It is plainly obvious why the Democrats lied to their constituents about Beyonce or Taylor Swift appearing at their convention this year prior to Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech at the DNC. Harris is arguably the worst presidential candidate in U.S. history, thus she needs the “halo effect” of celebrity endorsements in order to appeal to the least informed and most miserable among us—unmarried women.

Using exit polling from the 2022 midterm elections, we find that married men support Republicans by +20 points, married women are R+14, unmarried men are also R+14, and unmarried women support Democrats by a whopping +37-point differential.

We have already predicted that race and gender would be central to the Harris campaign, given that the campaign really does not have anything else to promote. Kamala is a uniquely unqualified candidate and Democrats are likely in full agreement that she has a lousy record to run on, very poor speaking skills, and a toxic personality that is off-putting to the majority of Americans. She is the least popular VP in polling history.

What You See is What You Get: Nothing.

Ducking from the public has only drawn more attention to the fact that Harris is an empty vessel with no ability or willingness to articulate policy positions or explain blatant reversals from her past policies. Media outlets are clearly annoyed by this refusal to provide concrete campaign content but continue to play along anyway, knowing that this “self-preservation” strategy of keeping away from any unscripted exchanges with the media might succeed similarly as Joe Biden’s “basement” strategy did in 2020.

With very little to work with, the Harris campaign has to resort to a theme we have already outlined: race and gender. However, with the race card being somewhat ineffective for a half-Jamaican, half-Indian woman who cannot honestly cast herself as African American and has no genuine connection to the Black community, we are left with being presented with not the female Obama but the Black Hillary.

Will American women rise to support Kamala Harris? Only if they’re okay with her early career dalliances with California political player Willie Brown in exchange for political appointments. Only if they’re okay with Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff cheating on his first wife, getting the nanny pregnant, and “pimp slapping” an old girlfriend in front of a crowd at a gala event in France. And only if they’re okay with implementing California-style soft-on-crime policies across the country and turning every small town into criminal free-for-alls where women defending themselves could land them in jail.

In Democrat Politics, Real Men Need Not Apply.

Do American women really despise masculine men? The 2024 DNC had a non-stop parade of beta males, from Pete Buttigieg to Andy Beshear, from Barack Obama to Chuck Schumer. And VP nominee Tim Walz was the latest to be held up as the masculine ideal for Democrat women to embrace. It’s grotesque.

Democrats are okay with women being single, dependent on government, and afraid of real men. It’s the one demographic left that they could count on to vote with their emotions, and Democrats routinely whip up those passions during election season.

It is not a particularly subtle woman-attracting strategy. We remember the condescending messaging the Obama re-election campaign leveled on women voters in 2012 with their Life of Julia story, a cartoon in which a fictional Julia figure relies on government help throughout her entire life and would be otherwise left to fend for herself under a Republican (in this case, Mitt Romney) administration.

This cradle-to-grave narrative showing a woman’s lifelong reliance on government assistance was panned even in Democrat circles as showing a lack of awareness—but self-awareness was never one of Political Genius Barack Obama’s personal qualities.

Leveraging Gender for Fun and Profit.

Democrats cannot present Harris as a centrist because nobody is buying it, plus it angers their left-wing base. They can’t pull the race card again as Harris can’t seem to make up her mind if she’s Black or if she’s Indian. And the campaign certainly can’t run Harris on her record yet she is proudly wearing the Biden-Harris disaster around her neck except at times when she doesn’t.

This leaves the Kamala Harris campaign with only one differentiating factor from Donald Trump, the only quality that is not being challenged by anyone: Gender.

Yes, it’s time once again for a woman American president. Where have we heard that before?

We fondly remember the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign where Americans were asked to help Hillary break the glass ceiling and historically elect the first woman to be president. What we said at the time was that we should elect the best woman to be president, not just the one who insisted that it was her turn. But Democrats ran with Hillary, and the rest is history.

The Political Genius Shames Black Men into Supporting Harris. No, Really.

Speaking at a recent campaign event, Political Genius Barack Obama showed up to support Harris but ended up alienating a key demographic the Democrats need—Black men—by shaming them for not unconditionally supporting Kamala Harris.

“Part of it makes me think—and I’m speaking to men directly—part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives, and other reasons for that.”

Political Genius Obama continued. “When we get in trouble and the system isn’t working for us, (women) are the ones out there marching and protesting. And now you’re thinking about…supporting someone else because you think that’s a sign of strength because that’s what a man is? Putting women down? That’s not acceptable.”

Never mind whether these Black men might have solid reasons for not supporting Harris—maybe it has something to do with the awful economic and crime-ridden conditions in their neighborhoods. Maybe they feel left behind by Biden-Harris, or that their past support of Democrats did not make any difference in their lives. No, Political Genius Barack Obama tells Black men that they’re “putting women down” by not voting for Harris, and “that’s not acceptable.”

According to Political Genius Obama, the 2024 election is not a referendum on the issues, but the simplistic narrative of a man running against a woman. It’s the patriarchy against a fierce woman of color. It’s the Orange Bad Man against the Joyful Black or Indian or Asian Female of Identity Change. Oh, and Brat.

And over the weekend, this political chameleon—Kamala Harris—had the audacity in front of supporters in North Carolina high on their own self-delusion, dared to claim that Donald Trump was ducking another debate with her, on a network favorable to her. She seems to forget that she is the one who would have no part in a debate on Fox News moderated by real journalists, Brett Baer and Martha MacCallum. Not the partisan hacks who moderated the two previous debates; David Muir and Linsey Davis on ABC (Always Broadcasting Crap) or false fact-checkers Nora O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan who moderated the embarrassing Vice Presidential Debate on CBS where JD Vance dismembered beta male Tim Walz.

It’s the Battle of the Sexes all over again, only this time Donald Trump is not an over-the-hill Bobby Riggs, and Kamala Harris is certainly not at the top of her game like Billie Jean King.

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Richard Truesdell is a former consumer electronics retail executive and automotive travel photojournalist. In the last 25 years, he has visited more than 35 countries on six continents. A former high school history teacher with a BA in Political Science from Waynesburg University, he is a lifelong Conservative moderate who has turned his thoughts and keyboard to political commentary and popular culture. A cross-section of his writings can be found here.

Keith Lehmann is a retired consumer electronics industry executive who has written extensively on technology, transportation, and international travel. Living in Southern California for over fifty years, he has first-hand exposure to societal and cultural happenings of the left and submits decidedly realism-based, Conservative viewpoints, much of which can be found on his Substack.