A lot of virtual ink has been spilled over the last few weeks about Kamala’s “Queen of Word Salads,” Harris, and Tim’s “Great Walz of China” campaign and how that campaign looks like it’s going to implode. This was perhaps inevitable. Kamala Harris is the worst candidate since Hillary Clinton, and she might be even worse, although that bar is set so low that it extends through the Earth’s crust and halfway through the mantle.
At UnHerd, Emily Jashinsky, this site’s Washington correspondent, offered some thoughts on the end of what the media is calling Kamala Harris’ “honeymoon” and why It’s so clearly over. And, which shouldn’t surprise anyone, I have a few thoughts.
Emily writes:
This is the race that Democrats feared. With less than a month to go before the US election, Donald Trump is regaining the slight lead he had before Democrats met in Chicago to nominate Kamala Harris. According to RealClearPolitics polling averages in battleground states, Trump trailed Harris from overdue August to overdue September. He is now back at the top with 48.4 to 48.1. His lead may be narrow — and Harris has a two-point lead in the popular vote — but the numbers make Kellyanne Conway feel good.
That’s the way it may be – and it is. Harris falls behind on average all contested states and has lost their dominant lead in the (ugh)”.national referendum.“But the last two polls in 2016 and 2020 greatly underestimated the Republican candidates’ numbers.
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Emily is right. This is the race that Democrats were afraid of. And they should have known better. It’s her own fault after all. The election of her vice president didn’t support either. She could have gone with the governor of a swing state; Josh Shapiro could have been the deciding vote for Pennsylvania, but he’s Jewish and Harris didn’t want to upset the Hamas faction, so she instead chose Tim Walz, the wide-eyed fan of Communist China with nothing to offer.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, actually made a good choice in JD Vance: an clever, accomplished author and speaker who is making the rounds and becoming more impressive by the day.
It now looks like a civil war is brewing in the Democratic Party over this mess – and if Kamala Harris loses, as is looking increasingly likely, it could well erupt.
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That can be a good thing. Today’s mainstream Democratic Party would view Harry Truman or John F. Kennedy as flaming right-wingers, and that is not a good model for the longevity of an American political party. However, even among today’s Democrats, Kamala Harris is a member of the far left – and that is a massive part of her problem.
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Staying on a blank slate won’t work. Not this year. Too much is already known about Kamala Harris. Furthermore, no one with enough brains to pound sand is going to buy a sudden turn to the middle. The “risk aversion that characterized Harris’ campaign before Labor Day” is not her best bet—it’s what put her in this position in the first place, and the only other option is to come out for what she really is: a extreme left ideologue who is inactive, ill-informed, not very shrewd and unfit to be President of the United States.
