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Would GOP survive Trump’s defeat?

If Donald Trump loses the election, to hear him and his campaign tell it, the fate of the Republican Party should be the least of our concerns: his defeat would spell the end of the nation itself and all that we hold dear. But let’s assume that Trump and company are exaggerating and that the country continues to exist. What would the GOP look like after he loses — again? This scenario seems to be getting a lot of attention lately, perhaps because Trump himself has been emphasizing that if he loses — again — it will be because of fraud — again. Such rhetoric does not exude ...

How we cope shows our differences

I reported last week about the decided move of young women to the political left and away from the religious affiliation of their childhood. But these measures, at least in the short run, do not appear to be relevant to the success young women are having in day-to-day living in America. By measures such as work and academic achievement, young women are doing much better than young men. Regarding work, as recently reported in The Wall Street Journal, more young women are now working than ever. The workforce participation rate of women ages 25-34, the percentage working or actively ...

Campaign might need strategy change

In my time as a political consultant, I observed that carrying out a campaign strategy was surprisingly simple. You settled on a basic strategy, emphasizing the candidate’s strong points on issues and character, framing the election in terms favorable to most voters. Then you just carried it out. Almost always, events would intrude — campaign gaffes, unfavorable public polls, media controversies, surprise initiatives by the opposition. At such points, you’d get lots of advice, from inside and outside the campaign, about how you had to change course and do things differently. The ...

Word games can’t conceal results

Politically incorrect words don’t kill, but Venezuelan gangs do. On Saturday, former President Donald Trump warned rallygoers in a small Wisconsin town that if Vice President Kamal Harris “is reelected, your town and every town ... will be transformed into a Third World hell-hole. “ Trump repeatedly warns that Biden-Harris open borders are turning New York into a “Third World nation” and America into a “Third World” disaster. Left-wing elites are apoplectic over Trump’s use of “Third World.” Never mind the violence perpetrated by migrant gangs and the societal ...

How are Trump, Harris neck-and-neck?

With less than 40 days until Election Day, how can it be that Trump has taken a small lead in Arizona and Georgia — two swing states he lost to Biden in 2020? How can he now be essentially tied with her in the other key swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin? More generally, how can Trump have chiseled away Harris’ advantage from early August? How is it possible that more voters appear to view Trump favorably now than they did several months ago when he was in the race against Biden? How can Trump — the sleaziest person ever to run for president, who has already been ...

VP Kamala Harris visits the ‘BINO’

Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit last Friday to a border region in Arizona takes political cynicism to a new low. It is like hoping to score political points by visiting the relative of someone who has been murdered by a man your policies caused to be let out of jail despite his criminal record that includes repeated offenses. After being assigned the role of controlling the border by President Biden early in their term and then doing very little to stem the flood of migrants into the U.S., Harris now wants us to believe she is serious and has seen the light. Her proposal is what ...