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President Trump Still Holds Significant Lead Over Kamala Harris Among General Electorate, Despite DNC Bump

Posted on Friday, August 30, 2024
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by Paul Ingrassia
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President Trump has a 3-point lead over Kamala Harris, according to the results of this week’s Rasmussen poll.  This would hand the 45th President a comfortable victory over Kamala Harris in a contest before the general electorate.  When broken down by swing-state, President Trump still commands leads in Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, and Arizona.  Although the data is less clear for key rustbelt battlegrounds like Michigan and Wisconsin, it is doubtless that, on the heels of the Democratic National Convention, Kamala Harris is enjoying the last leg of a protracted, media-induced “honeymoon,” which began with Joe Biden’s unceremonious ouster late last month. 

We should expect Kamala’s numbers to come falling back down to earth as more time elapses, and she is forced to confront the media and the general electorate through interviews and by elaborating her own policies, which to date have been notoriously light on details.  Of course, this will come to a head in September’s debate with Donald Trump, where the Vice President will be really put to the test and hopefully called to own her moribund record – which is a large part of the reason why she polls as the least popular vice president in recorded history – before a national audience.  Consistently, when asked about policy – particularly on the economy and immigration – regular voters decisively swing to Donald Trump’s camp, and it’s not even close.

This is why Kamala Harris’ highly choreographed and scripted DNC speech, as part of a broader, makeshift campaign to keep her as away from public scrutiny as possible, was short and insubstantial.  Democrats by now have learned that the less time they keep her in public sight, the better it is for their national effort – which keeps alive the myth surrounding her reinvigorated momentum relative to the beleaguered Biden. 

It is effectively a repeat of the 2020 “out of sight, out of mind” playbook where Biden’s campaign kept him out of public view as much as possible, forcing his debilitating health and unpopular policies, literally underground – in hopes of sneaking him into the White House.  Four years ago, that was easier to pull off – given the motley of factors, from covid, lockdowns, and the George Floyd riots – that made it easier to keep Biden in the basement, shifting the focus on President Trump and the many headlines that turbulent year attracted.  Those factors are no longer in play this year.  It’s far less easy, now with more scrutiny on election integrity from local officials and state and federal judiciaries, for state legislatures to change election laws and procedures on a whim. 

Without the pretext of covid, Kamala, unlike Biden before her, will have to run a more conventional campaign down this home stretch.  To date, millions of voters still hardly know who she is or what she stands for.  Her platform remains inextricably bound to the Biden track record, the most unpopular presidency since the advent of polling.  In the rare situations where she has parsed out some semblance of an agenda, the response has been horrendous. 

Whether promoting a ban on “price gouging” to correct inflation, an absurd and unserious proposal that showcases a clear ignorance about how the economy works that garnered blistering criticism even by left-wing outlets like the Washington Post, or her plan to raise taxes – particularly on “unrealized capital gains,” another ill thought out policy that makes zero sense and would cost American taxpayers billions of dollars they do not have, Kamala’s slipshod agenda (to the extent it can be described as an “agenda”) leaves much to be desired, and puts America on the pathway to socialism.

Kamala Harris, before becoming vice president, was known as this country’s most liberal Senator.  A former San Francisco District Attorney, she embodies the extreme left wing and radical “social justice” policies of that city – and has gotten ahead of her party’s leftmost flank on some of the craziest policies in recent memory.  She was totally onboard for defunding the police at the height of the George Floyd riots, personally helping raise millions of dollars help bail out rioters – by publicly backing the widely condemned Minnesota Freedom Fund – who looted businesses, burned down cities, and desecrated historic monuments to national heroes and veterans. The left-wing riots resulted in billions of dollars in damages, the costliest civil disturbance in American history

Kamala Harris embraced the label of “woke” when many – even in her own Democratic party – ran for the hills.  She was for some of the most extreme policies on race and gender.  She allied with those, through legislation and other public initiatives, who called for biological men to participate in women’s sports.  Her initiatives would have also allowed, even forced, biological men to change in women’s locker rooms and use women’s restrooms in public schools across the country. 

Kamala also has deep ties with radical figures that support critical race theory, which teaches that all American history was oppressive and its institutions, “systemically” racist – and that America is an inherently evil country that needs to be transformed, through extreme policies like reparations and rewriting history.  She doubtlessly shares the philosophy of those who believe all Americans alive today, even those who are not the descendants of slave owners, must collectively bear the sins of their country’s past, a dangerously Marxist worldview. 

On foreign policy, if left to her, she would expend billions more on the Ukraine and Middle East, and likely agitate more wars with other adversaries.  This would result in exacerbating our record setting inflation at home, and causing more American lives to die needlessly, in service to Washington’s Military Industrial Complex. 

She was a diehard pusher of the covid vaccine, championing mandates at every opportunity.  She also, as Biden’s “border czar,” presided over the worst US-Mexico border in American history, overseeing a national crisis in which tens of millions of illegals, many of them drug and human traffickers, have flooded into the homeland with impunity, bringing crime to levels not seen in decades across every major American city, and burdening the economy with more debt – in the form of vouchers and government handouts for illegals – that it simply does not have, nor can take on. 

Kamala is a wasteful, reckless, and dangerous spender – adding trillions as both senator and vice president to the national debt, which has hollowed out the U.S. dollar and crippled our international standing.  Her focus is on backward initiatives like DEI, ESG, promoting suicidal and tyrannical policies – to the point of wanting to regulate red meat intakes – that have stagnated if not reversed economic output, yielding one of the weakest economies on record

The Biden administration has created few if any real jobs – even though the regime claims ownership of the record-setting jobs numbers produced by President Trump, who presided over the greatest economic boom since World War II.  Many of these jobs were temporarily suspended as a result of the covid lockdowns, only to resume once Biden took office and the worst effects of the China virus finally subsided, allowing the economy to reopen.  Even so, the only “jobs” that Kamala has created are in government services, or for illegal aliens – who now drain public transit, schools, roadways, and hospitals of vital resources, at capacities that have rendered these systems dysfunctional

Kamala Harris has also presided over – and endorsed – the weaponization of government agencies, particularly the DOJ, FBI, and intelligence agencies – against political opponents.  If it were up to her, the First and Second Amendments would be eviscerated; due process rights would be shredded to smithereens.  Political dissidents would be censored at best, at worst imprisoned.  She would appoint Merrick Garland-types to run every adjudicative and administrative agency – from IRS officials to state attorney generals to packing the courts with radical leftists – neutering the possibility of fair justice, or the rule of law — or free and impartial justice in a country nominally devoted to all those principles.

For his part, President Trump needs to hold Kamala Harris’ feet to the fire, much as he has been doing throughout this campaign, and make clear to the American people just how radical her policies are, and how destructive a Harris administration would be to their cherished freedoms and constitutional rights, to say nothing of their savings and long-term financial prospects. 

Kamala Harris has never believed in borders; she believes illegal aliens should vote; she rejects free speech rights for anyone who opposes her.  She subscribes to the view of those who call for social media platforms – like X, Truth Social, and Rumble – to be regulated to extinction, under the pretense of controlling for “hate speech,” which is a legal fiction propagated by far-left liberals used to censor conservatives.

In short, a Kamala presidency would mean the death of America as we know it – bringing this once great land to economic and cultural ruin.  It is imperative that this message gets drilled into voters’ heads over these remaining, pivotal months, where President Trump should be allowed to speak his mind, unfiltered and unvarnished – tapping into the great ‘tell it like it is’ tradition that includes such legendary political heavyweights as Meade Esposito and Roy Cohn, killers who cleared the road for President Trump and made possible the MAGA movement.

The old adage “Let Trump Be Trump” is a good bit of advice, especially when the stakes are truly this high, and the country literally hangs in the balance — its electoral prospects oscillating like a fulcrum between freedom and tyranny.

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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leesson1
leesson1
1 month ago

If I don’t believe the MSM polls showing Kameltoe in the lead, why should I believe this poll? There is still plenty of time for the GOP to f**k up things as they tend to do. Trump needs to continue to go on the attack and I don’t mean by calling her and her running mate names. I’ll still vote for him but a lot of people who are on the bubble but inclined to vote for him will be put off by this sort of juvenile behavior. Just stop it and hit her hard on the facts: a terrible economy, etc., etc.

John Riley
John Riley
1 month ago

There is a forgotten generation that no one bothers to speak to or about. We are the aging who are no longer in the work force but are the most consistent group in exercising our right to vote. We are stuck on a fixed income in an economy of run away inflation. We are frustrated and mad.

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
1 month ago

Trump needs to come up with more good ideas Kamala can steal… and a book on “grammar” for Coach Warfighter, too.

Leslie
Leslie
1 month ago

I still just do not UNDERSTAND why no one is talking about the Biden/Harris people LYING to America for almost 4 years now. Biden is at home, Harris is campaigning, so WTH is running the country? Why doesn’t anyone talk about this!!!

anna hubert
anna hubert
1 month ago

We all know what happened to our border, there is none thanks to Harris policy. That act alone is enough to try her for treason and she is running for the office of the president and is taken seriously. How mentally challenged are we? She belongs in prison with many others for what they’ve done to the country.

pamela
pamela
1 month ago

Praying the President and Vance can pull this off. They are truly the best of them. I worry if they don’t this country will be in bigger trouble. They world could be in trouble.

Tidewater
Tidewater
1 month ago

Polls are not believable. Cheating is and it is happening. The morons who cheat, lie, steal, take, and do not a GD thing – stop them! Seems simple but whinning is the name of the game it seems and that is as useful and nothing!!

Dave
Dave
1 month ago

I’m sure Trump holds a largely over O’Hara’s in anybody with an IQ over 50. But there’s no way to hold a lead over illegal voting and we know that may be the preponderance of democrat votes that aren’t being voted by morons. Our country is on the brink if we lose this election we may be permanently without a respected respectful honorable honest moral leader in July country implodes.

michaelR
michaelR
1 month ago

Well one things for sure. From here on out, the lame stream fake news media is going to go out of their way to create any environment they can to pull the wool over the public eye’s regarding statistics over this up coming election. We can all see how unqualified this woman is. They ignore it all and now make it seem like she’s the second coming.

Dot whitley
Dot whitley
1 month ago

We the people are the problem. We aren’t suppose to just sit back, and expect one man who’s running for president to make everything right. If we lose we can’t put the blame on him. Trump and Buddy Carter are working as hard as anybody can work to help America.

dan
dan
1 month ago

Trump needs to smile with confidence when he talks to the media, and give speeches in general. He has been glum too often, while Harris smiles with stupidity. The perception is that smiling Harris is more likeable than glum Trump. I’m not sure why Trump’s handlers haven’t noticed this obvious problem. They’d better fix it now!

uncleferd
uncleferd
1 month ago

When I think of Vice President Harris, my mind goes to a concept… one that I refer to as “Mental Hygiene”.
One who wishes to aspire to a national leadership position must possess a certain maturity that is befitting of that position, as well as her chronological age. I am not seeing this suitability in Vice President Harris, especially given the false and misleading political statements she has made in the course of campaigning.
The impression of dishonesty and, in her case, immaturity, does not flatter her.

Martin Ross
Martin Ross
1 month ago

It is hard for me to comprehend how anyone, even with half a brain would vote for two retards as Harris and Walz. In fact, after listening to Travis and Sexton, they feel that Harris is a Rhodes scholar compared to Walz now that is scary!!! They feel Walz is the dumbest politician of our time.

Jguff
Jguff
1 month ago

Yes, we will be in a very bad place if she gets in, far worse than we are now. For almost 4 years we’ve lived with horrible inflation, higher prices on everything such as fuel for homes and auto, illegal thugs committing heinous crimes, paying for illegals to live better than our veterans, plus all the stressors brought on by failed leadership at the top. More of this if she gets in will be unbearable.

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