By Ray Cardello for October 25, 2024, Season 29 / Post 26

I am not a woman, but I can define one, and I am embarrassed by the treatment women are getting from Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and every Democrat involved in the Harris campaign. We are in the closing arguments stage of this election, and the message from Harris and Walz is clear and shameful. Hopefully, Americans will see through the smoke. There is nothing the Democrats can point to in the last three years that has improved the lives of Americans. Harris cannot point to the economy, inflation, border security, education, international stability, military readiness, or national debt to indicate their policies’ success. They love to point to one policy, and it is one the Democrats have owned for decades: abortion. They may call it reproductive rights, but you can call it anything you like, but the bottom line is it is the killing of unborn babies. Democrats minimize the concerns and needs of all women to the right to end their pregnancy with an abortion. Thank goodness that Republicans see women differently and know that every aspect of government policies impacts women and men equally and why the concerns of most voters are the economy, inflation, and the broken border are way ahead of abortion on the list of concerns.

I watched the CNN town hall with Kamala Harris and a group of undecided Pennsylvania voters, and it was appalling. Every question from the voters remained unanswered and prompted Harris to launch into a soliloquy of hatred of Donald Trump and how he is a threat to every American. Harris talked about unity and working together to solve problems and get things done, devoted every question to how Trump idolized Hitler and exchanged love letters with the little Rocket Man in North Korea. She continues to link Trump and the 2025 Project, which has been debunked by many, and the recently published article in the Atlantic that supposedly gave insight into the unfit Donald Trump. These are illegitimate tools to tear apart the character of her opponent, Donald Trump, But these are what she has resorted to and exposes the biggest problem of her campaign. No, it is not messaging, though there have been times you questioned whether Harris and Walz worked from the same playbook. Their problem is they have no plan. She has abstract ideas but cannot speak to the details because there are none.

Most of Harris’ answers on the Anderson Cooper Townhall were more than three minutes. That should be plenty of time to give a comprehensive answer, but most of the time was spent filibustering and denigrating Trump but never addressing the question. Nobody should have come away from that broadcast satisfied that they knew where Harris stood on every topic.

I have said many times that I do not believe the polls. How can these two candidates be so close when she is bleeding support among women, men, unions, people of color, and the evangelicals and yet still be in a virtual tie? It is obviously a data manipulation and will prove what we have known for the last twenty years: polls are no longer a usable tool for predicting election outcomes.