The presidential election is do not have It’s unpredictable, as the once again discredited polls promised us.

Republicans had made significant gains in voter registration since 2020, when Donald Trump lost the Electoral College by just a few thousand strategically placed votes.

Republicans have begun to master the transition to non-election day voting, first orchestrated by the left in 2020 under the pretext of COVID-19.

Not only did they vastly outperform their 2020 early voting/mail-in voting totals, they often outperformed Democrats by Election Day.

For months, it has been widely reported that there has been a large-scale defection of Hispanic and African-American voters from Vice President Kamala Harris.

Betting odds over the past three weeks have generally favored Trump.

Ms. Harris could simply not implement the policies she has championed in the past, given that these left-wing, unpopular, and failed policies lacked majority support.

There, the chameleon Harris abandoned the radical claims of 30 years ago that forced Joe Biden to choose her as vice president in 2020, along with her race and gender.

There was no way Harris could still support banning fracking, defunding the police, opposing border security and wall construction, or calling for mass amnesty and the abolition of ICE.

Harris also still could not push for racial reparations, eliminate private health insurance, or raise income, capital gains, or wealth taxes.

Furthermore, there is no way that Mr. Harris would boast about wanting to forcefully “purchase” or confiscate some semi-automatic weapons, such as by breaking into people’s homes and confiscating them.

Given all this, Ms. Harris flipped out, serially lied about who she was, and abandoned her entire political career.

In fact, Ms. Harris has begun to emulate Mr. Trump’s own positions. As such, she never convinced voters that once she was elected, or defeated and ended her term as vice president, she would not return to her previous radicalism.

Even though Harris was a talented politician and skillful orator, there were three damning realities that could never change her.

For one thing, Harris ran as a candidate from a new generation who turned the page.

But why hasn’t she tried to bring about such a “new chapter” during her previous 45 months as vice president, especially during the campaign?

Voters knew the answer. The entire Biden-Harris tenure has been an utter disaster for the far left, which is why Radical Harris 1.0 has been claiming joint ownership for over three years.

Second, why did Harris avoid all impromptu interviews and media for most of the campaign, only to reverse course and seek out reporters as the polls worsened?

Was it more painful for Harris to avoid the media, or to meet with them and have millions of viewers and listeners confirm her insanity?

Third, why did Ms. Harris continue to lie to America that President Joe Biden was healthy and energetic? His senility was the reason left-wing donors and party officials decided to buy Mr. Trump’s ticket. Until a few hours before I was asked to take it away.

And why couldn’t she declare independence from the historically unpopular Biden?

Ms. Harris instead chose to scare voters into voting against the demonized “fascist” Trump rather than voting for Ms. Harris and her whitewashed policies.

But despite demonizing Trump, creepy Harris has hit a wall.

By the end of the campaign, Trump’s approval ratings were often higher than her own.

His poll numbers for the past four years as president have been higher than the current Biden-Harris train wreck.

Trump, who is described as a “racist”, won more Hispanic and black voters than previous “moderate” Republicans such as Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney. .

It was difficult to condemn Trump as a deranged fascist when iconic liberal figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard were campaigning for him.

Trump reinvented the Republican Party by substituting ecumenical middle-class unity for polarizing racial tribalism. The elitist Democratic Party had no choice but to cater to the interests of the subsidized poor as well as the rich and wealthy donors.

Finally, the workaholic Trump campaigned nonstop for two years, won every primary, and was endorsed by his two main primary rivals.

By contrast, Harris’s “nomination” was the product of a coup d’état, removing the sitting president from the election in 48 hours and overriding the will of 14 million primary voters who were never elected or participated in the primary. Harris was crowned. .

Biden’s forced abdication in late July gave Harris’ candidacy an air of impropriety and reduced her time available for campaigning.

Finally, Harris’ first big decision was to nominate the buffoonish and incompetent Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, as her vice president. His radicalism, repeated lies, and shaky “strangeness” reinforced her own mediocrity.

In contrast, the calm, empathetic, and insightful J.D. Vance eviscerated Walz in his only debate and did the same with the media.

Add it all up, and Ms. Harris and her underdog candidates were understandably doomed.

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow at the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and the author of Basic Books’ The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. You can get in touch by emailing authorvdh@gmail.com.

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