situation has certainly turned. Will the last person milling around the Harris-Waltz campaign headquarters turn off the lights? (Related: Josh Hammer: Trump campaign must make a people-focused, issue-based case)
Snark aside, this race isn’t over yet. However, the Harris-Waltz camp must not be feeling too good right now.
For Democrats, there is no one to blame for their predicament but themselves. During this endless campaign period, they have been wary of substantive discussion of the four issues Americans consistently tell pollsters are most important to them this term: the economy, inflation, immigration, and crime. I’ve been avoiding it. Instead, they have repeatedly tried to shift the electoral terrain back to a handful of issues in their favor: abortion and the Jan. 6 jamboree at the Capitol. In this respect they completely failed. Americans remain particularly concerned about the same four fundamental quality of life issues that have been of greatest concern to them for years. Democrats themselves are to blame for the fact that they are deeply out of touch with voters’ sentiments on these issues, and that the Biden-Harris administration’s performance is similarly poor in the polls.
Perhaps if the Harris-Waltz ticket goes up in flames, Democrats will pause and take a long hard look in the mirror. Perhaps they believe that promising late-term abortions is a peculiar way of pandering to women, that promising mass amnesty for illegal aliens is a counterproductive way of pandering to Hispanics, and that dangling marijuana legalization is a peculiar way of pandering to women. You will realize that this is a totally offensive way of pandering. perhaps. But that’s probably not the case, if history is any indication.
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