Wednesday, August 12, 2020
It's Biden/Harris
As you know, Joe Biden selected California Senator Kamala Harris to be his running mate. Many Democrats and the media are applauding the choice, hailing her nomination as "historic." The New York Times is describing Harris as a "pragmatic moderate," even if her voting record suggests otherwise.
Presidential nominees often seek to balance their ticket, and there's no question that Harris offers various contrasts to Biden.
She provides a gender balance. She provides a racial balance. She provides a generational balance (she's 55, Biden's 77). And she provides a geographic balance (she's from the West Coast and Biden's from the East Coast).
Putrid In Portland
The growing disrespect for law enforcement and the rule of law generally in Portland is beyond absurd. Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced yesterday that his office would be dismissing the vast majority of charges brought against the rioters and thugs who have terrorized the city for the past 75 days.
Schmidt said he wanted to "honor the fact that they were there protesting and wanting to be heard." Among the charges he is refusing to prosecute:
- Interfering with a police officer
- Disorderly conduct
- Criminal trespass
- Harassment
- Escape in the 3rd degree
- Riot (sometimes in some circumstances)
Schmidt added that his office will be scrutinizing charges of resisting arrest and assault on law enforcement officers "if those cases occurred when an individual was being teargassed or otherwise exposed to a use of force at the time of resistance."
Why does that matter? Schmidt excused the resistance as the "instinctive reaction of people who have been gassed repeatedly, who have been struck with kinetic projectile weapons, and who have seen other protestors arrested in ways they deeply disapprove of."
Perhaps it is time for law-abiding, patriotic Americans who live in Portland to start voting with their feet. They should start making plans to relocate to more rational areas of the country.
"White House Siege"
The radical group behind the Occupy Wall Street movement is back. This time it is setting its sights on the White House. The group is calling on activists to "lay siege to the White House" for 50 days. The "revolution" begins on September 17th.
Remember the chaos BLM activists created outside the White House not that long ago? Dozens of Secret Service agents were injured. They want those images on the nightly news every night for 50 days leading up to November 3rd.
Make no mistake about it: This chaos and turmoil is part of the radical left's strategy to destabilize America. And it comes at a time when the nation is already deeply divided and on edge about foreign interference in our elections.
Polling Problems
A well-respected political observer predicts that Joe Biden has a 71% chanceof winning the election. He also predicted that Hillary Clinton had a 71.4% chance of winning in 2016.
CNBC released a new poll today showing Biden leading Trump by six points. But one analysis of the poll finds that it grossly oversampled and undersampled certain demographics in ways that may have seriously skewed the results.
When the samples are adjusted to reflect turnout in 2016, the race becomes a statistical tie.
Omar Prevails
Squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar beat back a serious primary challenge last night from a very well-funded liberal candidate, Antone Melton-Meaux.
He criticized Omar for repeatedly missing votes, for funneling money to her new husband and for her blatant anti-Semitism. The biggest newspaper in Minnesota endorsed Melton-Meaux. None of it mattered. She cruised to victory, 57% to 39%.