Kamala Harris is one the unique forces in American politics: the more people see her, the less they like her. Nothing that instills confidence or even a sense of competence comes out of her mouth. She can’t articulate what she wants to do as president beyond “good things." I've never seen anyone rise so high without having any skills to justify that rise. And all the money in the world won’t change that.
Barack Obama rose to the presidency very quickly and without many bumps, so you might think he would fit the destruction I’ve outlined above. But Obama had beliefs – as bad and crazy as they were, he did have them. He could discuss them; he could sell them. You could question the depth of his knowledge on any subject, but the same can be said about any politician.
Well, not any politician because Kamala Harris can’t. Tim Walz can’t either, though I’m not familiar enough with his campaigns for governor to know if he’s unable to speak intelligently or has been instructed not to avoid making Harris look bad. Neither answer is perfect.
The only reason Harris is in contention this year is the corporate media is propping her up, and the billion-dollar liberal billionaires are thrown at her.
The media’s influence is waning, but it’s not gone. Never forget that fully 36 percent of Americans believed Joe Biden was mentally up to a second term thanks exclusively to their lies and biased coverage. And before they started propping up Kamala, she was less popular than he was. That’s a lot of heavy lifting and a long distance to drag a body.
The months they’ve had to drag Kamala have not been kind to her. She started gangbusters, but people see nothing from her – she’s still being dragged. She’s like that friend helping you and a few others carry something big, and you notice they aren’t really lifting anything, only pretending. Only in this case is Kamala Harris not helping herself.
Then there’s the money.
As the media’s ability to help is fading, money can fill that void. Expect the Harris team to flood the airwaves with every manner of BS in 30-second and 1-minute increments. She has raised a ton of money and will spend it all and more. She has to.
Some of it will be spent on “walking around money” and a ground game to get out the vote, which I pray the Trump campaign is countering. But the rest will be thrown at television, trying to convince voters that their gut instincts about her are wrong.
See, the more people see of Kamala Harris, the less they like her, as I said. So, that means her ads can’t feature her as much as a normal campaign.
That leaves the campaign with nothing but voice-covered attack ads against Donald Trump. But the problem for Democrats is literally everything that can be said against Donald Trump has been said and been said for years, except maybe that he’s a murderer.
It’s not that Trump is Teflon; it’s that he’s covered with all of the attacks and the reminder that none have proven true. How many times can someone be called “Putin’s tool” by the people who empowered the Russian dictator to invade Ukraine? How often can someone be called a “friend of dictators” as the dictators in Iran actively work to help Democrats because they had it really badly under the first Trump administration? How many different ways can Trump be called an “enemy of the middle class” when the middle class can’t afford to feed their families under their self-appointed “champions” while remembering the could under him?
Having more money than God is a problem anyone running for office would love to have, but to sell a candidate to the public, you have to have a candidate the public is at least interested in buying. No one is interested in Kamala Harris, so doubling God’s bank account isn’t help. All the pretty wrapping paper in the world and the gift under the most beautiful tree ever will never change the fact that the gift is a pack of socks.