A quick note: Kamala Harris has had quite the unfortunate week in this final month of the 2024 campaign, and the bad news is that it’s still only Thursday. As Charlie Cooke noted earlier today, the bleak screwball comedy of her desperate, flailing attempt to inject herself into the Hurricane Milton news story has gotten to the point where hilarity curdles into cringe. One wonders if we are witnessing something special with this cartwheeling series of embarrassments, something we would be wise to properly appreciate in the moment while we have the chance: the worst performance yet of a generationally untalented candidate. After this, America understands that Kamala Harris is the last person anyone should be tasking with natural-disaster response; she is her own ongoing natural disaster.
Trump supporters should temper their excitement: Despite all of this, Harris is currently slightly favored to win the election. But if she doesn’t — and it is basically a coin-flip race — once the Left is done burning Harris in effigy, their angry gaze will turn to Joe Biden next, and he will be blamed. Not for his atrocious governing record and vain attempt to retain power, mind you, but rather for his repeated (and notable) failure to support Harris’s campaign messaging at several points throughout the final weeks.
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