Ironically, the clock has become a common principle of the entire 105-day presidential campaign that was shortened by Vice President Kamala Harris – since President Joe Biden, at 11 o’clock, dropped in July.
Harris seemed unwilling or unable to answer any questions he hadn’t prepared beforehand.
His answers in the debate were memorized and canned.
He never answered the questions he asked.
The only Philadelphia interview 11 minutes after the debate was a shipwreck of dodging and dissimulating – even with a sympathetic left-wing host.
Even socialist Bernie Sanders stated that if Harris could be elected, he would have to renounce his leftist credentials for life.
As vice president, he must reject shared ownership of the unpopular record of the Biden-Harris administration.
What is not known is whether he wins the presidency – or loses and continues to serve as vice president for another three months – but he will surely return to his staunch and lifelong leftist beliefs.
In addition, Harris has reconstructed her privileged upbringing as the child of two PhDs living in a posh Montreal neighborhood, into a struggling, middle-class Oakland childhood.
How can he make such a complete change – and by denigrating the people who voted for him to be so easily deceived?
He avoided all news conferences, one-on-one national broadcast interviews and town halls.
And, like Biden, he will only debate in a left-wing venue with a pro-Harris moderator.
When asked to elaborate on his past responsibility for open borders, inflationary economics, spiraling crime, fossil fuel attacks and collapsing foreign policy, Harris smiled, waved his hands and dodged.
She changed the subject for her empathetic personality, the “joy” campaign and her good profile as a black woman should be dynamic.
When pressed, Harris outsources the task of squaring hypocrisies and subterfuges to campaign stonewalling, Democratic surrogates – and the media.
He also certainly lacks experience, vision, or demonstrable intelligence like he’s not Trump (or, for that matter, his former running mate, Biden).
To make that difference, Harris will have to relentlessly demonize and bait Trump and make the country fear him.
As such, they paint Trump as a racist and violent rebel, not the four-year-old former president who sees his foreign, economic, border and security policies as superior to those of the Biden-Harris era.
However, Harris has repeatedly claimed that Trump is a dictator and a threat to democracy – as if he has the political arms of the FBI, CIA, DOJ or IRS like former Presidents Barack Obama and Biden.
Trump as Hitler has been the main smear of Democrats for the past decade.
The vicious caricature has become so entrenched that mainstream Democrats think it’s okay to joke about it, or seriously call for Trump’s death.
So, Harris’ current top adviser David Plouffe last year warned the nation that “it’s not enough to just defeat Trump. He has to be completely destroyed. They should never wake up again.”
Just last year, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) claimed that Trump is “destroying our democracy, and he must, he must be removed.”
Even after an assassin tried to kill Trump last week, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declared, “Extreme MAGA Republicans are the party of the national abortion ban and the Trump 2025 Project. We have to stop it.”
Harris’ dehumanizing Trump, outsourcing the campaign to the media, avoiding all public dialogue and temporarily reinventing his politics and biography has taken a toll on the country.
Harris was crowned the Democratic nominee without ever making it to the primary or winning a single delegate. About 14 million Democratic primary voters were reduced to irrelevance.
Like the Biden 2020 campaign, Harris has nationalized a new type of cynical campaign in which left-leaning candidates spend months trying to trick the public into thinking they are centrists and moderates — until they get elected.
Avoiding all cross-examination and outsourcing campaigns to obscure media is now the new norm.
Most news stories are considered unhelpful for Harris – left, pro-Harris politics from the new would-be assassin Trump; the distortion that dozens of bomb threats were called against Springfield schools by Trump supporters when most, if not all, were perpetrated by foreign actors; Prominent Democrats before and after the recent assassination attempt who accused Trump of being the killer’s target — were hounded by the media.
The two recent foiled assassination attempts on Trump logically follow a nearly decade-long pattern of trying to undermine rather than defeat him.
The Russian collusion hoax, the laptop disinformation, two impeachments, the attempt to remove Trump from some 16 state ballots and the attempt to jail and bankrupt Trump through five indictments and criminal and civil lawsuits also contributed to the current climate of hate. of Trump’s assassination attempt.
Harris thinks his delay, lies and vilifications will ensure his victory.
But if so, it must be because of him, the stealth campaign and the guardians of democracy he has been willing to systematically destroy.
Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness.
