By Sushil Kutty
Indian origin Black African-American Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris faces imminent defeat unless former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, in one of his crankier moments, pulls out from the race before November 5, which is not a possibility unless a fourth assassin doesn’t miss the orange-head for the bleeding ear.
Whichever way you look at it, Kamala Harris has plummeted from the high of the after-presidential-debate with Donald Trump to less than half of the high. So much so, Harris is now clinging to disparaging comments directed at Donald Trump by some of his staff of the first Trump administration to console herself.
Like Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly, who came in from the cold and “revealed” that “President Trump fits the fascist definition” like a glove and is “more unstable and wants unchecked power.” Imagine what rejection can do to people! Gen. Kelly wouldn’t have called Trump a fascist if it wasn’t for the fact that Trump, in one of his more lucid moments, dumped Gen. Kelly and asked him to “move on.”
Thing is, Kelly gave Harris the chance to butt in: “It is clear from John Kelly’s words that Donald Trump is someone who certainly falls in the “general definition of fascist,” Harris said. “He has vowed to be a dictator on day one and would use the military as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas.”
The reality is, most American media have come around to comforting themselves with reports saying that a Trump victory was inevitable. In fact, it is Harris who is doing all the scrambling. Going forward, Donald Trump might even win the real poll on November 5.
Trump is drawing followers like he was Pied Piper himself. Trump spent time “working” at a McDonald’s drive-through and more people drove through than there were “fries” to go around. Then, the former President went to a “game” and the crescendo cracked the stadium dome.
Vice President Kamala Harris could only watch the game unfolding on her from the safety of her Washington home. “Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable and in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions,” Kamala Harris warned. “The bottom line is this, we know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power. The question in 13 days will be, what do the American people want?”
Kamala Harris should worry. The various polls tracking the race indicate that the American people want Donald Trump and the former President is edging out the sitting Vice President in almost all of the “swing states”, much to the disgust of former President Barack Obama while President Joe Biden is lost in his own mind and minding his own business.
But there are democrats who are cursing themselves for making the mistake of removing Joe Biden from the top of the ticket and replacing him with Kamala Harris. Now, John Kelly has to intervene with “Trump wants generals to be like Hitler’s generals.”
Trump has called his former White House Chief of Staff a “lowlife” and a “total degenerate named John Kelly”, accusing him of making up stories out of pure Trump Derangement Syndrome. “I always feel it’s necessary to hit back in pursuit of the truth,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “John Kelly is a lowlife, and a bad general, whose advice in the White House I no longer sought, and told him to move on!”
But Trump shouldn’t worry even if Kamala Harris is getting support from several RINO (Republican in name only) sorts, like Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, and hates Donald Trump like he was something that had crawled out from beneath a stone. Liz Cheney was with Kamala Harris just the other day, both of them bad-mouthing Trump to their heart’s content.
But Trump need not worry, he has an array of powerful friends rallying for him, from the world’s richest dude Elon Musk to former Fox News ‘host’ Tucker Carlson. And while Musk is doing it with dollars on the barrel, Carlson with his felicity with words. Elon Musk has been promised a place in a possible second Trump administration and might even become Trump’s White House Chief of Staff.
Tucker Carlson’s mind is hard to read. Is he a Trump fan or is he not is difficult to answer though he confounds with off the cuff remarks. Like the other day in Georgia, where he compared Trump’s prospective “return to the White House to a dad returning home” adding that the country could get a vigorous spanking. “There has to be a point at which Dad comes home. Yeah, that’s right. Dad comes home. And he’s pissed. Dad is pissed.”
Problem for Kamala Harris is, her own party is not sure she’s gonna crack the glass ceiling. President Biden is sceptical and former President Barack Obama is not sure. Both of them are veterans in elections and they aren’t confident, which says a lot.
The left-liberal legacy media are sticking to the script and are writing that Democrats still believe Harris can defeat former President Trump. Problem is, their hearts are not in the spin! All they can manipulate is to write that “the margins are so close in the seven battleground states likely to decide the contest, a shift toward either candidate or a mistake in the polling could be decisive.”
So, the media are hedging their bets with varying doses of intellectual dishonesty, but the Democrats themselves are not, they’re “privately expressing worry that battleground polling appears to be moving in Trump’s direction over the last two weeks.” The big worry is the “cracks showing in the ‘blue wall’ of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
And Kamala Harris has been losing ground to Trump in Wisconsin while in Michigan, Arab-American voters aren’t helping thanks to Gaza and Palestine, Hamas and Hezbollah, not to miss out Iran. None of this is making Democrats feel better and there are just about 13 days left to Election Day.
Add to that veteran pollster Nate Silver and he says, his “gut feeling right now is that former President Trump will win the election in less than two weeks.” To soften the blow, however, and because he is no Trump supporter, Silver warned against “putting faith in anyone’s gut feeling.”
Nate Silver’s golden words to the New York Times were: “Calling the race a 50-50 toss-up is the only responsible forecast, but if people press me to give an answer on who is favoured, I will say Trump.” (IPA
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