In the last few weeks, there has undeniably been a significant vibe shift. Kamala Harris, once thought toxic and unelectable, is now favored by many mainstream media and perceptive election "experts," to say nothing of national polls. Granted, many of those polls are suspicious: the pollsters have already been credibly accused of vastly oversampling Democrats.

Nevertheless, polls undeniably show the race between Vice President Harris and President Trump as tightening. This does not mean that President Trump can't win; far from it. It simply means he's facing someone with a pulse, and someone with a pulse is more electable than a corpse. President Trump's campaign just needs to make the necessary adjustments to exploit Harris' weaknesses; for instance, the fact that she and her running mate Tim Walz are the most far-left ticket in United States history.

Personally, I think the momentum that Harris has is mainly a honeymoon phase; a sugar rush as Democrats exhale with relief at being able to vote for someone not named Joe Biden, no matter how generic she is. Nevertheless, Harris has predictably tried to claim that she is now the favorite in this race, and the media is repeating the same message in lockstep. However, the public should be skeptical; President Trump and his camp have explicitly stated that most of their efforts against the Harris-Walz ticket will come after the Democratic National Convention. I have no doubt that when that time comes, they will once again seize the mantle of "most electable ticket." 

And they are. While Harris was busy choosing far-left liar and Democratic Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate, President Trump has been mercilessly broadening his appeal. His frequent campaign stops in Michigan and North Carolina are sops to the working class, and his choice to conduct one-on-one interviews with some of the most recognizable names among the eighteen to thirty-five-year-old age range shows he's making a grab for the youth vote. Early signs are encouraging: by appearing with internet sensation Adin Ross earlier this month on August 5th, Trump garnered nearly one hundred million views. Ross painted Trump as one of the pillars of American patriotism in the modern era, and made clear that a win for the former president would save the country. When it comes to appealing to the younger generations, it doesn't get much better than that.

Similarly, President Trump agreed to appear in an X Space for an interview with Elon Musk, live-streamed on the platform on August 12th. That interview garnered so much interest that the Space crashed, leading to technical difficulties which delayed, but did not stop the proceedings. And once it did start, it was fascinating. Musk asked Trump questions for nearly two hours, with the 45th President describing his assassination attempt, his plans for mass deportation once in office, his plan for Musk in the second Trump administration, and an explanation of why Harris was a carbon copy of President Joe Biden, only worse. By the end of the interview across all platforms that the interview is currently available on, Musk and Trump had garnered nearly 998 million listeners and counting for the largest audience of an X Space in the company's history.

So yes, President Trump's energy is unmatched, as is his ability to turn the tide just when the political environment feels most hopeless. The mainstream media and establishment press may have crowned Harris as the woman who can take Trump down, but already, the Trump campaign is proving it has the wind at its back. You don't get upwards of a billion views on social media through just two interviews without it. However, even if Trump remains the same larger-than-life brawler he's always been, that's not enough for him to win. Conservatives need to show up. They need to stop despairing. They need to stop running around like chickens with their heads cut off over every election "expert" who tries to change the narrative. Experts don't determine the vote; the people do. Even if Trump's interviews were not rocking the media landscape (which they are), he is at least doing interviews, unlike Harris, who hasn't done a single sit-down interview since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for President. Sooner or later, people will notice that one of these candidates is actually trying to win their vote, and the other is taking that vote for granted.

In short, this is no time to panic; instead, it's time to shift the vibes again and seize victory.