The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us.
The Republicans had made massive gains in voter registration since 2020, when Donald Trump lost the Electoral College by only a few thousand strategically placed votes.
Republicans began to master the transition to non-Election Day balloting—first engineered by the Left in 2020 under the pretext of COVID-19.Republicans not only vastly exceeded their early or mail-in voting
totals of 2020, but by Election Day they often outpaced Democrats.
For months, it was widely reported, albeit grudgingly, that there
were large defections in Hispanic and African American voters from Vice President Kamala Harris.
The betting odds over the past three weeks usually favored Trump.
Harris simply could not run on anything she had so emphatically
promoted in the past—given these left-wing, unpopular, and failed
policies had no majority support.
So, the chameleon Harris renounced her prior 30 years of earlier
radical advocacy that, along with her race and gender, had forced Joe Biden in 2020 to select her as vice president.
There was no way Harris could still support banning fracking,
defunding police, opposing border security and the wall, or calling for
mass amnesties and an end to the Border Patrol.
Nor could Harris still promote racial reparations, ending private
health care insurance, or advocating higher income and capital gains
taxes as well as a wealth tax.
Much less could Harris still boast of wanting mandatory “buyback” or
confiscation of some semi-automatic weapons—including entering private
homes to seize them.
So given all that, Harris simply flipped—and serially lied about who she was, renouncing her entire political career.
Indeed, Harris began to copycat Trump’s own positions. And so, she
never convinced the electorate that she would not flip back to her
earlier radicalism once elected or even in defeat finishing out her
vice-presidential term.
There were three damning realities that even if Harris had been a
gifted politician and an adept speaker, she could never have changed.
One, Harris was preposterously running as a turn-the-page, new-generation candidate.
But why had she not sought to implement such a “new chapter” for the
prior 45 months as an incumbent vice president, especially while in
office during the campaign itself?
Voters knew the answer: The entire Biden-Harris tenure was an utter,
far left-wing disaster, one for which the radical Harris 1.0 had for
three-plus years claimed co-ownership.
Two, why did Harris avoid all impromptu interviews and the media for
most of the campaign—only to reverse course and seek out reporters when
her polls eroded?
Did it hurt Harris more to avoid the media—or meet with reporters and
thus confirm her inanity to millions of viewers and listeners?
Three, why did Harris serially lie to America that Biden was hale and
vigorous as president—until hours before his senility prompted leftist
donors and party insiders to force him off the ticket?
And why could she not declare her independence from the historically unpopular Biden?
Harris instead chose to terrify voters to vote against a demonized
and “fascist” Trump rather than to vote for Harris and her make-believe
agendas.
But even in demonizing Trump, the maladroit Harris hit a wall.
By campaign’s end, Trump’s favorables were often higher than her own.
His prior four years as president polled higher than the current Biden-Harris train wreck.
Trump, the purported “racist,” won more Hispanic and black voters than past “moderate” Republicans such as Bob Dole, John McCain, or Mitt Romney.
It was hard to damn Trump as a crazy fascist when iconic liberal
figures, like Robert Kennedy Jr. or Tulsi Gabbard, were campaigning for
him.
Trump had reinvented the Republican Party by substituting ecumenical,
middle-class solidarity for polarizing racial tribalism. Elitist
Democrats were left to cater to the interests of their well-off and very
rich donors as well as the subsidized poor.
Finally, workaholic Trump campaigned nonstop for two years, won all
the Republican primaries, and was endorsed by his two chief primary
rivals.
In contrast, the Harris “nomination” was the product of a coup that,
in 48 hours, removed from the ticket an incumbent president, nullified
the will of his 14 million primary voters, and coronated Harris, who had
neither won nor ever entered a primary.
That late July forced abdication of Biden lent an air of illegitimacy
to Harris’s candidacy, as well as truncating the time available to
campaign.
Finally, Harris’ first major decision was to nominate as her vice president the buffoonish and inept Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. His radicalism, serial lying, and herky-jerky “weirdness” proved a force multiplier of her own mediocrity.
In contrast, the calm, empathetic, and astute Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, Trump’s running mate, eviscerated Walz in their sole debate and did the same to the media.
Add it all up—and Harris and her star-crossed candidacy were simply and rightly doomed.
