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Victor Davis Hanson: Can Harris’s Cynical, Run-out-the Clock Campaign Succeed?
American Greatness ^ | 19 Sep, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/19/2024 5:04:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Harris thinks her delays, deceptions, and vilifications for the next 47 days will ensure her victory.

Cynically running out the clock has been the overarching principle of the entire abbreviated 105-day presidential campaign of Kamala Harris—ever since Joe Biden, at the 11th-hour, dropped out in July.

Harris seems unwilling or unable to answer any impromptu question that she has not been previously prepped for. Her answers at the debate were memorized and canned. They never addressed the questions asked.

Her single, 11-minute post-debate Philadelphia interview was a shipwreck of dodging and dissimulating—even though the host was sympathetically left-wing.

Even socialist Bernie Sanders pointed out that for Harris to get elected, she must temporarily disown her lifelong leftist credentials.

As vice president, she must further deny co-ownership of the unpopular record of the Biden-Harris administration.

Left unstated is that whether she wins the presidency—or loses it and continues as vice president for another three months—nonetheless she will inevitably revert back to her hard-core, lifelong leftist beliefs.

In addition, Harris has reconstructed her privileged upbringing as a child of two PhDs, living in a posh Montreal neighborhood into a struggling, middle-class Oakland childhood.

How can she stage such a complete makeover—and contemptuously count on the voting public to be so easily deceived?

She avoids all news conferences, one-on-one nationally broadcast interviews, and town halls. And like Biden, she will debate only on leftist venues with impartial pro-Harris moderators.

When asked to provide the details of her past responsibility for the open border, inflationary economy, spiraling crime, attacks on fossil fuels, and collapsing foreign policy, Harris smiles, makes hand gestures, and dodges. She changes the subject to her empathetic personality, her “joy” campaign, and her iconic profile as a supposedly dynamic black woman.

When pressed, Harris outsources the task of squaring her hypocrisies...

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024election; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 09/19/2024 5:04:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Can she count on the public to be deceived? About half I would say.


2 posted on 09/19/2024 5:04:27 AM PDT 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 09/19/2024 5:04:54 AM PDT 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

2 months is a long time to try this game. World events tend to come up that force responses.


4 posted on 09/19/2024 5:05:35 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: MtnClimber

sure, Biden’s hide in the basement campaign won


5 posted on 09/19/2024 5:07:16 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: HamiltonJay

you are forgetting about early voting, it is not 2 months, people are about to start voting


6 posted on 09/19/2024 5:07:46 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Biden was installed.


7 posted on 09/19/2024 5:13:20 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: MtnClimber

Harris, “Vote for me so you can see who I am!”


8 posted on 09/19/2024 5:14:25 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: MtnClimber

Why not just hide in the basement like Sleepy Joe did? That seemed to work for him. When the entire media is doing your campaigning for you why exert yourself?


9 posted on 09/19/2024 5:18:14 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

I think she’s going to win.


10 posted on 09/19/2024 5:19:44 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: KobraKai

I don’t think she will “win”, but I think there is a good chance she will be declared the winner.


11 posted on 09/19/2024 5:27:11 AM PDT 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: TexasFreeper2009

No, it didn’t - or do you believe he really got 81 million votes?


12 posted on 09/19/2024 5:27:30 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: MtnClimber

It doesn’t matter what she does or doesn’t do.

The media have been vilifying Donald Trump -every single day, for nearly 10 years now.

Democrats are “DEMOCRATS” first. They will vote for a head of cabbage if it has a ‘D’ in front.

And after NOTHING was done after the 2020 election, they STILL own the voting apparatus in every State. THEY count the votes.

All this polling and speculation is a game. Biden was installed; Harris will be installed.

Donald Trump will be lucky to come out of this alive.


13 posted on 09/19/2024 5:27:42 AM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

They aren’t going to be able to bank enough “early votes” to win.


14 posted on 09/19/2024 5:34:42 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: MtnClimber

Kamala Harris - D eceiver


15 posted on 09/19/2024 5:36:11 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber; All

It definitely can because the media plays a major role in shaping how things are perceived. If they ran hit oieces on her daily they would require a response. Instead they run hit pieces on Trump and say she’s the solution. She really doesn’t need to run a campaign. She can only hurt the operation. Now they’ve also juiced the markets so she’ll get even more positive moves. The only thing that can happen to force her or the media to show things in a negative light is a major Russian blow to Ukraine, a major blow to Israel or a terror attack on America that kills Americans. Beyond that it’s a glide path, just follow the operation. Trump has to just focus on getting his supporters out at this point; Now! voting has already started.


16 posted on 09/19/2024 5:36:32 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: MtnClimber

They’re not all deceived. Many want crooks in charge the way derelict kids want their parents to be neglectful


17 posted on 09/19/2024 5:36:33 AM PDT by stanne
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To: MtnClimber

In the interview with Bernie Sanders he does it quickly but he does say YES she is a progressive.......

The moderator Welker was pressing him for that, even after his comments of shes doing things to get elected


18 posted on 09/19/2024 5:37:28 AM PDT by patriotspride (Third generation Vet. Never forget the true cost of freedom)
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To: joethedrummer

“Democrats ... will vote for a head of cabbage if it has a ‘D’ in front.”

They did.


19 posted on 09/19/2024 5:39:11 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: HamiltonJay

Correct. Kamala scam is getting old already and is drawing mockery. The problem is that early voting makes her less vulnerable to an October surprise or gaffe. There is usually a big swing in polling the weekend before voting. Hopefully it will break for Trump.


20 posted on 09/19/2024 5:40:10 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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