It's now official: Whether you prefer the polls favored by aggregator 538 or the ones favored by Real Clear Politics, Kamala Harris is now leading Donald Trump in overall popular support. In RCP's aggregation, she leads by +0.2 points and in 538's she leads by +1.9 points as of this evening. Detractors can gripe about it all they want, but fact is that it's really not that tough to see why. Harris has been running a vibrant, attractive campaign that has ditched her woke past in favor of fielding mainstream positions on the issues and on her record as a prosecutor at a moment wherein Americans want more law enforcement while embracing a populist tone and refusing to be baited. Don't believe me? Check out her standard stump speech, the original version which (which she does minor variations on at each stop on the campaign trail), can be seen here, delivered to a roaring audience of some 3,500.
What's more, her campaign's online presence has proven just plain fun and landed her firmly in the cool zone of mass meme-ification from the outset, which is where any Democratic candidate for president worth their salt belongs. The response of Trump and the Republicans to the Democrats' new candidate at the top of the ticket, meanwhile, has focused mainly on gripes about her ethnicity. She was a "DEI hire", so too black. Also and at the same time, she's not black enough. Otherwise they sexualize her (she is female, after all; it's inevitably what people do to you), claiming she "slept her way to the top", which I consider the most despicable allegation of them all. The latest great Harris scandal they've dreamed up is that she hugs people, oh my! Talk about pervy, creepy-ass shit. Where, you know, proudly fielding a sexual assault convict evidently is not. And neither definitely is his running mate's pathological fascination with the number of babies each woman in this country is having. Or, as today, they recourse to neurotically attacking each other over the last election instead of addressing this one. This is called not having a response.
Tomorrow we will see who Harris has chosen for her running mate. She has several strong options to choose from that will realistically only add to her campaign's appeal. That is all.
Last edited by Jaicee - on 05 August 2024
