By DEXTER DUGGAN
One of the most powerful possible campaign messages in this presidential election season was handed to Donald Trump courtesy of footage by his ideological opponents, during a June interview with Kamala Harris by liberal talk host Stephen Colbert.
As Democrats had vied for the 2020 nomination, Harris said she not only believed the women who accused Joe Biden of being a sexual abuser, but also one of them, Tara Reade, who accused him of sexually assaulting her 27 years ago.
Biden also had a racially tainted record, Harris said, on school busing and working with two pro-segregation politicians.
(The segregationists, by the way, were veteran Democrats, not Republicans, although historically ignorant media like the liberal London Independent of June 27, 2019, said they were GOP members.)
A few weeks before Biden named Harris as his vice-presidential running mate on August 11, interviewer Colbert wondered how she reacted to reportedly being on Biden’s short list for that selection. “I’d be honored,” she replied.
This intrigued Colbert. He immediately said, “In those debates, you landed haymakers on Joe Biden. . . . How do you go from being such a passionate opponent on such bedrock principles for you, and, and now you guys seem to be pals.”
Harris’ facial expression was pained and she started laughing in a way that feedback from some online viewers characterized as hysterical.
Within a few moments she used the word “debate” eight times as an apparent excuse that what a politician says in that context is only a rhetorical exercise, not an accusation to be believed, no matter how serious or firmly spoken on the debate stage.
After Harris began her reply with, “It was a debate,” Colbert replied, “Not everybody landed punches like you did, though.” After Harris emphasized, “It was a debate” three more times rapidly, she said, “It’s called a debate,” then sputtered out “debate” three more times as some sort of disclaimer.
Donald Trump’s campaign advertising justifiably attacked Biden as a weak, seriously confused man. And Biden is seen as an elderly fellow who may not even finish one four-year White House term. Yet here Biden was choosing a woman who’d replace him who, by her own admission, in her grab for power, went so far as to accept another woman’s word that Biden sexually assaulted her.
Fox News political analyst Brit Hume, commenting on August 17 about Harris’ interview with Colbert, said, “She’s got a charming laugh, but I don’t think she can laugh all of this stuff off.”
As for the presidential aspirant, Hume told the Tucker Carlson Tonight program, “Biden’s senile, and he has good days and bad….He screws up all the time, and he does it partly because he always has, and partly because his age has left him without a full set of faculties. So he forgets where he is at times and can’t remember basic things and so on.”
What a team the Democrats were asking American voters to give top national power. Trump’s commercials barely had to do anything but turn the time over to Biden and Harris to destroy themselves.
In addition, Harris has a record of raiding pro-life investigative video research while California attorney general and grilling Catholic judicial nominees for such offenses as belonging to the Knights of Columbus in her role as a U.S. senator. How could any Catholic vote for this thug as Biden’s veep?
One Trump advertisement began by showing the words, “Did something happen to Joe Biden?”, followed by visual examples of Biden’s ability to speak correctly as recently as four and five years ago, contrasted with his fumbling now for thoughts and words. It concludes by showing the question, “What happened to Joe Biden?”
This isn’t a rushed, 30-second commercial, but one that lets viewers watch for 78 seconds.
Conservative Republican campaign consultant Constantin Querard said this ad “is devastating.”
Querard told The Wanderer on August 18: “The challenge is that the best videos are running around 75 seconds, not 30 seconds, so we’ll have to see what they do with them for regular TV, but the ads this cycle seem to be particularly devastating because they can show Biden’s diminished capacity just over the last few years, and it is profound.
“Love Trump or hate Trump, it is very difficult to vote for someone for president if you realize he’s not mentally fit for the job,” Querard said.
As this writer has said before, it’s not aging Biden’s fault if he has begun to sink into dementia, but it’s certainly his and his handlers’ fault if they push forward such an incapacitated man to be U.S. president. And it’s doubly dominant media’s fault when they cover up for him in hopes of installing his left-wing politics in the White House.
The day after Biden announced his selection of Harris, commentator Bethany Mandel posted at the New York Post that sexual assault and harassment are some of the most serious accusations that can be leveled. So why, Mandel asked, was Harris willing to join Biden’s ticket?
Only two possibilities, she said — either campaigning Harris didn’t believe the accusers but was willing to use their words as “a cheap political cudgel,” or else she did believe “but is comfortable teaming up with an abuser (not to mention a racist, another charged accusation Harris has thrown Biden’s way)….
“The fact that Harris so eagerly climbed aboard Joe’s bus says something about her character and what she really thinks about #MeToo,” Mandel said. “Far from the feminist icon she portrayed herself as during the (Brett) Kavanaugh hearings, she personifies the left’s weaponization of assault for political ends.”
Growing Disgust
Victor Joecks, an opinion columnist with Nevada’s largest daily, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, told The Wanderer that many voters already have their minds made up.
“I think advertising is going to be less effective than normal. At this point, the election is about what voters think about Donald Trump,” Joecks said on August 18. “There’s not much a TV ad can do to sway voters when the president has commanded unprecedented levels of press attention over the last four years.
“There is always some usefulness in attacking the other candidate, and certainly the addition of Kamala Harris adds new avenues of attack,” Joecks said. “But I think this election comes down to how voters feel about Trump and what’s happening with the coronavirus.”
Northern California conservative commentator Barbara Simpson told The Wanderer on August 18: “With the ‘conventions’ getting started, the expected avalanche of political commercials is just beginning. No doubt, Trump will play on a sense of humor but I have no doubt he will then hit hard on the ‘progressive’ Democrat proposals. They, in turn, will hit hard, insulting and demeaning everything about Trump, personal and political.
“How much of this will turn voters off, either by supporting Trump or by not voting at all, remains to be seen. It’s dangerous territory,” Simpson said.
At a different level of politics, a campaign commercial that packed Republican power was for a congressional seat in Maryland. Although one congressional district doesn’t have the scope of a national position, it strongly illustrated growing black disgust with an unresponsive Democratic establishment that leaves people in pain and suffering for decades.
The Hill political site reported that the nearly three-minute online ad of GOP candidate Kimberly Klacik “has been viewed on Twitter more than three million times as of (August 18) morning, less than 24 hours after it was posted on her account.”
Klacik, a young black woman, walks through devastated-looking Baltimore streets to underline her campaign message. “You care about black lives? The people that run Baltimore don’t,” she says, adding later, “Baltimore has been run by the Democrat Party for 53 years. What is the result of their decades of leadership?”
She lists the dangers, poverty, and homicide, drug and alcohol deaths.
When The Wanderer viewed the commercial at around 3 a.m. Eastern time on August 19, it had 6.2 million views at Twitter.
Seth Leibsohn, a talk host at Phoenix-based KKNT Radio (960 AM), referred to Klacik’s advertisement on August 18 as he criticized the Democratic Party’s hypocrisy.
He said Michelle Obama had just talked at that party’s virtual national convention of “going high,” but the Democratic record is hatred and hoaxes to fight against President Trump.
Despite Trump’s opponents likening him to Hitler, Leibsohn asked whether a Jew would really have trouble deciding whether to live in National Socialist Germany or Trump’s United States.
Leibsohn had been a high-school socialist in the 1980s, but became conservative when he observed the facts.
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