The night Kamala Harris won an election?
It's early to be calling the 2024 Presidential race, but last night's "debate" probably sealed the deal. Probably.
Fifty days is an eternity in the run-up to a Presidential Election. To quote the inimitable Emilio Estevez (Billy the Kid) in the movie Young Guns:
“There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.” —William H. Bonney
And while it may be foolish to render a verdict so soon on a race for which not a single vote has been cast, I’m willing to engage in a fool’s errand—if it is that.
The Harris vs Trump debate
Full disclosure: I’m not a Harris/Biden fan, nor do I support their platform, worldview, or intent to reclothe America in Socialist garb while scuttling a Republic that lasted nearly 250 years. In my informed opinion, there is but one option and that is to cast my vote for any entity that opposes Kamala Harris, the DNC/Left, and those hellbent on reconstructing our Nation.
So, as you can imagine, watching last night’s debate on ABC was a tough two hours for me and my wife. It wasn’t what was anticipated that caused us grief—obvious ABC moderator bias; challenges and fact-checks prepared in advance for Trump only; no call to account for Harris as part of the failed Biden administration on the economy, inflation, border insecurity, support for tech platform censorship, policy flip-flops, and so on.
It was fears manifested that provided the evening’s knockout punch. Harris’s strategy was to rattle the former President and batter his ego into clumsy hyperbole and dubious assertions. She succeeded by shedding her bobble-headed loquaciousness and providing salvo after salvo of taunts and barbs at former President Trump (who, for his part looked like an old Sonny Liston facing a young Cassius Clay).
What does it all mean?
For the Camps of the Convinced, nothing changes. On November 5th, in person or by early or mail-in ballot, these constituents will cast their votes having long ago decided which candidate provides “the best way forward for Americans.”
For those who have yet to hammer in their tent pegs, though, last night’s spectacle may have moved more of them to the Left than Right. In a race as tight as this one is purported to be, that would equate to a Harris victory on November 6.
And it is just that simple.
However . . .
If the polls are somewhat askew—as they have been known to be in recent elections—there may yet be a November Surprise.
And nothing should surprise us anymore.
What say you?
For the sake of posterity, here’s today’s Presidential Poll:
Fact vs style will determine who “won”
Trump did miss some open shots, but that is easy for me to say since I wasn’t in the heat of battle. The style victor is asking for another one. May not work out as well.
All any of us can do is vote and encourage other likeminded to do the same.