By the beginning of 2024, the Democrats had settled on a simple strategy to retain control of the Presidency and the Senate while regaining a majority in the House of Representatives. The most important element of the plan was to work with corporate media to assure that the electorate remained focused on the purported threat to our democracy™ presented by former President Trump and his “extremist MAGA” supporters.
This would permit President Biden and other Democrats seeking reelection to avoid pesky questions about inflation, the border crisis, rampant crime rates and dangerous conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Their strategy collapsed on June 27.
Alex [Soros] doesn’t seem to realize that his overt support of Harris will doom her campaign if she is the Democratic presidential nominee.
That was, of course, the date of the presidential debate during which America’s worst kept secret was revealed to the shrinking number of voters who still believed Biden was fit to serve a second term. His performance was so unnerving that it immediately prompted calls for him to drop out of the presidential race. An AP-NORC poll showed that 65 percent of Democrat voters wanted him to withdraw.
The Washington Post reported Saturday that 37 congressional Democrats had also called for him to step aside and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin joined the chorus on ABC’s “This Week.” At some point during this barrage of bad news Biden finally accepted reality and announced on X that he would be dropping out of the race:
My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump.
Biden also posted a letter on X in which he takes credit for all manner of fictitious accomplishments that allegedly leave the country better off than when he found it: “America has never been better positioned to lead than we are today.” This delusional assertion is followed by an even more astonishing claim: “We have protected and preserved our democracy.”
Never mind the colossal bait-and-switch the Democrat power brokers have just perpetrated on the 14.5 million primary voters who backed Joe Biden. It is by no means certain that, had they been given a choice between Kamala Harris and another candidate during the primaries, these voters would have chosen our incompetent Vice President.
Yet it is probable that the party’s 739 unelected “super delegates” will arrange for Harris to “win” the nomination no matter who challenges her. And she will be challenged. Her 2020 presidential run was so cringeworthy that she had to drop out before the first primary. Since becoming Vice President, she has become a national joke.
Her inclination to produce meaningless word salads in response to straightforward questions, combined with her notorious cackle, would again be deadly in an honest contest for the nomination. Republicans, meanwhile, salivate for a campaign with Harris at the top of the Democrat ticket. GOP VP nominee J.D. Vance offered these observations on X regarding this point:
Joe Biden has been the worst President in my lifetime and Kamala Harris has been right there with him every step of the way. Over the last four years she co-signed Biden’s open border and green scam policies that drove up the cost of housing and groceries. She owns all of these failures, and she lied for nearly four years about Biden’s mental capacity — saddling the nation with a president who can’t do the job. President Trump and I are ready to save America.
Soros and the Democrats
Is the “save America” verbiage MAGA hyperbole? Consider this revelation from the Wall Street Journal, “Democratic megadonors George and Alex Soros, the father-son pair who are responsible for tens of millions of dollars in spending each election cycle, both threw their weight behind Kamala Harris on Sunday shortly after Joe Biden announced he would exit the race.”
On X, Alex Soros posted a picture of himself arm and arm with Harris beneath the following exhortation: “It’s time for us all to unite around Kamala Harris and beat Donald Trump. She is the best and most qualified candidate we have. Long live the American Dream!” Who believes that Soros actually supports the “American Dream”?
The obvious answer is, of course, “no one.” This photo suggests that Alex is a little slow on the uptake compared to his father, George. The latter understood that it was necessary to remain in the background while he financed destructive policies like “defund the police.” Alex doesn’t seem to realize that his overt support of Harris will doom her campaign if she is the Democratic presidential nominee.
If the Democrats nominate Harris, the Trump-Vance campaign will ensure that the voters are well aware of the Soros connection. And every down ballot Republican running will be telling the voters about it. This may well add up to the sum of all Democrat fears — all three branches of government under GOP control.
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