Republicans Get Wake Up Call Over Harris
Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, insists Republicans may be at risk of losing the November election.
In an interview on Fox Business Friday, Hanson warned about the potential for the Republican Party to lose to Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming November election.
Hanson, who discussed Harris’ policies and the prospects of former President Donald Trump defeating her as the race heats up, noted that while Harris’ “radical” policy stances could benefit Trump, the Republican team needs to stay focused on these issues and avoid being sidetracked by criticisms of her “ethnic background or cackling.”
“That’s going to be the central issue of the campaign. Because on the one hand, they don’t have one or two years, they only have 90 days and she’s not going to be allowed, as was Biden not allowed in 2022, to do anything other than teleprompted set speeches in front of receptive audiences,” Hanson said. “They don’t have time to go down all of these cul-de-sacs about ethnic background or cackling, all that. They got to get right to the point and that’s to draw out on all these things they said.”
Hanson noted that Harris’s weak point is that she has never spoken to an opposition audience.
“The good news she’s never in her life spoke to an oppositional audience. She ran for state office in California, she ran for office in the Bay Area, she had aborted a brief primary candidacy in front of left-wing audiences. In all of those cases, her aim was to be the furthest left on the stage in a left-wing environment,” Hanson added. “It’s not that she said all these things, she emphatically said them, she doubled down on them [and] she stressed that she was a radical. They’re all over the last 20 years in the record.”
Last night Victor Davis Hanson told Fox Business that the formula for Team Trump now is to run a version of the 1988 campaign that saw Mike Dukakis drop from a 17-point lead on Aug 1 to finish with an 8-point popular vote loss on Election Day.
Similar to that campaign, VDH… pic.twitter.com/rvaxmGx04F
— Paul Villarreal (AKA Vince Manfeld) (@AureliusStoic1) August 3, 2024
Hanson suggested that Trump could defeat Harris by laying out her previous far-left policies before the voters.
“It’s going to be incumbent upon the Trump campaign to find them all, to document them, to air them, and to force the journalists to ask her about them. The one time she has had one unscripted moment, and that was just on the tarmac with Biden the other night. In 60 seconds, she did exactly what her handlers are afraid of; she just melted down in that word salad — wash, rinse, spin,” Hanson said. “So that’s what Trump needs to do and anything he can do that will be conducive.”
Kamala Harris spoke for the first time of this campaign without a script.
It went exactly how you'd expect.pic.twitter.com/p5IcmkizJd
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 2, 2024
