The GOP is not interested in winning over voters
Vice president Kamala Harris is trying to win the 2024 presidential election by appealing to Americans’ hearts and minds. Donald Trump is campaiging in blue states he cannot win, as he did again on Sunday, to draw press attention to himself, not voters. Trump is not even trying to win the election. He means to monkeywrench the post-election. That contrast ought to get more press than it does.
I’ve mentioned before the 2013 “election integrity” boot camp I sat in on sponsored by a North Carolina True the Vote spinoff. Much of it was sad. All of it was conspiratorial. None of it was about increasing voter participation. Trump’s campaign is no different, just better funded. All defense. No offense. Okay, plenty of offense, just not the game-winning kind.
Harris last night at The Ellipse in the nation’s capitol, contrasted her to-do list with Trump’s enemies list.
“On day one, if elected, Donald Trump would walk into that office with an enemies list. When elected, I will walk in with a to-do list full of priorities on what I will get done for the American people.”
Trump is running on vengeance, on making himself dictator, and on staying out of jail. That ought to get more press too.
He’s also got a lot of help with propaganda sponsored by billionaires and foreign agents. Perhaps you’ve noticed?
“Polymarket is a foreign information operation against Harris,” tweeted Simon Rosenberg last night.
That ought to get more press.
When I obtain a copy of some state Democratic Party’s county chair’s manual, they are often heavy on party administration and light on electing Democrats. Trump’s campaign is light on doing anything to make the country a better place. That’s because the country and his supporters are not Trump’s primary interests. That ought to get more press.
When he loses next week (I’m hopeful), he’ll take once again to the courts and attempt to litigate a win. He doesn’t see the law as a process for finding the truth and working out justice. It’s a tool for gaming democracy and bleeding dry his opponents.
That ought to get more press.
