After Kamala Harris was basically handed the nomination by Joe Biden without any votes from the people for the position, we suddenly started being treated to media hype.
We were supposed to believe that this woman who was, up until that moment, unpopular, was suddenly the new “hope.”
Now, I don’t doubt that there are some people who embrace her because she’s “anything but the decrepit old Joe Biden,” and they think she gives them a better chance than he did against former President Donald Trump. And there are no doubt people who fall for whatever the Democratic narrative of the moment is. If they tell you she’s your hope and “joy,” then some just flip the cult switch and believe it, despite the fact that she’s fully attached to all the failure that is the Biden-Harris administration that most people don’t like.
But are people really falling for this bilge she’s trying to sell, badly?
I wrote about how she went to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday, how she had an event at an aircraft hangar, and how what she said in a cafe/bookstore just showed how unfit she was, with whacked-out word salad on what she thought about how her campaign is doing in Pennsylvania.
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But there’s some intriguing back story to that, and about her events, that shows a problem in their campaign.
The events at the cafe/bookstore and the aircraft hanger were “invitation only,” according to the NY Post. While there were maybe a couple of hundred at the airport, there were about two dozen at the cafe. If they didn’t invite people, how many would they have showing up?
Trump rallies are organic, and people show up because they want to show up. You don’t have folks showing up, with every one of them waving professional signs. So, the folks invited to the event at the hangar were union workers.
This has been the case with other events that she’s held; for example in New Hampshire, where CBS Boston said the event she held there on Sept. 4 was by invitation.
Here’s another one, in Glendale, Arizona:
IT’S ALL FAKE: Crazy Kamala’s rally in Arizona tonight is “invitation only.”
Why wouldn’t they want an event open to the public? Unless… pic.twitter.com/soajXLLE9K
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 10, 2024
That was also funny because it showed they require IDs to match the invitation. This event is by the woman who’s left the border open–she wants security at her event, just doesn’t give a darn about it at the border.
Then there was the Primanti Brothers incident in August, where the customers in the restaurant that she interacted with reportedly weren’t regular customers. According to reports, the regular customers were tossed out and others came in on buses. Then the local media reported on her interaction with the “customers.”
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How fake can you be, when you do that?
So they’re inviting people–not people organically there–to pump up the numbers; they’re inviting union people or other people on Democratic lists. It might also enable you to screen people, so maybe that would limit the potential protesters. They’re even handing out signs for the people to wave:
Here in Johnstown, @VP Kamala Harris support signs are being handed out in anticipation of her arrival @TribLIVE pic.twitter.com/wIF59NC9tt
— Megan Swift (@mgswift7) September 13, 2024
But while Harris might be doing that to try to paint a picture of excitement around her campaign, there’s one big problem with this, which some of the folks in Johnstown enunciated.
If you do this, you’re not really reaching out to the Trump supporters, the undecided, or independent people to hear you. You’re just preaching to the folks already on your team. It looks like you don’t care about the other people. And when the polls and the focus groups indicate that people are not convinced and want to know how she’s different from Joe Biden, you’re not telling them. You’re just creating a facade, but not actually doing the job you need to do to win.
Some of the people in Johnstown blasted her for not having it open to the public:
“She’s hiding from most of the people,” Ed Luce told The Post. “She needs to convince a lot of the working poor people.” [….]
Trump won the surrounding county with over 67% of the vote in 2016 and 2020.
Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes are critical to victory this November.
“Old school Democrats are what the Republicans are now,” said Jim Ardary, referring to the values of hard work and love of country. [….]
An Obama-Trump voter, he’s excited about Trump’s recent proposal not to tax overtime pay.
“The way the economy was going, I ended up out on the road doing industrial weed control,” said Luce, 63. He was not convinced by what he heard from Harris during the debate. He said he still didn’t know what her policies were.
It’s also an area where Harris had to drive past all the Trump signs as she rode into town. That must have made her sweat. When Trump visited the area, he had more than 6,000 people in the Cambria County War Memorial, with a line that stretched for two miles outside to get in. They had thousands more outside, watching on a jumbotron.
“Knowing it’s MAGA land, she had some balls coming,” AJ Hasley, a veteran and cook, told The Post, but he felt insulted by Harris’s invite-only events.
“If you’re campaigning, your job is to get your word out to as many people as possible,” Hasley said.
“To do invite only, it makes me think she only cares about the rich people, the people going to give money to her campaign.”
Hasley never voted before, and he’s now voting for the first time…for Trump.
Those are the opportunities Harris is turning right over to Trump.
