KAMALA HARRIS'S MOMENTUM HAS STALLED, and she heads into the final eight weeks of the campaign with a challenging map in the Electoral College. Voters in a new national New York Times/Siena poll see Donald Trump as the candidate representing change and say they don't know enough about what Harris stands for or plans to do as president. It's high time for her to stop by local television morning shows, call into radio programs, chat with reporters in the back of the plane, and appear on podcasts of all kinds. Harris needs to start having conversations with the press. Loads of them. In a race this tight, one debate, even a home run, isn't likely to win Harris the election. She can talk to Hillary Clinton about her successful debates that preceded losing to Trump in 2016. One debate should not be the last time voters see Harris in an unscripted back and forth on critical issues, and a bad debate can be mitigated by a relentless media offensive.
This summer saw a slew of court cases over the issue of ballot access. Now the litigation is threatening to undermine voters' confidence in this fall's election. The ability to reflect on and elect our own leaders is the core of our democracy. Democrats should have been thrilled to see third-party candidates like Jill Stein and Cornel West stepping up to provide voters with an alternative choice to the two-party monopoly. They were not. The Democratic Party has filed multiple lawsuits in key swing states to restrict third parties' ballot access. This lawfare will undermine voter confidence in the 2024 election by limiting voters' ability to exercise choice.
When asked why he robbed banks, legendary fugitive Willie Sutton replied, "That's where the money is." Governments coerce social media platforms into censorship for the same simple reason: That's where the objectionable speech is. Thanks to a recent Supreme Court case, in America, there's also little to stop them.
You'll have to believe me that I'm not trying to make a partisan statement when I say that everything the Democrats have done leading up to this election has been inauthentic, phony, and panic-stricken"from swapping out their candidate at the very last minute to flip-flopping on major issues like banning fracking, taxing tips, and EV mandates. In some ways, I think the party would be doing better if they just took a breath and let Kamala Harris's campaign unwind like any other normal campaign. But if Democrats are experts at one thing, it's micromanaging things to death out of narcissistic adoration for their own faux intellect"hence we get genius ideas like price-fixing the economy, defunding the police, minting a trillion dollar coin, segregating college campuses to fight racism or trying to tell you what type of stove you can use at home
X, the social-media giant owned by Elon Musk, has officially been banned in Brazil. Last night, X failed to meet a deadline set by a Supreme Court judge to block vast swathes of content and appoint a local legal representative for the company. It has now gone offline to its 22million Brazilian users " roughly one tenth of the national population
#196 I'm guessing by tomorrow a media outlet will have timed how much Trump spoke vs how much Harris spoke broken down into minutes and seconds, e.g. 'Trump spoke for 45 minutes and 4 seconds and Harris spoke for 44 minutes and 48 seconds' If a disparity exists that is clearly in Trump's favor I will cede that the moderators did a poor job of failing to cut him off and mute his mic when his time was up.