Posted on 10/05/2024 10:21:46 AM PDT by Signalman
If you're running a political campaign, the one person you never want to be compared to is Hillary Clinton. The twice-failed presidential candidate went down in history after losing to Donald Trump in 2016, and plenty of speculation has revolved around whether her defeat was preventable. Most infamously, she never set foot in Wisconsin because she was confident the so-called "blue wall" states would hold.
Ultimately, they didn't, and Trump walked away with Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and the entire election. Now, Democrats are beginning to panic, and the comparisons to Clinton are getting scarier by the minute.
Democratic operatives, including some of Kamala Harris’ own staffers, are growing increasingly concerned about her relatively light campaign schedule, which has her holding fewer events than Donald Trump and avoiding unscripted interactions with voters and the press almost entirely.
In interviews with POLITICO, nearly two dozen Democrats described Harris as running a do-no-harm, risk-averse approach to the race they fear could hamper her as the campaign enters its final 30-day stretch.
With early voting by mail and in person already underway in more than half of the country, Harris spent just three days of the last week of September in battleground states. On Sept. 28, when Trump gave a speech in Wisconsin before flying to Alabama for the Georgia-Alabama football game, Harris was attending a fundraiser in San Francisco. And beyond concerns about her schedule, Democrats argue that Harris would benefit from venues that allow her to introduce herself to voters in a more authentic way, such as town hall events, more sit-down interviews and unscripted exchanges with voters.
When Harris first entered the race, she bested Trump in the number of events held for the first month. That has completely turned around, with the former president barnstorming the country while the current vice president plays it safe. But is keeping her from interviews and town halls actually the safest path to victory in November?
That's what has Democrats panicking. They see Harris repeating a lot of the mistakes Clinton made, both in showing such overconfidence and in being so risk-averse. That is only exacerbated by the fact that the vice president only got into the race in late July. If anything, her schedule should be busier than a typical nominee because there's so much ground to make up in a limited amount of time.
But while Democrats want Harris to seem more "authentic" by doing sit-down interviews and unscripted exchanges, there's a big problem: She doesn't have the ability to do them.
That was illustrated perfectly on Friday after her teleprompter went out during a speech. Instead of showing some command of her policy platform, Harris melted down, cackling uncontrollably while rambling about how many days were left before the election.
She had no off-the-cuff material to go to. She had clearly not even read the speech beforehand. This is a woman who is incredibly lazy and incapable of doing anything but reading from a script provided to her by her handlers. More interviews would be disastrous for her.
Comparing Harris’ campaign to other recent Democratic presidential nominees is difficult, as Biden’s 2020 campaign was affected by the restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic. But an analysis of Barack Obama’s first campaign in 2008 and Clinton’s 2016 bid — based on data from Eric Appleman’s Democracy in Action sites — shows that Harris’ schedule more closely reflects the latter than the former.
Looking at the same time period in those two elections, Obama had just two days with no public events, and his schedule was packed daily with an array of campaign events, brief appearances at local restaurants, fundraisers, and other events. Clinton, by contrast, had roughly the same number of days with no events that Harris has had, including a brief stint where she was treated for pneumonia.
The Harris campaign has become complacent in the face of an overwhelming cash advantage. They don't want to put the vice president out on the trail every day because they fear she'll do more harm than good. But bombarding the airwaves with the same, tired political ads can only get her so far. Perhaps her schedule picks up as we move into mid-October, but for now, Harris is playing a dangerous game.
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As such people often are.
“ So can we hope to see her get chunked into a van like a sack of potatoes?”
…Jamaica me crazy potatoes
lol......what? No joy?
The common denominator is they are both abrasive harridans. The fact one comes across as smarter than the other isn’t imprortant. Allowing either to wield any amount of power would prove disastrous to whatever entity they represented.
It looks like Hillary haz a sad...
So does every felon in prison but one of them isn’t in it.
When did Hilary make a second run for president?
She was an idiot to pick Walz. A state she would win anyway. Now she will probably even lose MN by Nov.
She should have picked Shapiro, but she could not pick him because of the Anti-Semite Hamas wing of the Democratic Party.
Shitlery is only smart when compared to Kamala. She’s a friggen dummy who couldn’t pass the bar.
[When did Hillary make a second run for president?]
They’re counting her being beat out by Obama for the nomination in 2008
Hoist with her own retards.
Perhaps Shapiro declined to save himself for ‘28?
Biden knows Democrats will be kissing his a$$ until he expires.
There’s comfort in that.
Even though his scandals have sunk his career, and his policies have done severe damage to the US, and the world.
Harris know they have perfected the art of the steal. So why show the country that she is incapable of being president and making everyone suspicious
MicroSoft News reports “Elon Musk slams FEMA over Helene response in North Carolina as SpaceX looks to set new Starlinks.”
Elon reports from his engineers on the ground in North Carolina that FEMA is actually blocking rescue efforts and seizing relief supplies by the truckload. FEMA is confiscating everything locally and locking it all in warehouses which they claim belongs to them.
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FEMA is reportedly closing collection centers in church parking lots and seizing all the donations. My little church in Greenville North Carolina is sending multiple truckloads every day to the western part of the state. We have been pouring our hearts and wallets out all week, and now we learn that the Feds are seizing it all.
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Elon’s shipment of StarLinks are being confiscated by the Feds. It seems that FEMA is ruling that only vendors on their approved lists may deliver relief supplies. Those lists are made up of companies who offer kickbacks to the Federal employees. Nothing else is permitted.
Meanwhile, their warehouses are bulging with confiscated goods being trucked over from North Carolina residents to their neighbors in trouble.
People need to be made aware that our own government is at open warfare against its own citizens. Please get the word out about the diabolical Biden/Harris White House, Department of Homeland Security, and FEMA.
They are using this opportunity to destroy a sector of the American public which probably opposes them politically. This EVIL would have been incomprehensible four years ago. Please inform everyone you know about the Democrat Party open warfare, and persuade them to vote accordingly.
Guy Miller
Kamala and Hillary. A matter of escalating evil. Until the Squad members run next time.
As someone said a few months ago, back when Bill and Hillary were in DC we all thought it was so bad the country was on the brink of disaster. Now in retrospect, things are so bad in politics now that the Clinton years almost seem like the good old days.
I’ve thought that, too. Wished I had not been so depressed over it all back then compared to the descent into the maelstrom we are fighting against in this election.
RE: Hillary lost an election rigged in her favor.
Post of the day so far.
Maybe, I think the calculation was made, if Shapiro is the VP choice, Pennsylvania would be in the bag, but Michigan would very much in doubt with all the Hamas sympathizers in the state.
Take Walz who wouldn’t upset anyone, a committed socialist who is friendly with Muslims that live in Minnesota, a state the Democrats don’t have to worry about.
The Michigan Hamas supporters wouldn’t be upset and the Democrats have confidence in winning PA.
The plan is unraveling because Kamala can’t talk, Walz is a serial liar and Hamas Supporters are mad at Biden for not selling out Israel, basically Kamala has screwed up everything .
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