How Trump Can Win – or Lose – the Election
Front Page Magazine,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
8/8/2024 12:01:46 AM
The good news for the Trump campaign is that the sure Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is a lifelong California hard leftist at a time when the state is emblematic of progressive nihilism. Her extremist advocacies as a San Francisco county and city attorney, state Attorney General, and senator are on record. And they are consistent with what has virtually destroyed the state. [Snip] However, the bad news for Trump is that there are only roughly 90 days left to expose Harris’s extremist record. And like cognitively challenged Joe Biden in 2020, her handlers will not allow her to speak extemporaneously or to give interviews to real journalists.
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Totally agree with poster, after listening to J.D Vance today in answers to the media I wish Trump would speak the same language. Go after the democrats policy's not personal attacks like name calling etc.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/8/2024 12:26:25 AM (No. 1774566)
VDH understands. Mr. President Trump, you and the team do as well, right?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
SALady 8/8/2024 1:03:07 AM (No. 1774569)
I love how people always call for Republicans to "play nice".
When did anyone ever call on Demon-Rats to "play nice"?!?!?!?
Donald Trump needs to be Donald Trump. As the Demon-Rats have done since he first announced that he was running for president years ago, they will attack President Trump with every pound of slime and mud that they can make up. President Trump needs to stand strong and fight back with everything that he has in his arsenal!!!!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
john56 8/8/2024 1:07:56 AM (No. 1774571)
I've always said that the Trump train is a great ride, but there are times it gets bumpy and you need to hold on, keep your arms and legs in the ride at all times, and it will be worth it.
Trump and Vance will figure things out and get everything on track again.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 8/8/2024 1:14:31 AM (No. 1774572)
The Democrats can get by without playing nice. The Republicans can't. Trump and Vance have so much more to talk about besides a stupid remark by a stupid Democrat. Talk about inflation, crime, and the illegals, period.
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Maggie2u 8/8/2024 1:29:25 AM (No. 1774581)
There are several football stadiums that hold over 80,000 people. Get ads that show one of them and say 'this is what 80,000 people look like. The Biden-Harris administration has hired 88,000 armed IRS agents, who do you think they are coming after? They're coming after you. Why can't the Biden-Harris hire that many border guards to keep us safe?
Show a half-gallon of milk, loaf of bread, dozen eggs with a sign what they cost on Jan. 20th, 2021. Show the exact same items, bought at the same store with the price they cost on Jan. 20th 2024.Show what a gallon of gas cost on Jan.20th, 2021 and show what it costs now. Show college students on Spring Break, drunk, drugged out and partying/rioting and ask why we the people should be paying their tuition? Show a video of Biden saying how much he admires our soldiers and then show the return of our 13 brave dead soldiers and how he looked at his watch three times as their caskets were being unloaded. Remind Americans of our shameful surrender in Afghanistan and how the Biden-Harris Administration left more than $80 billion armaments, tanks, planes for our enemies to use against us. For the next 3 months saturate the airwaves with commercials like this, non stop, I'm sure there are plenty of other ideas people can come up with to show just how corrupt Harris and Walz are. Show his wife saying how she likes the smell of burning tires with the back drop of business aflame.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
FJB 8/8/2024 2:29:08 AM (No. 1774590)
Good OP and VDH. Let the president come across exactly as he did debating Traitor Joe: calm, strong, and assured, allowing his evil opponents to self-destruct. Unfortunately, the rest of media-brainwashed America will blithely vote for Heels-Up and Minneaplois-Burning Waltz. Moreover, Sweet Barry and the Marxocrats will not be denied; they will steal another election or succeed in eliminating Donald Trump or both. Thanks to them, either way, Doctor Hanson was right in his book, "End of Everything." We are finished. MAGA Vet.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Catherine 8/8/2024 4:48:17 AM (No. 1774608)
Trump instinctively knows what he's doing. Look how far he's gotten. I don't care what he says about democrats, and to those who are offended, try listening to what they, the democrats, say about him and most other Republicans. Trump is a street fighter. He's exactly what we need in this moment in time. The democrats are trying to kill him. Anyone offended by that? Stop worrying about what he says. Just support him because if he doesn't win or they do take him out, we, all of us, will suffer because of it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 8/8/2024 4:58:38 AM (No. 1774612)
When Harris attacks Trump, the MSM cheers.
When Trump attacks Harris, the MSM criticizes Trump.
Stick to the issues, Donald. Between the two Dems on the ticket, they are a dumpster fire.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/8/2024 5:40:36 AM (No. 1774634)
The only thing that can tank this election is if it's stolen. Get over being nice; these people are playing to win/steal so they can destroy this nation and our freedoms. The other side isn't nice; see how song and dance Walz came after Vance out the gate. The left will keep on lefting. If Trump were to suddenly turn into this nice, go along, get along person, the left would still demonize him. Who cares what they think? Stop siding with or worrying about the left and what they think. Bump them! Let Trump be Trump. This is not a game! If any conservative/Republican/Independent doesn't vote because of mean tweets and comments, shame on them for helping a cackling fool become president to destroy their lives. Get over it, man! Sheesh!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chagrined 8/8/2024 7:25:55 AM (No. 1774675)
All this nonsense about playing nice with these devil worshipping spawn, the **ll with that!
They tried to kill President Trump, and will likely try again. They'll try to jail him. And doesn't anyone remember all the venom, hate, and lawfare from these troglodytes over the last 8 years?
President Trump has to defend himself, and millions love him because he does in a day and age when so few do.
As far as the enemedia is concerned, they're going to lie, cheat, and steal concerning President Trump or any Conservative no matter what. It doesn't matter if you play nice or not. One of their unstated goals is to shut Conservatives up. They achieve that when we don't fight back.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
philsner 8/8/2024 8:13:00 AM (No. 1774703)
They always start hedging. It's just wrong. Hanson is telling Trump to abandon his values. Sure! Stop doing the things that Americans respond to because, well, "mean tweets!".
Don't EVER stop being you, Mr. President, especially if the academics disapprove!
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felixcat 8/8/2024 8:27:59 AM (No. 1774719)
You know how every time something bad happens to Trump: an indictment, assignation attempt, etc. We are told by our "betters" not to do something stupid: like attack a Democrat out of revenge and amazingly none of Trump's supporters do anything like that and yet we keep getting lectured on how to behave.
I think part of Trump's charm is that he doesn't always play nice, especially when going after his political enemies.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/8/2024 9:57:56 AM (No. 1774775)
Massive cheating and assassination are the only two cards left on the democrats' table. Their candidates are both stinking garbage and the American people ALL know it.
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Strike3 8/8/2024 10:01:22 AM (No. 1774779)
I hope those 88,000 armed, DEI, rookie IRS agents know enough to stay out of flyover country. They will not enjoy their visit.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/8/2024 10:08:55 AM (No. 1774786)
It’s amazing to me that after all this time with President Trump, many still can’t come to terms with who he is. He’s not going to be JFK or Ronald Reagan...ever. He is who he is and is beloved for who he is, warts and all. I, 100%, agree with posters who say that the only way President Trump “loses” is the same reason he “lost” in 2020: massive vote fraud.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Harlowe 8/8/2024 10:34:53 AM (No. 1774806)
The differences of opinion about President Trump “playing nice” versus being “himself” seems to be a matter of semantics. Without question President Trump’s supporters want him to be strong, to “tell it like it is” and to be himself; however, as has been said of the genteel Southern put-down “Bless Her Heart,” there is a way of doing so in a manner that is effective but not an offensive turn-off to dedicated supporters and potential new voters. It seems paradoxical that while condemning the behavior of Democrats, some MAGA supporters want him to behave like Democrats. Perhaps the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin is a worthy consideration: “He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.” It isn’t likely that any true MAGA supporter wants to President Trump “to rise up with fleas.”
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