Sunday Thoughts

We are officially in the home stretch of the campaign. I think if you are on Team Harris, you are very concerned with how things have changed over the last month. The way this was supposed to go was after the great gaslighting of August, what would follow would be events that the media would use to keep the air in the Harris balloon. First would be the introduction of Walz, then the first debate, then the VP debate and then the final debate in the closing weeks of the campaign

Instead, the Waltz act turned into comedy and the presidential debate was a clunker. In the fullness of time, the VP debate will be seen as a turning point. If Walz had shown up dressed as a gym coach with a whistle around his neck he would have been less ridiculous. There is a general lack of seriousness with the Harris campaign and it was made clear in the debate. Harris fumbling scripted media events has added to the sense she is not a serious candidate.

As for Trump, he is doing what he always does, but clearly with fewer zingers to bait the usual suspects into clutching their pearls. People literally taking shots at him as helped. The result is he is viewed as the safe and serious alterative to girl boss and bugman. It also reflects the normalization of his key issues like immigration and the racial subtext to it. Elon Musk publicly backing him has also gone a long way to blunting the anti-Trump madness this time.

There is a long way to go, but there is a sense that Trump is on his way to victory. The tone of the media has changed, even the international media. We are seeing Ukraine stories along the lines of, “If Trump wins this is what will happen with Ukraine.” The media is conditioning themselves and their fellow hive mates for what they think is coming. We will get a better picture in the next two weeks when we see who is campaigning where and with whom they are campaigning.

Topics

• General Election
• State Of The Race
• What To Watch
• Howard Dean 2.0