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Victor Davis Hanson: Harris Was Always Doomed
American Greatness ^ | 7 Nov, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/07/2024 3:35:12 AM PST by MtnClimber

Harris’s campaign was crippled by her ties to unpopular policies, Biden administration failures, authenticity issues, and a contentious nomination process.

The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us.

Instead, the great Trump comeback victory was clear by the last weeks of the campaign.

The Republicans had made massive gains in voter registrations since 2020, when Trump had lost the Electoral College by only a few thousand strategically placed votes.

Republicans began to master the transition to non-Election Day balloting—first engineered by the left in 2020 under the pretext of COVID.

They not only vastly exceeded their early/mail-in voting totals of 2020, but by Election Day, they often outpaced Democrats.

For months, it was widely reported, albeit grudgingly, that there were large defections in Hispanic and African American voters from Harris.

The betting odds over the last three weeks usually favored Trump.

Harris simply could not run on anything she had so emphatically promoted in the past—given these left-wing, unpopular, and failed policies had no majority support.

So, the chameleon Harris renounced her prior 30 years of earlier radical advocacies that, along with her race and gender, had forced Joe Biden in 2020 to select her as vice president.

There was no way Harris could still support banning fracking, defunding police, opposing border security and the wall, or calling for mass amnesties and an end to the border patrol.

Nor could Harris still promote racial reparations, ending private health care insurance, or advocating for higher income and capital gains taxes and a wealth tax.

Much less could Harris still boast of wanting mandatory “buyback” or confiscation of some semi-automatic weapons—including entering private homes to seize them.

So given all that, Harris simply flipped—and serially lied about who she was, renouncing her entire political

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1 posted on 11/07/2024 3:35:12 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

What is shocking to me is that so many people voted for her. We live in a malinformed nation.


2 posted on 11/07/2024 3:35:25 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 11/07/2024 3:35:59 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber
The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us.

It behooves us to ignore polls, going forward.

4 posted on 11/07/2024 3:37:47 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: Lazamataz

Most polls seem as biased as CNN.


5 posted on 11/07/2024 3:41:54 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Harris’s campaign was crippled by her ties to unpopular policies,

I disagree: those were her policies. She did not disavow them.
She later said she would “fix” stuff of her own making. That didn’t help.
Sadly some 48% of people believed that garbage.


6 posted on 11/07/2024 3:47:01 AM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Lazamataz

After 2016, I’m honestly surprised anyone with half a brain would put any weight in a publicly released political poll.


7 posted on 11/07/2024 3:50:54 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges; inside a little hollow.” -- Tom Petty, “Rebels”)
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To: MtnClimber

Her campaign was stuck on abortion and calling Trump names.
I am rather shocked, she had so many votes anyway?!


8 posted on 11/07/2024 4:01:46 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: MtnClimber

And those who do the malinforming think they can define what misinformation is and censor it.

Franklin was right that America needs a Free Press. It doesn’t have one.


9 posted on 11/07/2024 4:04:15 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MtnClimber

If one does not read the paper or watch TV, they are uninformed.

If they DO read the paper and watch TV, they are misinformed.


10 posted on 11/07/2024 4:11:13 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: MtnClimber
Harris simply could not run on anything she had so emphatically promoted in the past—given these left-wing, unpopular, and failed policies had no majority support.
So, the chameleon Harris renounced her prior 30 years of earlier radical advocacies that, along with her race and gender, had forced Joe Biden in 2020 to select her as vice president.
There was no way Harris could still support banning fracking, defunding police, opposing border security and the wall, or calling for mass amnesties and an end to the border patrol.
Nor could Harris still promote racial reparations, ending private health care insurance, or advocating for higher income and capital gains taxes and a wealth tax.
Much less could Harris still boast of wanting mandatory “buyback” or confiscation of some semi-automatic weapons—including entering private homes to seize them.
So given all that, Harris simply flipped—and serially lied about who she was, renouncing her entire political career.

My heart melts. It's so sad that she couldn't campaign on all the oppressive, vicious things she was going to do to the American people. She had to run away from her past. So sad. But JOY! She can keep running.

11 posted on 11/07/2024 4:14:53 AM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: MtnClimber

If it’s any consolation many of those are not misinformed. Rather, they are delusional. So they lie only to themselves.

CC


12 posted on 11/07/2024 4:22:43 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Lazamataz
It behooves us to ignore polls, going forward.

Especially egregious was that ridiculous poll about Iowa going Kamala just prior to Election Day. It defied all common sense, but it had all the pundits nodding their heads and announcing that women in Iowa were simply furious about abortion and the Dobbs decision.
13 posted on 11/07/2024 4:28:34 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AZJeep

So many women and beta males have been taken in by the mantra of the marxists about the “patriarchy.” Yet they love their bureaucracy high is the most dysfunctional of hierarchical organizations that exist. But it’s a hierarchy that promotes anything except competence and productivity, so they stand a chance. It’s a philosophy based on envy and destruction of anything that works.


14 posted on 11/07/2024 4:30:48 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

High = which. Sorry need to figure out how to turn off AI assisted typing.


15 posted on 11/07/2024 4:32:48 AM PST by AndyJackson
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What is shocking is that so many people voted for her.


Dont discount Dem voter fraud.....she knew damn well she was going
down, but she used voter fraud to make it look like a “respectable” loss.


16 posted on 11/07/2024 4:35:52 AM PST by Liz
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To: MtnClimber

The dumber you is the fooler you be.


17 posted on 11/07/2024 4:44:54 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: MtnClimber

Thank God Lara Trump had her 620,000 people out at the polling places and counting houses keeping the election as fair as possible.


18 posted on 11/07/2024 4:45:09 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: MtnClimber

What is shocking to me is that so many people voted for her. We live in a malinformed nation.
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The only way I figure it is that the CIA, (Communist Mockingbird Media) is alive and well. There is and has been a deep Communist subversion underway in our country for a long time. The Communist are like Democrats - they never give up on their faux utopian schemes. It has to do with innate weak and shallow discernment abilities. They seemingly can’t help themselves from falling for the Communist utopian candy. The Leftist mentality has now permeated social media, politics, and our educational institutions. Getting this Communist ideology the hell out of our society is a tall order but one that must be tackled. It begins with education. There is hope. In this election, it was refreshing to see a respectable cross section of blacks, ethnic groups, and many young voters voting for Trump, which suggests not all have been brainwashed by Leftist ideology.


19 posted on 11/07/2024 4:45:14 AM PST by iontheball
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To: AZJeep

Her loss just caused Obama and Pelosi to smash the clean up Panic button. They have to burn it all down to hide their decades of corruption from DJT.


20 posted on 11/07/2024 4:48:43 AM PST by cnsmom
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