“We agree with President Biden. Choosing Kamala was one of the best decisions he’s made. She has the resume to prove it. But Kamala has more than a resume. She has the vision, the character, and the strength that this critical moment demands. There is no doubt in our mind that Kamala Harris has exactly what it takes to win this election and deliver for the American people. At a time when the stakes have never been higher, she gives us all reason to hope.” – The Obamas, Barrack and Michelle, endorsing Kamala Harris
For the third straight week, this column will be dealing with the U.S Presidential election just as it hopes to continue to devote considerable time to the election due, Tuesday, 5 November 2024.
This is not only because of the world-wide attention U.S elections normally elicit, but because of the aggravated, existential danger former U.S President, Donald Trump, poses.
While he alone, is enough danger not only to America but to the world at large, Heritage Foundation’s PROJECT 2025 has so exacerbated Trumpism that it has rendered the man, after who it takes its name, worse than Hitler; the very name his Vice Presidential candidate, J.D Vance, called him before he ate crow.
To know who Hitler was, you only have to remember who was responsible for the death of “some 75 million people, including about 20 million military personnel, and 40 million civilians, many of who died as a result of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings and disease”, during World War11, 1939 – 45.
Trump is capable of far worse, seeing how he romanticises the few remaining tyrants around the world.
He does not believe himself second to any living human being and has, severally, shown that he cares nothing about NATO.
The fear of a Trump Second coming, with Project 2025 canvassing a total remodelling of America as its underpinning philosophy, presently grips all Americans, except the captives of his MAGA colony, amongst who are those who trooped to the Capitol on January 6, 2020, intent on staging a Democratic coup.
These are the factors energising the Harris campaign, eventuating in a democratic surge that saw her garner 84 Million dollars the very first day, as well as enabled her to get more than enough delegates to qualify as the presumptive nominee.
What then are the chances of Harris winning in November?
Let us first explore the circumstances that saw her to the pinnacle; a catalogue of events that can only be described as dramatic.
It is a bitter/sweet experience which saw the literal political end of President Joe Biden who, without a scintilla of doubt will, forever, rank amongst the most consequential presidents in U.S history and the rise, and rise, of Kamala Harris, the former California Attorney – General and later senator who, unforgetably distinguished herself with her withering questioning of Trump Supreme Court pick,
Brett Kavanaugh, during his 4- day grilling by the senate Judiciary committee between September 4 – 7, 2018.
Van Jones, lawyer and political analyst, who served as President Barack Obama’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs in 2009, described the day President Biden stepped aside, endorsing Harris, as a “sad day in America, describing Biden as a patriot and an American hero who towers above most
Democratic luminaries. He described the day as a “huge moment, a human moment when the President chose country above everything else”. He was close to tears, saying all these on CNN.
For starters, President Biden’s endorsement of Harris has torn to shreds, the air of melancholy that had enveloped democrats in the U.S and lovers of democracy all over the world, creating such a huge Democratic bounce which has, in turn, sent shivers to Trump and his associates. It is so bad for the Republicans they are now trying to conjure all manner of legal impediments to upend Harris’ increasing popularity, as well as harrass President Biden with threats of impeachment.
Loonies all.
Harris acceptance by all sections of the Democratic party and the American society has gone sky-high, thus enabling her to set many records in the history of Presidential contest in America.
For instance, in an unprecedented feat, she grossed 84M the very first day to be added to the existing near quarter-of-a-billion dollar war chest already amassed this election cycle, an amount so huge Trump has started lying about Elon Musk promising to give him 45Million dollars per month, which the latter has denied on television, calling it fake news.
LEADERSHIP also reports that the Kamala Harris-themed memecoin, KAMA, has seen a dramatic surge in value, reaching a market capitalization of $24 million, reflecting the enthusiasm and support from the digital currency community.
She also secured enough
delegates within the shortest time ever recorded in a Presidential contest in America.
Harris path to victory seems assured. With a VP candidate that will adequately fit the bill, the team should hit the ground running, targeting Black Americans, a
vast majority of who trust her and distrust Donald Trump – 71% compared to 5% – according to the largest-known survey of Black Americans since the Reconstruction era.
Her campaign has also energised dispirited Asian voters while she has to work harder on the Hispanics which President Biden was already losing.
With Trump severally accused
of sexual misconduct over the years and blamed for strict abortion curbs –
and with him proudly saying:”I kill Roe V Wade” , Harris should be able to weaponise Trump’s ‘women problem’, and use it as a cudgel to punish him maximally.
The entire Harris team should eagerly settle into what has been Kamala’s consuming passion: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH and ABORTION, letting every woman in America know that
Trump is an enemy, ever so keen to tell the womenfolk what to do with their God – given body. They should let the Maga crowd know that
Reproductive freedom is a sine qua non.
Among likely voters, Trump is at 48 percent to Harris’ 47 percent in a head-to-head matchup — narrowing the race to a virtual tie after Trump led Biden by six points when the same poll was taken in June.
Another poll puts it at 49 per cent to Trump and 46 to Harris, both still within the margin of error.
In a month’s time it should be possible to do a more compelling comparison of where both are, but with the massive enthusiasm driving the Harris campaign there can be no doubting the fact that Trump is on a journey too far.
