These are the hours of desperation, my friends. When campaigns beg, and candidates promise. Where weak people cave to pressure, and spines stiffen with the rigidity of a middle finger directed at someone who cut you off. We are in the end game of the 2024 election, the final frenzy before the counting Tuesday night. Be up for anything, and be ready for anything.
It’s too late for any “surprises” to matter; the cake is already baked. They’re not called “November surprises” for a reason. There isn’t enough time for anything short of a death to filter through the public enough to matter.
There were no October surprises this cycle for a couple of reasons, not for lack of trying, but for a lack of interest.
First, there is no more thoroughly investigated human being than Donald Trump. More than that, the media has repeated and reported every rumor, anonymous or not, without skepticism. Every huckster and attention whore has flung everything his way short of murder, with a willing audience on MSNBC and CNN ready to sop it up like Thanksgiving gravy. What more could they possibly say about him?
Of course, they tried because the alternative presented a positive case for Kamala Harris, which was an impossible task. Remember the two women who came forward to claim Trump groped them in the early 90s? Their evidence was so weak even Democrats ran away from their stories in 24 hours. When Rachel Maddow isn’t willing to beat the drum on a lie, you know it’s bad.
The second reason there was no October surprise is the corporate leftist media refuses to cover them when they involve Democrats.
The story of Kamala’s husband, Doug Emhoff, having an affair with his first wife with the nanny and teacher of their children should have been headline news, considering the “Me Too” power dynamic of being her boss. We were lectured that true consent cannot be given when the power balance is so one-sided. While that wasn’t released in October, the nanny (he got pregnant, by the way) did give an interview in October about how mentally abusive he was, so much so that she says it caused her to miscarry the baby. Believe all women, right?
Since we’re on the subject of women, an Emhoff story did come out in October, this about his slapping an ex-girlfriend across the face so hard it nearly knocked her out. She’s out there, having talked with the UK Daily Mail. American media barely touched it. Liberal press for obvious reasons, but conservative TV out of fear of being seen as biased (which they already were and always will be).
No question was not asked of Donald Trump, few questions were asked of Kamala Harris, and most of her answers, regardless of topic, involved her talking about Trump.
There has never been a major party nominee for president who has had less scrutiny than Kamala Harris. Barack Obama comes close. While actual life was ignored (Ever see an interview with a college friend or girlfriend? Or an explanation of how an admitted stoner and bad student got into three of the most prestigious universities on the planet? Me neither), there were explorations of his policy proposals.
Harris doesn’t have policy proposals; she has attacks on Donald Trump and claims that somehow, as the child of two college professors at major universities, she grew up “middle class” with a mom who had to struggle to pay the bills. That’s a lie – Harris described her childhood and upbringing as “privileged” before she ran for president in 2019. Have you ever seen a picture of her childhood homes in Berkeley or Montreal? There’s a reason for that.
Oh, and have you seen any stories explaining how she never lived in Oakland? She lived in wealthy Berkeley, not poor, majority black Oakland, but that doesn’t help with the identity politics crowd, so it’s ignored.
Since October became November, the Harris campaign has sent me 52 emails, each more frenzied than the last, begging for anywhere from $3 to $47, as a minimum, up to the maximum of $3,300. Subject lines range from “Derek, Kamala needs us to have her back in these final days” to “If you’ve been waiting to make your first donation to our campaign, now is the time.”
Well, I haven’t been waiting. I wouldn’t donate to a Democrat on a dare. Go vote tomorrow and bring everyone you can count on to vote the same way.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.