If we’re to believe Democrat Party stalwarts, the game has totally changed. Instead of being dragged down by a candidate who can’t even handle the rigors of a presidential debate, they’re now free to choose a much younger challenger to take on Trump at the battle ballot box.
In Kamala Harris, they now have a powerful former prosecutor who can nail the convicted felon Trump to the wall and secure general election victory. With her yough, vigor, the party unconditionally united behind her, there’s nothing they can’t do.
Allegedly.
The reality on the ground, however, isn’t anything like that. Many Democrat voters are hesitant to toe the Harris line. After all, they rejected her in the 2020 primaries after Tulsi Gabbard revealed a few of her worst misdeeds in her time as a prosecutor and California’s Attorney General.
After flaming out in 2020 the DNC establishment shocked the corpse of her campaign, bringing it back to life like Frankenstein’s monster, as Biden’s Veep. Now it appears she’s going to get a second chance at the presidency without a single vote being cast for her.
With Biden dropping out, voters are finding that her zombie candidacy is now fully back on its feet. Without anyone in the party voting for her, she’s now the presumptive nominee. Democrats seem to think that voters are so relieved to have the cadaverous Biden albatross off their neck they’ll blindly fall into line.
Harris’s First Speech Shows Us She Knows The Party Isn’t United
Normally, presidential candidates have to play the game in two stages if they want to win. First, they need to unite their own party behind them, which requires campaigning further to the left or right than their party’s base. Then, once the primary is secured, they then shift gears and start appealing to the center to pull voters from the critical middle. This usually means softening stances or “evolving” their expressed beliefs.
At this point in the game, we’re starting to see Republicans doing just that. The primary is over, and has been for a while. With Republicans solidly behind Trump, the party has eased up on quixotic fights like ending gay marriage or passing a national abortion ban. Trump has even distanced himself from the Heritage Foundations’s Project 2025. That may alienate some voters further to the right, but it will result in more middle-of-the-roaders viewing him favorably…at least that’s the calculation. The hard liners on the right, the thinking goes, are unlikely to jump ship and vote for Democrats.
Harris should be doing the same thing. With the primary-less nomination effectively in her hands, she should be aiming for the center. Stances on everything should be softened so that she can compete with Trump for the middle and start making up ground in the swing states.
But her first speech yesterday shows that she’s not ready to do that. Despite reportedly securing enough delegates for the nomination, she felt the need yesterday to make another “assault weapon” ban one of her primary campaign promises. While questionable polling that’s frequently quoted by the Gun Control Industry claims that a majority of Americans want more gun control laws, support for more limits and even bans on whole classes of weapons don’t have much public support.
So you’d think that Harris (or her campaign managers) would know that an “assault weapons” ban isn’t the kind of policy you push if you want to appeal to the middle to pull support from Trump. Then again, no one has ever accused her of having good political instincts.
Ultimately, her push for enacting the most extreme kinds of gun control shows that she’s desperate to get her party solidly behind her after the debacle that was her 2020 candidacy. With only 3½ months to go before the election, that’s a tough place to be.
She’s already Y’tubing ads with scare tactics about how Trump will change everything and impose a national abortion ban.
To bad her mother didn’t take advantage of one. Even if the best part of kammi ran down her mamma’s leg.
She’s beginning her campaign just like Joe did. She’s basing it on lies. It’s the Democrat way. They know their constituents are usually too ignorant to know the difference.
Normally when one has nothing they pound on the table…….I am not sure she made it that high.
Like it or not, Trump is now a convicted felon, subject to being on probation.
If they wanted to (and they most certainly do), If Trump is convicted on criminal charges, he will be subject to a terms of probation violation, and likely thrown in prison.
That’s a very real possibility that awaits him even if he finishes his term as president in 2028, and don’t ever forget that…
Make that, convicted on future criminal charges…
Dan, an ability to edit comments would be gratefully appreciated…
“Now it appears she’s going to get a second chance at the presidency without a single vote being cast for her.”
As someone recently said, you can count the number of delegates she won on one hand, provided that hand has no fingers on it… 😉
She’s not even legally eligible to be President. Her parents weren’t citizens.
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“Her parents weren’t citizens.”
I suggest you Google the term ‘Anchor Baby’.
Where you were born is far more important than the immigration status of who your parents were…
I heard that she was born in Canada to non US citizen parents. I haven’t looked into it however.
We need a specific law that says anchor babies aren’t automatic citizens. That would also disincentivize a sizable portion of illegal immigration for free. Why would Democrats be against that? Because they gain power by remaking the country (citizenry). Say that, and they’ll shout you down with insults. You aren’t supposed to notice.
“She’s not even legally eligible to be President. Her parents weren’t citizens.”
The candidate parents don’t need to be citizens, only the candidate has to be a citizen.
That’s a funny meme.