Things have turned very dark in America since last week’s assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk. I feel it with an intensity that has yet to diminish, and I imagine others feel the same.
Today, therefore, feels like a good day to remind ourselves that Kirk, through his nonprofit Turning Point USA and by his speaking tours of college campuses, helped turn the youth vote toward President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, thereby sparing us the absolute clown show of a presidency that would have unfolded under former Vice President Kamala Harris.
For instance, according to Politico, in her new book “107 Days,” Harris wrote that then-President Joe Biden called her only moments before her one and only debate with Trump to pose an absurd question that had her wondering, “Why’s he asking that?”
In short, Biden wanted to know why Harris had allegedly bad-mouthed him to donors in Philadelphia.
“My head had to be right. I had to be completely in the game,” she wrote. “I just couldn’t understand why he would call me, right now, and make it all about himself.”
Biden making it all about himself? That seems so out of character for the man who told wildfire victims in Maui that he could relate to them because he once endured a small kitchen fire.
More to the point, however, if a pre-debate phone call could rattle Harris, then how could she have handled the presidency?
In any event, Harris described herself as “barely listening” to Biden, per the Associated Press.
The former vice president also recalled other sources of frustration with her then-boss and those closest to him.
Would Kamala Harris have been a worse president than Biden?
During a July Fourth celebration at the White House, for instance, following Biden’s catastrophic debate performance against Trump, then-first lady Jill Biden apparently pulled Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff aside and asked, “What’s going on? Are you supporting us?”
An angry Emhoff later privately fumed: “They have to ask if we’re loyal?”
In other words, a bitter-sounding Harris unleashed on both of the Bidens.
Moreover, early reviews of the book have characterized it, at least in part, as an expression of sour grapes.
USA Today, for instance, described the former vice president as “burning her bridges.”
“There is more score-settling in the account than is typical in political books written by those who plan to run again and will once again be in search of allies,” the outlet wrote. “It’s more like the versions of history written by those who are ready to burn some bridges.”
If Harris wants to settle scores with fellow Democrats, more power to her.
She may, of course, blame her loss on whomever she wishes. It will not change the fact that she ranks as perhaps the most inauthentic and inarticulate major-party candidate in American history.
In short, thank God for Kirk and others who worked tirelessly to help remove Harris from power.
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