All righty, then, team! We're two and a half weeks out from Election Day, and things are on a roll. Our nominee Kamala Harris has had a very successful week — and spanking Fox "News" anchor Bret Baier was no small part of it. But not only that, Benedict Donald has just notched another terrible one.
He started out Monday night by short-circuiting a campaign event so he could spend 40 minutes swaying onstage to music instead. He made things worse by calling January 6 a "day of love" at a Univision town hall. He capped it off with an obscene speech at last night's Al Smith dinner — how smart Harris was to skip that event — and a morning appearance today on Fox & Friends, during which he appeared to be sitting on a puppy pad. (Hey, it was a white couch.)
Now, POLITICO — not a friendly website to Democrats — reports that Trump is backing out of interviews left and right because he's "exhausted." (Harris, smartly, has seized on this, and is asking whether Donald is up to being President if he can't even continue to campaign.) It's become a thing. So, does Trump see the writing on the wall? Is he giving up on his 2024 bid?
The Palmer Report thinks so. "This is about as close to a forfeit as you can get down the stretch in a Presidential election," Bill Palmer says. "It's one thing to disappear down the stretch if you’re ahead, because you're trying to play it safe. But Trump is disappearing while behind, because he's now displaying such severe dementia symptoms that he costs himself votes every time he appears in public."
We cats agree that this is possible. And although we Democrats should not take this as license to sit back and relax — we need to be all gas, no brakes, right into Election Day — it's worth noting the effect that Benedict Donald coming to terms with being behind could have on Republicans up and down the ballot.
While early voters in key states are turning out in droves — something we can't believe bodes ill for Democrats — a Trump campaign hobbled by its leader crying uncle could decimate the GOP.
Trump surely will hoard all his money and resources and put them toward his massive legal bills (including, probably, money for lawyers who will challenge a Harris win). There will be precious few dollars left for Republican candidates for Senate, House, and the various governorships in the final days before the election. (Their ground game, apparently nonexistent, is already giving Republicans fits.) We're not seeing a lot of reporting on this yet, but GOP candidates and pooh-bahs must be livid — Mitch McConnell most of all.
We Democrats, working hard to turn out our vote, should be happy and inspired by all this. (Or, if you just want a shot in the arm, keep watching this clip of Harris humiliating anti-choice hecklers at an event in Wisconsin this week.) This is exactly where a winning campaign would want to be two weeks out. But as we've said, let's keep our foot — or paw — on the gas! Take nothing for granted. We cats PURR.
(IMAGE: Street art seen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)
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