Although they make perfect sense, forecasts like this make Damian Bennett skeptical… |
While trying to assemble the latest puzzle pieces in the big 2024 election jigsaw picture, Damian Bennett cannot exactly be described as optimistic: "the Harris steal is now in earnest"!
Forget the polls. If the polls are worth anything they are lagging indicators, third down in a manifest dynamic of momentum.
Trump has it. Harris doesn't.
The election isn't won yet, but we are in the late innings and once there is a momentum shift in the homestretch it proceeds like an avalanche. It is very very hard to outrun, cannot be stopped, and near impossible to reverse. There are a lot of recent puzzle pieces; let's fit them together into a big jigsaw picture.
THE FIRST INDICATOR is the legacy media.
KA-mala has gotten bad press lately, not 'slanted' bad, 'baseline reporting' bad. Stories are now making the news unfiltered, unfluffed, sometimes as above-the-fold headlines. KA-mala can no longer be plausibly cosmeticized. The journos can either report nothing or chronicle the fading vibes, the souring joy.
- Unraveling: The Dam Breaks As The NYT Notices Some Things About Kamala Harris' MSNBC 'Interview' September 26, 2024
- Walz Struggles To Explain His Pattern Of Lies In 'Good Morning America' Sitdown: 'I Know That Things Get Spun' October 11, 2024
- Time Magazine Owner Calls Out Kamala Harris For Turning Down Multiple Interview Requests October 14, 2024
- Kamala Harris Humiliated After ABC Debunks Her Dishonest Attack On Trump - 'Even More Pathetic' October 15, 2024
- NBC News’s Chuck Todd Warns Kamala Harris To Think Up A Reason She Is Different From Biden October 16, 2024
- 'To Be Clear, That Is Plagiarism'—NYT Expert Revises Analysis Of Kamala's Book Scandal October 17, 2024
The totally insane shills will hold out to the end and beyond (as in 2016); they cannot counter KA-mala's bad press with good press -- there is none -- so they will pump up the ear-bleeding volume on Orange Man Bad. But all the end-of-democracy, Hitler tropes -- no matter how loudly shilled -- have been so overused that -- unlike the COVID vaccine -- people are immunized to the shrill of the shill. A small sampling:
- Black Lesbian Is Afraid Donald Trump Is Going To Have Her Exterminated October 9, 2024
- NY State Senator Compares Upcoming Trump Event To ‘Infamous Nazi Rally,’ Demands It Be Canceled October 10, 2024
- Former Romney Strategist Warns Republicans Might ‘Burn Down’ Election Centers To Stop Black Votes October 15, 2024
- ‘Pure Scaremongering’: Joy Reid [MSNBC] Whips Up Wild Conspiracy And Frets Over ‘Fascist Groundswell’ Spreading October 15, 2024
- Alyssa Farah Griffin [The View] Warns Trump Will ‘Steal The Election’ October 16, 2024
- Nolte: Salon Says Trump Supporters ‘Infected’ With ‘Dangerous And Lethal…Disease’ [“Authoritarian Violence Disorder”] October 16, 2024
THE SECOND INDICATOR is the public episodes of unease and discord and whining among Democrats and the White House and the Harris campaign.
- Clyburn: ‘I Am Concerned’ About Black Men Voting For Trump October 13, 2024
- David Sacks Warns Kamala’s In Trouble, Has Entered The ‘Doom Loop’ October 13, 2024
- Top Harris Adviser Dismisses ‘Horses**t’ Polls, Claims There’s No GOP ‘Army’ Of ‘Incels’ Showing In Early Voting October 15, 2024
- Kamala Harris Casts Doubt On Whether Election Will Be ‘Free And Fair’ October 15, 2024
- ‘Such A Mess’: Chaos Reigns Over The Harris Campaign In Pennsylvania October 16, 2024
- Harris Gives Awkward Response When Asked About Obama's Controversial Plea To Black Men October 16, 2024
Harris: 'I think what what is happening is that we are all working on reminding people of what is at stake. And that is very important.'- Harris’s $1 Billion War Chest CAN'T Buy A Winning Message October 16, 2024
The Biden coup was never an all-in team play.
- ‘Incredible’: President Joe Biden Accused Of Trying To ‘Destroy’ Vice President Kamala Harris’s Campaign October 6, 2024
- Tensions Rise Between Biden Staff And Harris Campaign October 13, 2024
- Biden And Harris Teams At Each Other's Throats As Election Day Approaches October 14, 2024
- Do The Democrat Elites WANT Kamala To Lose? October 15, 2024
- Bill Clinton Said That If The Border [Under Biden-Harris] Had Been 'Properly Vetted' Laken Riley Wouldn't Have Died October 15, 2024
- Book: Pelosi Frustrated ‘The Men Were MIA’ When It Came Time To Force Biden Out October 15, 2024
- Biden Glares At Nancy Pelosi At Ethel Kennedy's Funeral After She Stabbed Him In The Back October 16, 2024
A great many Ds resent notching Harris to the top of the ticket uncontested; others know what everyone knows, KA-mala is as dumb as a box of rocks.
THE THIRD INDICATOR are the polls, where try as they might -- small survey pools, oversampling Ds, plumping the MOE -- are moving in one direction in favor of Trump. Wherever Harris is still ahead, her lead has dwindled from a month ago.
- Kamala Harris' 'Blue Wall' Crumbling Before Her Eyes - New Battleground Poll Shows Incredible Trump Surge October 9, 2024
- CNN Polling Expert Explains Why Democrats Are ‘Bedwetting’ October 11, 2024
- Donald Trump Is In Much Better Shape, Poll-wise, Than He Was In 2016 And 2020 October 11, 2024
- Poll: Trump Sees Three-point Lead Over Kamala Harris In Pennsylvania October 14, 2024
- Top Harris Adviser Dismisses ‘Horses**t’ Polls, Claims There’s No GOP ‘Army’ Of ‘Incels’ Showing In Early Voting October 15, 2024
- Poll: More Americans Lean Republican Than Democrat By 7-point Margin October 16, 2024
- Analysis Of Latest Swing State Polls Shows The Race Is Trump's To Lose Wins October 16, 2024
- Political Expert Mark Halperin Reveals Private Polls Are Looking Quite Different Than Numbers Shown In Media October 16, 2024
Halperin said that in many private polls, Trump is about two percentage points higher in some states than in public polls. Halperin said that private polling is more exact, because it hones in on those people most likely to vote...To everyone who says Harris has yet to reveal herself, that she is a shrewd political animal, a Brainiac hidden under a bushel, she is not. What she has shown is all that's there. She will not improve. I pray, fervently pray, pray on my knees, that she does the rumored Joe Rogan interview, that would be a humane but irremediable end to her campaign. Though that may be unnecessary after her Bret Baier interview tonight.
(UPDATE: I watched the entire interview. TWICE. Spontaneous combustion is real. How bad was the combustion?
- Kamala Harris: You Have To Take Responsibility ‘For What Happened In Your Administration’ October 16, 2024 [Chiding Trump for inherited prison transgender surgery policy he did not support or enforce but did not rescind.]
- Bret Baier To Harris: “I actually don’t, what are you talking about.” October 16, 2024
- Harris To Baier: “Let me be very clear. My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency.” October 16, 2024
And this:
- Team Harris Tried To 'Ice The Kicker' Before Kamala Interview October 16, 2024
Baier: "You know, when the kicker in football, they call a timeout right before he's going to kick the field goal; they're 'icing the kicker'. So we were supposed to start at 5:00 p.m.; this was the time they gave us. Originally, we were going to do 25 or 30 minutes. They came in and said, well, maybe 20. So it was already getting whittled down and then the Vice president showed up about 5:15. We were pushing the envelope to be able to turn it around for the top of the 6:00."
- The Moment Kamala Harris Staff Desperately Intervened To End Interview With Fox News' Bret Baier: 'it's Gotta Stop!' October 16, 2024
Her handlers will never risk her doing a 2-3 hour Rogan interview -- not without a kaishakunin at the ready.)
Elsewhere:
- Trump Destroys Bloomberg Editor-in-chief, Receives Standing Ovation In Chicago October 15, 2024
- Trump’s Interview With The Economic Club Of Chicago Was Epic October 16, 2024
- The Trump War Room Tweets The ENTIRE Kamala And Bret Baier Interview...It Was That Bad October 16, 2024
- Federal Employees Are Making Life Plans After Being Fired If Trump Wins October 16, 2024
- Political Analyst Predicts 'Biggest Mental Health Crisis In American History' If Trump Wins October 16, 2024
SO. What does Trump homestretch momentum mean? It means the Harris steal is now in earnest.
Watch and see if there is a sort of quiet acknowledgement by the DNC and the media that the Harris campaign is a shipwreck, that Harris is a losing proposition -- AS LONG AS THEY CAN KEEP HER WITHIN 3 POINTS. That is the outermost margin for the steal. Almost all the polls are working on a 3pt+ MOE. So just as in 2020, we go to bed with Trump triumphant, and wake up to a squeaker where Harris ekes out the win.
In addition, Damian Bennett predicts a November surprise (stay tuned!)
The betting markets are better predictors than the polls for trends. Among the different betting services there is rarely a big divide on how a race is trending, unlike the wild swings among the polls. If memory serves, DJT was up in the betting markets in 2020. But lost. Lost because robbed. Lost because of the steal. No one thought to bet the steal.What I like about October is poll tidy-up. Whereas through September polls have their thick meaty thumbs on the scale for particular candidates, trying to create momentum where none exists, trying to shore up undynamic candidates, trying to sink unpreferred candidates, trying to clinch for preferred candidates......BUT come October everybody needs to get in line with reality or risk reputation and cred. In 2016 they got in the wrong line. In 2020 they broke for Trump in the homestretch, only to be busted by the steal. Now we're seeing those 2-3 MOE polling points shifting to DJT, but not so fast on the 5-7% lead he actually has. Time will tell. Certainly time will tell November 5.
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