Of the 14 million people who voted for Joe Biden in the primaries and the tens of millions who ostensibly voted for him in 2020, not everyone will be on board with Kamala Harris.
Much of modern politics revolves around getting different voting blocs to go for your candidates. I saw a recent poll that showed Donald Trump in the lead with Hispanic voters. Another claimed that 51 percent of black males support the former president. As with all things related to polls, one must take them with a grain of salt. If enough polls say the same thing over a long enough period of time, maybe there is some truth to their conclusions. But as to the reliability of polls to predict the future results, ask Hilary Clinton how that worked out.
When one thinks about the Democratic electorate, one can divide it in many ways. The loudest branch would include the pro-Hamas students and protesters. These would also include BLM and Antifa members and supporters. There are those who work for abortion until birth, while others are pushing hard for a continued open border. But somewhere, somehow, there must be some centrist, Clinton Democrats in the party. Not every Democrat has a nose ring or demands a complete end to fossil fuels. Many on the far left said that they would not support or vote for Joe Biden because he was not tough enough on Israel or he refused to bring about national suicide by moving the country over fully to renewable energy sources. The “Joe from Scranton” supporters and those who see him as a realistic alternative to Donald Trump are not into the leftwing ideas of the Communist branch of the party. And I believe that this fact gives the Republicans an electoral opening.
Imagine if the situation had been reversed. A bunch of Republican poohbahs flew down to Mar-a-Lago and met with Donald Trump for hours. Trying to convince the former president that his legal woes will destroy the party, they finally put out a note saying that for the good of the country and for the good of the party, Trump will not run. After half an hour, a cryptic note appears saying that Donald Trump supports the distant second in the primaries, Nikki Haley. Party leaders in Congress and throughout the states immediately throw their support behind the former governor of South Carolina. In short order, she is the official nominee and running around the country to promote her candidacy.
Now, in such a scenario, think about the average Trump voter. He or she was given a primary in which to express an opinion as to who should be the candidate, and Trump won hands down. Now the party is running somebody I did not vote for, someone whose opinions I do not like and a person who does not have the strength of will that Donald Trump has used to move the US embassy to Jerusalem or keep Neil Gorsuch in the confirmation process for the Supreme Court. Sure, I won’t vote for whatever the Democrats are offering, but I’ll just choose to stay home.
If Kamala Harris had shown the chutzpah to run against Joe Biden in the primaries, she would have been trounced. Sure, the Hamas wing of the party would have voted for her, but their numbers pale in comparison to suburban moms, blacks, and union workers. Joe Biden would have defeated her if not necessarily in a landslide, it would not have been close. So, much of the Democratic electorate is not super enthused with Kamala Harris. The fact that the Obamas, Nancy Pelosi and others pushed Joe Biden out—as he has begun to publicly and angrily admit—does not change the way that voters see the vice president. They didn’t vote for her in 2020 and her installation as the candidate also involved them not voting for her this time around.
Donald Trump has at several times described—correctly—that which happened to Joe Biden as a coup. And for those who actually like Joe Biden and voted for him because they wanted him to win, reminding them of this fact could be very useful for Republican success in November. I don’t expect Joe Biden lovers to vote for Trump to spite Pelosi and Obama. I would rather hope that they would simply stay home. If the candidate that they wanted and for whom they voted in a kosher primary suddenly got shoved aside, I would make every effort to convince them not to vote. Even if only 2 million of Biden’s 14 million primary supporters fall into this category, it could be a big enough shift to change the outcome of the election. Beyond the noisy lefty lunatics are those quiet people who like Biden and wanted him to run and win. Those people need to be sidelined.
There are three steps in which to do it:
1. Stop attacking Joe Biden personally. They like him and calling him names only alienates these voters.
2. All horrible policies such as the lousy economy, the open border, and a world gone mad, must be hung around Kamala Harris’s neck from here on in. Bad employment figures: Kamala. China is rearing to take Taiwan: Kamala, and so on. She is now the one to whom any bad outcome is associated.
3. Remind Democrats that their elite pulled a coup on them. Their votes mean nothing if donors and politicians can simply choose somebody else to run in the place of the properly chosen candidate. If someone pushed out my candidate of choice for someone whose policies I loath, I would stay home and not vote.
Getting more blacks, Hispanics and college-educated working women to vote for Donald Trump is always a good plan. But if we can keep the Joe Biden-loving wing of the Democratic Party home, that would also help the ex-president get reelected. The “moderate” remainder of the party is disappearing before the onslaught of the AOC/Bernie Sanders wing of the party. The latter make a lot of noise and are self-righteous in their views, but they are still not the majority of the party. Stop attacking Biden personally. Hang all failures on the vice president whose name was welded onto that of the president on day one of the "Biden-Harris" administration. And frequently remind the Democratic voters that they have been shafted and that the candidate running today is not the one for whom they voted. Get these people to sit this one out, and it is one more tool to help get Donald Trump reelected president.
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