{"id":40613,"date":"2024-07-22T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40613"},"modified":"2024-07-22T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T23:26:08","slug":"dont-look-dont-look-dont-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/07\/22\/dont-look-dont-look-dont-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Look! Don&#8217;t Look! Don&#8217;t Look!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naturally, VP Harris will now be the victim of attacks, mischaracterizations, and all that sort of thing. <a href=\"https:\/\/ewerickson.substack.com\/p\/the-harris-reality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s Erick Erickson, trying to keep the herd together<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats publicly say that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. Privately, many Democrat politicians do not believe it. Privately, many of them see Kamala Harris as a weak candidate and a threat to their own ambitions. If Harris were to win in 2024, she\u2019d be the incumbent running for re-election in 2028. That would put Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, and plenty of others far out of office and out of the spotlight by the time 2032 rolls around.<\/p>\n<p>Do you really think they want Harris to win?\u00a0<em>Really?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First, she&#8217;s weak or she&#8217;s a threat, but both is <em>deeply unlikely<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Harris is also a deeply flawed candidate.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/29\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris-2020.html\" rel=\"\">Here\u2019s the New York Times<\/a> from 2020. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In October 2023, Harris tried her\u00a0<em>fourth<\/em>\u00a0reboot as Vice President. But by then, the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/10\/magazine\/kamala-harris.html\" rel=\"\">noted<\/a> that Democrats were beginning to question whether Harris should be replaced. Yes, less than a year ago, Democrats were speculating that Biden should oust Harris. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On the one-year anniversary of her tenure as Vice President, the BBC ran a story titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-60061473\" rel=\"\">Kamala Harris one year: Where did it go wrong for her?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Politico\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/30\/kamala-harris-office-dissent-497290\" rel=\"\">declared<\/a>, \u201cThere is dysfunction inside the VP\u2019s office, aides and administration officials say. And it\u2019s emanating from the top.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240720_205041754-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40615 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240720_205041754-scaled.jpg?resize=270%2C275&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240720_205041754-scaled.jpg?w=2513&amp;ssl=1 2513w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240720_205041754-scaled.jpg?resize=294%2C300&amp;ssl=1 294w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240720_205041754-scaled.jpg?resize=1005%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1005w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240720_205041754-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C782&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240720_205041754-scaled.jpg?resize=1508%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1508w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240720_205041754-scaled.jpg?resize=2010%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 2010w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240720_205041754-scaled.jpg?resize=147%2C150&amp;ssl=1 147w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240720_205041754-scaled.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240720_205041754-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>But Erickson&#8217;s dealing in rumors, many from years and years ago. Again, Harris is either weak or dangerous, but she&#8217;s been receiving a master class in politicking from demonstrated master President Biden, and she&#8217;d already graduated into an advanced program through her years in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Erickson wants us to believe Harris a weak, divisive candidate, and maybe he&#8217;s right. But right now, very early in the game, it all sounds like malicious rumor-mongering from someone who realizes his own <del>master criminal<\/del> Party leader is something of a joke.<\/p>\n<p>And what will the electorate care about the internal workings of her campaign, anyways?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naturally, VP Harris will now be the victim of attacks, mischaracterizations, and all that sort of thing. Here&#8217;s Erick Erickson, trying to keep the herd together: Democrats publicly say that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. Privately, many Democrat politicians do not believe it. Privately, many of them see \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/07\/22\/dont-look-dont-look-dont-look\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40616,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40613\/revisions\/40616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}