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Tom Luongo<\/p>\n
We haven\u2019t even reached the DNC convention in Milwaukee next week and the election season is already over. Former Vice President and (presumptive) Democratic Party Nominee Joe Biden picked Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate.<\/p>\n
She is the first non-white woman to be so \u2018honored.\u2019<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s not a pick designed to win an election, that\u2019s a white flag of surrender.<\/p>\n
Harris ran one of the worst primary campaigns in recent memory, trying desperately to be the \u2018black\u2019 Hillary Clinton. She crashed out in spectacular fashion. If there is a better example of being tone-deaf to what voters want in a woman candidate, I really can\u2019t think of one.<\/p>\n
What does Harris bring to the ticket? She\u2019s a former prosecutor of black men from California. Were the Democrats so worried about that state that they felt it necessary to lock it down?<\/p>\n
No, obviously, I\u2019m being facetious.<\/p>\n
Harris was simply the only choice they could make after Biden announced his running mate would be a \u2018woman of color\u2019 and there was little chance he\u2019d choose party gadfly Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) since he\u2019s as globalist, empire-defender as everyone else in charge at the DNC.<\/p>\n
The other possibilities were not serious. And Susan Rice has two real strikes against her. One, she has no name recognition. And two, she may wind up being indicted by John Durham before the election.<\/p>\n
In fact, if you read between the lines, Rice not being the choice is a signal that the DNC\u2019s legal troubles are a lot more serious than anyone is willing to let on.<\/p>\n
The far better choice for the DNC strategically would have been Elizabeth Warren. Now, while Warren is just as much an unlikeable harpy as Harris is, she\u2019s also more of a true moderate who could campaign to bring the party back from the brink.<\/p>\n
Moreover, since she is one, she would have shored up the so-called \u2018Karen Vote\u2019 which is a core Democratic constituency far better than Harris can.<\/p>\n
In an election cycle where the straw man arguments about Republican Bogeymen taking away the right of women to murder their unborn children is strangely absent, that voting block is more precious to the DNC than ever before, especially after they openly backed the race riots and urban violence that has dominated the news cycle for the past three months.<\/p>\n
The only way I think this pick works for them is that they try to claw back their support for BLM and Antifa by putting the strong authoritarian Harris at the top of the ticket. As Gabbard pointed out in the debates last year, no California Attorney General put more black men in prison than Harris.<\/p>\n
Since Biden skillfully avoided backing the rioting, he and Harris will now pivot in the most disingenuous way to being the \u2018law and order\u2019 ticket accusing President Trump of allowing our cities to burn and mishandling everything from the economy, to COVID-19, to the CHAZ in Seattle.<\/p>\n
You can see the script they\u2019ve written in their strategy sessions at the DNC. It\u2019s the classic Alinsky play of fomenting a problem, nurturing it and coddling it and then attacking your opponent for being weak on handling that which you\u2019ve been doing.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve done this completely with all of the main issues of 2020 to date. And now at the convention in Milwaukee, the Democrats will try to argue, in Straussian fashion that they are the synthesis between an incompetent President Trump (thesis) and a failing America which he alone created (antithesis).<\/p>\n
The only problem is it won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n
At all.<\/p>\n
Trump has weathered these three storms about as well as someone with his level of competence can. And over the weekend he took the fight directly to the Democrats over stimulus and relief, crafting four executive orders which strike at the heart of their usual talking points. I covered them in a recent blog post.<\/a><\/p>\n At this point in time all Trump has to do to counter this pivot by Biden and Harris is to stand his ground on relief for the lower and middle classes, defend the police as \u201cBlue Lives Matter\u201d rallies spring up all around the country and reassure all those shiny new gun-owning soccer moms in the suburbs that Antifa isn\u2019t coming to their neighborhoods on his watch.<\/p>\n The strategy to oust Trump has been to attack the three main pillars of the middle class, the safety of their health (COVID-19), their wealth (financial crisis) and their homes (rioting). Trump\u2019s approval rating has held up during all of this because he hasn\u2019t panicked.<\/p>\n He waited until his opposition overcommitted themselves to a strategy that turned a majority of the country against them. The polls today have been structured to bring to life the fiction of a Biden victory, but the state map has Biden in real trouble in the states he needs to win to even have a chance at victory.<\/p>\n In 2016 I never doubted that Trump would beat Hillary. The polls are not there to measure voter opinions but to shape them. And if this map is the best they can muster after systematically destroying the U.S. economy then, honestly, I expect Trump to win in an electoral college walk in November.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot of time between now and the election and I suspect the pressure on Trump will only rise. But if we\u2019re truly honest about the messaging of the Democrats and the way they are positioning themselves for this election they are expecting to lose and steal the election through ballot harvesting and contesting state results to sow further discord.<\/p>\n We we\u2019ve seen so far in 2020 is the ultimate form of political blackmail from the elites through their mouthpieces in the media and the Democratic Party\u2019s election strategy. They are telling voters to dump Trump and restore them to power or they will tear down the United States and burn down your homes.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a winning strategy, nor do I think Kamala Harris can make a dent in Trump\u2019s rising approval ratings with black and Hispanic voters. Everything I\u2019m seeing from them tells me they know they are going to lose but they have to put up a fight because the future of the party depends on it.<\/p>\n\n
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