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60 Minutes confronted Kamala Harris as the “Most Liberal Senator” in 2019, a title bestowed by non-partisan GovTrack (which recently took down that assignation). Mike Pence repeated that assertion in a debate. How liberal do you have to be to outrank Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren?
Here’s her response:
Harris had only been to the border once during her Vice Presidency, according to TX Gov. Greg Abbott. She didn’t speak to the head of Border Patrol, she didn’t visit the emergency intake centers, she didn’t talk to Gov. Abbott or any other Texas official…she basically had no interest.
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I’ll take someone too liberal or too conservative over a MAGA party that is destroying our democracy.
I remember back on the original CEB around 2016, when Trump was running, I said he was a cancer on our democracy. Here we are 8 years later and the entire right wing establishment is now in his pocket and nobody on his side believes in anything except his mantra that the country is failing and everything is corrupt — when in reality he is the guy corrupting it more than anyone.
It’s amazing that I yearn for the days of Bush. I spent years on the CEB railing against his policies and the Iraq War. I turned out to be right (and now all the MAGA are pretending they hated Bush too, when they were cheerleading all that shit). But at least we simply had differences of opinion and policy. His policies were disastrous, as were his court picks, but they were things we could move on from. Now we’re on the brink of some dystopian country thanks to the pied piper of corruption — Trump.
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It’s amazing that I yearn for the days of Bush. I spent years on the CEB railing against his policies and the Iraq War. I turned out to be right (and now all the MAGA are pretending they hated Bush too, when they were cheerleading all that shit). But at least we simply had differences of opinion and policy. His policies were disastrous, as were his court picks, but they were things we could move on from.
I don’t. I was a Republican until Bush. I left over his deficits. He was too left/too financially ridiculous for me. I re-registered as an independent and have been as such ever since.
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An Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey published this week found Harris was behind Trump in four key swing states and tied in a fifth, but was generally performing better than Biden had been. It showed:
- In Arizona, 44 percent supported Harris, while 49 percent backed Trump
- In Georgia, 46 percent backed Harris, while 48 percent supported Trump
- In Michigan, 45 percent backed Harris and 46 percent supported Trump
- In Pennsylvania, 46 percent supported Harris and 48 percent supported Trump
- In Wisconsin both Trump and Harris had 47 percent support
The poll was conducted on July 22 and 23 and had a margin of error of 3.3 percent. Arizona, Georgia and Michigan each had a sample size of 800 while 845 were surveyed in Wisconsin and 850 in Pennsylvania.
Times/Siena poll found the same thing on a national basis:
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Harris vs. Trump Polls: It’s a New Race (msn.com)
All of these polls show a close national race. Battleground-state data has been slower to arrive, but what we have shows Harris improving on Biden’s performance. A battery of Emerson–The Hill polls taken from July 22 to July 23 of five battleground states showed Wisconsin tied at 47 percent and Trump leading Harris by five points (49 percent to 44 percent) in Arizona, two points (48 percent to 46 percent) in Georgia, one point (46 percent to 45 percent) in Michigan, and two points (48 percent to 46 percent) in Pennsylvania.
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And this during the Harris honeymoon. Sure the oodles of money will help her, but apparently she can’t escape her past. Lots of clips of her from just a few years back talking defunding the police, crime, immigration, green new deal, etc. She is way way left and the middle won’t like it (if the mainstream media ever shows it).
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I think she’s at her high-water mark. She hasn’t had to seriously refute any of her past ridiculous comments, nor has she had to speak extemperaneously or talk to the media or face a hostile interview. Thirty seconds away from a teleprompter will remind everyone why she is spectacularly unfit to be President.
Right now, the Left is pretending that she’s the “most qualified”, ignoring the Everest-sized mountain of evidence that she’s remotely capable to lead anything, much less the Free World.
Here’s a little curveball of a question…transitioning from Biden to Harris is quite the mighty leap…from a 50-year professional, yet senescent politician who nonetheless appeals to the broadest swath of Blue voters, and a small minority of never-Trumpers, to a very capable District Attorney/somewhat capable Attorney General / not remotely capable Senator (most liberal) and a VP who literally had one job in which she failed miserably.
So here’s the question: are there voters who supported Biden but wouldn’t support his failure of a VP, and did/would/have any of them transitioned to support Trump?
Joe Biden is out and Kamala Harris is in. Disenchanted voters are taking a new look at their choices
Incidentally, the media contortions who are calling the current race a “tie” when Trump has a two point lead, nominally because it’s within a 3.1% margin of error is most amusing…
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She’ll muscle it through, especially if the Repubs screw up ownership of the House and Senate. Which could happen. JD Vance was not a good pick, there’s something about him that will piss off literally everybody…and Trump’s acceptance speech…concerns me, for a variety of reasons.
I still think he’ll win. But it will no longer shock me if he doesn’t.
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