Bill Clinton: If Laken Riley's Killer Had Been Vetted She Would Be Alive

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With allies like this, who needs political opponents?

Bill Clinton is hitting the hustings to campaign for Kamala Harris, and let's just say that the ol' Clinton magic is working as well to persuade the plebs as Barack Obama was in recruiting black men to flock to Kamala. 

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One of Kamala Harris' many weaknesses is her failure to accomplish anything as the Border Czar. 

Or, should I say her success in keeping the flood of migrants into the United States flowing at ever-increasing rates? 

Of the many victims of Kamala's border policies was Laken Riley, and her murder caught the world's attention as such crimes often do. 

Laken was a young college student at the University of Georgia. She was beaten and strangled by a Venezuelan migrant let into the country under Kamala Harris, and the crime was particularly gruesome. It was also entirely the fault of the Biden administration because their policies let him into the country without proper vetting. 

Not only had the perpetrator, José Antonio Ibarra, entered the country illegally but he had been arrested multiple times within the United States. He was still roaming the streets of Athens, GA. 

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As Bill Clinton cluelessly pointed out, had the Biden administration done its job and kept the murderous criminal out of America or had at least deported him following his crimes, Laken Riley would be alive today. 

Remember, Bill Clinton is campaigning FOR Kamala Harris, not against her, and yet he can't complete a speech without undermining her campaign's messaging. 

That's because there is nothing good to say about her. 

Harris' surrogates have been a net negative for her in recent days. Governor Whitmer, her campaign co-chair, embarrassed the entire Democratic Party by playing the demonic dominatrix priestess in a video. Tim Walz looked like Elmer Fudd out hunting, Barack Obama offended black men, and now Bill Clinton accuses her of abetting the murder of a young college girl. 

He is also making the case for the Great Replacement, believe it or not. 

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And don't forget how often President Biden has embraced her as a full partner in his administration while simultaneously taking a shot at her by undermining her criticism of Ron DeSantis. 

At least with Biden, you can be sure that there is some malice involved in his bid to make her look bad. He clearly resents her taking his slot at the top of the ticket and wants to be known as the one man who could defeat Donald Trump. He resents Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as backstabbers, and the Biden family dislikes the Harris family, so his not-so-subtle undermining of her makes sense. 

But Clinton, Obama, Walz, and Whitmer are supposed to be genuinely helping her, and they are doing the opposite. 

The Democrat Party has lost the plot. They are flailing, and that is causing self-inflicted wounds. 

I keep reminding myself and you that none of this guarantees a Trump victory. I don't expect that any self-inflicted wounds, at least going forward, present a danger to his candidacy. The media can't touch him either because the public has heard every criticism in the book already. 

What are they going to say? He is Hitler times a thousand? A million? A billion? 

No, the problem is that his floor and his ceiling are remarkably close, and that means he will be clawing his way to victory by picking off one voter at a time. I think he can and will do it, but Harris has a built-in floor made up of Trump haters who would vote for a brain-dead squirrel before voting for Trump. 

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The polling is comforting, but chances are still good that Harris will win the popular vote despite her manifest flaws. That has little to do with Harris, who is vapid and repulsive, and everything to do with Trump Derangement Syndrome. 

Bottom line? Don't get cocky. Work twice as hard as in 2020 and we can win. 

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Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | November 21, 2024
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