Harris’ desperate failures are convincing no one

As Vice President Kamala Harris poll slipsthe talking points of the Democratic National Committee/Harris campaign/mainstream media merger become even more absurd.

Claiming that JD Vance and Donald Trump they were “weird” it didn’t work — especially given the truly strange behavior of vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and future first gentleman Doug Emhoff.

Harris’ next meme, that the frenetic, non-stop Trump was somehow “exhausted,” “senile,” and “confused,” wasn’t convincing either. Voters know that the younger Harris’ work days are usually much shorter — or sometimes no work days at all.

But Harris also falsely claimed that physically and mentally challenged President Joe Biden is, in her words, “absolutely authoritative” and “very bold and vibrant.”

Now Harris states that Trump is a “fascist,” a “dictator,” and “unfit” for office.

But this new talking point won’t stop the Harris campaign’s hemorrhaging, either — and for several reasons.

First, voters see the election as a conflict between two absolutely antithetical visions.

On the one hand is Trump’s previous concrete record 2017-20: border security, no major wars abroad, calm in the Middle East, a deterred Russia, Iran and China, low inflation, low interest rates, lower crime, taxes smaller, strong deterrence – and opposition to electric vehicle mandates, biological males competing in female sports, and the woke/DEI agenda.

On the other is the 2021-2024 Biden-Harris record: the uncontrolled entry of 12 to 20 million illegal aliens and a broken border.

People are still struggling under the previous Biden-Harris hyperinflation and high interest rates.

The horrific regional wars in Ukraine and the Middle East continue.

Biden-Harris embraces unpopular DEI/wake agenda.

Harris herself knows that the Biden-Harris years were a failure: That’s why she has abandoned almost all of their hard-left agendas — policies she’s embraced for much of her adult life.

So suddenly, in the last 90 days, Harris did completely flipped and flopped.

Now she’s for more police, not defunding them.

She got to a secure border, not 20 million illegal aliens crossing her.

Harris brags about fossil fuel energy, not banning fracking, and increasing, not reducing, defense.

In fact, several endangered sitting Democratic senators from swing states claim more loyalty to Trump’s issues than identification with Harris and her unpopular record as vice president.

Voters likely conclude that if Trump is doubling down on his record, while even Harris and many senators are temporarily closing in on him, then he must be more effective and more popular than Harris.

Second, Harris now claims that Trump is a fascist and insurrectionist.

But with the nauseous “Ian. 6.” stop convincing voters that Trump is a danger to no one.

They recall that Harris boasted of the far more violent demonstrations in 2020 — 35 killed, $2 billion in damage, 1,500 law enforcement officers injured, 14,000 arrested — that the unrest would not stop and “shouldn’t” stop, while they were arguing for the rescue. jail violent protesters.

The insult that Trump is a fascist doesn’t resonate either.

The Obama and Biden-Harris administrations armed the CIA and FBI to interfere in the 2016 and 2020 elections, selling the fake Steele dossier and suppressing all embarrassing news about Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop.

Trump certainly did not coordinate, as Biden did, with local, state, and federal prosecutors to bring criminal prosecutions to destroy his political opponents. He didn’t use the FBI to work with social media to suppress the news.

Neither Trump nor his supporters tried to remove Biden from state ballots.

The Republican House majority failed to impeach Biden twice, despite the Biden family’s corruption and Joe Biden’s decades-long illegal removal of classified documents from several unsecured private residences.

Trump and the Republicans have never coercively removed the candidate of the party that won the primary. They did not override the will of 14 million primary voters.

And backhandedly, they didn’t anoint a candidate who had never entered a single primary in her life.

Trump hasn’t supported packing the Supreme Court either. He is not seeking unconstitutional means to destroy the Electoral College.

He’s not calling for an end to the Senate filibuster or the creation of two new states to get four partisan Senate seats.

Third, as to Trump being “inappropriate” and lacking in “decency” – what were the Biden-Harris standards?

A trans activist bares her breasts on camera at a White House ‘pride party’?

Biden reportedly called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “king’s liar” and “son of a bitch”? Bragging Trump’s shutdownwhile carrying laws against him?

Unleash Hunter Biden’s son with impunity to shake up foreign governments?

Elections will not be decided on these empty talking points or false narratives generated by the media.

Instead, only two criteria matter: whose candidate’s past record and current agenda best appeals to voters?

And which candidate seems the most genuine and genuine?

Victor Davis Hanson is a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for American Greatness.