Did you hear? Vice President Kamala Harris now leads former President Donald Trump in Michigan by a whopping 11 points in a new Bloomberg-Morning Consult poll of 706 registered voters. This result leaves Harris with a 2-point lead in the Real Clear Politics average of polls in the state. A Fox News survey released on Friday night found the race tied, while another from the Hill-Emerson showed Trump ahead by just 1 point.
The party that brought us the Russian collusion scandal, two Trump impeachments, four bogus Trump indictments, and two spurious civil lawsuits in New York and tried to remove Trump’s name from the ballot in several blue states has set its sights on a Harris victory. And from the moment President Joe Biden announced his exit from the 2024 race, it's been balls to the wall. Heaven help us.
The party has taken a candidate once considered to be so weak as to be a “drag on the ticket” and elevated her to rockstar status. The cover of New York Magazine features the vice president sitting atop a coconut (a nod to a bizarre Harris quip about how her mother once asked her if she “just fell out of a coconut tree”), with Democratic Party leaders and fans celebrating her candidacy from below. The merry little scene is titled, “Welcome to Kamalot.”
Indeed, Harris has seized the moment. The Harris campaign said it raised more than $200 million in its first week.
Although early polling still shows Trump ahead of Harris, she has managed to narrow the gap to a startling degree. She is drawing support from black, Hispanic, and younger voters, groups that Trump had been making inroads with prior to Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
There is no doubt that Harris is riding high. But the question must be asked: Can Kamalot’s meteoric rise from political pariah to Democratic star last?
Or, despite the Democratic Party’s and the media’s full-court press to reinvent Harris as the next Barack Obama, will voters finally grasp that, like Biden, this emperor has no clothes?
The “Harrismania” that has built up over the past week is not based on reality. It is a media-driven construct that ignores the most basic truths about Harris: She is a weak politician who doesn’t belong anywhere near the Oval Office. Her radical left-wing views make her a dangerous choice for America.
Last week, voters got their first glimpse of how Harris’s progressive worldview and her inexperience might affect her foreign policy decisions. First, she declined to preside over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress last Wednesday, opting instead to speak at a sorority convention in Indianapolis.
The next day, following a White House meeting with Netanyahu, the two addressed reporters. Harris’s contempt for both Netanyahu and Israel was impossible to hide. Not since Biden’s fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a 2022 visit to Saudi Arabia have we witnessed a more awkward moment between two world leaders.
Although Harris condemned Hamas and paid lip service to Israel’s right to defend itself, it was her ill-advised and dangerous remarks on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza that upset Netanyahu.
“What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating,” Harris said . “The images of dead children and desperate hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time. We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering, and I will not be silent.”
According to Axios, an Israeli official later told reporters that Netanyahu was concerned that Harris’s remarks might harm negotiations with Hamas over a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal.
"When our enemies see the U.S. and Israel are aligned, it increases the chances for a hostage deal and decreases the chances for a regional escalation,” the official explained .
“When there is such daylight, it pushes the deal further away and brings a regional escalation closer. We hope that Harris's public criticism of Israel won't give Hamas the impression that there is daylight between the U.S. and Israel and, as a result, make it harder to get a deal," the official added.
While it’s impossible to know what impact Harris’s foolish remarks may or may not have had on Hamas, retired Col. Jonathan Sweet, a former military intelligence officer, and national security writer Mark Toth tied her words to Hezbollah’s deadly rocket attack on a Golan Heights soccer field on Saturday.
They wrote in a New York Post op-ed that “Harris’s self-serving decision to pander to Gen Z and progressive votes on Thursday ... is turning out to have deadly results.”
They noted that, like Biden, Harris doesn’t fully grasp the threat that Iran poses in the region, claiming that the Iranians “are interpreting Harris’s campaign-driven words and actions as giving the Mullahs time and space.”
Sweet and Toth concluded, “Hezbollah, in effect, in striking Israel, declared war on the Druze – and Harris is about to find out that this is a Pandora’s Box not easily closed no matter how many progressive and Gen Z votes she needs come November.”
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Harris needs to understand that Harrismania won’t last forever. Reality will interfere.
And when the current media circus subsides, Harris will revert to the same weak, unappealing, and inauthentic candidate who was forced to drop out of the 2020 presidential primary before a single vote was ever cast.
Elizabeth Stauffer is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and the Western Journal . Follow her on X or LinkedIn .
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