Democrats finally got their wish last Sunday when President Joe Biden finally relinquished the party’s presidential nomination and delegates opted to make Vice President Kamala Harris his replacement, without a single say from the American voters. So much for all that talk about “democracy” right? Anyway, the left is really reinvigorated by having Harris on board, with many pundits and blue-haired feminist types on social media losing their minds and claiming that the vice president has all but sealed the deal for the presidency.
Well, the left better curb their enthusiasm, according to a CNN data analyst who says that Harris has a really tough battle ahead of her if she wants to beat former President Donald Trump in the general election. For once, CNN is actually sharing facts. I guess a broken clock really is right twice a day.
via CNN Politics:
But while Harris can hardly have hoped for a better start in establishing legitimacy among Democrats after President Joe Biden abandoned his reelection campaign, she is still just hours into a mission that ranks as the most daunting for any modern potential presidential nominee. And the full intensity of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s attacks is yet to unfold in the most unpredictable election season in generations.
In a rousing speech Monday afternoon, the vice president rallied campaign staff at their Wilmington, Delaware, headquarters with Biden – still recovering from Covid-19 – calling in to solidify the transition. After laying out her prosecutorial case against Trump, Harris cast the contest as “two different versions of what we see as the future of our country.”
And in her first public event since Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday, Harris earlier Monday officiated at an event on the White House lawn centering her in the imagery of the presidency.
One thing that’s somewhat helping Harris make her case for the presidency is the endorsement of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, whose work behind the scenes is what ultimately helped President Joe Biden make up his mind to step away from the nomination. How she managed to do that is anyone’s guess, but I would say it had nothing to do with wit and charm.
By Monday evening, the vice president had been backed by well more than the 1,976 pledged delegates she’ll need to win the nomination on the first ballot, according to according to CNN’s delegate estimate.
And after the freezing of donor cash helped force Biden out of the race, Democratic wallets have opened big-time. Harris raked in more than $100 million between Sunday and Monday evening, a campaign official said, boasting more than 1.1 million unique donors – 62% of them first-time contributors.
Kamala Harris is probably one of the worst public speakers I’ve ever seen, which is proven by all of the word salad speeches she’s delivered in her time as vice president. Watching her give an address gives me the worst second-hand embarrassment ever. Even worse than when I watch Michael Scott go off the rails on “The Office.”
If she really thinks she can win this election against a seasoned debater and runs one of the toughest campaigns in modern politics. If the vice president was under the delusion that she was going to take this election by storm simply because she’s a black woman, I have some bad news for her. An increasing number of voters are caring a whole lot less about that stuff than in previous elections.
At first, Trump and his campaign might have been thrown off a bit by the change in opponents, but that didn’t last long, as is evidenced by the fact she has an even lower approval rating than Joe Biden, making her one of the least popular vice presidents in the history of our country.
Trump’s team is also ratcheting up the fury of rhetoric against Harris. It’s trying to make her complicit in what Republicans are characterizing as a White House cover-up of the president’s health and mental state. GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Monday claimed that “Kamala Harris lied about it. My Senate Democratic colleagues lied about it. The media lied about it. Every single person who saw Joe Biden knew that he wasn’t capable of doing the job, and for three years they said nothing, until he became political deadweight.”
She’s doomed, folks.
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