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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 ...


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To: MtnClimber

Exactly. Trump will win, but won’t be inaugurated. 1/20/21 replay.


21 posted on 09/19/2024 5:40:47 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: KobraKai

Easily, if she can get enough corrupt swing state election boards to certify wrongly in her favor, and the states’ courts and legislatures go along with it again like 2020.

The only way to prevent that is another Jan 6, but with 100 million protesters instead of just a million.


22 posted on 09/19/2024 5:42:24 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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The Russian collusion hoax, the laptop disinformation con, the two impeachments, the effort to remove Trump from some 16 state ballots, and the attempt to jail and bankrupt Trump through five criminal and civil “lawfare” indictments and suits also led to the current hateful climate of Trump assassination attempts.

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

But if so, it will be because she, her stealth campaign, and her self-proclaimed guardians of democracy have been willing to systematically destroy it.

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23 posted on 09/19/2024 5:43:36 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber
30-35% of the voting public is brainwashed into supporting the Left and hating Trump no matter what.

That leaves roughly 20-25% to win.

And will require some combination of voter deception of independents and non-brainwashed Dems and outright ballot box cheating to make up the difference.

24 posted on 09/19/2024 5:45:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking objectively is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just cling to their biases.)
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To: MtnClimber

More than half.

The useful idiots (87 million female registered voters versus 70 million males) are not going to be able to resist putting a protected-class, anchor-baby gyno into the Oval Office.

It’s going to be real easy for them this time. With all the Motor-Voter non-insured illegals voting, the abortion screamers, the MSM campaigning 24/7 for her, the hate and violence directed at Donald Trump, and of course the 11th-hour steal, she won’t have to lift a finger or her skirts to get there.

Numbers don’t lie.


25 posted on 09/19/2024 5:47:34 AM PDT by 4Runner (America has elected enough lawyer-presidents already. Just stop!)
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To: DeplorablePaul

It will break Trump because, 1) the polls are largely a joke and will have to correct or be mocked before the election. 2) Trump always closes well and 3) If you are an undecided voter in this election, you just aren’t sold on Trump... you are looking for a reason to vote elsewhere.. you aren’t on the fence because you don’t know here Trump stands... you are on the fence because you want to see what the other side is offering, and frankly Kamala’s offering NOTHING... and that’s not going to give those people a reason to vote for her.

Like it or not, TRUMP is a leader, he tells you what he believes and why he believes it, he doesn’t hedge or offer platitudes or empty words that mean nothing ask him a question he gives a blunt answer... Now you may not like his answer, but he doesn’t play games and dodge the question or even worse ignore it. Kamala has done nothing but dodge, that’s not going to move someone not fully sold on Trump a reason to support her.

This is why the focus groups during the debate swung huge to Trump.. and why this will continue to be the case.

If you hate Trump, or if abortion is your 1 issue, you are already for Harris... bashing Trump More isn’t going to get you any more voters, those voters are already in your camp. Trump will continue to gain momentum..

Trump is dodging bullets, Kamala is dodging interviews.. the Trump haters and 1 issue abortion voters don’t care.. but the rest of the voting population care... they care about inflation they care about the border....

I mean look at what we have been talking abotu since the debate? Kamala’s running meaningless adds everywhere, but whats the news been about? IMMIGRATION and Springfield Ohio... that’s not a topic Kamala can win on... Middle East... another loser for Harris.

World and Domestic events will continue to favor Trump because first of all he’s a master of controlling the news cycle. Do you think for one second anyone outside of right wing folks would be talkign about Springfield right now had it not been for Trump’s comments on in the debate? And the left jump on it thinking it was a winner for them.. Hell even Bill Mahr stated its over because Trump talked about eating pets.. yet, what’s the focuse since the debate? The overrunning of small towns by immigrants... Trump absolutely owning the narrative and they think they are winning with it.

The more people see a town of 40,000 suddenly becoming a town of 60000 with that extra 20000 being immigrants shipped in by the feds and giving them gobs of money and beneifts while the long time residents are suffering is a good optic for Harris?

Hell no...

Harris is toast, there is no and never was a path to 270 for any Democrat this cycle and they know and have known it sinc e January ...

This is all smoke an mirrors....


26 posted on 09/19/2024 6:05:39 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: MtnClimber

Same thing that joe dementia did for the covidinter rupt US in 2020.
Hid in his basement.
Their planned and staged election interference brought bought and sponsored by the deep state and your tax dollars .
Now caramel feels so comfortable with the whatever election interferences 2.0 that are in store for our 2024 election that she is in a plain sight drift and coast mode in her own shade.


27 posted on 09/19/2024 6:08:39 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: HamiltonJay

I was as confidant as you in 2016. I alone predicted Trump’s victory in my group. The 2020 election steal did not shock me. I won’t be shocked if the Dems do it again.


28 posted on 09/19/2024 6:22:51 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber

Presupposes a fair election.


29 posted on 09/19/2024 6:24:33 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: MtnClimber

Can it succeed?

Obviously.


30 posted on 09/19/2024 6:26:05 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: MtnClimber

If the GOP can reduce the fraud by 75% she can’t win. But seeing that the GOP has not cleaned up the obvious biased debate formats I have little confidence that they cleaned up or are prepared for further Dem election tricks.


31 posted on 09/19/2024 6:28:49 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

The Trump hatred is strong among even among ordinary run of the Mill Democrats. A sweet old lady friend recently amazed me by vociferously declaring her hatred of Trump. She has no problem with him being shot. And she is generally an apolitical Democrat


32 posted on 09/19/2024 6:37:35 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: MtnClimber

It worked for Biden. When you’re going to steal an election why bother to campaign?


33 posted on 09/19/2024 6:59:04 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: KobraKai

I think Trump wins in a landslide. Everything saying otherwise is propaganda to hold their base together for the down ballot vote. IMO.


34 posted on 09/19/2024 7:05:49 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: MtnClimber

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

She won’t have the most votes, but she will have the most ballots.


35 posted on 09/19/2024 7:16:24 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: TiGuy22

That’s my prediction as well


36 posted on 09/19/2024 7:18:29 AM PDT by 38special (The government is ruining our country!)
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To: DeplorablePaul

2020 surprised me, but it was because I never thought for a second that the Establishment GOP would sit so idly by...

Lesson learned...


37 posted on 09/19/2024 7:20:05 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

Yes. Trump got zero help from Republicans. They thought he was a fad. They were glad he was gone. They let the Democrats steal the election. Despicable.


38 posted on 09/19/2024 7:34:28 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: DeplorablePaul

Oh I knew they didn’t want him, but the long term reprocussions of letting the fraud slide I thought they were smart enough to understand what that would mean. I was wrong


39 posted on 09/19/2024 7:36:44 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: MtnClimber

Biden already did it, successfully.


40 posted on 09/19/2024 7:55:56 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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