What a Comeback! [Link Fixed]

Kamala had a tough assignment. One that exceeded her abilities.

How do you motivate voters without charisma? How to reassure voters with an economic plan when you wouldn’t do anything different than Biden? How do you convince voters that you’ll secure the border when you failed as “Border Czar”?

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How do you win a Presidential election when you spectacularly failed as a candidate in 2020? You can’t. ...

Republicans finally traded the neocons for the working class. And it worked. Rural voters and Hispanic voters showed up for Trump. Rural counties shifted right across the country. Texas border counties, for example, are 90% Hispanic Democratic strongholds. Trump lost those counties by 10%+ in 2020. He won those counties last night.

Ed Morrissey

This is a good point. Trump was never going to ask Mike Pence to join the ticket for other reasons, but this time he eschewed outreach to the Pence-ish GOP. He chose J.D. Vance instead to reinforce the populist, working-class identity of the new campaign, and that worked too. Vance was a pleasant surprise to many on the trail, and is positioned to take advantage of a successful second term in 2028 ... if indeed that's what we get. 

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