Early surveys are showing that Kamala Harris, who was polling 6-8 points behind former President Donald Trump, essentially has caught up. It means nothing. I have written a million times about the fickleness of the American voter.  It is commonplace in the world of politics for polls to gyrate after certain dramatic events. Then, a few weeks later, everyone lands back on earth: conservatives are back to voting Republican, leftists (liberals and woke “progressives”) are back to voting Democrat, and Independents and their ilk are back to voting “Not Sure” and “I Don’t Know.” It always is this way. After a president’s stirring State of the Union (SOTU) address, standing on a podium before the joint session of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, with the Vice President and the Speaker of the House sitting behind him, and interrupted between 20-60 times by standing ovations, the next day the president’s approval ratings jump by 3-7 points. Less than a month later, the polls are back.

After a party’s national convention projects four days of unity, culminating with the acclimation that comes with the formal nomination of the new presidential candidate, the polls go up. A month later, the polls go back.  Name a vice presidential running mate, the polls go up. A few weeks later, they settle down. Let the president be shot, his polls go up. Let him stand up, despite being shot, and defiantly raise his fist and proclaim “Fight!” and the polls go higher. A month later, the polls go back to where they were. The exception: if the assassin actually succeeds in murdering the president. Then the polls remain up for a month or two before settling down.

Therefore, it is to be expected that Harris’s elevation as unelected Democrat nominee for president of the United States would be met with positive polling. Republicans would oppose her anyway. Democrats would vote for her anyway. And the Independent and “Don’t Know” and “Not Sure” crowds — the “American people” who “are too smart to …” — shift, as expected, to liking her. Soon, she will get another upward bump from the Democrat National Convention, and the Democrats’ mainstream media will proclaim that the Harris campaign is now unstoppable. That will resolve soon enough.

After the excitement of the moment — a SOTU address, an RNC or DNC, an assassination attempt, an unelected candidacy — people wake up to their newly minted hero’s latest gaffes, failures, peccadilloes, and peculations. The opposing party advertises all the new hero’s failings and how the new hero will leave the border unprotected, take away your health insurance, destroy your retirement savings, encourage an environment that convinces your kids and grandkids that they are the opposite gender — or no gender . . . or all genders — and will defund the police who protect you, and the polls will go back.

The key is how to campaign once reality returns around Labor Day. In the first week of Harris’s emergence, the time was reasonable to inform the greater public of the full picture: She made her way into politics by consorting with California Democrat political kingmaker Willie Brown, 30 years her elder and married to Blanche Brown, who did not take well to the posed photographs at soirées with Willie in tuxedo holding a half-full cocktail glass and Kamala Harris wearing raiment unbefitting my three grown daughters that age. With Willie’s patronage, she was appointed to one political slot after another, became San Francisco district attorney, glided into California attorney general and then to United States Senate. California is essentially a one-party state. Democrats win all the statewide offices. Whoever Willie Brown placed on the ticket would win. It was like Tammany Hall in New York. That information was important to share the first week or two after she rose to be the unelected Democrat candidate for president. But now we are moving to the serious part of the campaign.

Going forward, the focus must be on exposing Harris on policy issues, not her disgraceful personal character and behavior. Those who want to know that do know that. Those who don’t, don’t and won’t. What matters going forward is policy. Ask the Independent voter, the suburban mom, the college graduate, the union worker, the senior citizen, to weigh these things:

1. Kamala Harris, San Francisco Democrat, publicly stated in a televised appearance that she will take away your private health insurance. Is that OK with you? Will that improve your family’s and your life?

2. Kamala Harris, San Francisco Democrat, served as Pres. Biden’s Border Czar the past four years. During that time, a secured border utterly collapsed, and more than 10 million illegally entered our country, including previously convicted rapists and murderers, several of whom have proceeded to rape and murder Americans, just like you, here. Is that OK with you? Will that improve your family’s and your life?

3. Kamala Harris, San Francisco Democrat, promises she will have American taxpayers like you pay for the healthcare of every illegal immigrant in America. That’s more than 20 million illegal immigrants. How much does healthcare cost you — your insurance premiums, deductibles, co-pays, out-of-pocket, out-of-network? Well, she will give exactly that to the 20+ million who are here illegally. The money has to come from somewhere because the doctors and pharmacies and urgent cares and hospitals will expect to be paid. That money can come only from one place: you. Is that OK with you? Will that improve your family’s and your life?

4. The Social Security trust fund and Medicare are in trouble. You have heard about that for many years. The concern is that there will not be enough to pay your benefits in the future because they may run out of money. Kamala Harris, San Francisco Democrat, wants to extend Medicare coverage to 20+ million illegal immigrants. You know what healthcare costs. Is that OK with you? Will that improve your family’s and your life?

5. Kamala Harris, San Francisco Democrat, enabled Pres. Biden’s war on American energy. She will make it even worse because she promises to ban fracking — hydraulic fracturing. When we get energy from our own oil and natural gas, it is cheaper than buying it from other people, who understandably want to profit. Also, because we can produce so much energy at home, we even can have extra, as we did with Pres. Trump, so can sell the extra to other countries, enabling us to profit. The Biden and Harris policies have caused energy and fuel prices to shoot way higher as we had to import oil from Arab Muslim tyrants and dictators at their profit. You now pay twice as much or more at the gas pump. Is that OK with you? Will that improve your family’s and your life?

6. Because Harris drove energy and fuel prices so high, doubling gasoline costs, it costs trucking and other shipping companies more money to truck and ship food to the supermarkets and groceries. The shippers need to make their income, so they pass their added costs to the supermarkets and groceries. The supermarkets and grocers need to make their income so they pass their added costs to you. That’s why food is so crazy-much more expensive that you have to skip a meal every day or once in a while. Is that OK with you? Will that improve your family’s and your life?

7. Kamala Harris, San Francisco Democrat, supports a woke agenda on crime to defund police, to free people arrested for violent crimes without requiring them to post bail, and herself has raised money for a fund that bailed violent criminals out, with several of them proceeding to murder. Is that OK with you? Will your family and you be safer with Harris having the power to manage crime and law enforcement?

8. Forget about Ukraine and Israel for now. Just think about America. North Korea is developing nuclear weapons that can reach and do to America what we did to Japan to end WWII. Putin in Russia has those and is making more. So is China. So is Iran. In other words, these far-away places now have the technology, or soon will, not only to have nuclear bombs that can do worse than Hiroshima and Nagasaki but also that can evaporate your city. Their worst designs are deterred by a strong president whom they respect and fear. We actually saw that when Donald Trump was president: Putin did not invade any countries, and North Korea stopped testing nuclear weapons. That changed when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came in. Do you think that Kamala Harris, San Francisco Democrat, will protect your family and you from those nuclear threats better than Donald Trump will?

9. Kamala Harris, San Francisco Democrat, supports a public education system where schools can hide from parents information when their kids at school ask to be called by different pronouns and ask about sex-change operations. Is that OK with you? Will that improve your family’s andyour life?

10. In 2019, Kamala Harris, San Francisco Democrat, proposed that we should spend $14.5 trillion in new spending. To get that $14.5 trillion, taxes would have to shoot up. But more than that: When $14.5 trillion suddenly shows up in people’s wallets, sellers realize that everyone has more money, so they raise their prices accordingly since they assume everyone can afford higher costs. That’s called “inflation.” Have you noticed that, every time the government pumps billions or trillions into the economy, seeming to make everyone richer, only a few months later all prices for everything shoot up — and stay there? Heating in winter, air conditioning in summer, food, clothes, gas for the car, rent for housing, tuition, airfare, Disneyland, movies, cable TV — everything? And in a short time, everyone who was supposed to get richer from all that new money ends up exactly where they were before. Yet the thing is, although even more new money will not be coming again the next day, those higher prices remain where they have jumped to; they don’t come back down. Is that OK with you? Will that improve your family’s and your life?

11. In 2018, Kamala Harris, San Francisco Democrat, was ranked the fourth most leftist among 100 United States Senators. Two years later, she had risen to the second-most leftist in the entire U.S. Senate, “beaten” only by Bernie Sanders. Is that OK with you? Will that improve your family’s and your life?

12. It is very common in American politics for extreme-leftist Senators, who spend five years and nine months of their six-year terms advocating and voting for terrible extreme-left policies that advance their woke ideologies but that hurt Americans, to temporarily change their tunes during the final three months of their terms. That way, they make it seem that they have heard their voters and changed their ways. The voters believe they have changed, so reelect them, and then those senators go back to extreme-left voting for another five years and nine months. It continues until they get kicked out when their voters no longer trust them. Over the past four years, Kamala Harris, San Francisco Democrat, repeatedly looked TV interviewers in the eye and looked the American people — including you — in the eye and continued saying that Joe Biden was energetic, mentally sharp and focused — repeating her assertions over and over until the day he acknowledged he was out of steam, physically and mentally. Can you trust Kamala Harris when she looks you in the eye, and she says she will change from pursuing her lifetime extreme-left San Francisco woke agenda? Is her lifetime of lying to your face OK with you? Will that improve your family’s and your life?

This is the campaign ahead.  To impact the Independents, the “Not Sures,” and the “Don’t Knows,” the above twelve lines of inquiry are where the campaign should go.

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