At last, the US Presidential Election of 2024 is (mostly) ended. The post mortem will go on for days. I fear violence against Mr. Trump or Mr, Walsh before the inauguration. I hope they now have the A Team of Secret Service protection without the DEI hires.
It is time for me to sum up what I see as the failed Harris campaign. I hold no hatred for Senator Harris. My friend from LAPD (a staunch conservative) remembers her as a fine AG in California. He says, “Whatever Law Enfordement wanted during her time as AG, she delivered.”
I wonder why her campaign did not do more with her time as AG. Perhaps they just fear to run on a Law and Order platform.
While I bear her no ill will, I am glad Senator Harris will not occupy the White House. In fact, I expect this to be the end of her political career, along with that of her zany running mate.
I do want to put forward eight reasons Senator Harris fell so far off the pace set by President Biden in 2020. To wit:
- Senator Harris get into the Presidential race with a. Short time to mount a campaign. Her ability to explain how she came to the race was simply not competent. Her handlers kept her away form most opportunities to explain herself, for whatever reason. Mr. Biden bequeathed her a huge war chest but money will not do it all. A major candidate cannot win without being able to communicate. Senator Harris never got there.
- Mr. Biden also left her a failed presidency to pull along behind her. His border policies, his inability to control inflation more than blaming it on corporat3 greed and the armed global conflicts during his tenure killed his Presidency and hampered her campaign. Her only executive experience was in the Biden term. This was hard to overcome.
- Presidents do not often help their Vice Presidents. Reagan did not help Bush 43. LBJ cut off Humphrey at the knees. When Eisenhower was asked what his VP had done to help make policy, Ike blinked, bobbed his head and said, “Give me a week and maybe I’ll think of something.” Mr. Biden made Senator Harris look like a lesser being more than once after he left the race.
- While we discuss Vice Presidents, Senator Harris picked a running mate of little renown He got caught in several lies, he danced and he called himself a “knucklehead.” He did not help the ticket.
- Senator Harris inherited a bad economy. People vote their wallet. Real people are hurting. Senator Harris never said how it happened or how to fix it.
- Senator Harris had the misfortune of running against Donald Trump in an honest election, Mr. Trump motivates people to come out and vote who do not regularly vote and do not vote Republican. Senator Harris might have beaten a lesser vote getter. She did not have that opportunity.
- Senator Harris did not have the reliable Legacy Media. Alternative news sources are now the norm. People believe Joe Rogan and Matt Walsh over NBC, et al. Why? Senator Bernie Sanders, Communist, said, “The Democrat Party has abandoned the common working people We should not be surprised that the common working people have abandoned us.” This is why people listen to Michael Knwoles and his friends.
- Finally, Senator Harris was a poor candidate. For all her talk of joy and enthusiasm she just could not get much beyond her natural base. She just does not light up the night
So, noe you know why this happened as it happened. In four years we shall, I hope, do it again, this time without Mr Trump and the GOP will have to find someone who can bring votes like Mr. Trump. I do not know who that will be and it will be much less exciting.