Electoral College Prediction, Harris on Hitler, and other Dips
We may all be able to afford bacon again
Pundits are calling next week’s election “too close to call.” But look at three down-ballot Senate Democrats candidates signaling the outcome. Bob Casey (Pennsylvania), Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin), and Elissa Slotkin (Michigan) are each running ads cozying up to Donald J. Trump.
That’s a strong signal for the Grand Old Party, which should capture the Senate with a floor of 51 seats. Could Trump’s coattails drag the GOP to 55? That would be a huge turnaround from 2016’s loss of two Republican seats.
With one week to go, DJT leads in all seven battleground states. Republicans aren’t used to this. The last time the GOP lead in polls a week before the election was 1984. Here’s my best guess:
Polls are weighted to the 2020 outcome, but voter registration has leaned heavily Republican since then. You don’t have to look at the swing states to see the shift—Kamala Harris is underperforming Joe Biden by a whopping 7 points in solidly blue states like Washington and Oregon. My best guess is that 45 is on track to be 47, with 312 Electoral College votes and perhaps even the popular vote. Trump’s 2016 victory was the first solid win (300+ in the Electoral College) for Republicans since 1988, and 2024 is shaping up to be even stronger.
On Cue: Accusations of Hitler
As I wrote in the Daily Caller this week, Kamala is kaput.
After three months of cackling along on “joy!” and her media shills’ green brat pixie dust, the Harris-Walz bus blew a head gasket last week.
The fatal tell: Adolf Hitler.
Today, Germany’s führer from 1933 to 1945 is dimwit shorthand for “evil.” The jab carries all the intellectual heft of a “your mom” comeback.
So it is no surprise that on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris stood outside the front door of her residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory and declared, “It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler … this is a window into who Donald Trump really is.”
Why deploy Adolf now? Kamala’s kampf: the latest polls from The Wall Street Journal (Trump +3), CNBC (Trump +2), and Forbes (Trump +2) are detonating with mushroom clouds of despair across Karenland. It’s DEFCON 1 at the DNC.
Opens Democrat playbook. Let’s see here. Losing? Reference page 2: compare your GOP opponent to the genocidal madman and failed watercolor artist who took over Germany 91 years ago and triggered the biggest loss of life in human history.
It’s a well-worn Dem ruse.
Former President Donald J. Trump was still in diapers on the eve of the 1948 election when President Harry Truman compared Thomas Dewey and his running mate Earl Warren to Hitler, warning, as The New York Times reported, that if they were to win it would “bring a Fascistic threat to American freedom that is even more dangerous than the perils from communism and extreme right ‘crackpots.’”
When Sen. Barry Goldwater accepted the Republican nomination in 1964, Democratic California Gov. Pat Brown said the “stench of fascism is in the air.” George McGovern likened Nixon to Nazis in 1972. Rep. William Clay of Missouri blustered that Ronald Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.”
In 2005, Al Gore claimed the George W. Bush administration unleashed “squadrons of digital brownshirts.”
And on and on. From Glenn Youngkin to Ron DeSantis, to Mitch McConnell, you’re not doing your job as a Republican if Democrats don’t compare you to the fascists.
If leftists hadn’t killed humor in their own Orwellian war on language, they might laugh at the irony.
After all, it is Democrats who style themselves as America’s champions of big government, high taxes, government-control of business, state-controlled media, state-run healthcare, Keynesian economics and socialism.
🥓 My Favorite Dip
My fifth book, Bourbon & Bacon, was a bestseller, mainly because it contained my two favorite food groups. This recipe, perfect for football tailgates, adds another: fries. Serve this dip with waffle fries baked extra crispy for dippers.
INGREDIENTS:
One package of bacon slices, cooked and crumbled.
116 ounce container of sour cream
2 cups freshly shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1/3 cup sliced fresh chives
2 teaspoons hot sauce
2 teaspoons hot sauce
Garnishes: cooked, crumbled, bacon; fresh chives; freshly ground black pepper.
Waffle fries
MAKES: 4 cups
HANDS-ON: 25 minutes
TOTAL: 1 hour, 25 minutes
METHOD: (1) start together, bacon and next four ingredients. (2) cover and chill 1 to 24 hours before serving. (3) garnish, if desired. Serve with crispy, warm waffle fries. Seal and store leftovers in refrigerator up to seven days.
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