Biden is out. Kamala is… well, we shall see. The Clintons have endorsed her, as have Pelosi and Schumer, however, these are the same people who put a stick in Biden’s back for years to avoid giving Kamala the keys to the Oval Office. Most importantly, Obama has yet to ritualistically touch her shoulder. I believe he will wait to see if the media can actually sell this ketchup popsicle to the American people, but they’re isn’t much time to figure that out.
Given that her poll numbers against Trump are as bad, if not worse than Biden, the only noticeable improvement she represents over her former boss is she is not visibly dying. Of course, the only reason she even has this opportunity is the same reason she became VP in the first place. The party of diversity and inclusion can’t exactly stiff-arm the black lady on their way across the room to ask Gavin Newsom out for pizza. So, in a self-imposed genuflection to DEI, Kamala has her shot, as well as her allies, for now.
The Communist Convention is scheduled for August 19th. The Dems and their docile media are going to sell Kamala hard in the next few weeks Schumer’s press conference today was meant to convey the unbridled excitement within the party about Kamala. Instead, his delivery had all the genuine enthusiasm of a 7 year old who just received socks for Christmas. The media will pound identity politics. You can see the headlines now, “Is America Ready for a Woman of Color President?” They’ll label her detractors as racist and misogynist. They’ll describe her cackle as disarming and authentic. They’ll praise her resume of DEI-drenched, upward failures. They’ll probably even try to bolster her with some fake polls in an effort to gin up some momentum. It will take all that and more for her to have a chance against Trump, who so far has seen a historic campaign.
This woman is truly awful. Kamala’s own party doesn’t like her. She couldn’t even get 1% of the Democrat primary vote in 2019 and she was out before Iowa. Andrew Yang’s campaign lasted longer than hers. From being the “Border Czar” to repeatedly lying about Biden’s health, the American people see her as the diversity hire phony she is. And in a few weeks, if she is still trailing Trump by 5-10 points in swing states, the Dems and media will send her packing as quickly as they did old Joe, ultimately settling on someone at the convention in dramatic fashion. As in 2020, they just need a candidate who polls close enough to Trump, so that no matter how many unfolded mailed-in ballots they need to find the next day, they can later sell their win as a legitimate election outcome.
Can the media blitz sell Kamala? It may seem like quite the heavy lift, considering that even the NY Times this week ranked Harris 10th in electability among likely Dem candidates. But we must remember what they were able to do last election. They took a twice-embarrassed also-ran (1988 and 2008) and convinced many Americans that he was the most popular president ever elected, with 81M votes.
Is there more vigilance and skepticism for the leftist machine to overcome this time? Perhaps, but truthfully, the only thing that would surprise me at this point is if the Dems just respected the will of the people and admitted this wasn’t their year. But of all conceivable scenarios, that seems the most unlikely.
