Anointed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris promises “a new way forward,” but Presidentish Joe Biden said today he delegated “everything from foreign policy to domestic policy” to Harris because “as vice president, there wasn’t a single thing that I did that she couldn’t do” and everybody with functioning synapses wants to know, “Which is it, bub?”
I’ll pause here a moment to give you time to both marvel at Biden’s subtle undercut of the Harris-Walz campaign but mostly to chuckle at the phrase, “Kamala Harris promises.”
Did you get all that out of your system? Good. Let’s proceed, shall we?
All told, Harris is having a mixed week. On the one hand, bettors at sites like Polymarket and John Stossel’s Election Betting Odds show Harris as a slight favorite, and so does poll analyst Nate Silver. If you want to know how the least-liked vice president in polling history suddenly gained such likability, Elon Musk (an actual rocket scientist) has you covered.
“Manufactured by the media.”
On the other hand, she’s still an embarrassment every time she speaks, and her pudding-brained boss just slipped a shiv between her ribs — on The View of all places. For progressive women, that show serves as sacred ground.
During the 2004 presidential race between George W Bush and John Kerry, Evan Thomas, the assistant managing editor of Newsweek, said the media “wants Kerry to win.” He continued, “They’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic, and all. There’s going to be this glow about them that some, is going to be worth, collectively, the two of them, that’s going to be worth maybe 15 points.”
Hellbound and Down 