by Paul Ingrassia
More than any other election year since the advent of television has the results of a presidential debate proved so consequential. As of this writing, President Trump has the momentum on his side. After enjoying a manufactured “honeymoon” period in the month after Joe Biden was ousted from the presidency via a behind-the-scenes coup, in which Kamala was in no small part complicit (and some might say, its mastermind), the vice president’s numbers have come crashing back to earth. According to Nate Silver, perhaps the leading name in the polling industry, President Trump’s prospects of winning the electoral college are nearly a whopping thirty points over the embattled vice president.
This pro-Trump sentiment has reverberated across betting markets, too: Polymarket, maybe the premier election betting website this cycle, places the 45th President’s odds of winning the electoral college six percentage points higher than Kamala Harris. The market platform has President Trump with leads in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, while closing in rapidly on Wisconsin and Michigan, two crucial rustbelt states that helped catapult him to the presidency in 2016.
These poll numbers and trends place the President in a formidable position heading into this evening’s debate. At this juncture in time, President Trump is a world-class debater, having pummeled candidate after candidate now in three separate presidential contests. His mastery of the art of debate was on full display in late June, when he literally knocked out Joe Biden – the first time ever an incumbent president was forced into a premature exit from his race on account of a historically disastrous debate performance.
Indeed, it is largely because President Trump fared so well in that historic debate that goes a long way towards explaining the unprecedented nature, and inordinately high stakes, of this year’s race. Kamala Harris is currently running the shortest presidential campaign in American history. Many millions of Americans are still unfamiliar with who she is, many more can’t name a single policy she stands for.
This ignorance is partially excusable due to the cover provided for her by the mainstream media, which has coddled her every step of the way, and shielded her from public scrutiny and hardball questions to ridiculous levels. Indeed, the amount of protection Kamala has thus far received from a complicit media puts what they did to Joe Biden in 2020, who memorably ran a campaign from his basement, to shame.
The fake news knows as much as anybody that the minute Kamala is exposed to be the deeply detestable candidate with atrociously bad policies to the public, the minute their cover will be blown. As it already stands, the media defrauded the public by downplaying these past four years Joe Biden’s mental incompetence, which was far, far worse, as uncovered by June’s debate, than anyone in the press previously let on. Kamala Harris, who was Joe Biden’s vice president, is also, obviously, complicit in that fraud on the American public, which poses a still ongoing national security crisis of the gravest variety to the public, given how dramatic the global order has unraveled in just the last three and a half years – with crisis after crisis arising in Afghanistan, the Ukraine, the Middle East, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, all regions that were stable not so long ago under Donald Trump’s presidency.
Entering this evening’s debate, the advantage is thoroughly in President Trump’s corner. As he has stated in recent public appearances, he need not overthink his debate strategy: just allow Kamala Harris to talk and expose herself to the public, over a 90-minute period, which will be far more exposure than they have received to date. Really, it should only take the first five minutes of Kamala speaking for the public to be reminded of just how awful a candidate she is. Again, this is someone who failed to poll above single digits in her own party’s primary in 2020, and, prior to becoming the Democratic Party nominee, was polling as the least popular vice president in history – numbers even worse than her boss, the most unpopular president since the advent of modern polling.
ABC is generally seen as a deeply biased network, even more so than CNN, the host of the previous debacle. The face of the ABC network has famously acquired the moniker “George Slapadopolous” by the 45th President for his consistently dishonest and uncharitable reporting, with a resume that includes deep-seated ties to the Clinton family. Even with ABC’s rigged conditions, however, replete with rules that permit two commercial breaks during the debate (presumably comfort time that will allow Kamala Harris to get her bearings, which, prior to this year, was a rarity for presidential debates), President Trump should feel confident that the winds are at his back.
For one, Kamala Harris is a dyed-in-the-wool radical. This was reaffirmed this past weekend, when Democratic-Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, swore on live television that Kamala’s Marxist-worldview was only changed for political expediency. Where the hope is that once she is elected, she will revert to the hardcore leftist policies that always defined her public career, and which were responsible for ranking her the most liberal senator – ahead of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders – while in Congress.
Would the real Kamala Harris please step up?
Lest we forget: the former San Francisco District Attorney was for defunding the police at the height of the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020. She incited the worst sort of racial resentment all throughout that dismal summer, which amounted to a domestic color revolution. This was reflected in such policies as calling for the tearing down and renaming of statues and monuments dedicated to George Washington and Christopher Columbus as well as policing employment practices through DEI and affirmative action. She also constantly sided with those who called America’s most sacred institutions, from the judiciary to the Constitution itself, structurally racist and oppressive.
Recently, in a very controversial expose, the New York Times called for the eradication of the Constitution itself, that most cherished document that enshrines our fundamental rights and secures the blessings of American liberty. If there was a political face to that revanchist worldview, it would be Kamala Harris, who, as vice president, has overseen the greatest weaponization of the justice system observed in American history. Under she and Joe Biden, the Department of Justice – and myriad other intelligence agencies, alongside state attorneys general and prosecutors – has been weaponized to launch relentless witch-hunts on political dissidents, and those who would so dare exercise their First Amendment rights to speak and assemble freely, chief among them Donald John Trump.
Through it all, Kamala Harris has cackled every step of the way. She has allowed vicious district attorneys to abandon their oaths and prosecutes those with whom they have a political disagreement with reckless abandon, sabotaging due process along the way, guaranteeing that the rule of law devolves into a banana republic-like system. Meanwhile, as “border czar,” she has presided over the most disastrous southern border in American history, allowing tens of millions of foreign invaders to flood the countryside with impunity, bringing drugs, diseases, and foreign contaminants and creatures (and habits — see the influx Haitian migrants eating pet cats, geese, and ducks in local communities across America’s heartland) into the country completely and totally uninhibited.
You c an bet the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders will Favor Harris since their so used to kissing the Democrats Rings
Ring?
She’s been joe’s helpmate his entire presidency, so she’s as responsible as he is for the last 3&1/2 years.
She’s also responsible for all her own statements about things like “mandatory gun confiscation,” and “free transgender care,” for illegals and prisoners.
Her pitiful, “I’m talking,” play won’t work under these debate rules, so, she’s got nothing.
What a shit show Trump was fact checked 4 times, Kamela recycling Joes stump speech lying got a full pass