Presidential campaigns are, to a large degree, about telling stories.
Kamala Harris is profoundly bad at telling stories. But to watch her whirlwind press tour this week — a tour that only hit sympathetic outlets — was to be told that, despite our own eyes and ears, she is the smartest, strongest, most capable leader since Lincoln.
Not to mention a true champion of women – an assertion untrammeled by those dark allegations against her husband, Doug Emhoff.
Kamala's media blitzkrieg began on Sunday, with an appearance on Alex Cooper's sex-centric podcast 'Call Her Daddy'.
Yes: The left's own Sarah Palin decided to prove her intellectual mettle on a podcast that most recently made headlines for Katy Perry's disclosure that she performs oral sex on her partner, Orlando Bloom, after he does the dishes.
This is the platform Harris chose to inaugurate her press tour, months after securing the nomination? This is what she finds most emblematic of feminism?
Speaking with a host who has done deep dives with Post Malone about his 'puffy nipples', badgered Miley Cyrus about her favorite sex acts, and titled one episode 'The Roadmap to His Assh**e' — one wonders, truly, if Kamala's team is setting her up to fail or simply putting her in front of people who, by comparison, make her look smart.
Not one legitimate press conference to date. Not one sit-down with an adversarial outlet or interviewer.
Then again, why bother?
The New Yorker — which ceased being the most august weekly publication in America circa MAGA — has just put Harris on its cover, a resplendent illustration of her in profile, bathed in regal purple, looking skyward.
Inside, the editors offer a five-page editorial endorsement that is more anti-Trump than pro-Kamala.
'As recently as three months ago,' the editors acknowledge, 'the Washington cognoscenti cast aspersions on her political skills.'
That's one way to put it. Barack Obama reportedly did not want Harris leading the ticket, so doubtful was he that she could defeat Trump.
Save his appearance at the Democratic National Convention this summer, Obama has been remarkably absent – until Thursday night.
What was meant to be Kamala's victory lap has, to top Dems, clearly become a five-alarm fire.
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Speaking in Pittsburgh, Obama had the temerity to bully black male voters — a historically disenfranchised demographic that is increasingly fleeing to Trump.
'Part of it makes me think,' he said, 'that, well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president.'
How insulting. Obama knows better, not least because his party and the media were all but begging his wife to run.
It was also announced this week that Bill Clinton, who has his own troubles with women, will be hitting the campaign trail in a last-ditch attempt to boost voter enthusiasm.
Note to Kamala: Don't leave Dougie alone with Bill.
This intra-party doubt about Harris is nothing new. Nancy Pelosi, in September last year, refused to affirm Harris as Biden's best running mate in 2024.
'[Joe Biden] thinks so,' Pelosi told CNN, 'and that's what matters.' That was back in the halcyon days when D.C. and the media were covering up Biden's cognitive decline. How quickly things change.
Back to Kamala's first interview of the week: Alex Cooper opened her podcast by making one thing clear — it was her decision to book Kamala, not the other way around.
'Daddy Gang,' Cooper earnestly began.
How juvenile. How beneath the office Harris seeks.
Cooper admitted that her lack of political fluency was a real concern: 'Do I talk about the economy? Do I talk about border control? Do I talk about fracking?'
Sex toys, check. Polyamory, check. But with a potentially devastating hurricane looming, and a good portion of the country still reeling from Helene, Harris sat down with this myopic, immature, sex-obsessed simpleton. --->READ MORE HERE
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