There are rumblings that Harris regrets picking Walz. He certainly has been a distraction with his constantly exposed lies and resume puffing. But the other thing about him that has become apparent is what a deeply envious person he is, with his constant shots at JD Vance about his upbringing and going to Yale. Even Dems are baffled by these attacks on an obviously appealing journey from poverty to success. Walz is a chronic underachiever except as a liar, and politics is a field where being good at that pays off. His envy of Vance is just one more unattractive personality trait in a jackass who is full of them.
Harris and Walz clearly have a strategy of never telling anyone what they really believe or intend to do and never allowing reporters or citizens to ask them any questions. I don’t think that will work when the alternative is Trump and Vance who will sit for any interview and who hold townhalls and other events where they take questions from anyone. And both Harris and Walz are just setting themselves up for being destroyed in debates.
The election is shaping up to be quite close. Dems will undoubtedly cheat as much as they can by illegal voting and just making up ballots. I don’t say that as a conspiracy theory, it is a fact that they do this, they admit it and every state that has actually done a check of the voting rolls has found thousands of registered illegal voters. Dems also have an excellent ballot harvesting effort every election. Reps appear to have upped their own early voting and ballot harvesting game. So that may offset the Dem cheating to some extent.
Who knows what major event might influence the election as well. The economy suddenly appearing weaker or stronger; the market taking a plunge, a terror attack, an overseas crisis; any of these might influence enough voters, and it wouldn’t take many, to swing a key state or two. But I suspect it will just stay like this through the election, very tight.
And this is an important election. At a minimum the Reps have to take the Senate to limit whatever damage Harris can inflict if she wins. And if Reps do win, they have to be serious about eliminating the deficits immediately and developing a long-term plan to reduce debt. And they have to end the radical indoctrination in schools and universities across the country, that is the only way to preserve a semblance of democracy and rationality in our future electorate.
Does anyone know why early voting is encouraged? Aside from “Oh no, I fell off a cliff on Nov. 4th!”, I don’t see how our ballot is more protected sitting in a closet somewhere, than running it through the tally machine the day-of. Another idea was to request a mail-in ballot, hold onto it and fill it out on election day. But then I wonder if it would show up that you’ve already voted. My biggest concern is the machines. Even the Dems were suspicious of them… until they learned to calibrate them to push votes towards their most unlikely of candidates.
If it were me, I would mandate in-person voting except in extremely rare circumstances, have the polls be open for a week so people had no excuse not to vote in person
Voting is broken … the states are held hostage to federal dollars and will kiss DC cheeks to get the funding they need to survive (think sanctuary cities). The Dem’s uses every illegal trick in the book, daring anyone to hold them accountable. And by the time they are caught, their candidate is in office, who’ll ‘fix’ the issue.
https://helenaglass.substack.com/p/influencers-merrick-garland-liberal
At the end of the day, the over-riding issue is voter apathy (which is part of voter subject matter ignorance). You can only steel votes that are not used. With roughly 37% up for grabs, you know the Dem Cheat Machine will leverage this (AGAIN). The so called ‘silent majority’ better get off their proverbial asses and vote for the Red Team if our Constitutional Republic stands a chance of surviving.
The first 45 minutes is very interesting … it’s good overall, but not germane to this thread.