After Kamala Harris was nominated for the presidency by Joe Biden essentially without any popular vote, we suddenly experienced a media frenzy.
We were supposed to believe that this previously unpopular woman was suddenly the up-to-date “hope”.
I have no doubt that there are some people who embrace her because she is “anything but decrepit Joe Biden” and they believe she gives them a better chance than he did against former President Donald Trump. And there are undoubtedly people who fall for the current Democratic narrative. If they tell you she is your hope and “joy,” then some just flip the cult switch and believe it, despite the fact that she is fully connected to all the failures of the Biden-Harris administration that most people don’t like.
But do people really fall for the nonsense she’s trying to sell?
I wrote about how she drove to Johnstown, Pennsylvania on Friday, how she had an event in an airplane hangar, and how her comments at a coffee shop/bookstore showed her unsuitability, with a jumbled jumble of words about what she thought about the success of her campaign in Pennsylvania.
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But there is a fascinating backstory to this and its events that highlights a problem with their campaign.
The events at the cafe/bookstore and the airplane hangar were “by invitation only,” according to the NY Post. While there were maybe a few hundred at the airport, there were about two dozen at the cafe. If they hadn’t invited people, how many would have come?
Trump rallies are organic and people come because they want to come. There are no people who come and all wave around a propaganda sign. The people who were invited to the event at the hangar were union members.
This has also been the case at other events she has held, such as in New Hampshire, where CBS Boston told that the event she held there on September 4 was an invitation-only event.
Here’s another one, in Glendale, Arizona:
EVERYTHING IS FAKE: Crazy Kamala’s rally tonight in Arizona is “by invitation only.”
Why wouldn’t they want a public event? Unless… pic.twitter.com/soajXLLE9K
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) 10 August 2024
This was also witty because it showed that they are asking for IDs that match the invitation. This event is being run by the woman who left the border open – she wants security at her event, but at the border she couldn’t care less.
Then there was the Primanti Brothers incident in August, where the restaurant customers she came into contact with were allegedly not regulars. The regulars were reportedly kicked out and others were bused. Then local media reported on her treatment of the “customers.”
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How wrong can you be to do something like that?
So they invite people – not people who are naturally there – to escalate the number of protesters; they invite union members or other people from Democratic lists. That might also lead to people being screened, which might limit the number of potential protesters. They even hand out signs for people to hold up:
Here in Johnstown, @VP Support signs for Kamala Harris will be distributed ahead of her arrival @TribLIVE pic.twitter.com/wIF59NC9tt
– Megan Swift (@mgswift7) 13 September 2024
While Harris is trying to create the impression that her campaign is full of enthusiasm, there is a big problem with it, which some people in Johnstown also made clear.
If you do that, you’re not really reaching the Trump supporters, the undecided, or the independents who want to listen to you. You’re just preaching to the people who are already on your team. It looks like you don’t care about the other people. And if the polls and focus groups show that people aren’t convinced and want to know how she’s different from Joe Biden, don’t tell them. You’re just putting up a facade but not really doing the work you need to do to win.
Some of the people in Johnstown cursed her that it is not accessible to the public:
“She’s hiding from most people,” Ed Luce told the Post. “She has to convince a lot of the working poor.” [….]
Trump won the surrounding counties in 2016 and 2020 with over 67% of the vote.
Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes are crucial to victory this November.
“The old school Democrats are what the Republicans are today,” said Jim Ardary, referring to the values of demanding work and love of country. [….]
As an Obama-Trump voter, he is enthusiastic about Trump’s recent proposal not to tax overtime.
“The way the economy was going, I ended up on the street working as an industrial weed killer,” said Luce, 63. What he heard from Harris during the debate did not convince him. He said he still does not know what her policies are.
It’s also an area where Harris had to drive past all the Trump signs on her way into town. That must have made her sweat. When Trump visited the area, more than 6,000 people gathered at the Cambria County War Memorial, and there was a two-mile line outside the entrance. Thousands more stood outside watching on a giant screen.
“Knowing it’s MAGA country, she had courage,” AJ Hasley, a veteran and chef, told the Post, but he felt insulted by Harris’ invitation-only events.
“When you campaign, your job is to get your message out to as many people as possible,” Hasley said.
“The fact that she only goes by invitation makes me think that she only cares about the rich people, the people who donate money to her campaign.”
Hasley has never voted before and this is his first time voting… for Trump.
These are the opportunities Harris is leaving to Trump.
