String of Serious Blunders Leaves Harris Campaign Reeling and Trump Campaign Rising

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Trump supporters watched in horror and shock this summer as the Democratic Party, with an enormous assist from the corporate media, turned the inept Vice President Kamala Harris into a superstar in the space of a week. And for over two months, the media-created campaign of joy and positive vibes appeared unstoppable.

But a presidential campaign based on joy and good vibes cannot last forever. Eventually reality will interfere to burst even the biggest bubble. Unfortunately for Harris, a string of serious unforced missteps combined to bring the ginned up momentum to a screeching halt, leaving desperation in its wake.

Although it’s impossible to say for certain whether former President Donald Trump’s triumphant return to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 5, the site of the first assassination attempt against him, was the catalyst for the shift in the race, the next day, he reclaimed the lead in the betting markets (which has increased every day since) and Harris’s momentum stalled.

Over the past couple of weeks, two of the most widely watched metrics have shifted away from the Harris campaign. As of Sunday morning, she has shed 1.3 points in the RealClearPolitics average of national polls, leaving her with a 0.9% lead. (For context, Hillary Clinton led by 6.4% on this date in 2016 and still lost the election, and President Joe Biden led by 8.6% in 2020 and barely won.)

Meanwhile, Trump’s average lead in RCP’s average of battleground state polls has climbed to 1 point.

Here are some of the Harris campaign’s recent unforced errors that have contributed to the shift in sentiment:

1. Perhaps the most significant miscalculation was Harris’s decision to sit for an interview with Fox News’ anchor Bret Baier last Wednesday. Outside of a few tough questions from CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker, this was the first time a real journalist had asked Harris serious questions. In an attempt to point out the duplicity of her campaign, Baier made hash of her campaign’s attempt to offer voters a “new way forward” considering that she and Biden have been running the country for the past four years. Asked when she first noticed that Biden’s mental faculties had diminished, Harris refused to even acknowledge the issue. Considering that Biden’s senility was the reason for her promotion to the top of the Democratic ticket, her denial appeared completely disingenuous.

In a recent post about the interview, I wrote, “The vice president’s demeanor throughout the brief interview was defensive, combative, and even imperious at times. … Harris dodged and weaved and filibustered. Her answers were weak, incomplete, evasive and sometimes absurd.”

I would add that she came across as extremely unlikable, perhaps reminding voters why her 2019 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination ended in early failure. The consensus among conservative news outlets was that the event had been a “trainwreck” for Harris from the get-go.

2. Harris’s decision to skip the Al Smith dinner in New York City on Thursday was inexplicable. Her foolish choice was compounded by the cringeworthy video she had prerecorded to be played at the event.

3. Harris was delighted over the news that IDF troops had killed Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas terrorist organization and the mastermind behind the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre, on Thursday in Rafah. She wanted voters to forget that both she and Biden had warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to invade Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, back in March.

At the time, Harris told ABC News “there could be ‘consequences’ for Israel if it moves ahead with a planned invasion of Rafah.”

“We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,” she said.

Harris added, “Let me tell you something. I have studied the maps. There’s nowhere for those folks to go.”

4. Another misstep was trotting out former President Barack Obama to lecture black men who don’t plan to vote for Harris. Obama said “it’s unacceptable” to sit out the election and suggested the reason might be that they are unwilling to vote for a woman.

It turned out that black men were not too pleased to be shamed into voting for Harris by the former president.

5. The Harris campaign’s incessant insistence, without evidence, that a Trump victory would mark the end of democracy in America, something she and her surrogates tell voters at every opportunity, is beginning to fall flat.

During a campaign speech on Thursday night in Wisconsin, she told supporters: “Let us be very clear. Someone who suggests we should terminate the Constitution of the United States should never again stand behind the seal of the president of the United States. Never again.”

Resembling a mad dog, her anger and voice growing louder, she repeated, “Never again. Never again. Never again!”

Well, the media’s full-court press has subsided, and the Harris campaign has failed to deliver anything substantive to voters. At her peak level of support, she led Trump nationally by 2.2%. As mentioned above, that lead has dwindled over the past two weeks to 0.9%, far below the levels of support reached by both Biden and Clinton. And Trump is now leading by 1 point in the battleground states where the election will be decided.

Desperation has replaced joy and good vibes for the Harris campaign at the worst possible time and they are resorting to outright lies and scare tactics to stem the bleeding. In the MSNBC clip below, host Donny Deutsch and Rev. Al Sharpton claim, of course without evidence, that they will be put on an enemies list if Trump wins the election and imprisoned.

On Saturday, a group called “Republicans against Trump” resurrected another familiar fake scandal based on a passage in journalist Bob Woodward’s new book. The group alleges that Trump’s one-time Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, whom Trump replaced with then-Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe, told Woodward he suspects that Putin is blackmailing Trump. No evidence.

We can expect allegations like these to intensify over the next two weeks. Because it’s all they’ve got. The joy and good vibes have run their course and Harris has reverted to the same weak, unappealing, and inauthentic candidate who was forced to drop out of the 2020 presidential primary before a single vote was ever cast.

 

A previous version of this article appeared on Legal Insurrection.

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