At multiple recent campaign stops Kamala Harris has appealed to the crowd, ” They have pledged to carry out the largest deportation, a mass deportation, in American history.  Imagine what that would look like and what that would be.”

Predictably her supporters clap and wave signs.  If you’re tolerant of illegal immigration you’re probably against deportation.

Donald Trump and his zealots see it quite differently.  He used the exact video of Kamala’s anti-deportation callout and added his name and approval at the end.   In other words, I am Donald J. Trump and I hope you not only imagine it but get to see it.

What would it look like? Millions of people and the government would be involved, so imagine a yuge mess.

It would look a lot like the unfettered illegal immigration of the last four years- a great big mess.

Eleven million (Trump says, “more, some would say many more, many many more”) aren’t going find the backpack they dropped walking in, pick it up, and head south.

Mexico let them walk out, but they aren’t going to let them walk back in.   Who would want the mess we’ve endured?  Not Mexico.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles anyone?

Here’s a one-way ticket back to your country of origin.  We hope you enjoyed your stay on our dime, here’s another to fly back from whence you came.

JD Vance says we should take little bites out of deportation.  He’d start with any who have criminal records.  He’d move on to organized gangs, etc.

Make no mistake about it, the Border Czar has no plan to deport any just like she had no plan to prevent any from walking in.

Election season is here so now she wants to solve the border problem.  The polls tell her so.  Could someone ask her what she thinks the problem is at the border?  Would she be dumb enough to indict herself?  Maybe.

And, the irony of all ironies is her campaign is hooting and hollering about border crossings being down 55% last month, to the lowest since she took office.

Could it be that everyone who wants in is?   Did we make our bed and now get to lie in it?

Mass deportation likely isn’t the realistic answer any more than our  “no border” border policy of the last four years.  Two wrongs don’t make a right even if the right says so.

Perhaps there is a sensible solution that strikes some balance with who is here and gets to stay or go.

Future clarity is needed on who and how many will come here.  This country isn’t in the same place as in 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

We have laws.  Or, we did.

 

So, who won the debate?

Stated differently, who accomplished what they set out to do.   And, was the performance good enough to sway the few voters still undecided in key battleground states?

For Trump, the objective was to expose Harris for what she is, not the candidate “for change” she purports to be.  For Harris, the objective was to show that she was capable of holding the highest office in the land and to goad Trump into being Trump.  For ABC, owned by liberal Disney, the objective was to help Harris.

The BBR scorecard has it Trump 0, Harris won, ABC 4.

Trump unevenly attempted to attach Harris to her recent Biden/Harris past.  The economy, the border, and the world ablaze were ripe for the picking.  His message didn’t pin the mess on her.

He took the bait each time she tossed it.  “You have small crowds at your rally and they leave early.”  “We have big crowds, great crowds.  Some say the biggest crowds ever. They don’t leave early.”   Who cares?  Trump’s ego cares.  And, it always gets in the way.

His MAGA platform from 2016 has changed very little.  On substance, that might be fine.  On style, it seems tired and more importantly, it doesn’t bring fence-sitters to the right.

“I had the greatest economy some say ever.  Most say ever.  Putin wouldn’t invade if I were in office.  The war will be over if I’m elected before I take office.”

I.  I.  I.  Ego. Ego.  Ego.

People want to see a better tomorrow for themselves not argue about the past.  Tell us how you’d end the war.

Don’t you have a plan to enlist influential business leaders to help you shrink government?  Not a peep last night.

Trump’s wandering unscripted diatribes are old.

Harris is scripted because she’s an actress playing a role.  Low-information voters like style.

She’s played many to get here because she has no defined principles.  She’s for or against defunding the police.  She’s for or against gun confiscation.  She practically eliminated the border and now she’s for a tougher border.

She’ll tackle inflation on her first day in office.  She’s in office now.

If her presidential bid fails she can pocket some big coin doing a commercial next summer for flip-flops.

Her Opportunity Economic Plan is one big government giveaway.   Expand child credits.  Give first-time homebuyers down payment money.  Forgive the student’s debt and hand it to you.  Low-information voters like handouts.

ABC did its part to try to move the needle left.  They repeatedly “fact-checked” Trump even if he spoke factually.  CNN counted four times.  They didn’t fact-check Harris once even if she didn’t speak factually.

There was not a single question about the 35 trillion dollar debt.  Ms. Harris, how do you plan to pay for all of this?

Did this debate matter?  It’s doubtful that Trump gained any undecided nor took any from Harris.  Surely some undecided folks decided to move Harris’ way.

How many?  Is it enough to push her over the top?

Eight weeks ago, thank goodness, Trump dodged a bullet.

Last night he shot blanks.

There are eight weeks to go.

 

 

 

 

 

Two months away from the general election and one month after she became the presumptive nominee, Kamala Harris will sit down tomorrow afternoon for an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash.

You won’t be able to see Harris’ first interview until primetime.  Why?  It will be prerecorded.  Why prerecorded?  It gives CNN the time to gussie up the interview to put them and Harris in the best light should they choose.  They’ll choose.

Coach Time Walz will be at Kamala’s side.  Coach doesn’t coach anymore but he’s turned into a hell of a cheerleader.

Is it odd that they are both sitting down to interview?  Yes.   Handlers must think it better to ham and egg it than for Harris to go it alone and wind up with egg on her face.

Hopefully, we get to know more about the Democratic candidate.

In 2020 she left the stage so soon.  That happens when you are polling less than 1% right before Iowa, the first primary.

That was after she accused Biden of being a racist by saying he wasn’t a racist.  “Not a joke,” as Joe would say.  And that was before Biden selected her to be his VP mate, racism claims be damned.

Since then she’s been very busy with Venn diagrams, solving the root causes of illegal immigration, and covering up Biden’s failing physical and mental health.

But don’t we know a lot about her already?  Of course, we do.

She was tough on marijuana criminals while Cali’s Attorney General.  She also said she smoked dope in college listening to music that wasn’t yet written.

She assisted in getting Minnesota’s arrested protesters bail money.  And, she supported defunding the police which she now says she didn’t support.

She also supported Medicare for All and banning fracking — proposals aides say she now is against.  Times are changing.

In February 2020, Harris wrote on Facebook that “Trump’s border wall is a complete waste of taxpayer money and won’t make us any safer.”  In her nomination acceptance speech last week she said that she would sign a bipartisan bill if elected that would refund building some more of that wall.

A month after Trump proposed no federal taxes on tips so did chameleon Kamala.  Or is it “Khamaleon” for short?

Her “rizz,” that’s charisma for all you Boomers, and her joy can only take one so far when substance, or lack thereof, might get in the way.

The wheels on the EV campaign bus have been churning hard to remake her into something other than the furthest left-leaning candidate in this country’s history.

Would Dana get bashed if she advanced the questions to Harris?  Only Donna Brazile knows.

If you want to watch the curated interview find CNN on your TV guide or stop by any airport terminal.