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Donald J. Trump and the GOP are poised for a historic win on Nov. 5, yet we must not forget that Republicans have a recent history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
The Democrats will leverage their vast financial advantage from Wall Street and Silicon Valley, as they deploy their powerful assets in the mainstream media to discourage President Trump’s supporters from going to the polls.
Anyone who believes this election is over, and that the Democrats have resigned themselves to defeat, would probably have accepted a second wooden horse from the Ancient Greeks.
No one is falling for "burst pipes," or "trust the plan" nonsense this time around.
So, what will Democrats unleash and how much damage can they inflict?
The Democrats are "acknowledging" polls showing Donald Trump surging against Vice President Kamala Harris.
This is perhaps their most well-conceived ploy and course correction to date.
No one needed a crystal ball to know that Donald Trump was doing far better than many of the summertime polls indicated. Any poll having shown Harris as building a considerable lead was junk, and a byproduct of far too many Democrats surveyed to skew the result.
Democrats were hoping that results showing Harris with a sizeable lead would deliver a domino effect where undecided voters would shift to Harris. This never materialized.
The reason certain pollsters are now publishing better numbers for Trump is because they think it will reinvigorate a depressed and lethargic Democratic base.
They're scared that their voters will stay home after being assured all summer that this race was over, and are also hoping that Trump voters will get overconfident similar to the way they did in 2020.
A few weeks before Election Day, there will be a "bombshell" accusation against President Trump which will "naturally" affect polling.
The mainstream media will breathlessly proclaim that the election is essentially over and that Vice President Kamala Harris is the next president.
In the last week heading into election day, you will see polls from liberal leaning outlets (using questionable methodology) showing a surging Kamala Harris headed for victory —hoping to pick up last minute undecided voters.
While Niccolò Machiavelli would be proud, unless the "bombshell" is actual video of Trump really shooting multiple people on Fifth Avenue, New York, Democrats are going to be shocked at the record turnout of Trump voters in 2024.
You would have to go back to the late President George H.W. Bush to find a Republican who didn’t win the presidency thanks to overwhelming support from Evangelicals.
Democrats are hoping beyond hope that their efforts to slime Donald Trump will bear fruit with Christian voters, namely Catholics and Evangelicals.
The Harris Campaign has made religious outreach a focal part of their campaign.
In the coming weeks, you will see Democrats spreading "news" that many Christian voters are apathetic and plan to sit this election out.
Whether this will turn out to be wishful thinking, or enough Christians actually stay home, to elect Kamala Harris depends largely on whether spiritual leaders truly grasp what a Harris administration would mean for organized religion (think Joseph Stalin and the Kulaks), and strongly encourage members of their congregations to go out and vote.
From a theoretical standpoint, you almost have to admire Team Harris for having the temerity to actively try to engage such staunch Trump supporters.
But in the end, the outcome will be similar to the "show trial" indictments against President Trump, it may have seemed like a good idea at the time. . .
Democrats are now pivoting from telling voters not to believe their lying eyes.
For most of the year you heard falsehoods about how illegal aliens commit less crimes than Americans, first-hand accounts of gangs terrorizing once safe communities were dismissed as "misinformation," parents upset that their daughters had to play basketball against much bigger biological males were "transphobes."
Now Democrats tell voters that while not all of these incidents are "misinformation," they argue that they’re rare and have been greatly exaggerated to help elect Donald Trump.
Recently, Martha Raddatz from ABC News tried to fact check JD Vance about Venezuelan gangs taking over Apartment Complexes in Aurora, Colorado, claiming that "only a handful" of buildings had been taken over.
This begs the question, "In what world do Democrats think this would constitute a 'gotcha moment'?!"
There are simply not enough new voters obsessed with trashing Christopher Columbus or fighting to make sure your local elementary school library is legally compelled to carry the shockingly graphic and sexually explicit "Gender Queer," to make up for the once reliable working class votes the Democrats lose each time Harris appears nonplussed when asked how she would fix the economy.
As long as the GOP doesn’t take victory for granted and finishes strongly, former President Trump is winning in an Electoral College landslide.
Nicholas Chamberas has advised good government advocacy groups, elected officials and political candidates on public policy matters as well as having served as a senior adviser on several prominent New York City campaigns. He holds a degree in Political Science and a Juris Doctor. Read Nicholas Chamberas' Reports — More Here.
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