Election 2024

The vice presidential debate last week between Senator Vance and Governor Walz may have been the most important debate in many years, apart from the one that led to the withdrawal of President Biden. Mr. Vance completely debunked the theory that he was “weird,” harsh, an extremist, or anything but an intelligent, accomplished, courteous, and thoughtful person.

It is only fair also to put in a good word for his opponent. Instead of the extreme leftist installing tampon dispensers in male washrooms in Minnesota’s high schools or dismissing advocates of completing the southern border wall with nonsense about its vulnerability to “30-foot ladders,” he seemed a decent person doing his best with the impossible task of trying to move away from the record of the outgoing administration without obviously rebuking the incumbent vice president who recruited him as her running mate.

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that she would do nothing differently than President Joe Biden.

Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “As Vice President you worked closely with President Biden for almost four years. He was here on our show and he said there wasn’t a single thing that he did that you could not do. What do you think would be the biggest specific difference between your presidency and a Biden presidency?”

We’re in the thick of it now: less than a month from Election Day, and Kamala Harris’ campaign schedule is featherweight light. This should be when a presidential candidate is expected to do multiple rallies and interviews. We know that will not happen with Kamala being a serial disaster in front of the camera. Donald Trump is everywhere, and the energy emanating from Republicans is reportedly making everyone in the Harris orbit consume excessive amounts of Pepto Bismol…

In the closing weeks of the 1964 presidential campaign, at a rally in Marion, Ohio, I rose to meet my first test of Republican loyalty. Things were tough that fall and many in the party were keeping their distance from the nominee, ducking for cover, scurrying away to escape an impending landside. But not my older brother Chris and me. No sir, we were proud to step up on the platform, lend our unequivocal support, and even offer a kind of written endorsement for Barry M. Goldwater. The two profiles in courage were pictured in the next day’s Marion Star.

A month from tomorrow, the nation will chart its the course for the next four years. It may take a week after Election Day before some of the closer states make a call, but seeing how both campaigns are running down the closing stretch tells me election might not actually be as close as regime media will have you believe.

Vice President Kamala Harris doubled down on vouching for President Joe Biden’s mental fitness Sunday, despite the president’s dropping out of the 2024 race after a disastrous debate performance. Biden most recently appeared alarmingly confused in the wake of Hurricane Helene, responding to an interviewer asking about relief efforts, “I was wondering what storm you’re talking about.”

Everyone that watches election cycles long enough knows that the only moment that counts in a campaign is Election Day when the ballots have been counted.

Sadly in 2020 it took some states with far fewer ballots than Florida two to three times longer than Florida to count the ballots.

Ironically it took until the exact amount of lead by Trump was established, then a miraculous dump of ballots being delivered around 2-3am that would then be weighted 100 to 1 against Trump(or some similar proximity) and by sunrise, in a state were counting had been stopped, Trump’s lead would have evaporated and he somehow lost.

Americans should ask themselves which candidate trusts voters enough to show himself, warts and all.

In a 1971 essay entitled “The Bible,” Ken Kesey wrote about what he felt was the most important of questions, the one he felt the Bible addresses: do we treat those around us as tools to be used or as people bound together with us and with God?

To make his point, he asked his reader to compare two artistic views of American forests. One view used to frequently grace the pages of magazines back in the ’60s and ’70s — ads by Weyerhaeuser, the wood products corporation, in which they touted their good stewardship of their forests. Their ad was accompanied with a picture of a nice forest scene, replete with nice forest animals — entirely nice, entirely serving their point, which was to make their products attractive in a time when there was much concern over damage caused by foresting practices then in vogue. It was all nice.

Standing on the spot where he was nearly killed in July, Donald Trump told a vast rally that he would “never yield, not even in the face of death itself”.

The Republican candidate for president had returned to the scene of the failed assassination attempt just outside the small town of Butler, Pennsylvania, for three reasons: to kick off the final month of campaigning; to boost enthusiasm in the most important swing state in the nation; and to depict himself as a living martyr, ready to sacrifice himself for his populist cause.

With one month to election day, the contest between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is the electoral equivalent of a bare-knuckle brawl.

The race for the White House still appears deadlocked, both nationally and in battleground states, so victory will be decided by the slimmest of margins – every new voter engaged, every undecided voter swayed, could help land a knock-out punch.

“In any super close race, where the electorate is divided down the middle, a difference of a percentage point or two could be decisive,” says David Greenberg, a presidential historian at Rutgers University.

I can’t wait for the Diddy Kamala Emhoff Sex Tape

Tuesday night’s veep palaver could be the last time you see the frightened animal known as Tim Walz for the duration of the campaign. He’s famous for his wild body language — jumping around on stage, flapping his arms — but this time the action was all concentrated in his face. You saw his eyes bug out, dart left and right, as if something fierce was coming at him (it was), and more than a few times, his head jerked around sideways so hard you wondered if it might do a whole three-sixty. His mouth, a pain-inflected frown in repose, turned down so deeply it looked like he had sashweights hanging from the corners. Altogether, his face said more than the embarrassing mishmash of mangled English that came out of it. I expect to see a few Tim Walz masks on the little goblins begging for Kit-kat bars the night of October 31.

h/t Mauser

The Biden-Harris administration is being raked over the coals for its slow response to the Hurricane Helene disaster. Government officials are dithering, no one seems to oversee supply distribution, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that they don’t have enough funds to make it through this hurricane season, thanks to funds being diverted to help illegal aliens. To boot, $157 million was sent to Lebanon. It’s becoming more striking how the slow rollout could be due to the Democrats’ intention to prevent those impacted by Helene from voting.

Where’s Kam?

It’s a question a growing number of Democrats are asking as the vice president is increasingly MIA on the campaign trail as the 2024 presidential contest enters its final month.

“There’s a time at which you just have to barnstorm these battlegrounds,” Obama campaign guru David Axelrod told Politico. “These races are decathlons, and there are a lot of events, and you have to do all of them because people want to test you.”

EXPLOSIVE new audio of veteran Democrat strategist James Carville trashing the Harris campaign: “What the f-ck are you people doing? Get off your ass! NOW! NOW!” pic.twitter.com/EJjCwugl7W

— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) October 4, 2024

Kamala Harris' teleprompter went out at the beginning of her speech in Michigan and she turned into a floundering mess until it came back on.

You can literally tell the moment it happened lmfaopic.twitter.com/zs0wAt02Gr

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 4, 2024

H/T Mauser