Posted on 09/26/2024 5:36:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Former October surprises—both the embarrassing disclosures and the use of incumbency to warp the election—are now becoming earlier and more frequent preemptive “September” shocks.
An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover.
Think of the last-minute bombshell disclosure, five days before the 2000 election, that candidate George W. Bush had been cited for drunk driving over a quarter-century earlier. That surprise may have cost Bush the popular vote that year.
Sometimes, an incumbent can use his powers of office to warp the election. Joe Biden benefited before the 2022 midterm elections when leftist activists leaked the impending Supreme Court repeal of Roe v. Wade.
Closer to the actual voting, Biden sought to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt owed to the federal government. He also began draining the strategic petroleum reserve to lower gas prices (as he is doing again this election year as well). No wonder the predicted Republican midterm red wave ended up a tiny ripple.
More often, October surprises are more ad hominem and unleashed on a rival candidate’s supposedly previously undisclosed failings.
At the end of the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton’s team leaked news of her purchased bogus “Steele Dossier” as supposed proof of Trump-Russian “collusion.”
On the eve of the last 2020 presidential debate, Joe Biden delegated now Secretary of State Antony Blinken to work with former interim CIA Director Mike Morrell to round up “51 former intelligence authorities.” They were to lie that the incriminating Hunter Biden laptop was likely a product of a Russian intelligence “disinformation” operation.
The ruse worked—turning potential proof of Biden family corruption into
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Will people be stupid enough to fall for “Russian Collusion” again?
VDH ping
Fool me once, shame on you .......
October surprise: Kamala will hold a press conference on Fox. Naw, ain’t gonna happen but that would be a surprise.
BTTT
Expect the Intelligence Community to launder a big lie through the New York Times, that cannot be disproved until after the Election.
Of course.
Leftists/wokies/Democrats/so-called "liberals" (there's nothing liberal about these people) have proven time and again that they are not only stupid but are also unable to learn from experience or to resist indoctrination.
Jack Smith has already announced hi “new” Trump indictment and new GJ. Not a surprise.
Hell, they’ve tried to whack President Trump twice. Methinks that plenty of September surprises.
And every answer would start with, “I was raised in a middle class family”, but will leave out that the family lived in Canada. She has more in common with Shania Twain and Ryan Reynolds than she does a middle class American.
This POS should be the first to have his mail forwarded to GITMO.
And why else was Zelensky’s Pennsylvania trip arranged by the Biden-Harris administration but to coincide with the traditional dates that mail-in and early-voting balloting start?
Yet were the Zelensky sudden Pennsylvania drop-in and his crude domestic politicking and trashing of Trump and Vance all that wise?
Another gem from Prof Hanson, well worth your time to read!
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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Vance will debate waltz on cbs. On October 1
Have republicans not learned anything from abc debate ?
How many sticks to the head do they need ?
It will be a gang bang on Vance again. We can’t afford these mistakes !!
They will live fact check again.
That’s the October surprise
I’m venting. But frustrated at republicans for never learning
“Will people be stupid enough to fall for “Russian Collusion” again?”
Yes they will, the illiterate American electorate consists of close to 50% of the voters. They have voted for a demented old fool and now support a communist, whom they know very little about.
And this....WRT the mail-in ballots which are key to Democrat voter fraud......
The letter carrier union’s Georgia president, whose name appears as signatory on an anti-Trump letter, claims it was sent without his permission: ‘I had no idea they were sending out a letter with my name.’
They are shameless, but they are good. THEY PLAY TO WIN!
Vance will turn the tables on them.
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