Kamala's Crawl to the Finish

Another bad week on the campaign trail has Democrats panicking about the state of the presidential race and down ballot elections. Couldn't happen to a more deserving group.

Even Axios is sweating.

A piece on the regime-coddling website this morning admitted Democrats are in panic mode about the outcome of the election. “House Dems' anxiety spikes over Nov. 5,” written by Andrew Solender, cites numerous Democratic lawmakers and operatives nervous about their chance to take back control of the House, something many analysts predicted would happen considering the Republicans slim, six-seat majority in Congress. (Flipping four seats would make Hakeem Jeffries the next Speaker of the House.)

New Democrat Coalition Chair Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) told Axios she is “nauseously optimistic” about the prospect of taking the House. Others suggested Kamala Harris is a drag on the ticket and not producing the energized “joyous” base of support her early boosters tried to trick the American people into believing following her abrupt coronation in July.

If Kuster was nauseous earlier this week, Harris’ poor performance on the campaign trail and the results of the final New York Times/Siena College poll before Election Day released Friday morning might put her in full someone-hold-my-hair mode. A survey of more than 2,500 likely voters conducted between October 20 and 23 shows Donald Trump and Harris tied at 48 percent each. The same poll four years ago gave Joe Biden a nine-point lead.

Buried in the crosstabs is more bad news for Democrats. Forty two percent of Hispanic respondents and forty-three percent of respondents ages 18-29 plan to vote for Trump; Trump only won 32 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2020 and 31 percent of the youngest voting age group. Republicans and Democrats are tied in the general Congressional ballot question.

Of those who did not vote in 2020, 47 percent plan to vote for Trump versus 43 percent for Harris, suggesting voters absent during the last election want to make sure the Biden/Harris reign is over next year.

The economy remains the top issue with immigration and abortion tied at second place. And perhaps most shocking to the insulated bubble of DC-NYC talking heads is that despite the phony smiley face of the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz ticket, Harris and Trump have the same favorable/unfavorable percentages at 48/50. Sit back for a moment and relish that fact that the woman whom the regime media has portrays as the “happy warrior” and the man whom the regime media portrays as Hitler have the same favorable ratings among the American people.

Desperate Candidate Resorts to Desperate Measures

Kamala’s campaign, undoubtedly watching the hope and joy circle the drain, made a desperate move this week that should be remembered as the most shameful moment in American presidential political history and that’s saying a lot. Citing an unsubstantiated and immediately discredited account by former chief of staff John Kelly claiming Trump expressed a desire to have military generals similar to Adolf Hitler’s, Kamala stood in front of the official vice president’s residence and went on a three-minute rant calling Trump a “fascist.”

“Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable,” she said. “And in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions.  Those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there and no longer be there to rein him in.”

She, per usual, took no questions.

Kamala repeated the line during a CNN town hall meeting on Wednesday night. But things didn’t go as well for the Democratic nominee as she perhaps expected at the regime friendly network. Host Anderson Cooper grilled Kamala on a number of subjects, as did members of the audience.

Once again unprepared, or just plain stupid, Kamala failed to impress.

Longtime Democratic campaign consultant David Axelrod described her answers as “word salad city.” CNN anchor Dana Bash, who conducted a gauzy interview with Kamala and Walz last month, also denounced her performance. What I’m hearing from people who I’ve been talking to … if her goal was to close the deal, they’re not sure she did that,” Bash said during a post-event panel.

The Media Eats its Own

There are signs the same media responsible for creating the Word Salad Monster at the top of the ticket wants some distance. The Los Angeles Times and Washington Post have refused to endorse either candidate this year in an unprecedented move, prompting resignations at both publications. The non-endorsements follow high profile non-endorsements by powerful union groups including the Teamsters and the International Association of Fire Fighters.

Meanwhile, Trump is on the road with MAGA heavy hitters Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Benny Johnson, and Robert Kennedy Jr. while drawing massive crowds. He sits down today with Joe Rogan, who hosts the most popular podcast on Spotify with an audience of 14 million, for a three-hour interview. which is sure to dominate the weekend’s headlines. Team Trump appears to have the energy, enthusiasm, and momentum presidential campaigns hope for in the closing days.

Hoping to bring back some juice to her fading campaign, Kamala will join fading pop star Beyonce tonight for a rally in Houston; former First Lady Michelle Obama will appear with Kamala on Saturday in Michigan, the first day of early voting in the Wolverine State.

Speaking of—early voting is producing some pleasant surprises for Republicans. In the “Won’t Get Fooled Again” category, GOP voters are lining up at early voting locations, perhaps something Democrats did not expect. As of Thursday, Republicans were outpacing Democrats in Miami-Dade, another sign Hispanics are backing Trump in record numbers. In four battleground states—Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Nevada—turnout is lower for Democratic voters than the same time in 2020. On the flip side, Republican turnout to cast early votes is higher in each state than this time in 2020.

Obsession with Jan 6 Could be the Fatal Blow

And in what may result in the most ironic event in Kamala’s short campaign, she will give a speech at the Ellipse, the site of Trump’s January 6 speech, on Tuesday. The woman who outrageously compares the four-hour disturbance to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor plans to “[warn] about the chaos…he would bring to the Oval Office should he win,” sources told CNN.

Kamala’s same old lies about January 6—police died, democracy almost died, etc—will produce more headlines on an issue that voters express little to no interest in and represents nothing more than an unhinged fixation of the political ruling class.

And it may also represent the biggest mistake of the Harris/Walz campaign. While the economy falters, criminals breach our southern border, the government accelerates its war on free speech, and American’s youth remain mired in a crisis of loneliness and depression, few voters care about a minor protest at a public building on a Wednesday afternoon almost four years ago.

But Kamala and Joe Biden and the Democratic Party and the media made the imaginary “insurrection” a key campaign theme. How fitting and fair it would be for the very same J6 fear merchants to lose power over the issue in November.