Cook Political Report Highlights What Kamala Needs to Do to Win...and She's Failing Miserably

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The Biden-Harris switcheroo has solved one major problem for Democrats: fundraising. The coffers got filled to the brim once Joe Biden quit the 2024 race, with over $250 million in donations pouring in to help Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump. We’ll see if there’s any movement in the coming weeks, but the Biden campaign outspent Trump’s operation and couldn’t make an impact. Can Kamala, who is just as unpopular as Biden?  

 

Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report charted a path Harris must take to win. She needs to win white working-class voters in the Rust Belt and especially in rural Pennsylvania to have a prayer. It’s nothing you haven’t heard before, but there’s also the “unknown” factor: no one knows Ms. Harris. What they do know is either not good or too thin to make any serious determination. For now, she’s lives happily in ‘generic Democrat’ land. That’s going to change quickly, and with less than 16 weeks until Election Day—Democrats must sprint to define her as a candidate (via Cook Report):

A Haggard Biden Delivered a Slurred Speech From the Oval Office

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President Joe Biden delivered his address to the nation from the Oval Office this evening. The speech was supposed to explain why he decided to exit the 2024 race. Instead, as Fox News’s Dana Perino noted, we got a political speech, a mini-State of the Union. It came off as resentful, outlining his real and imagined accomplishments. 

The speech was also labored and slurred, indicating that his age had caught up to him. It started with the same platitudinous introductions regarding how it’s about “we the people” and how it’s a choice between moving forward, not backward, unity over division, and hope versus hate. Biden said we’re at an inflection point where honesty, decency, and respect are on the ballot—rich coming from a man who hails from a family of degenerates. The president made the case for his legacy and said it was worthy of a second term.

“We’re a great nation because we’re a great people,” Biden said between half-thoughts and mumbles. But he added that it was time to pass the torch to the next generation to unite the party, which he fractured with this shambolic attempt at a second term. Biden remains committed to…Read more, see Xs and videos here.