Veteran CBN reporter David Brody just sounded the alarm: Harris and Walz have a smooth operation and shouldn't be underestimated.
Unsurprisingly, the Kamala fans in his mentions welcomed him to "reality," and the Trump fans drug him as being ridiculous. Personally, I think Harris-Walz is such a train-wreck ticket that should Republicans screw this up, the entire party should be formally disbanded.
Concurrently, I also think that the Trump-Vance team is incredibly undisciplined and well on their way to screwing it up.
And it kills me because it never had to be this way.
Scrolling my social media feed just a few days ago, I came across a clip of New York Republican strategist Joe Pinion going scorched earth on a CNN panel discussing the Left's Green New Deal. He had less than a minute, but it was masterful:
Then, when I noticed who tweeted out the clip - the "Trump War Room" account - I had to wonder if they picked up on the fact that in 48 seconds, Pinion did more damage to the credibility of this disastrous energy plan of Kamala Harris than the Republican nominee has attempted in nearly a decade of presidential politics.
I had to wonder if the folks running that account, or any of the die-hard MAGA supporters stopped to ask themselves, "Could Donald Trump even do this if he wanted to?" I know that allegiance to principle isn't what makes populism (the backbone of MAGA politics) go, but 2024 presents a remarkably easy election for the Right to distinguish itself from the failed policies of the Left. Instead, Republican voters have chosen to run a candidate remarkably incapable or completely disinterested in doing so.
Consider this last week. The presumptive Democrat nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, has been all over the place. Even staying eerily on script, following the directions of all her handlers not to take impromptu questions or dare speak extemporaneously about what she really thinks about anything, she still has managed to record more policy flip-flops than we've seen since John Kerry "reinvented himself" for the 2004 campaign.
She is on record saying she will ban fracking. She now says she will not.
She is on record supporting gun confiscation by the government. She now says she will not.
She is on record supporting a government jobs "guarantee." She now says she will not.
She is on record calling to create Medicare for All. She now says she opposes such calls.
She is on record saying that she wants to scrap the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and start over from scratch. She now says she doesn't want to do that.
She is on record rejecting calls to increase border patrol agents. She now says she's amenable to it.
At the risk of this sounding like sour grapes, had the Republican Party nominated Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, or former governor Nikki Haley, they each would have spent the last week highlighting those very things.
Instead, what was the Republican nominee for president doing? He was unnecessarily and foolishly insulting and demeaning the very popular Republican governor of a key swing state that he is going to need in order to win the presidency.
I understand personal grievances and vendettas, but this is just horrendously ignorant political strategy:
Brian Kemp, for his part, responded appropriately and in a way that would permit Trump to deescalate his attacks. But why would anyone have confidence that he will? Kemp posted his reaction to Trump's broadside on Twitter:
He won't. I'm not sure he even can. How else do you explain a week where, facing sagging poll numbers and a surge in Kamala excitement, President Trump is gifted these top stories:
Douglass Emhoff, Kamala Harris's husband, admitted having an affair during his first marriage with the family's nanny.
There has been a sudden antisemitic surge within the Democrat Party's base following the premature announcement that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Jew, was on Harris's VP short list.
Mounting threats of a serious escalation in Middle East conflict between Israel and her hostile neighbors has been reported.
Yet another American citizen has been brutally murdered at the hands of an illegal immigrant due to a porous southern border.
Instead of talking about any of that, Donald Trump decided it was more productive to grind his axe against a guy (and the guy's wife) who is immensely popular in a state Trump himself needs desperately to carry on election day.
To wit:
Good grief.
I know there's still a lot of time until Election Day, but there's not enough to teach an old dog new tricks. Don't tell the American people the republic is imperiled by the Harris-Walz threat while the guy you're running against them is posting stuff like this rather than taking it seriously:
Donald Trump is in full self-destruct mode and no one seems able to convince him to stop.
