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Entering DNC Week, Kamala Harris Finds Her ‘Honeymoon’ Flaming Out

Posted on Monday, August 19, 2024
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At long last, the Kamala Honeymoon appears to be flaming out.  Roiled by bad press, a fumbling speech on economic policy, and now reports that the pressures of the campaign have exacerbated an ongoing problem with alcohol, Kamala Harris enters DNC week in a much weaker position than she was just three short weeks ago. 

Part of her coming down to earth is a function of more voters being exposed to her, and perhaps even worse, her policies.  Kamala Harris has never in her entire political career eclipsed single digits when put before the entire electorate.  Her political incompetence was readily on display in remarks the Vice President made in North Carolina last Friday, in which her proposals of ending “price gouging” in the food industry, and adding trillions more to the national debt – reminiscent of the disastrous reforms Jimmy Carter implemented in the mid-1970s, resulting in stagflation and economic malaise that precipitated the Reagan Revolution – received widespread criticism, even among left-leaning outlets like CNN, The Daily Mail, and the Washington Post.

For its part, The Washington Post excoriated Harris’ remarks as “populist gimmicks,” arguing, “It’s like she’s trying to fix the economy with a magic wand, which … wasn’t in the presidential toolkit.”  The normally left-wing paper continued its withering critique, arguing that her policies amounted to “wishful thinking” and that her overall strategy was “more about the sizzle than the steak” – in short, all talk no action.

CNN’s condemnation was even more blistering:

Kamala Harris’s economic speech was a bit like watching someone try to juggle with invisible balls. You could see the effort, but the substance? Well, it seemed to vanish into thin air. She promised an ‘opportunity economy,’ which sounds great until you realize it’s like promising everyone a unicorn for Christmas. Sure, it’s a lovely thought, but where’s the unicorn farm?

As these remarks were being made, the prediction website, Polymarket, which had given Kamala Harris a slight edge over Donald Trump in recent weeks, based on manufactured polling, reversed course, again positioning the 45th President as the frontrunner in a head-to-head contest.  The collapse occurred midway through Kamala’s harebrained speech, inspiring many pundits to attach her with monikers like “Commie-la” and “Comrade Kamala” given her Marxist devotion to price controls. 

Indeed, the fallout continues entering what was supposed to be a celebratory coronation week for the regime’s latest handpicked puppet.  One day after Kamala’s universally lampooned remarks, the cover of the New York Post read “Kamunism,” featuring an image of Harris before a podium decorated with a hammer and sickle.  President Trump himself piled-on with the mockery, truthing a photo on Sunday of Kamala speaking before the DNC – which was decked out in communist regalia. 

The collapse of Kamala should have been foreordained: she was – and remains – the least popular vice president in recorded history.  She is only serving as Vice President due to pressure placed on Joe Biden in 2020, in the aftermath of the George Floyd riots, to choose a black running mate (though back then, Kamala identified as Indian, so maybe we don’t give Joe Biden enough credit for being clairvoyant).   She now only enjoys her current position, as presumptive Democratic nominee, thanks to a deep state-led coup d’état, aided and abetted by regime agitprop like CNNMSNBC, and the New York Times – and Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, pulling the strings behind-the-scenes like marionettes – who tirelessly worked to switch Joe with Kamala, completing the greatest bald-faced power grab in modern history.

The emperor without clothes, however, can only go on for so long without being noticed.  As an example: Saturday’s recent spate of NY Times/Siena polls, which purport to have the Vice President now leading, in reality demonstrate the fake polling phenomenon on hyperdrive.  That poll consistently oversampled Democrats, who, in truth, break even with Republicans among the general electorate, and lagged Republicans in terms of total registration in pivotal swing-states like Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, and even Virginia.  Yet, Saturday’s Times/Siena poll oversampled Democrats in four of the swing-states sampled: Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and Nevada. 

The wild oversampling and skewed methodology in general – all by design – prompted a rare clarification by long-time Trump campaign pollster, Tony Fabrizio.   In his statement, Fabrizio said the following:

“The latest Sun Belt swing state polls of Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada conducted by the New York Times and Siena College are, once again, a perfect example of how wildly inaccurate recalled 2020 vote between President Trump and Joe Biden is being used to create a phony lead for Kamala Harris. Fortunately, they proved our case for us this week, because they actually got Georgia right: among registered voters, they have a dead-even split between President Trump and Joe Biden on the recalled 2020 vote. As a result, President Trump leads Kamala Harris by 7 points (51-44) in the 2024 head-to-head matchup among all registered voters. Arizona and Nevada however look nothing like the 2020 reported results. If they did, President Trump would lead by 3 points (50-47) in Arizona and by 9 (53-44) in Nevada.”

In other words, at this stage in the campaign, even with all the contrived media hype Kamala Harris has received to the tune of tens of millions of dollars of free positive press, Donald Trump is still outperforming his numbers from both 2016 and 2020, where he received more votes than any incumbent president in history.

But even though Kamala’s poll numbers are maliciously deceptive – and indeed, fraudulent, much like the Harris campaign overall, which duped (some might say, defrauded) the RNC into expending hundreds of millions of dollars for months on a decoy candidate in Joe Biden – they can prove damaging from this perspective.  The Democrats are trying to accomplish two things: kowtow mega donors who are lining up tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars behind President Trump – in one of the greatest fundraising hauls in American history – into submission, by making them not spend any more money or by distracting them into focusing on trivial matters.  For example, the idea that the presidential contest is now close in a swing-state like North Carolina, or even solid red states like Texas and Florida, as has been reported by outlets like MSNBC, is ridiculous.   

But the bottom line is this: 2024, much like 2016 (and even 2020, though that race was illegitimate) will be won in the rust belt states.  The so-called “sunbelt” states like Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and Nevada are shoo-ins, for all intents and purposes, for President Trump.  That is not to say that they should be taken for granted and ignored.  Indeed, they remain pivotal to President Trump’s pathway to victory in November.  But it is to say that we should not be baited into fabricated left-wing narratives into thinking that we are losing those states, and thus must allocate precious time there where the focus should be on the same playbook that won President Trump the White House back in 2016: the rustbelt states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, the latter arguably the most important of them all with its 19 electoral votes.

Put differently, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.  Our side ought not to fret and overcomplicate things: we know the playbook for securing victory: piercing the blue wall, once again.  President Trump’s team should allocate its resources, time, and energy to the rustbelt region by deploying boots on the ground, in terms of lawyers, poll watchers, and bodies – like Scott Presler – equipped with the resources and knowledge of local rules to continue to register voters in this home stretch.  

There is quite a bit of evidence that significant inroads have been made in terms of remedying partisan imbalances in many of these key battleground states, particularly Pennsylvania, where James Blair, the Trump campaign’s political director, earlier this month posted a series of tweets illustrating the gains made over the past four years for voter registration.  For example, in Arizona, the GOP expanded its lead of registered voters from 130,000, in 2020, to 259,000, as of today.

In addition, Democratic leads in Pennsylvania and Nevada have been halved and cut by two thirds, respectively.  The RNC has also filed a bevy of lawsuits in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona to clean up voter rolls in those battlegrounds.  Recent reports of Georgia purging hundreds of thousands of ineligible voters from their rolls is a promising sign, offering a model for other battlegrounds – particularly those states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, where the problem of illegal voters (be they illegal aliens, non-residents, deceased, etc.) is of the highest concern.  These are two states also with Democratic Governors – in Whitmer and Shapiro – and, therefore, are unlikely to have a political interest, much like Georgia, Nevada, and Virginia, in automatically cleaning up rolls themselves to secure Republican control over the long-term.

For his part, despite this being DNC week, and despite being on the heels of the most tumultuous two-month stretch in American political history, one that observed him knocking out his opponent, then nearly getting his head blown off, and then being forced to pivot to a new candidate, who was unconstitutionally put in her position by shadowy operators seeking to sabotage a democratic electoral process, Donald Trump remains fierce, strong, and a formidable threat to the political establishment.  He charges ahead.  This week he has a full slate of appearances on his docket, including two trips to the rustbelt – remarks on the economy and energy in York, Pennsylvania on Monday, followed by a crime and safety event in Detroit, Tuesday.  And then there are more events in the sunbelt later in the week, with appearances in North Carolina alongside JD Vance on Wednesday, followed by Arizona rallies Thursday and Friday.

The incredible pace with which President Trump carries forward, despite the many obstacles he navigates on a day-to-day basis, including an extremely hostile media that has entered hyperdrive with their disinformation and smear tactics, alongside a weaponized justice system – and, downstream of that, a looming sentencing next month.  It is incumbent for We, the People, do our collective part to recognize the stakes of this race and deploy to the ground in the rustbelt and sunbelt if we are going to have any chance of saving this country.

Pennsylvania is probably the most important state this cycle.  It was the pathway to victory in 2016 and boasts the highest number of electoral votes (19) – more than Arizona and Nevada combined, of any of the key swing states.  Moreover, it is a state with a Democratic Governor who is working vigilantly to prevent voter rolls, likely teeming with ineligible and downright illegal voters, including potentially tens if not hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, from being disclosed to the public.  That means Pennsylvania lawmakers, including in notoriously corrupt Philadelphia County, can with virtual impunity manipulate election contests by flooding ballot boxes with otherwise illegal votes.  This is not a conspiracy; this is a fact playing out in real time.

Lest we forget: Pennsylvania was on the verge of handing its 19 electoral votes to Donald Trump in 2020, before the sabotage that caused President Trump’s lead over Biden to magically disappear in the hours well beyond midnight.  It is absolutely critical that something like this does not reoccur – though Democrats are actively plotting behind the scenes for another cheat. 

Further evidence of this plot is observed in Saturday’s New York Times article that detailed Left-wing lawfare groups being led by Democratic legal agitators like Marc Elias, one of the chief architects of all the lawfare being waged against Donald Trump and his supporters in recent years, which should ring alarm bells for any conservative.  The Times article described these efforts by the Harris campaign as follows: “The legal apparatus within the Harris campaign will oversee multiple aspects of the election program, including voter protection, recounts and general election litigation, and it is adding Marc Elias, one of the party’s top election lawyers, to focus on potential recounts.” 

The program has targeted eight states it considers to be battlegrounds – AZ, NV, MI, WI, PA, GA, NC, and NH, with additional resources allocated to four “states of interest”:  FL, VA, MA, and MN.  The program has been described as “the largest of its kind in Democratic presidential history,” and stands as a bulwark to RNC-led efforts, such as deploying hundreds of thousands of lawyers and volunteer poll watchers to similar battleground states, to protect the vote.

What all this means is that for the remaining eleven or so weeks of this cycle, Republicans cannot let their foot off the pedal one bit – they must double down.  The rust belt is where victory lies, in this writer’s humble opinion, because demographic realities – particularly appealing to blue collar white voters – favor Republican victories in those states (the non-Hispanic White populations in Michigan and Wisconsin are above 70%, and above 80% in Pennsylvania), which are replete with such voters.  These voters most resonate to law and order and tough on immigration rhetoric, as well as appeals to economic nationalism like Chinese tariffs, tax breaks for starting families, and ending reckless spending on overseas conflicts.   This formula was exactly what won President Trump the White House in 2016, and will do so again this year: trade, immigration, foreign policy.  Time to put the work in!

Paul Ingrassia is an Attorney; Communications Director of the NCLU; a two-time Claremont Fellow, and is on the Board of Advisors of the New York Young Republican Club and the Italian American Civil Rights LeagueHe writes a widely read Substack that is regularly posted on Truth Social by President Trump. Follow him on X @PaulIngrassiaSubstackTruth SocialInstagram, and Rumble.

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teresa
teresa
1 month ago

ha the honeymoon should have never been!!!!! harris is a joke and so are her plans for this country! God help us!!!! Trump Trump Trump Trump 2024

Philip Seth Hammersley
Philip Seth Hammersley
1 month ago

I don’t believe ANYONE’s polls. We have to fight like the dickens to get voters out to the voting centers! Play like we are way behind and scratch and claw!

Ty
Ty
1 month ago

Great content, but it forgot the need for simple truths. Kamala Harris couldn’t generate an original thought even if it was as easy as picking up a paper.Kamala is the cheerleader for the SWAMP, and if you want proof, look at her video history. Is Bidenomics working for anyone, other than new government hires, to try and lie to the public about the jobs market. Those already on the government dole or the pandered public with worthless promises.If she can lie that easily about Bidenomics, with a smile on her face. Or the lies about our ‘secure borders’ she is a lier, chearleading for the destruction of American freedoms. She will continue to squander the taxes and savings of the American middle class until you comply.Tennessee Earnry Ford’s song is an easy way to understand what the SWAMP is doing to the American people: ‘Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go, I OWE MY SOLE TO THE GOVERNMENT DOLE”!

Joe
Joe
1 month ago

That the liberal polls and lamestream media have been exposed for their biased support of Kumbaya Hairball will not stop them from continuing their disinformation campaign, and sadly there are millions of idiots who will still vote for this communist and her sidekick from MN. Trump is our only answer for slowing a bleeding nation, so we CANNOT rest on our laurels. There’s too much time and an October surprise waiting between now and November 5th. MAGA!!!

GTPatriot
GTPatriot
1 month ago

The dims tonight allowed the United Auto Worker union president to make commentsafter delivering a please kiss my as_ speach at the Repub convention. He wore a shirt that stated “to hell with Trump”. To hell with him and them.
The auto industry moved to the south because the unions wanted a kings ransom to continue to work, were refused, and shut down the industry. Thank goodness, the south has voted the auto union vote down every single time . That’s why Mercedes, BMW, Volvo, Kia, Hundai, and others are in the south. Unions, stay where you belong which is Michigan and Ohio.The unions and the black community can stay married to the dims forever. Good luck.

Dr.Sam Adams
Dr.Sam Adams
1 month ago

This is the third member of the unholy three; the Kenyan prince and his male “wife” who was imported from Indonesia. Joe birdbrain Biden was placed in the white house by fraudulent means of computer-rigged votes (mail-in ballots from fake people or dead ones) and now the icing on the cake is Kamala Harris the dimwitted bimbo with the mind of an eleven-year-old. The criminal media will champion her like Gobbles did for Hitler.

michael
michael
1 month ago

what? the hooker honeymoon is over? hope youa at least got a kiss

Ray Cesca
Ray Cesca
1 month ago

We cannot take anything for granted. We should be diligent and purposeful. Staying on message and driving home the truth for the American people to understand what we are up against. Harris is exposing herself as each day goes by and each time she speaks we need to listen to what she is saying, and it is more than scary. She will bury herself, by herself. They talk about saving Democracy without understanding what democracy means or what it is in reality. Socialist countries like China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, Angola, and Venezuela say the same thing but we are too smart of a nation to want to live under those conditions –promising everything for you and taking everything from you. Is that what the American people want? If you don’t believe me, go live in one of those countries and you will make a bee line back home in short time. Our founding fathers were very smart and very courageous in establishing a system, though not perfect, but certainly miles ahead of any other country in the world. We should be immensely grateful to live in such a country.

FKH
FKH
1 month ago

I hope to God that Republicans can stop the steal this time around!!

Thinking
Thinking
1 month ago

If you want to believe ole Joe what he said last night in his swan speech. All is well. He did this and he did that. But just like that last sentence it has no substance of what he accomplished. Our infrastructure is still a mess. Our border is still being invaded by thousands every day. And no plan where to house them besides in tent cities on the sidewalks in the inner cities. Committing crime oh that’s right we have the safest country in the world. We have the biggest prosperity there is no inflation only price gouging by businesses. If that is true why didn’t they do price control earlier. They know that they don’t work and creates shortages and eventually prices will rise sky high on top of the already high prices today. The only way ole Joe wants to fix it is throw more money at it. Subsidy here rebates there 25K for first time home buyers, student loan debt paid, 1400 stipends to the invaders. More money to the Ukraine. He was even saying he United Europe and strengthened NATO. He is a miracle worker and all that from 10-4 4 days a week. The rest of the time he was at his Dacha on the beach. He loves that beach. Right now he is on vacation with everything that is going on in the Middle East. The Hamas demonstrators are protesting at the dem convention and it is fine with Joe. You know there are good people on both sides. Trump never said that it has been proven he didn’t say it but ole Joe keeps telling that lie. 3 minutes into his speech and it didn’t stop Until he stopped talking. He brought up the bloodbath quote that ole Joe has taken out of context to further his hatred against Trump. And trying to separate Kameltoe from him. Only she was there for 4 years she never improved one thing while she now is acknowledging that Bidenomics doesn’t work. You are the VP you can start now. Why don’t you. Might put you over the top to win. Is it because you are not actually going to do it? Turn a 180 when you are in the White House? Her rise with the support and propaganda of the MSM will sizzle out and the true character of Kameltoe will come out. If she only could see herself, she looked last night like the cat who swallowed the canary. Smug and self important. She came across like look at me I made it and you didn’t. Only it made her look cheap and dumb. We need Trump / Vance in 2024.

Stan
Stan
1 month ago

Don’t you worry, she will stop price g a g i n g.

David Millikan
David Millikan
1 month ago

Excellent article. Communist harris’s time before as vp and her current campaign are based on lies and deception. She lives in Fantasy World like most democrats.

Barrett T Smith
Barrett T Smith
1 month ago

Let us hope she is deposited in the dustbin of history.

James Popielarz
James Popielarz
1 month ago

The sooner people WAKE UP. the safer our country will be.

DenvilleSr
DenvilleSr
1 month ago

The puppeteers pulling Biden’s strings knew well that Biden could win a primary and Kamala could not. Hence the bait and switch game. The puppeteers orchestrated an unusually early debate, knowing full well that Biden couldn’t handle a debate. Then it was time to shove old Joe aside and produce the wonderful drama of electing the first woman president, who, by the way, is also black, for this election cycle anyway. Now Kamala is the candidate. The Biden administration has no actual positive accomplishments, so Democrats are left to craft falsehoods into a positive narrative and build a platform around a candidate who also can’t handle a debate, or an interview, or a press conference without, cackle, cackle, serving up a word salad of happy talk. And I was thinking it couldn’t be worse than Dukakis bobbing in a tank or Kerry’s fabled Vietnam experiences.

Hector Bayate
Hector Bayate
1 month ago

These are the comments from political conservatives supporters of Trump,

Whenever they are asked about the possibility of an interview by Kamala Harris on TV or even a debate, because it’s obvious that Kamala is avoiding anything “without a teleprompter” as she’s completely “blank” with no real knowledge of anything, she’s probably worse than incompetent, no brain?!

Their comments are,

Kamala Harris is doing the right thing, I would do the same! 

That is beyond stupidity! 

They all are “giving credit” to unacceptable behavior from Kamala Harris.

Instead of demanding a change to those completely abnormal actions, that scheme from Kamala and Democrats,

They’re accepting it as a good strategy! 

So, Republicans are doing great as usual,

Well, I should not go any further…

              Héctor Bayate

Joanne4 justice
Joanne4 justice
1 month ago

I choose to ignore the Dem spectacle of the pseudo politicians showing their ignorance and stupidity in the US and globally. Kamala and running mate are ludicrous ;, weak and feeble candidates for office!!! No logic, no leadership and no intelligence !!!!

Dasraa
Dasraa
1 month ago

If state is AZ have nothing to do with electing a president, why should anyone here even vote at all?

Pat R
Pat R
1 month ago

Such a good/great thing to hear.

Neal M Christensen
Neal M Christensen
1 month ago

Not to worry, she will be coronated POTUS and we will all think our votes counted. Sort of like they do it in Russia and Venezuela. I’m thinking a second assassin is already in the works for insurance.

johnh
johnh
1 month ago

FOX news & Trump are in deep worry as to why Kamala Harris is not talking to the press every day. Trump just showed me why a person should not tell the press how he really feels about a subject. No matter what Trump says: THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR is the highest honor that is received in USA. This statement & timing of this statement is one of the worst things to ever come out of the mouth of Trump. He must stop doing this, as it might impress his 30% base but is costing him votes from a whole bunch of American voters. Thank God that the majority of our WWII veterans are not alive to hear anyone ever say this. This is bad news for Republicans.

John Shipway
John Shipway
1 month ago

Of course no rational true human can vote for Kamala but for anyone believing that Trump will walk across the Potomac and cure the ills that ail this dying country, reality will surely slap those believers in the face.
Simply put, you can spray deodorant on it, attempt to just cover it up, but you cannot polish a turd.

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