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Kamala Harris’ town hall event last night was a complete disaster.

Here are her 7 worst moments of the night:

7. Kamala is asked what her biggest weakness is, responds by saying she values having a smart team of people with different perspectives.

6. Cooper asks a similar… pic.twitter.com/QjIEYFcKoN

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 24, 2024

Ed: The first one is a basic interview question -- I used to ask it when hiring people. If the applicant gave me an answer about a strength, I knew they'd never learn and would deflect, and would rarely take a chance on them. It's an honesty screen. Harris just failed it. 

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🚨 Kamala ONCE AGAIN is unable to answer how she'd be different than Biden pic.twitter.com/5tus6FsBbZ

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 24, 2024

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Top Democrat strategist David Axelrod on Kamala Harris' town hall performance:

“When she doesn't want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to word salad city”

“She would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration's policies and that's a mistake”

“You… pic.twitter.com/kT2uQrpPWp

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 24, 2024

Ed: "Take me down to Word Salad City, where the gaps are seen and they don't look pretty ..." Apologies to Guns & Roses.

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“I find it troubling,” [Senator Mike Lee] told The Daily Wire on Thursday, “especially because, to me, it feels like trolling for assassins.”

“When you’re constantly calling him Hitler,” Lee said, “that’s really dangerous.”

“I’m not one who thinks that no one can ever make a Hitler comparison or at least draw upon it, but when you identify him as much as they have with Hitler, you characterize him that way, it tends to leave a lot of people feeling morally justified in doing or saying things they wouldn’t otherwise do or say.”

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CNN delivers BRUTAL fact check on Kamala’s lies on fracking, Trump’s border wall and the Trump tax cuts! #CNNTownHall pic.twitter.com/9PFCyUTQPM

— George Balfour-Kinnear (@balfourUK) October 24, 2024

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She goes on in that vein, throwing in a few more truncated Trump quotes. If you watch the video, you might agree with me that it’s a fascinating performance in a very icky way. Not only is it an over-the-top smear disguised as an unselfish warning, but Kamala simply doesn’t have a knack for acting. Her faux concern about the prospect of Trump the fascist “standing behind the seal of the president of the United States!” – something she repeats for emphasis, as though she is sickened by the idea that this fascist will defile the sacred emblem – is something to behold.

I have seen many politicians in my life. But I’ve never seen anyone as obviously false as Kamala Harris. And although politicians lie a lot, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a campaign so totally and utterly based on lies.

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My rebuttal to last night’s @cnn Kamala Harris town hall: if she were an animal, she’d be a duck-billed platitude. Took on the “flawless vs lawless” construct with Erin and friends. pic.twitter.com/MJjw5U9QRF

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 24, 2024

Ed: 'Duck-billed platitude' is a keeper. 

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Harris is in a tight race for the presidency. She has no wish to alienate voters, and she, or at least her handlers, must be aware that her propensity to toss random words into the air amounts almost to a speech impediment. Here she is, for example, trying to explain her administration’s influence over Israel: “The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of, many things including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.” When the English language is your enemy, it may be the better part of valor to say little or nothing.

But another factor also comes into play. Harris is the exact opposite of a candidate of revolt—she represents the golden progressive establishment that today controls most American institutions. In this regard, her strange vacuity is an ideal condition: Policies favored by the establishment will simply be stuffed into that void. 

Ed: That's what they did with Joe Biden, too. And are still doing.

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jesus -- Dana Bash says she's hearing from people that Harris failed "to close the deal." These folks are gonna bothsides us straight into fascism. pic.twitter.com/XwGpxWKj8q

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 24, 2024

Ed: What does Rupar expect -- Bash to pretend that she offered a convincing argument? One look at the polls shows that's not true. Harris has gotten the biggest boost in history from the American media industry over the last three months ... and she still can't close the deal. 

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Donald Trump is using some of those cultural tactics to tap into that anxiety. But the issues here, Dana, are very removed from the conversations that are currently going on in Washington. John Kelly and fascism, about Joe Rogan. Men in particular on these campuses, they don’t really care that much from what I’ve been hearing about these cultural issues. They care about everyday concerns. Again, only about a third of Americans, Dana, have a college degree.

So this is a sub-sample of younger voters in general, but the young men that I have been talking to in particular, they don’t hate Kamala Harris. They actually like her in certain ways. And even young Republicans, I’ve talked to talk about her more warmly than I guarantee they would have about Hillary Clinton. They just say they think the world was better and safer under Donald Trump, the economy was healthier. One other thing that keeps he’s coming up, too, that you don’t hear a lot about in the national media, Dana is a lot of young men are worried about global conflict because they are of draft age.

Ed: Peter Hamby knows what was said and he's generally a fair man, so take this at face value. However, I think there is something else deeper in play -- a reaction against a woke culture that targets men for being men. That has to be a significant amount of the connection young male voters are feeling with Trump too. 

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Wow.

Kamala Harris says that she does not believe in any religious exemptions for abortion.pic.twitter.com/oOiJJOi6Ib

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 22, 2024

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Harris should make it clear what conscience rights she opposes. The federal government has many rules in place to protect the conscience rights of health-care professionals and health-care providers that do not wish to participate in abortions. Does Harris oppose the Weldon amendment, which prevents HHS funds from going to entities that discriminate against health-care care providers that do not pay for, provide, cover, or refer for abortions? Does she oppose then Coats-Snowe amendment, when prevents the federal government from discriminating against health-care entities that do not perform abortions?

However, the best question to ask Kamala Harris would be if she opposes the Church amendments. 

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MSNBC tried their best to bait these Philly voters into celebrating Kamala Harris

The Philly voters weren’t having it pic.twitter.com/UfpdYyfqoN

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) October 23, 2024