Republicans Have No Idea What To Do with Kamala Harris
They are flailing
It’s been a lot of fun watching Kamala Harris’s meteoric rise over the last week — I’ve especially liked the reversal in the polls, particularly where it concerns Harris’s favorability ratings. Three new polls came out yesterday, and all three showed that Harris was winning. Again. we’re only 9 days into her campaign.
Everyone seems to be coming out for her, even white guys! Last night, I had the White Guys for Harris call on while recording our weekly podcast. I took screenshots of all the speakers and asked Dan and Tori to play, “Name that white guy!” It was fun. For instance, this is not Mark Consuelos or Anson Mount. It’s Misha Collins, who doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that the Harris campaign would put on as a speaker, but the Democratic party is a big tent! Semi-famous white guy character actors from Supernatural are welcome, too!
There are still more than three months to go, and you gotta believe that Republicans are going to get better in their attacks on Harris, but at the moment, they’re at a loss. That’s the topic that Jon Stewart took up last night: The GOP’s efforts to define Harris have all backfired, which has left them to resort to the old Republican standbys: Sexism and racism.
It’s so much more fun to watch when Jon Stewart is beating up on Republicans again (although, note that he does take a bit of a victory lap in the first few minutes). Josh Johnson puts a nice button on the segment in the end, too, joking that the only attack line the Republicans can seem to come up with is, “She’s Blaaaaack!”
After that, you gotta watch at least the beginning of Stewart’s interview with Pete Buttigieg because of the ovation Buttigieg receives. People are loving Mayor Pete! He’s getting a rock star reception.
With all the applause and chanting, however, what’s up with this guy in the checkered shirt who looks like the pothead nepo baby of the lead singer of Creed. He looked upset, like he had been hoping for Tim Walz, and was hugely disappointed that all they managed to get was the Secretary of Transportation! Read the room, fella! Maybe he was upset because he was missing the White Guys for Harris call, and he’d just heard that Jeff Bridges had made an appearance (the virtual event raised $4 million, by the way). Or maybe the woman next to him is his girlfriend and she just informed him that she was breaking up with him for wearing that shirt to The Daily Show. It’s Mayor Pete, show some respect, guy!
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The most common attack line I've heard, mostly but not only from white women, is "she's a DEI hire."
(a) No, Biden chose her because he believed it made the ticket stronger; and (2) what if she was chosen strictly because of a desire to promote diversity? It's as though the Republicans instinctively label someone who is selected based upon considerations of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion as being inferior to a white person.
Your racism is really showing again, and you have no sense of how obvious that is. Just admit you believe a Black woman is "less than" a lying, cheating, convicted felon.
Vance privately admitted to donors that Biden stepping down was a "political sucker punch" and they don't really know how to attack Harris as she doesn't have the same baggage.
Also, Walz from the white dudes for Harris call: “How often in 100 days do you get to change the trajectory of the world? […] And how often in the world do you make that bastard wake up afterwards and know that a Black woman kicked his ass and sent him on the road? And you know that’s something that guy’s gonna have to live with for the rest of his life.”