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by Armstrong Williams
Is Vice President Kamala Harris the future of the Democratic Party? Her ascendancy has been meteoric, fueled by Democrats eager to retain control of the White House.
The youthful Harris was the answer to President Joe Biden‘s old blood. At a glance, she was younger and more spirited. Harris embodied the diversity exalted by Democratic voters.
Trifecta: a woman, part black, part Indian American, with the woman angle being first among equals— especially as regards reproductive rights placed in jeopardy by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Mixed with hatred of former President Donald Trump, Democrats find Harris electrifying.
But political honeymoons do not last forever. The hard work of campaigning follows.
And there is where Harris, 59, stumbles. Unemployment is troubling. Prices are climbing. Terrorists are racing through our porous borders, leaving appalling crimes in their wake.
Are voters better off today than they were four years ago? A positive answer is unconvincing. Voters do not see a future of wealth, safety, and leisure under a Democratic administration. Everyone feels left behind but billionaires and the multitrillion-dollar military-industrial-security complex.
The yawning gap between Harris’ promises and reality is in plain view. For three and a half years, Harris has copiloted the nation with Biden into terra incognita. Americans are worried about the future, which remains fraught with uncertainty.
The border is Harris’ Achilles heel. A staggering number of illegals enter every day, wreaking havoc on the lives of citizens peacefully residing in border towns. They are bankrupting New York City and Chicago. They are committing crimes.
Biden and Harris have been reactive rather than proactively going to the source (i.e., penalizing failed states for driving their people to desperation in tens of millions).
This is where Trump, 78, the former president, sees his opportunity.
Illegal immigration on Trump’s watch dwindled to a trickle. He built an insurmountable wall that provided reassurance that all was under control. He upgraded vetting to screen out terrorists.
Trump boosted the economy with punishing tariffs and indulgent tax cuts. He is attracting voters who see him as more competent on economic and immigration issues. Harris should worry that Trump’s character flaws are being overlooked. Instead, voters are more focused on her policy positions and the past four years of foreign conflict, economic downturn, rising inflation, and migrants invading our borders.
Trump’s advantage is particularly pronounced in key battleground states like Pennsylvania, where Harris’ position has been weakened by earlier opposition to fracking that appealed only to Democratic progressives in that state.
Fracking is welcomed by Democrats in other states as a generator of jobs. Harris opportunistically flip-flopped to attract more votes, which could estrange voters who would rather lose than compromise to win.
As the 2024 race comes into sharper focus after Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Harris must awaken from her reverie. Her rise was swift, but the road to victory is steep. The honeymoon is over, and promises will not do. Harris needs to deliver, and deliver now, by jump-starting the economy and creating an impermeable border campaign.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. If Harris is unable to gain more electoral votes than Trump, she will be defeated.
History will define Harris as a loser who failed to deliver in contrast to Trump, who succeeded in everything he promised—including ending the constitutional right to abortion, bringing a close to forever wars, and building a wall. If Harris wins, however, a new chapter will open for women and minorities.
Armstrong Williams is a columnist for The Daily Signal and host of “The Armstrong Williams Show,” a nationally syndicated TV program. Republished from The Daily Signal.
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The central banks are running this show. The two clowns on the stage running for president are nothing but water carriers. The man to watch is Pickpocketpowell. Now, how is the inflation doing for you? Two weeks ago at the store a orange was one dollar each and now the price is two oranges for four dollars.
Economics 101 – there is a tradeoff between inflation and unemployment. The Fed has done an amazing job to this point cooling off the economy without driving us into recession. The US has fared better than any other country following the pandemic – the economy is growing, inflation and unemployment are low.
And there was only one clown on the stage at the debate. Here’s a hint: it was the one raving about legal immigrants eating dogs and cats, parents coming home to find out their child has had a sex change, and doctors “aborting” babies after they’re born.
The tradeoff between unemployment and inflation? For those who lived through the Carter administration, take note of Mark’s comment and reflect back to those days. Remember Paul Volcker? Don’t forget 2008 or Donald Rumsfeld’s speech days before 9/11. The liquidity crisis in 2019 – problem solved with the plandemic and printing currency with nothing backing one cent of it. No problemo!
Perhaps Mark is simply a firm believer in Grammy Yellen, Jereome Powell, Jamie Dimon, et al. Perhaps the $35+ Trillion federal debt is nothing to worry about. Perhaps Warren Buffet and other multi-billionaires shedding their stock options in haste is nothing to worry about either.
Economics 101 – Lesson 1. Don’t spend more than you have or earn.
Federal Reserve/Central Bank/US Treasury Economics 101 – 50+ years of running a ponzi scheme, multiple hyper bubbles ready to burst simultaneously, defaults rising, bond rates supressed on purpose, war drums beating louder, consumption waning, housing market crashing, business shuttering left and right. It is all good, go back to sleep!
It is mind-boggling to think that Harris is actually a
candidate to become the defacto leader of the free world. Even the most cursory review of her record and qualifications would reveal that she has absolutely NOTHING to recommend her for the job. She was mostly absent from her DA position, totally useless as a Senator, and a token as a VP. And we wouldn’t even be talking about her had she not made a complete ass of herself at the Kavanaugh hearings.
And yet, here we are: against all logic and reason, she somehow is the Democrat standard-bearer, having been thrust into the position when the President’s long-known but often ignored infirmities became too obvious to hide.
Again, mind-boggling!!
Trump is a one-man wrecking ball. He is no statesman, and certainly no orator. But he gets things done, even with the Democrats non-stop attempts to lasso his feet. Our enemies can’t predict him, which helps keep them in check, whereas as Biden was reliably weak, and Harris reliably stupid AND weak.
The choice this November could not be more obvious.
Yes, he maybe a wrecking ball, but he’s my wrecking ball.
Go Trump!
Did you miss the debate? Harris mopped the floor with an opponent who can’t complete a thought, raves hysterically about nonsense he finds on the web, and can’t stop claiming he won the last election. I saw a pathetic old man, unbalanced and weak, ill prepared and unable to rise to the occasion – based on the post-debate polls, so did 2/3rds of all voters. Our enemies around the world will have a field day if this severely damaged man is reelected.
As horrible and evil as Harris’ record is, Obama had even less to commend himself to the American voter than she. How in the world he ever got elected to two terms speaks, unfortunately, to the power of propaganda and the gullibility of so many to believe the emperor is wearing new clothes.
Hey Mark, I didn’t miss the debate, you did. ABC moderators rigged the debate like the 2020 election.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/09/15/abc-moderator-linsey-davis-admits-fact-checking-was-only-planned-for-trump/
Now another assassination attempt by a follower of the Party of Joy.
And that, to quote Paul Harvey, “is the rest of the story.”
The last two Debates were a Joke, Biden had no clue, and Harris wasn’t much better
and Trump had nothing but got you questions,
The DemocRATs are desperate and will do whatever to stay in power, just ask Joe Biden, even though we all were watching his mental decline, every DemocRAT said Joe was Ok !! Now they throw the anointed one ” Harris ” into the fold, someone
that is more feckless than senile Joe, Harris is the new puppet for the left
Donald Trump, sure he’s crude, rude, and arrogant but knows how to run the country
facts are facts, and ” not ” run it into the ground as we are seeing currently with debt, open borders, crime, and the list goes on, and on !!
Trump 2024.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/09/15/abc-moderator-linsey-davis-admits-fact-checking-was-only-planned-for-trump/
Re: History will define Harris as a loser who failed to deliver in contrast to Trump, who succeeded in everything he promised—including ending the constitutional right to abortion, bringing a close to forever wars, and building a wall. If Harris wins, however, a new chapter will open for women and minorities.
This is the classic false dichotomy nested in the form of a skillfully constructed argumentative essay based solely on innuendo.
That Trump may very well succeed in closing ‘forever wars’, ‘building a wall, and doing a lot more that will benefit all of us, ‘ending the constitutional right to abortion’ is NOT one of Trump’s positions.
I hope VDC readers recognize the subtle nuance of propaganda when it raises its ugly head. In this instance the ‘psy-op’ comes in the form of a lengthy dissertation of all of the good things Trump has done (and proposes to do) but ends with the stealthy insertion of the one issue on which democrats have determined is best to ostensibly hang their collective hats. And, as usual, their assertion is vague, in fact meaningless.
“If Harris wins, however, a new chapter will”….. yada, yada, yada.
Speaking about Obama, I wonder when Big Mike will run for president????