No gonna lay. This past quarter was a difficult one for Republicans. Certainly that Trump or any of us did anything wrong, I suppose, but because the internet is unable to do its work.
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Optics plays a significant role in the hyper-instantaneous age of social media and minute attention spans. Rightly or wrongly, whichever candidate is presented as having “momentum” has an in-built benefits, no matter what the realities on the ground. Since Kamala Harris ‘ Brutisian tip entering the back of Senilius Scranton Caesar, the internet has been overselling her popularity in this regard.
KAMALA HARRIS IS MEETING THE MOMENT!!! they scream.
TIM WALZ IS AN EVERYMAN SUPERMAN!!! they , calf.
KAMALA HARRIS IS RUNNING John TRUMP AT ITS OWN GAME! they chortle.
HARRIS IS Defining HIM BY BEATING TRUMP!  , they swoon.
WAL Z’S MASCULINITY IS TERRIFYING TO REPUBLICANS!!!  , they claim, with a flat experience.
My despair of Walz’s famous masculinity notwithstanding, I am heading into September a trifle less negative than I was heading into August, for the following factors:
1. Momentum don’t continue to exist without the support of others.
Little children waiting in line at the pleasure garden may be hyped up and excited for only a few hours before their arms fall, and they start swaying side to side, whining,” I’m boooooooored”. In contrast, the media has relied on sheer will to keep the JoyTM of Kamala for more than a month. As they control every valve of public opinion, they’ve been generally successful.
Every valve, that is, except day.
Slow and steady wins the race. Trump and Vance have persistently hammering Harris and Walz on the plan route despite the attempted internet outage. Trump’s presence on the news, as well as Harris and the sickeningly masculine Walz, allows the press to for a very long time. It has now been 35 times since Pelosi changed her Trump finger puppet to the Harris side puppet, and the latter has still never done a second sit-down exam, not even with the softball-lobbing Stephanopoulos. Her website still does not provide an outline of her schedule, as did no plan for the entire week at the DNC. With growing conviction and mistrust, citizens are more likely to take notice of these errors.
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2. Harris’s voting speed seems to have puttered out.
Harris ‘ month-long rise in the elections suddenly appears to be hitting a plateau and is continuing to do so. As of this day, Trump is still slightly forward in most swing states based on the RCP average. And he is still in a better place than he was against Clinton and Biden in 2016 and Harris this month. The polls that have previously been more appropriate, such as Rasmussen and Trafalgar, are those that currently favor Trump the most.
3. Harris lacked a chance at the DNC.
I’m predicting that Harris wo n’t get much of a bump, if any, from the convention. My argument for this is two-fold. First of all, the DNC was nothing to be ashamed of despite the exaggerated drama and the unison media. It was the common paint-by-number bunch of executives, stars, and powerbrokers giving rabblerousing remarks and convincing themselves they’ve got the vote in the case. If you rearranged the names of the applicants, it’s the same protocol every four years for Democrats and, honestly, for Republican as well.
Trump’s RNC surveys showed no discernible increase in the elections. This is n’t because the RNC was bad, but because voters see standards as weekly, overpriced political rallies. Unless there are soaring oratories, wonder announcements, or big policy efforts, they serve as little more than eye chocolate for political fanatics.
But while voters know Trump, they still do n’t know Harris. She had the opportunity to present some sort of visible vision at the convention. Alternatively, we got hazy garden sign idealisms. Truly disappointed, if anyone was watching the DNC to find out who Harris really is and what she truly believes.
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4. Harris has no more upsets.
Harris has run out of headline-grabbing presentations. She’s accepted the election. She’s announced her VP find. She’s had her protocol. These carefully spaced-out milestones had the intention of allowing her to have an entire fortnight of breathing space, which allowed her to successfully escape any true scrutiny.
But she still has more than two months to fill. And in elections, two weeks is an eternity. It’s been just over a quarter since the house revolt against Biden and the assassination attempt against Trump, two historically significant activities. How far they seem in the presence of any representation on either occasion by our look-at-the-shiny-new-toy culture.
And most notably…  ,
5. Trump’s strategy is now back on its feet.
Sometimes you have to know if the people who run Trump’s promotion are the same Democrats who appear to be in charge of his legal affairs. They should have been making preparations for a possible Kamala crowning right away, since they first started to talk about the possibility of Biden being shuffled abruptly to the pension home Bingo room next year. By the time of Biden’s fatal conversation performance, they should have been ready to hit Kamala with month ‘ worth of criticism study. That’s Day One, Page One of Elections 101 at the nearby community college. Otherwise, they seem caught unawares and flat-footed for the first few days, fully allowing Kamala to manage the storyline. This was unjustifiable.  ,
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Yet his critics concur that Trump is a master performer, an unwavering champion, and he will not let poor campaign management thwart his reelection.
By getting in front of the cameras, by doing the hostile interviews, on a near daily basis, Trump has slowly but steadily blunted Harris’s momentum by the simple fact that people see him and they do n’t see her. Trump is successfully regaining power over the tale.
Trump went away and outlined her plan opportunities for her online because Kamala refuses to describe her position. He is defining her because she wo n’t define herself. Trump is regaining power of the tale.
Trump’s discussion with the National Association of Black Journalists has received some negative reviews, but the truth is that people will remember more than the sleazy argument he had with “moderator” Rachel Scott. They’ll realize he had the courage to face a difficult market and a lying, biased examiner. He did the same thing with the Libertarians. Kamala will always, always agree to speak at a meeting of the Federalist Society or the NRA, let alone consent to sit down for an interview. Trump is regaining power of the storyline.
Trump received Robert Kennedy Jr.’s support, who had just suspended his campaign to show his support for him, in contrast to Harris ‘ testimonials of this union boss or that famous pop star. A Kennedy support for a Democratic nominee is worth a hundred Cheneys and a thousand Hutchinsons supporting the Democrats, according to Kennedy’s magnification. The proper scheduling of the news, meant to separate any lingering joy from the DNC, has Trump’s type written all over it.  , Trump is regaining power of the tale.
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When Trump controls the narrative, he’s irresistible. And it appears as though he is currently at least partly successful in removing it from the Democratic advertising apparatus. Trump should clearly try to appeal to typically Democrat minorities in this regard rather than waste too much time with politicians.
As I’ve formerly pointed out in these sites, “independents” are generally bedroom liberals, and the lowest informed ones at that. It’s like wasting a department trying to cross a third hour of no-mans-land on the grounds of Flanders by wasting valuable time and resources trying to make them understand purpose. Trump bypasses this pointless war of attrition and hits them right in the tunnels by appealing to Democrat minority voters. To this day, Democrats still do n’t know how to counter Trump’s inexplicable ( to them ) rise in popularity among minorities other than to scream “RACIST”! always louder and to criticise these immigrants of being race criminals.
You’ll always have your Oprah Winfreys, the billionaire selling who addressed field workers from the most lofty door on the DNC estate, advising them against” the old games and themes that are designed to distract us from what actually matters” by bringing up discrimination in the 1950s. You’ll always have your John Shapiros, the almost-VP pick turned kapos guard, passed over solely because he is Jewish, who nonetheless , stood before a frothing crowd of antisemites in Chicago and told them to vote for the pro-Hamas candidate.
But, as evidenced by Trump’s rising popularity among minorities, their rank-and-file is slowly but surely souring on the empty promises of racist, divisive identity politics. If Trump can continue to ( 1 ) drive the narrative, ( 2 ) continue to influence minorities, and ( 3 ) uphold the same level of discipline as he demonstrated in his previous debates against Harris, he might be able to not only hold onto his slim lead but also to extend it beyond the point of cheat.
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We’ll see what happens.