Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Year : 2, Issue: 8
by Rex Huppke
Despite all the faux clairvoyance of pollsters and political pundits and the endless babble from social media Nostradamuses, there isn’t a soul in this country who can look at next month’s presidential election and accurately guess which way the mop will flop.
But what I hear from the chattering class on both sides of the political aisle is predominantly: Liberals, you better brace yourselves for the possibility that Donald Trump might win.
That’s technically fair. There’s a solid chance Trump will win, and even if there weren’t, folks on the left are still too traumatized from his surprise 2016 presidential victory to ever again feel confident he’ll lose.
Despite all the faux clairvoyance of pollsters and political pundits and the endless babble from social media Nostradamuses, there isn’t a soul in this country who can look at next month’s presidential election and accurately guess which way the mop will flop.
But what I hear from the chattering class on both sides of the political aisle is predominantly: Liberals, you better brace yourselves for the possibility that Donald Trump might win.
That’s technically fair. There’s a solid chance Trump will win, and even if there weren’t, folks on the left are still too traumatized from his surprise 2016 presidential victory to ever again feel confident he’ll lose.
MAGA FOLKS MAY WANT TO START CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT TRUMP COULD LOSE
But what about the other side? What about all the MAGA fans whose world revolves around Trump, the ones who attend the rallies and proudly wear the red hats, wave Trump flags and believe he’s infallible?
They should begin to reckon with something few are saying out loud: Kamala Harris might win this election.
That’s right, I just wrote the words most liberals dare not utter.
It’s not a prediction, but it’s at least as much a possibility as saying Trump might win.
LIBERALS ARE PREPPING FOR A TRUMP WIN. SHOULDN’T MAGA FANS BE READY FOR A HARRIS VICTORY?
Nobody on Fox News or in the right-wing blab-o-sphere is preparing Trump supporters for the possibility of defeat. I suppose that’s hard, given that most still believe the ludicrous fiction that he won the 2020 election.
But still, if the MAGA crowd wants to avoid another Jan. 6, 2021, – and all the incarceration that would go with it – and not spend the next however many years whining about a stolen election, they might consider wrapping their minds around the idea of a President Kamala Harris. Before President Joe Biden stepped aside, around the time of the Republican National Convention, Trump’s campaign took on an air of inevitability, with polls moving in his direction following Biden’s disastrous debate performance.
But no sensible person can say that aura of dominance has held. Polls are largely worthless, but Harris is up in them by about the same average amount Trump was leading Biden back when folks were talking about a crushing Trump victory.
TRUMP TOO ‘EXHAUSTED’ TO KEEP UP WITH INTERVIEWS?
By the end of the week, in the wake of Trump canceling a number of planned interviews while also refusing another debate with Harris, news outlets were reporting that he was exhausted, giving her a perfect opportunity to highlight his advanced age: 78.
“I’ve been hearing reports that his team at least is saying he’s suffering from exhaustion,” Harris said Friday. “And that’s apparently the excuse for why he’s not doing interviews and of course he’s not doing the CNN town hall. He refuses to do another debate. … Being president of the United States is probably one of the hardest jobs in the world and so we really do need to ask if he’s exhausted being on the campaign trail, is he fit to do the job?”
Trump’s increasingly xenophobic and rambling rhetoric stands in stark contrast to the focused and positive campaign Harris has been running. She’s drawing large, enthusiastic crowds while showcasing a wide array of prominent Republicans who are backing her.
She successfully handled a wildly combative interview Wednesday with Fox News host Bret Baier, highlighting her desire to reach people outside the Democratic base.
Courtesy by USA Today
