Are you upping and downing and backing and forthing on the election? Feeling buoyed when Vice President Harris turns in a great town hall performance, and then frustrated when so-called journalists repeat Republican talking points? And then get excited all over again, when you hear that Harris will appear tomorrow in Houston with... Beyoncé? (HOLY MOLY! And Chuck Schumer just threw $5 million at Colin Allred's campaign to boot.)
We cats are totally with you — 2024 has been a real roller-coaster. And it's okay to get a little emotional about that from time to time. Like the early voters we've seen who have posted videos on social media. They're either near tears, or in tears, because 1) voting for Harris is a dream come true, 2) they brought along their young adult kids to cast a ballot for the first time, or 3) there were lines out the door and around the block, even in heavily gerrymandered states where interest is traditionally low. It's all wonderful.
Too wonderful for the media, it seems. They're continuing to push their ridiculously negative narratives to keep their ratings ginned up. Here's reality: Harris has more paths to 270 than Trump. She has more money, made even better by the fact that she's not hoarding it for legal bills. She has a far superior ground game — one that's probably even outstripping Obama 2008. On top of all that, she has people's passion on her side. You can see it in the early vote numbers.
More than 26 million Americans have cast their ballots already. That's good for us. Yes, more Republicans are voting early than before. But don't assume that all of them are voting for Trump. We're still in a post-Dobbs world, whether TV pundits and lazy journalists choose to notice. And we'd bet our next case of tuna that the majority of late-deciders — folks who just aren't into politics and who don't focus until the last couple of weeks — are breaking for Harris. We cats PURR.
(IMAGE: Barry Blitt for The New Yorker)
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