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Can Harris's Cynical, Run-Out-The Clock Campaign Succeed? (VDH)
RealClearPolitics ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/20/2024 7:26:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

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 and subterfuges to the stonewalling campaign, Democratic surrogates -- and the media.

Harris is also certainly not running on her demonstrable experience, vision, or intelligence as much as she is not Trump (or, for that matter, her former partner, Biden).

To make that distinction stark, Harris must demonize and bait Trump nonstop and make the country fear him.

So, she paints Trump as a racist and violent insurrectionist, not a former president whose four-year term saw a superior foreign policy, economy, border, and security than during the Biden-Harris term.

Instead, Harris has repeatedly claimed Trump is a dictator and a threat to democracy -- as if he had politically weaponized the FBI, CIA, DOJ, or IRS as had former President Barack Obama and Biden.

Trump as Hitler has become a staple Democrat smear for the past decade.

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1 posted on 09/20/2024 7:26:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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BTTT


2 posted on 09/20/2024 7:28:07 AM PDT by nopardons
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Kamala Safe And In Stable Condition After Attempted Interview
The Bee ^ | September 16, 2024 | Staff

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4265193/posts


3 posted on 09/20/2024 7:31:22 AM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: RoosterRedux

yes


4 posted on 09/20/2024 7:33:38 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020 proved that democrat voters will vote for democrats no matter what. His “keep him in the basement” strategy didn’t require him to do anything. The media and democrat surrogates (yet, I repeat myself) did all the work for him.

Now, the same is being done with Harris. I can only assume this is the way forward for the democrat candidates from here on out.


5 posted on 09/20/2024 7:33:54 AM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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Only if her voters don’t care what she does or thinks as long as she is a Dem running against Trump....so, Yes.


6 posted on 09/20/2024 7:34:44 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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No. The folks who are wanting more detailed answers are realizing it’s not going to happen.


7 posted on 09/20/2024 7:35:05 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: RoosterRedux

What is wrong with you people you buy into the narrative that Kamala Harris is the front runner and is on glide path to win...reality is that she is losing...and as already lost ages ago just from registration data and early ballot returns;

Stop buying the narrative...the polls are fake... Do you not find it surprising CNN as not released a poll in a month?


8 posted on 09/20/2024 7:35:38 AM PDT by bte
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The question is though, will Kamala be able to pull it off given that she isn't nearly as well-known as Joe?

And what little is known about Kamala is that she is repugnant.

9 posted on 09/20/2024 7:36:56 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking objectively is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just cling to their biases.)
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It will be like the Arizona gubernatorial election in ‘22 with the same result.


10 posted on 09/20/2024 7:37:52 AM PDT by 38special (The government is ruining our country!)
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The key to the question is the behavior of the mainstream media. A bulldog media would press Harris at every opportunity, and expose her flaws. A lapdog media would cover for her, and let her coast to a win.

And we all know what kind of media we have.

Case closed.


11 posted on 09/20/2024 7:40:08 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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All-night voting is her ace in the hole. Given the demographics of our large cities, I would say it’s impossible to stop.


12 posted on 09/20/2024 7:40:53 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: bte
That's a great presumption (that Kamala will surely lose).

As has been said, whether Kamala wins or not depends not on Kamala but on how much the Democrat machine can cheat.

This election season is just ramping up and already there have been 2 attempts on Trump's life. And the Democrats are just getting warmed up.

I don't say this because I'm negative. Quite the contrary...I think we have a very good chance of winning.

But this election is far from over and it's a big mistake to underestimate this enemy.

13 posted on 09/20/2024 7:42:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking objectively is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just cling to their biases.)
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> What is wrong with you people you buy into the narrative that Kamala Harris is the front runner … <

As you noted, the polls mean nothing. But I expect the cheating to be off the charts this November. After all, the GOP elite and the media didn’t care about the 2020 cheating. So why shouldn’t the Democrats up the ante?

This election is going to go down to the wire. I can only hope that the enthusiasm for Trump will best the cheating for Harris.


14 posted on 09/20/2024 7:45:27 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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"she will debate only on leftist venues with impartial pro-Harris moderators."

Which word does not belong?

15 posted on 09/20/2024 7:48:38 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: bte
What is wrong with you people you buy into the narrative that Kamala Harris is the front runner

Which "people" are you referring to? I don't know of anyone--at FR or elsewhere--who has bought into that narrative.

16 posted on 09/20/2024 7:50:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking objectively is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just cling to their biases.)
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Hard to hold slime accountable. Hard to get a hold on her and pin her down. Yet she does not exist in a social, political or cultural vacuum. Much of America has descended into neo pagan, hedonistic, earth worshipping decadence. She has a large constituency which must be defeated.


17 posted on 09/20/2024 7:57:29 AM PDT by allendale
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Look at the state polls. Trump is now solidifying his lead. Her tactic is not working. he is pulling away now in PA to the point that I have heard radio commentators say PA will soon be “out of reach” for her. With that, so will the election.


18 posted on 09/20/2024 8:01:12 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Leaning Right
I can only hope that the enthusiasm for Trump will best the cheating for Harris.

As Trump has said, a very high turnout, either for Trump or against Kommie-la, will dwarf their cheating.

19 posted on 09/20/2024 8:02:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking objectively is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just cling to their biases.)
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Dunno, but voting without ID will succeed.
20 posted on 09/20/2024 8:10:33 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I will be voting for Trump/whoever he picks VP in November. If he loses in 2024, country is toast.)
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