They’ve attacked him. They’ve impeached him. They’ve arrested him. They’ve sorely tried to detain him. They unlawfully denied him exposure to the vote. They’ve tried to kill him.  ,
Progressives have tried every trick to remove Donald Trump.  ,
In a very close election, the self-declared defenders of democracy and their organizational media friends are turning to the last glimmer of hope for the eager: lies.  ,
And name-calling.  ,
‘ Do You Think Donald Trump Is a Totalitarian?’
Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, allegedly warned Trump would be a tyrant if he were to win another term in the Oval Office on Wednesday night during a protracted altercation at CNN city hall.  ,
” Do you think Donald Trump is a totalitarian”? network Anderson Cooper asked the evil leader in the opening times of the latest long-form, packaged-as-news social advertisement for the Harris-Walz plan.  ,
” Yes, I do. Yes, I do”, Harris answered as if reciting an evil marriage oath.  ,
Of sure she does. The” Trump is Hitler” tale is Harris ‘ — and the public’s — closing argument in a Reader’s Digest political campaign for the Democrats. The Democrats ‘ bloodless coup, which removed the insane Democrat president of the United States from his bid for a second term, marked the beginning of Harris ‘ abstention from this endeavor.  ,
The scandalous Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, published the strike part earlier this week that Harris and her crew are using in one last-ditch bid to color the former chairman as “unfit” for another election in an act of corporate media cooperation so clear as to burn the eyes. The slander work, citing terrible former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly, says, among other absurd charges, that while in company Trump suggested Hitler “did some good things”. The narrative, which mainly relied on anonymous sources, was quickly discredited on the record by numerous people who were present with Trump.
The story “would never have passed muster in a newsroom 20 years ago,” according to my Federalist colleague John Daniel Davidson. And as former Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi aptly observed on X,” The Hunter Biden laptop story could n’t be repeated by any major outlet because it had n’t been independently verified,” Everyone can repeat the Atlantic pieces. Weird how that works” . ,
Of course, it’s not weird at all. The old president’s portrayal as the devil has always been the norm.  , Lies and empty accusations are just fine, if they’re in pursuit of what the left thinks is right. And what the Democrats believe is necessary is gaining control through all means.  ,
Just ask the late spawn of satan, Harry Reid. The nasty, once-living Democrat senator ininfamously lied about Mitt Romney’s tax evasion to the Republican nominee for president. Reid lied on the Senate floor. When called out on his lie, Reid sneered,” Romney did n’t win, did he” ? ,
‘ She May Lose ‘
That’s the left. It’s what they do. And, yes, sometimes the lies work.  ,
However, there is a political risk for Harris. Democrats have heard it all, especially the patently false information about Trump and his interactions with the military and service members.  ,
Harris runs the real danger of alienating the electorate’s relatively few undecided voters, as pollster and political strategist Frank Luntz once told CNN’s Kasie Hunt prior to her network’s town hall. In her first few days of her Joe Biden replacement campaign, Luntz praised Harris for her efforts, which included a focus on “why she should be elected.” Remember all those” good vibes” and joy and crap?  ,
” She’s had the best 60 days of any presidential candidate in modern history. And then the moment that she turned anti-Trump and focused on him and said,’ Do n’t vote for me, vote against him,’ that’s when everything froze”, the strategist said.  ,
The polls show as much. In recent weeks, Trump has slashed any remaining space because Harris was forced to answer at least some real questions about her career and agenda. In Harris parlance, he is unburdened by what has been.  ,
Trump is defined, Luntz said.  ,
” He’s not gaining, he’s not losing. He’s who he is and his vote is where it is”, the pollster said.  ,
” ]Harris ] is less well defined and if she continues just to define this race as ‘ vote against Trump,’ she’s going to stay where she is now and she may lose” . ,
But desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess. Democrats have n’t been able to stop Trump to date. So they’re hoping to use lies to give him a fatal blow.  ,
Matt Kittle covers The Federalist’s senior elections coverage. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.