Daily Caller, August 24, 2024. The Wheels Have Come Off, Behind the curtain of Vice President Kamala Harris’s popularity lies dissension in the Democrat party’s ranks and everyday Americans who aren’t buying the official narrative about the media’s new “it” girl.
Democrat convention goers began arriving in Chicago on Sunday to enjoy a week of racially segregated meetings, free abortions and vasectomies, and lectures about decency and democracy from the same people who installed a presidential candidate without a single primary vote being cast. Still, while some feel energetic about being a part of Harris’s supposed historic nomination, thousands are waiting in the streets, ready to riot.
Politico published a desperate attempt to ignore the brewing chaos already at the DNC. “Democrats arrive here, a city that’s played host to so many drama-filled political conventions, as a party lacking in drama. They are disciplined, orderly, and united around Vice President Kamala Harris and, more to the point, thwarting former President Donald Trump’s restoration,” wrote Jonathan Martin, Politico’s senior political columnist and politics bureau chief. (ROOKE: Trump Is Getting The 2016 Gang Back Together. It’s Time To ‘Let Trump Be Trump’ Again)
LARGO, MARYLAND – AUGUST 15: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gives remarks alongside U.S. President Joe Biden at Prince George’s Community College on August 15, 2024 in Largo, Maryland. Biden and Harris held the event to talk about their administration’s efforts to lower drug costs. This event is the first time President Biden and Vice President Harris have appeared in public together since Biden announced he would be stepping down from running for re-election.
While Martin acknowledged that “protests over the Middle East”… “[threaten] the Democrats’ fragile coalition and electoral map,” he still believes that “Democrats are a healthier, better organized, more hierarchical and even ruthless party” than Republicans.
He must not have viewed the viral video of pro-Palestinian protesters crashing the DNC welcome party or the thousands who marched in the street chanting about Harris being complicit in genocide in Gaza. Maybe he didn’t see that local businesses are boarding up their windows and doors as if there is an unspoken reality that far-left activism automatically equates to cities burning down.
In the last month, the Democrat party committed a coup against President Joe Biden’s campaign and stomped on primary voters like useless ants to install Harris, who has been heckled and booed at several campaign events and fumbled the ball on her economic policy rollout. The party is in disarray; even its platform still references “President Joe Biden’s second term” 19 times despite him being pushed out weeks ago. Still, after all of this, Democrat shills in regime media will tell you with a straight face and a twinkle in their eye that the party with Harris at the helm is “brutally efficient, on-message, establishment-driven and singularly committed to winning general elections.”
That probably explains the complete shock on former CNN host Don Lemon’s face when he asked Atlantic City voters which president they wanted in November: Harris or former President Donald Trump. In the 2-minute clip, Americans told Lemon various reasons why they would be voting for Trump or thought he would win, including the economy and lack of experience. Instead of listening to their concerns, Lemon told the man how great the economy was and that everything else was just a figment of his imagination. (ROOKE: Harris Quietly Trying To Cover Up Major Election Bomb That Could End Her Honeymoon)
GLENDALE, ARIZONA – AUGUST 9: Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz take a selfie in front of a sign that reads “Kamala and The Coach” during stop at a campaign office on August 9, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. Kamala Harris and her newly selected running mate Tim Walz are campaigning across the country this week. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
“I know you feel that way, but that’s not actually what the record shows. The economy is actually better under Biden,” Lemon said. Thankfully, the cameraman got the guy’s reaction, which was to laugh at Lemon’s smug face.
In a similar exchange, ABC’s Martha Raddatz went to Wisconsin to ask locals about the presidential election when she happened upon an undecided black female voter, Melody Davy.
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 30: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris introduces President Joe Biden during an event about their administration’s work to regulate artificial intelligence in the East Room of the White House on October 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. President Biden issued a new executive order on Monday, directing his administration to create a new chief AI officer, track companies developing the most powerful AI systems, adopt stronger privacy policies and “both deploy AI and guard against its possible bias,” creating new safety guidelines and industry standards. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Davy told Raddatz that while she hasn’t officially decided, she is leaning toward Trump. Not only does Davy not like Harris ripping off Trump’s economic policies, like his push for no tax on tips, but she also believes that Harris has lied about her heritage to gain favor with black voters. Raddatz’s reaction to Davy was to accuse her of falling for “Trump’s rhetoric.”
Propagandists like Raddatz and Lemon are part of a dying machine that is out of touch with mainstream America. Despite their claims, the economy is not better under the Biden-Harris administration, and you don’t need complex economic theories to prove it. Every trip to the grocery store, back-to-school shopping, and energy bill is enough of a gut punch to make the point. (ROOKE: Kamala’s Record Rears Its Ugly Head After She’s Caught Stealing From Trump)
Harris has been riding the wave of celebrity endorsements, the media class drooling over her, and elites shelling out cash. Still, she is running into a political seawall because all her hype is manufactured by the same people who sneer at working-class voters and tell them the economy isn’t that bad. Trump’s ability to speak to these people and acknowledge their plight makes his campaign so effective against Harris.
Breitbart, August 24, 2024. Why Trump Is Ahead, The delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, this week kept talking about how much fun they were having and how much “joy” they were feeling. Democrats who watched the speeches on television gushed about how amazing they were.
Some of those feelings were real. But remember: that’s how Democrats feel, not how other Americans feel.
The convention, objectively, was not so great.
The United Center was a logistical mess, and lacked any of the carnival atmosphere or festive charm that Republicans enjoyed at their convention in Milwaukee last month. The music was mediocre; the speeches, except for Harris’s, were far too long; and then there was the Beyoncé no-show debacle.
The weather outside was perfect; the city was shining; only one delegate was robbed at gunpoint. Not bad — for Chicago.
But the convention itself failed to explain to the American people what Kamala Harris intended to do as president. There was no vision, no policy.
The constant, spontaneous refrain was: “We’re not going back.” But there was never an explanation of where Democrats are going to, or where Harris wants to take the country.
Until the last evening, when a string of speakers discussed foreign policy — all Ukraine, no Israel — the only policy discussed was abortion.
Harris’s speech was all about biography, and attacking the opposition. (The “special guest,” whom many had hoped would be Beyoncé, may as well have been President Donald Trump, whom Harris mentioned fifteen times in total.)
Trump’s acceptance speech was perhaps too long; Harris’s speech was too short. It showed no sense of leadership and never reached out to independent voters or wavering Republicans. (A cameo by Adam Kinzinger will not do the trick.)
There was little drama at the convention — by design.
Democrats arranged their primary to ensure President Joe Biden would not face a challenge, then allowed party insiders to pick Harris as his replacement. There were no dissenting blocs, save for the pro-Palestinian “Uncommitted” delegates, who were a tiny and sullen minority.
There weren’t even amendments offered when party leaders asked for a vote on a platform that does not have the word “Kamala” in it.
The truth is that Democrats aren’t feeling “joy.” The word “relief” might be more accurate — relief that they no longer have to pretend to support an ailing, and failing, Biden.
There is some genuine happiness at nominating the first black woman, or the first South Asian candidate. But many speeches betrayed a sense of anxiety.
Michelle Obama, of all people, spoke about “deep pit in my stomach, a palpable sense of dread about the future.” They know Trump can win.
The convention was the high point for Democrats, the end of a month in which Kamala could set the agenda and the media could protect her. Now it is up to Trump.
If he talks about policy, if he projects an inspiring vision, and if he rallies his supporters to believe that he can win despite all the Democrats’ institutional advantages, he will succeed.
He must look to the future; that is what Democrats have left wide open. If he dwells on the past, Trump will lose.
Here are the stark realities of the electoral map. Kamala Harris is not going to win more states than Joe Biden did in 2020. She cannot afford to lose more than one or two of them. She is playing defense, everywhere.
She risked losing Pennsylvania by choosing left-wing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over Gov. Josh Shapiro. She could lose Michigan if the “Uncommitted” voters stay home. And Trump and Gov. Brian Kemp are finally on the same page in Georgia.
But early voting and vote-by-mail allow Democrats to run their turnout machine. The media will shut out pro-Trump news and views. The debates won’t matter; Democrats will tell followers on social media that Harris won, regardless. We no longer run elections where we try to persuade each other; we just turn out our own side. Those in the middle go with the winner (and, in so doing, choose the winner).
Trump needs to be that winner, the best version of himself.
Newsweek, August 23, 2024. "Muslim Women for Harris-Walz" is disbanding after the Uncommitted National Movement said it was told a Palestinian American speaker couldn't address the Democratic National Convention.
Uncommitted delegates began a sit-in outside the United Center in Chicago on Wednesday night after being informed that their request for a speaking slot had been denied. Abbas Alawieh, a delegate from Michigan and co-founder of the Uncommitted National Movement, told reporters that he received a call from a convention official on Wednesday, who said: "Abbas, the answer is no."
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