“Kamala Harris”

After five weeks of slobbering media coverage akin to the rhetorical version of a hot stone massage, Kamala Harris finally left the bubble that has carried her to record fundraising and competitive poll numbers with Donald Trump in key swing states.

And then the bubble burst.

African American women are the workhorses of the Democrats – consistently demonstrating the strongest loyalty to both the party and its individual candidates, both Black and White. According to a Pew Research report, 95 per cent of Black women voted for Joe Biden in 2020 – roughly the same percentage as supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012. Indeed, led by powerhouse African-American former State Representative Stacey Abrams, Black women were crucial in securing Georgia for Biden in 2020, the first time a Democrat had taken the state in nearly 30 years.

BREAKING: Black women all over the country have joined forces to create a VIRAL movement called "IM NOT WITH HER," referring to their choice to abandon Kamala Harris and vote for Trump

HISTORY IS HAPPENING BEFORE OUR VERY EYES!! 🔥 🔥 #IMNOTWITHHER
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— George (@BehizyTweets) August 28, 2024

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We have been waiting ever since the day Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race for Kamala Harris to sit down in front of a camera and take questions from an interviewer. And if nothing else, we have learned why: In the friendliest possible format — a joint interview with VP nominee and emotional-support midwesterner Tim Walz, conducted by Dana Bash with the delicacy of an ornithologist gently hand-feeding hatchling chicks — Harris has revealed that her gaseously mindless word-cloud of a campaign is in fact an accurate reflection of her own personal vacuousness.

Yesterday, finally, the kween deigned to engage with her subjects. Yes, Kamala Harris did her first sit-down media interview since replacing Joe Biden on the Democratic presidential ticket nearly 40 days ago. For more than a month she’d maintained a monarchical distance from the grubby presses, flat-out refusing a one-to-one with any of its probing hacks. Now she’s relented and had an exclusive chat with CNN’s Dana Bash. The end result? Only one word will do, and it’s a word normally aimed at the other side: weird.

The cold, hard world of betting markets framing the outcome of the 2024 presidential election were singularly unimpressed by the showing of Kamala Harris during her CNN interview on Thursday evening.

Did you catch Kamala Harris’s first “interview” as the Democratic Party nominee for president? It was pretty much everything you’d expect from an interview conducted by CNN. Lots of softball questions, lots of word salad responses.

#Kamala has a brand new concept when it comes to setting deadlines. She plans on linking them to time.

This is next level 4D chess folks… 🤡🌎#KamalaHarris #Harris2024 pic.twitter.com/RpslDwOx9a

— Mrgunsngear (@Mrgunsngear) August 30, 2024

Just in case you missed it 🇺🇸#CNN #Kamala #Walz pic.twitter.com/Vt4REQ8wzd

— Tonya Hess (@TonyaMHess) August 30, 2024

“Joy” is now Democrats’ official campaign strategy. Of course, joy in the true sense resonates with people who are starving for it. But we ought to ask about the deeper purpose of the Harris-Walz presidential campaign adopting “joy” as messaging. Even The New York Times recently offered skepticism, stating “joy is not a political strategy.” No, it’s not.

Question: Why would anyone lie about working at McDonald’s? If you really want to feign humility, you lie about working at Jack in the Box* before they blew up the clown. (And then brought him back.) Or maybe you lie about working at Denny’s.

Three weeks ago, just days after being formally chosen as the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris was pressed on her plans for a sit-down interview.

“I’ve talked to my team,” she told reporters on the airport tarmac in Detroit. “I want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month.”

On Thursday night, Ms Harris will – just barely – make good on that promise, sitting down with CNN’s Dana Bash for her first major interview.

An unpleasant and taboo truth comes out

Arab-Americans on social media have been denouncing black Americans for supporting Kamala Harris. Apparently those Arab-Americans don’t like Kamala because she is not sufficiently pro-Hamas. And they believe that black Americans are not entitled to exercise agency, but must follow the diktat of the superior Arabs. In response, black Americans have brought up that little matter of the Arab enslavement of black Africans that claimed many more victims than the Atlantic slave trade…

If Kamala Harris becomes the next American president in November, both Canada and the United States will at least briefly be led by people who spent formative teenage years in Montreal. But whereas one had already been in the public eye since being born to a sitting prime minister, the other was a reluctant transplant from sunny California, uncertain how she would fit into a francophone city. The National Post takes stock of Harris’ Montreal years.

In Harris’s desperate effort not to answer any questions, her best bet is to tempt Trump with a mic that’s always hot.

‘Debates don’t matter,” goes the old wisdom, “until they do.” Politico offers but one example of that truism, in advance of the first 2020 debate. And note the qualifier employed: “Debates don’t matter . . . unless someone faceplants.” Of course, back then, the first debate may well have mattered significantly: Donald Trump didn’t exactly faceplant, but — because he was suffering from an as-yet-undisclosed bout of Covid himself, one that put Chris Christie, his unlucky debate-prep partner, in the hospital and nearly in his grave — gave a disastrously interrupting, impatient performance that night.