By Dave Andrusko

Photo: Gage Skidmore
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In Part One, we listed mostly out-of-control headlines that suggested some pro-abortionists need to take more sedatives. It is part of the game plan pro-abortion Vice President Kamala Harris will close on: explicitly state that former President Donald Trump is not less than a Nazi and blather on about his alleged mental decline.
The latter of course comes from a woman who hid the truly scary deterioration of President Joe Biden for much of three years.
That is enough to give hypocrisy a bad name.
First, as always, the polling numbers. Nationally, Trump has taken the lead—48.5% to 48.4%. Tiny, of course, but it’s the trend that counts. Harris has been ahead for months.
The 0.1% lead comes to being behind by 7.4% on this date in 2020 and 4.6% in 2016. Trump is ahead by a similarly small margin in six of the seven Battleground states.
Second, it’s literally impossible to overstate the importance of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and owner of Twitter/X. Trump is now free to use Twitter/X as are hundreds of other conservatives who were censored by the old regime. This is a major victory for free speech.
The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell and Jeremy B. Merrill begin their story with this ominous lead:
“The top political accounts on X have seen their audiences crumble in the months before the election, a signal of the platform’s diminishing influence and usefulness to political discourse under billionaire owner Elon Musk, a Washington Post analysis found. … X has seen a dramatic exodus of users since Musk took over in 2022, according to independent analysts such as Edison Research, which said in March that X’s usage in the United States had dropped 30 percent since last year. The investment firm Fidelity this month estimated that X’s value has plunged by about 80 percent since Musk’s takeover.”
Big Trouble, right? Well, referring to “the 100 top-tweeting congressional accounts, including senators, representatives and committees, equal parts Democrat and Republican,” they acknowledge
[S]ome of their tweets are still going mega-viral — virtually all of them from Republicans, the analysis shows. The Republicans have also seen huge spikes in follower counts over the Democrats, and their tweets have collectively received billions more views. …
How about the viewers that have stayed on X? They
now largely see posts that skew toward the political bent of Musk himself, an avid booster of former president Donald Trump who has jumped onstage with him at rallies, donated $118 million toward his bid for a second term and launched a daily $1 million giveaway for registered voters in swing states. Musk, the world’s richest man, paid $44 billion to buy X and has since become its biggest user, with 200 million followers.
There are a few sentences darkly suggesting that X “is explicitly suppressing Democrats,” but Harwell and Merrill admit “The Post’s analysis turned up no evidence of direct manipulation.” Then…
But the transformation of a platform once obsessed over by politicians, journalists and news junkies has nevertheless fueled agitation among Democrats over lost opportunities for messaging during an election year that has been bitterly fought over online. A Pew Research Center survey in March found that, of the people who post about political issues on X, Republicans were much more likely to say their “views are welcome there.”
Third, it is also impossible to overstate the drag on the ticket of Harris’s choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. The New York Post editorial is correctly headlined, “Tim Walz is a walking warning about Kamala Harris’ decision-making.”
No need to go into detail about his penchant for stretching the truth not to mention out and out lying. Let’s just say the record is lengthy and depressing. Walz is a buffoon but an exceedingly dangerous buffoon.
From our perspective, Walz has all but declared war not only on unborn children but abortion survivors as well. “Tim Walz isn’t like your favorite grandpa,” Cathy Blaeser, co-executive director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL), Minnesota’s largest pro-life organization, has said. “He’s a threat to your grandpa—and to unborn and newborn children, too. He’s a strident ideologue, an abortion absolutist, and an ominous sign of what a Harris administration would portend.”
If that weren’t bad enough, “as governor during the pandemic, Walz allowed the transfer of Covid-infected patients back into long-term care centers, even centers with known infection-control problems, despite the risks to the most vulnerable patients,” MCCL reported.
Last point for today. Nicole Russell is a columnist for USA TODAY. Her latest reads, “Harris uses Texas to promote abortion – and peddle fear to suburban women voters.”
She ends this way:
Harris stopped in Texas to promote the lie that life was better when abortion was readily available.
That lie is built atop another lie: that when Roe mandated legal abortions throughout America, women were more free and more joyful.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
“Nothing could be further from the truth” could be the motto of the Harris/Walz team.