She will lose if the impression continues to linger that a Harris Presidency would in effect be a second Biden term.
It is a fact that Donald Trump is admired by countless millions across the world, not just in the US. The former President’s courage even during the most dangerous of circumstances was once again on display in the first assassination attempt against him, which narrowly failed to succeed in taking out the Republican challenger to the Democratic nominee for the US Presidency. Moments after being wounded by a bullet from the rifle of a would-be assassin, Trump got to his feet in the middle of a Secret Service protective cover, and undeterred and apparently unafraid, waved his fist in the air as a sign that he would not allow even an attempted assassination to deflect him from his quest to be the 47th President of the US. At least to those clueless about operational details of such protective coverage by what is admittedly a superb organisation, it appeared as though the Secret Service was less than prompt in its responses to the obvious threat of a man with a rifle perched on a ledge of a roof within striking range of the former President. Fortunately, its performance during the second attempt on Trump’s life was swift, when an agent noticed a rifle peering from the bushes in the Trump Golf Course and fired a volley of bullets into it, scaring away the would-be assassin. Both the Secret Service as well as trhe police functioned smoothly, nabbing the perpetrator in minutes. Florida is clearly Trump’s favourite state since New York began bristling with anti-Trump elements during his 2017-21 stint in the White House. Trump has shown that whatever deficiencies he has, lack of courage is not among them. Cool and apparently unshaken, the former President shrugged off the second attempted attack on his life as though it were just a bad putt. Kamala Harris is a feisty person, and throughout her life, the Vice-President of the US has shown resilience and grit. However, his responses after the first and second attempts on former President Trump’s life have in the estimation of large swathes of US citizens put him in a special category where courage in the face of danger is concerned. All of which will count in the November polls which will decide whether Harris or Trump will be the next President of the country which is still the world’s foremost power
Given her strengths, it is incomprehensible why Harris was pushed into the shadows, pushed almost offstage, throughout the course of the Biden Presidency. Barring conferences and meetings that were of limited value in substance, she remained in the shadows. Given that, it is small wonder that the present VP appears to have been in the same position as a former VP who referred to his exalted post as “not worth a pitcher of warm spit”. It is clear that voters do not want a second Biden term, although the US President is a well-meaning, decent individual no matter what his detractors say. The sins of his friends and relatives ought not to be placed upon his head, unless there is provable evidence to the contrary, of which there has been none, merely innuendo and rhetoric. As a Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris in 2024 is a far more winnable candidate than Biden, which is why Democratic Party elders brushed aside murmurs from within some corners of the White House to anoint her as the Democratic Party Presidential candidate. Among the reasons was the simple fact that she was not Biden, not even close. It is a surprise that so far into her campaign, Kamala Harris does not appear to have shed off Bidenitis completely, a necessary move were she to defeat the formidable Republican challenger to such a promotion for the first female VP and within striking range of being the first woman ever to be elected President of the US, a fact that represents an unflattering image of the world’s most powerful democracy. Beginning several days before yesterday, Kamala Harris needs to show that she would be entirely different from Biden were she to enter the White House as its lawful tenant. Save for the many measures of the US President which have been a boon to the disadvantaged, such as additional social security measures, efforts at reducing student debt on the principle that every student once his or her education is completed would most likely be an asset to the country. In particular, Harris needs through her surrogates to convince voters that she was only a figurehead where southern border management was concerned, and that it is false to claim as Trump and Vance are that Biden left border management or the lack of it to her. Unless she recovers from Bidenitis (complete fealty to the entire Biden record) sufficiently to do this, she may be an also-ran in the way Trump was in his joust with Biden. She will lose if the impression continues to linger that a Harris Presidency would in effect be a second Biden term. She needs to show she is her own person, and reflect that difference in the Oval Office rather than merely repeating Biden’s policies, especially the disastrous southern border situation, when CCP and Wahhabi elements mingled with the rest to try and secure residence within the US.
Trump may be overstating such a case, but it is a fact that the influx of foreign nationals through the southern border is a national security risk. As for the policy disaster represented by temporarily legalizing such an unmonitored flood of migrants from various parts of the world, it is definitely a security risk. Clinging to Bidenitis, added to the obvious personal courage of Donald Trump, may yet cost Kamala Harris the honour of being the first lady President of the US, with her spouse, the charming First Gentleman by her side.