President Joe Biden’s calamitous debate performance last month plunged the Democratic Party into a three-week period of utter despondency. With little more than four months left until the election, the party’s standard bearer, the spavined leader they’d rigged the primary to anoint, had crashed and burned on the national stage. Voters had witnessed firsthand what party insiders had known and tried to cover-up for years: The president was not fit to serve.
Post-debate polling results were pointing to a landslide victory for former President Donald Trump which would hurt the Democrats’ chances of retaining the Senate and taking back the House.
Biden had to go and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi was tasked with making sure that happened. Although he resisted at first, it wasn’t long before he understood he had no choice in the matter. It’s been widely reported that Pelosi had offered Biden an ultimatum, allegedly telling him they could do this the easy way or the hard way. Either way, he would be out.
Early Sunday afternoon, Biden capitulated. In a letter posted on X, he announced he was ending his reelection campaign. In a second post sent 30 minutes later, which some pundits are calling “Biden’s revenge” for being forced out, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him at the top of the ticket.
Immediately, Harris launched her presidential campaign. She and her aides began working the phones to secure the support of enough Democratic delegates to win the nomination. The Associated Press reported that by Monday night, Harris had reached her goal, making her the presumptive nominee.
According to the Harris campaign, it raised more than $100 million in the first 36 hours. In the first 24 hours alone, it took in $81 million, which Team Harris touted as “the largest amount of money raised in a 24-hour span in presidential history.”
By Monday night, most Democratic lawmakers had endorsed Harris. And on Tuesday, she received endorsements from the positively glowing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader (D-NY) Hakeem Jeffries who said her candidacy “has energized the Democratic Party and the nation.” Indeed it has.
Meanwhile, the legacy media are in awe over the party’s lightning fast rebound and they are literally swooning over Harris, whom they are promoting as the next Barack Obama.
There’s no denying that Kamala Harris is riding high. That said, part of the excitement we’re seeing is the Left’s tremendous relief over Biden’s departure. We’re also witnessing a real world demonstration of the power of propaganda and we’re amazed by the ease and the speed with which it was accomplished.
Biden’s exit from the race – and Harris’s rise to the top of the ticket – have altered the playing field. While Trump was almost certain to beat Biden, it won’t be quite as easy to defeat Harris. It would be foolish to underestimate her. For starters, he must prepare for their debate. Because she will be loaded for bear. Flawed as she may be, she is not senile and she speaks clearly and persuasively.
In the memo below, Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio warns Republicans to expect a bump for Harris in the polls over the next couple of weeks, particularly in the national polls. (In fact, a Reuters-Ipsos poll released on Tuesday shows Harris up nationally by 2 points.)
Fabrizio notes that “the fundamentals of the race stay the same.” Harris’s arrival “does NOT change voters discontent over the economy, inflation, crime, the open border, housing costs not to mention concern over two foreign wars. Before long, Harris’ “honeymoon” will end and voters will refocus on her role as Biden’s partner and co-pilot. As importantly, voters will also learn about Harris’ dangerously liberal record before becoming Biden’s partner in creating historic inflation (she cast the deciding vote on the IRA), flood of illegal immigrants at our southern border (she is Biden’s Border Czar), and migrant crime that is threatening our families.”
NEW- Memo from Trump Campaign Pollster Tony Fabrizio: @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/pJLoDIfvE6
— Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) July 23, 2024
Although Harris is a tougher opponent than Biden, Trump is a very formidable candidate. And he’s had an incredible couple of weeks. As we know, it began on July 13 when a would-be assassin fired shots at him at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally. By the grace of God, Trump sustained only a minor injury. But it was his spontaneous and defiant reaction to the shooting that will never be forgotten. It was the moment that he stood up, bloodied, and raised his fist in the air as he told his supporters to “fight, fight, fight,” that he became a legend.
Even Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was impressed. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, he said it was “one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life.”
The next day, Trump traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to accept his third presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention where he was greeted with thunderous applause. The convention was considered by many to be the most unified, uplifting, and successful in memory.
After analyzing several recent polls, CNN data reporter Harry Enten told viewers on Tuesday that, “Democrats can make this switcheroo, but they’re still going to have to beat Donald Trump, a Donald Trump who is stronger than he has ever been before.”
“For all of the excitement that Democrats have over Kamala Harris, it’s going to be difficult to beat Donald Trump,” Enten said. “The fact is, Donald Trump is more popular now than he ever has been before.”
CNN’s Harry Enten Sounds Alarm On How ‘Difficult’ It’ll Be For Kamala Harris To ‘Beat Donald Trump’ pic.twitter.com/tLui8t5mDN
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 23, 2024
A previous version of this article appeared in the Washington Examiner.
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“There’s no denying that Kamala Harris is riding high. That said, part of the excitement we’re seeing is the Left’s tremendous relief over Biden’s departure. We’re also witnessing a real world demonstration of the power of propaganda and we’re amazed by the ease and the speed with which it was accomplished.”
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A pretty stunning part of the power of propaganda is how quickly we’ve put the specter of a palace coup behind us. I wrote this elsewhere:
“There are a few sites [here’s one https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/22/the-ousting-of-biden-was-a-textbook-coup-detat/ ] that are reporting/suggesting/hinting at the fact that, because there wasn’t the normal speech by the candidate that he was withdrawing and we haven’t seen him and that things are falling into place behind a ‘consensus’ candidate, Harris, that there a strong possibility that the Bidens weren’t told that Joe had resigned until the announcement was made on X.
I don’t know if the rumors are true… I’m not even sure the the party’s power brokers would’ve done something like that but I can imagine a scenario where the Obama’s, Clinton’s, and Pelosi’s decided to play hard ball, force the announcement out, and had some kind of meeting with the Bidens that told them precisely what they were going to do to support the palace coup and, if they didn’t toe the line, told them precisely what was going to happen if they pushed back.
My guess would be that one of the conditions for the golden handshake would be for Joe hold a press conference and, in the best hostage video format, tell the world just how happy he has been to serve the country but it was time for him to move on ‘for the good of the country’.
The best part of all of this is that, it doesn’t matter if it’s really true, it only matters if it could be true when the Trump people make suggestions that what happened on Sunday was, in fact, a palace coup.”
I’d love to hear more about this issue but there are many people talking about the very real possibility of a palace coup that seized the presidency from the duly elected President.