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Happy Easter

Advances in science and technology have answered some question about the Shroud of Turin. Other questions have been raised. One critical question: How did the image form on the Shroud? In photo negative, it’s clearly the image of a man who suffered profound physical trauma. The image is believed to have been radiated onto the topmost fibers in the cloth only. No pigments are evident.

Pollens in the cloth place its origin in Judea.

For many Christians, there may be mysteries about how, but no mysteries about who and why. Jesus Christ is the son of God. His life, death, and resurrection shattered the world. His Will is still at work and shall be until the end of time. Happy Easter.

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Trump Will Win on Trade

Investors are skittish. Wall Street is down. Trump’s gambit on tariffs has investors spooked. The sky is falling. Yada, yada, yada.

In fact, the sky isn’t falling. Yes, investors are roiling the markets. They fear that Trump’s big play to change the global dynamic on trade will backfire. MAGA isn’t in their blood. Do understand a thing or two about Wall Street. Investors don’t like change. The status quo is working quite well for them. In other words, their making oodles of money.

Not most Americans. Most folk have meager stocks and bonds portfolios, usually held through 401Ks. The more affluent you are, the more you’re invested in the market. Most people are living paycheck-to-paycheck. They’re concerned about the prices of groceries, gasoline, utilities, rent, and what have you. Many people don’t have rainy day funds. Their credit card debts keep climbing.

Trump means to reverse that. His broader economic goal is to create jobs, boost paychecks, and bring down costs. He’s concerned about the welfare of a majority of Americans, not the overreactions of a well-heeled minority. If Trump succeeds – the bet here is he will – then more of the American pie will be shared with a greater number of Americans, not just a privileged few.

Trump’s aim with trade and tariffs is, yes, reciprocity – meaning, hammering out fair trade agreements with other nations. High tariffs by other countries on U.S. products and services are protectionist measures. Those must go, for starters.

Not all Trump’s tariffs are meant only to level the playing field.

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been abusing the “free trade” system put in place in the 1990s and early 2000s. China’s economy is built around cheap exports. Off-shoring American manufacturing has been a boon to China and U. S. manufacturers who are always looking to cut costs. Consumers have benefited by cheaper prices, too. But U.S. workers and small businesses – the latter being the engine of economic growth – haven’t.

Trump wants to restart the manufacturing engine here. Some tariffs are good in that they incentivize manufacturers overseas to build facilities here. It also incentivizes existing U.S.-based manufacturers and start-ups. That’s more jobs for more Americans. It will eventually result in competitive pricing – in other words, affordable – products and services, made domestically. More jobs, rising wages, and decreasing costs are goals.

Speaking of China, Trump’s tariff strategy is about more than economics. It’s about national security. Why do we want so much of what we consume in the hands of Xi Jinping and his communist cabal? We’re talking about medicines, steel, computer technology – the list is long. China also steals our technology and as much commercial and military intellectual property as it can.

China’s media is full bellicose threats of war with us. Xi’s Belt and Road initiative isn’t just about seeking economic advantages. It’s about choking off rare minerals and other resources that our evolving AI-tech economy needs.

When it comes to Chinese “management” of the Panama Canal, the PRC means to dominate that critical link between the Atlantic and Pacific. In time of war, that has profound commercial and military implications. Trump is in the process of ending China’s presence in Panama and its control of the Canal.

The broader economic program that Trump is pursuing involves making tax cuts permanent, slashing red tape, taking an ax to big government (DOGE is on that), and giving entrepreneurs and independent contractors the incentives they need to let their ideas, dreams, and work ethics take off.

Trump will succeed because World War II and the Cold War are long over. The post-Cold War world is played out. Trump sees the rot, unfairness, inequities, and growing failures of the system. His is a quest for an historic reset. I’m not being being Pollyanna. Bumps and disruptions along the way? Of course. But I’ll trust Trump’s experience, savvy, steely will, and business track record. He’s leading us into a new era – brighter and better for tens of millions of Americans.

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Bongino’s Appointment at the FBI Means No Prisoners Taken

By J Robert Smith

  • Feb. 25, 2025
  • 2- min read

On Monday, we learned that Dan Bongino was named deputy director at the FBI. He’ll report to Kash Patel, who was confirmed by the Senate last week. Patel and Bongino will make a dynamic duo. Yep, just like Batman and Robin. The lawbreakers at the FBI should be lawyering up – if they haven’t done so already.

In nominating Patel and appointing Bongino, Trump has kept another promise. He’s going outside of DC’s blue suits for these critical jobs. Patel and Bonigino have a simple mission: Clean out the FBI and make it a bona fide federal law enforcement agency tasked with pursuing real bad guys, like cartel honchos, drug gangs, spies, white collar criminals, and assorted homegrown bad guys.

The FBI is riddled with corruption. The worst of it started at the top and filtered down through the ranks. Former directors James Comey and Chris Wray were complicit in the corruption. And it wasn’t garden variety corruption, like bad cops taking payoffs and shaking down drug dealers. It’s political corruption, in that the FBI served as a strongarm for Democrats and the DC establishment. They’d become a version of the East German Stasi. The FBI went after the establishment’s enemies, most conspicuously, Donald Trump.

It can’t be stressed enough how dangerous it is for a law enforcement agency – guys with guns – acting as the cat’s paw for powerful political interests in Washington, D.C. The FBI wasn’t just loosed on Trump and his circles, but on people who peacefully oppose abortion. Sending a SWAT team to knockdown pro-life advocate Mark Houck’s door at the crack of dawn in January 2023, terrorizing his children, demonstrated the level of thuggery that Wray and his deputies were willing to permit. To his immense credit, Trump has pardoned 23 pro-life protestors. Congressional Republicans need to repeal the vile FACE Act, which grants the DoJ and FBI the power to prosecute peaceful pro-lifers.

Bongino’s pedigree is impressive. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and an MBA. He’s run for Congress three times, coming close to being elected once. His five-day a week radio show and podcast are category leaders. He’s also a successful entrepreneur and investor (he has a stake in Rumble, notably).

Most importantly, Bongino is no stranger to law enforcement. He was an NYPD officer for seven years and a U.S. Secret Service agent for nine years. Notably, as a Secret Service agent, he provided protection for Barack Obama.

Patel and Bongino are kick ass guys. Their tenures at the FBI won’t be about cutting deals and trimming. Expect long overdue, wholesale changes. If they succeed, it’ll prove a brighter day for our rights and liberties. And a safer day for us. But a bad day for the bad guys.

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The Rise of Big Cojones

So, the fake feminists on CNN made an issue out of a 19-year-old tech whiz aiding Elon Musk in ferreting out waste and corruption in the federal government – not that any exists. All right, it exists. And we’re only beginning to see the scope of the profligacy and crime.

USAID is the first agency to have it’s ledgers and payment channels subject to whiz kids working with algorithms, and whatever else that’s beyond my pay grade, to uncover not only waste, not only fraud, but expenditures of U.S. taxpayer money in the many tens of millions of dollars to support bizarre woke ideological schemes across the globe. The cultists joined forces with the usual group of DC lifers to fleece the American people. Never mind that the federal government is closing in on $37 trillion in debt. So-called progressives, DC lifers, and their allies need to get rich – though we’re ceaselessly told that the rich are evil and the source of the world’s woes. Apparently, some types of rich are okay with our progressive superiors.

Here’s the skinny. USAID will prove to be merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to hoodwinking and bleeding taxpayers of their hard-earned money. When all is said and done, hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and fraud will be revealed thanks to Big Balls and guys like him.

The evolving Democrat and corporate media spin is that Elon Musk is running things in the Trump administration. That’s a curious charge in that mere days ago most DC lifers and corporate media propagandists (we know they are because an outlet like Politico is receiving $8 million in “subscriptions” for Uncle Sam in USAID monies) charged that Trump was a dictator. Most have said he was the second coming of Hitler. But now 47 is just Musk’s puppet. But don’t hold leftists and lifers and propagandists to account for past statements. They’re very much into burying the past in Orwellian memory holes.

DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) has a chance to not only smash the network of parasites getting rich off our tax dollars, but ending the use of taxpayer money to advance the left’s evil and weird ideology. Good to see the rise of Big Balls.

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A Better Name than “Gulf of America”

By J. Robert Smith

  • Jan. 21, 2025
  • 2-min read

President Donald Trump has decided to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” I kinda like the old name, not because I’m a fan of what Mexico is. I’m just an old dog set in his ways.

Mexicans are a good people stuck with a very corrupt government. That’s been the case forever, unfortunately. The latest chapter in this story of corruption is the cartels, which are really paramilitary outfits melded with crime mobs. The cartels are the devil’s spawn. They peddle drugs — fentanyl is a cheap, easy to smuggle, and potent killer. They traffic in children and women. That’s mostly sex slavery. That’s hellish depravity. Cartel gangsters will kill anyone who even looks at them crosswise.

Mexican cartels buy politicians or intimidate or kill the honest ones. The cartels control the U.S.-Mexican border. Biden’s handlers didn’t seem to care. They were in bend over and take it mode. Their aim was to flood the nation with millions of illegals. They succeeded. Among those hordes are gangbangers, cartel soldiers, child molesters, murderers, rapists, drug peddlers, the diseased, enemy nation saboteurs… the list goes on.

President Trump just signed executive order designating the cartels terrorist organizations means that the U.S. can take the gloves off, meaning that the U.S. military can weigh in. Me, I’d set special forces lose on the cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth. I’d demand a treaty from the Mexicans giving the U.S. right to operate a couple of miles past the border. That would be a no-go zone for any cartel desperadoes who weren’t eliminated in earlier sweeps.

I believe President Trump has something like I’ve outlined in mind. Yes, Trump will double down on building the Wall, but a wall does only so much. High tech surveillance and weaponry does so much. Knocking out the cartels needs to be a critical part of the mix.

So, what does this have to do with the Gulf of Mexico America? If Trump succeeds in securing the border, walloping the cartels, and removing millions of illegals, then he deserves the Gulf named for him.

Let there be a future “Gulf of Trump.”

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How Trump Beat the Margin of Theft

By J Robert Smith

  • Nov. 7, 2024
  • 2-min read

How many of us expected the trouncing that President-elect Donald Trump administered to Kamala Harris? Okay, so the trends were good leading up to Trump’s win, but not many people foresaw the excrement-kicking Trump dealt Kamala. Trump is only the second president in history who’ll serve nonconsecutive terms – Grover Cleveland is the other. For presidential history buffs, that’s remarkable. But Trump is more than Cleveland could ever imagine on multiple levels. He’s had to run a gauntlet of biblical dimensions. He’s withstood malicious prosecutions, two assassination attempts, a corporate media and Democrats who never missed an opportunity to slander him as Hitler or a would-be dictator. If you don’t think there’s a God, think again.

Long before Tuesday’s elections, the consensus among conservatives and Trump backers was that for Trump to win, he’d have to “beat the cheat” – or perform better than the “margin of theft.” If you look at the totals and Trump’s margins of victory in the battleground states, his margins were tight, except for Arizona, where, at this writing, he enjoys about a five percent margin between Harris and himself. If Trump failed to perform better than the margin of theft but still won a resounding victory, how did he accomplish that?

Here are four reasons to consider:

1. In the aftermath of the highly suspect Biden victory in 2020, conservative alternative media and citizen journalists made the rigged 2020 election an unrelenting focus. The information, data, and analyses generated by these cadres spread to audiences throughout the country.
2. Such effective jobs were done in reaching audiences that a third or better of the public were convinced that cheating impacted the outcome of the Biden-Trump contest.
3. In many, though not all, battleground states, efforts were made by governors and state legislatures to reform election laws aimed at tightening ballot security. Lawsuits were filed as required. Georgia suffered the loss of the 2021 MLB All-Star game because of election reforms passed by the Georgia legislature.
4. The 2024 Trump campaign, and then the Republican National Committee (RNC), under the leadership of Lara Trump and Michael Whatley, dedicated resources to deploy an army of election watchers and lawyers to aggressively challenge any irregularities encountered. Grassroots groups weighed in, too. Thousands of eyes watching elections in swing states made it clear that election officials and workers would be held civilly and criminally liable for wrongdoing.

What Happened to Biden’s 2020 Voters?

Take a look at this bar-graph from zerohedge comparing presidential vote totals from 2012 through 2024. The outlier, as anyone can see, is Biden’s 2020 total. This certainly doesn’t prove cheating but it does raise the question: “Where did Biden’s voters go?”

Where did Biden’s voters vanish to this election? Or did they really ever exist?

J. Robert Smith is a regular contributor to American Thinker.

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For Trump, the Election Can’t be a Close-run Thing

By J Robert Smith

  • Oct. 20, 2024
  • 6-minute read

Mark Halperin appeared on Tucker Carlson’s X program earlier this week. Halperin is a bona fide journalist and careful political analyst. He’s worth watching. His sources are solid on both sides of the aisle. He’s had access to the Harris and Trump campaigns’ internal polls. Public polls can be unreliable. Nonetheless, there’s agreement: inside and outside, polls indicate a tight contest. Trends look good for Trump, says Halperin, but don’t dismiss a Kamala Harris victory. Halperin cites four reasons why a hugely unqualified woman could be the next president.

You might recall that Halperin scooped his competitors on Joe Biden’s intention to quit his reelection bid. He took flak when there was a lag between his report and Biden’s announcement. But Halperin was proved right. Okay, so Obama, Clinton, Pelosi, and Schumer squeezed Biden out of the race, but no need to fuss about that.

Halprin told Carlson that if Trump wins, the election won’t be close. The same holds for Harris, he believes. That assessment may miss the target. It’s more likely that Harris will win a close contest. Trump doesn’t have that luxury. Why? Because Trump labors under a substantial handicap. He must beat the margin of theft in some combination of battleground states to secure 270 electoral votes.

To beat the cheat, what sort of margin of victory will Trump need in Pennsylvania, for instance? Some observers suggest 3%. I’ll wager it’s more like 4% or 5%. Public polling from swing states haven’t shown Trump with leads in that range – certainly not sustained leads. As of this writing, Real Clear Politics shows Trump ahead in every battleground state but Wisconsin. In Wisconsin, Harris edges Trump by 0.3%. All leads are within the margin of error. Internal polls are said to show similar razor thin differences.

Granted, in 2016 and 2020 Trump under-polled. In fact, his poll numbers are better now than they were in those contests. A lot of voters aren’t comfortable disclosing their intentions to vote for Trump. Trump’s overperformance in consecutive elections is solidly indicates that history is about to repeat. If that happens, Trump should receive the numbers needed to win. A critical question, though, is how audacious are Democrats willing to be to overcome Trump if his tallies push his margins beyond a few percentage points? In other words, how brazen are they prepared to be?

For a moment, let’s set aside the not-so-small consideration of election rigging. Let’s examine the four factors that Halperin believes could work to Harris’ advantage, most necessarily in concert.

Abortion. Abortion isn’t showing up as a big driver with voters. A Pew Research survey of registered voters (sampling likely voters would have given a better read) wrapped up on September 2. It revealed that abortion is ranked eight out of ten key issues. The partisan breakdown is interesting. Harris has made abortion a cornerstone of her campaign. Among Harris supporters, the economy edged out abortion by just a percentage point. Both issues trailed healthcare and Supreme Court appointments in importance. With an open border resulting in floods of illegals and big cities plagued by crime, what does that say about Harris supporters?

Among all registered voters queried, the top three issues were the economy, healthcare, and Supreme Court appointments. A dubious two out of three, given the pressing issues the nation faces, but let’s roll with it.

Halperin wonders if there’s a latent vote among pro-abortion women that polling isn’t capturing. Halperin commented that Trump has gone to great pains to neutralize abortion as a driver. Trump conspicuously supports the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling returning abortion to the states. He pledges to leave the issue with the states.

Is abortion really a powerhouse issue that’s flying under the radar? Are there enough intense abortion backers to help tip the scales for Harris? Or is Harris just scrambling to try to shore up her base? Will pro-abortion women – specifically, blue-collar and middle-income wage earners – cast ballots on a single issue? Are they willing to overlook the higher costs of groceries, gas, and utilities – higher costs that the Biden-Harris administration are responsible for? Does aborting babies matter more than paying bills?

Gender Gap. Halperin points out that women vote in greater numbers than men, and more women vote Democrat, hence, the gender gap. Social issues tend to drive that vote. What impact will inflation, crime, and the flood of illegals have on women’s votes? That’s working-class and middle-income women, in particular.

Claims Politico (October 11), the Trump campaign has “given up” trying to close the gender gap by attracting more female voters. Instead, Trump’s play is to boost the male vote. Perhaps Trump is having enough success doing so that it’s set off alarms among Democrats, who’ve focused lately on wooing male voters. Tim Walz’s comical pheasant hunt was a go at aligning with average guys. Democrats are also fretting about black male voters defecting to Trump. Modest gains in black support for Trump may be fatal for Harris. Will younger male voters, including black men, and white working-class females help Trump close the gender gap?

Ground Game. Sounds awfully nuts and bolts, and it is. The ground game refers to grassroots operations to identify, register, and secure ballots from target voters. Let’s face it, Democrats have run more effective, sophisticated operations to get ballots cast than Republicans since 2020 – you remember, the Covid election, when voting laws were liberalized. Rahm Emanuel has every right to crow that Covid was a crisis that Democrats didn’t waste.

This year, closing the ballot gap has been a priority for Trump and Republicans in battleground states. Scott Pressler is leading the charge in Pennsylvania.

Reported the Philadelphia Inquirer, October 13:

“Presler is focused on flipping Pennsylvania red, including purple Bucks County, namely through his organization, Early Vote Action, which had a table at the event. Lara Trump, RNC cochair and the former president’s daughter-in-law, has commended Presler for his efforts, citing Republican registration surpassing that of Democrats in Bucks and Luzerne Counties. Republicans currently have a 936-person registration lead in Bucks, according to the county’s voter statistics. In Luzerne, Republicans have a 3,965-person edge.”

Pennsylvania’s voter registration gap has closed dramatically since the 1990s, when Democrats enjoyed an edge of close to a million more registrants than Republicans. The gap now stands at 333,000.

The big challenge – and it’s big – is translating new GOP registrations into ballots.

Trump’s Personality. Sure, you either love Trump or hate him. But no nothing new here. Halperin says Trump has a ceiling of 47% support. But that claim doesn’t square with his assertion that Trump wins big if he wins – unless he was referring just to the Electoral College.

Unmentioned by Halperin is Kamala Harris’ personality. It’s grating for many people. That includes women. She hasn’t earned the nickname, “Cacklin’ Kamala” for no reason. Her favorable/unfavorable numbers are a lackluster break even.

It isn’t only about how Republicans or Democrats perceive the candidates. It’s about independents. They’re pivotal in swing states. Given the critical issues confronting the nation; given that most people are struggling to pay bills; given that most people grasp the damage being done by the Biden-Harris de facto open border policy; given that crime is creeping into suburbs and Argentina’s Tren de Aragua is terrorizing Auroa, Colorado; maybe Trump’s personality won’t be the decider among independents?

Trump is better positioned going into the 2024 stretch run then in his previous two efforts. That’s cause for optimism. But the race remains a nailbiter. Like Reagan’s 1980 landslide victory, independents may break late for Trump. That, along with Trump’s track record for overperforming polls, may make him only the second president to serve nonconsecutive terms in U.S. history. But if it’s close, well, to channel Yogi Berra, “Will 2024 be 2020 all over again?”

J. Robert Smith can be found at X. His handle is @JRobertSmith1. At Gab, @JRobertSmith. He regularly contributes to American Thinker.

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How to Stop Iran’s Assassination Attempts on Trump

By J Robert Smith

  • Sept. 25, 2024
  • 3-min read

Tuesday night on X, former President Trump issued a statement that the Iranians have made failed attempts on his life. He said they’re expected to keep at it. “Not a good situation,” wrote Trump. Not only do the Iranians fear Trump’s election, but they want to disrupt the autumn elections. True election interference is in the works. Here’s Trump’s statement in its entirety.

NBC News reported on Tuesday night:

“President Trump was briefed earlier today by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States,” spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.

“Intelligence officials have identified that these continued and coordinated attacks have heightened in the past few months, and law enforcement officials across all agencies are working to ensure President Trump is protected and the election is free from interference.”

Of course, we wonder if the Biden administration has the backbone to sic the dogs on the Iranians. The only way to deal with a nation that sponsors terrorist outfits across the globe is harshly, unforgivingly. The Iranians should be told in no uncertain terms to call back their assassins or assassination teams. If not, we’ll deploy our own teams or set in motion other means of decapitating Iran’s leadership.

Mossad (Israel’s intelligence service) is widely suspected to have killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh while he was attending the swearing in of Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, in Teheran. Per CNN, Haniyeh was killed “using an explosive device that had been covertly hidden in the guest house where he was staying [.]”

If the Israelis can reach into Iran to kill a high-ranking Hamas leader, they could kill members of Iran’s leadership. U.S. leaders should make the Iranians aware that they’ll work with the Israelis (and others) to kill their leaders if assassination efforts aimed at Trump – or any other American politician – don’t cease immediately. Violence – or the threat of it – is the only language the mullahs understand.

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Why Hasn’t She Done It?

By J Robert Smith

  • Sept. 13, 2024
  • 2-min read

It would have been so much better had Donald Trump’s closing remarks in last Tuesday’s presidential debate been his opening remarks. Why? Because Trump framed his fight against Harris powerfully. Asked the former president about Harris’ nearly four-year nonperformance: “Why hasn’t she done it?” That is, fix the problems she claims she’ll fix now – problems created by Biden-Harris.

Trump lost some traction coming out of Tuesday’s debate because, although Harris’ remarks came across as canned, she did succeed in making Trump the issue. Any election with an incumbent is supposed to be a referendum on the incumbent. That’s particularly true with Kamala Harris, who lacks the personal attributes to serve in the highest office, and as the “Harris” in the Biden-Harris administration is responsible for the woes that millions of Americans are experiencing – and will experience more deeply if Harris assumes the presidency.

The good news is that Trump has time to turn the tables. He needs to ask his question at every rally and in every interview he gives. His advertising needs to hammer away at it too. And it wouldn’t hurt to close this election with Regan’s memorable question: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”

Trump will be Trump, of course. He likes to riff. He tends to be too defensive, and spends more time explaining why he did what he did. But this election isn’t about Trump – or shouldn’t be. It’s about the struggles that tens of millions of working and middle-income wage earners are experiencing. It’s about Biden-Harris deliberately throwing open the southern borders to permit millions of illegals to enter. It’s about spreading crime. It’s about historic government and private sector corruption. It’s a bout the prospect of major war with Russia, China, or both. It’s about the future, which is shaky as hell thanks to Biden-Harris’ wretched leadership.

Trump, always the promoter and marketer, should brand merchandise and signs with “Harris: Why hasn’t she done it?” His ads should feature the question. Saturate it. And Trump should never leave a rally or interview having not asked that very potent question.

It’s a question that practically answers itself, and it’s a question Kamala Harris never wants asked.

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The Presidential Debate won’t Decide the Election

By J Robert Smith

  • Sept. 11, 2024
  • 3-min read

Look, no spin here. Donald Trump had a better debate against Biden. On Tuesday night, he looked tired and grumpy. Harris successfully baited Trump, who spent too much time on defense. Yes, the ABC News moderates were biased as hell. It was Harris and ABC News versus Trump. But did anyone expect otherwise?

Trump missed some golden opportunities to frame the election as a referendum on Biden-Harris. Truth is, Trump let Harris frame the contest as a referendum on him – for only a bit, if Trump and his team use the post-debate to dissect Harris’ lies and reposition this race as an up-or-down vote on nearly four miserable years of the Biden-Harris regime.

Kamala Harris? She came off as a bitch: lecturing, scolding, taunting. That won’t play well among a segment of independent voters who don’t want a nasty grade school teacher to be president. Male voters – younger males, in particular – will find Harris’ “Badass Momma” routine off-putting. It’ll be interesting to see how Harris’ performance registers among black men, who may be as turned off by woman wagging a finger in Trump’s face as are other male cohorts. Trump shut up Harris twice for interrupting, which was very good.

However canned Harris’ answers were, she didn’t come across as a ditz. That’s going to allay concerns among some independents about Harris’ competency to serve as president. She isn’t competent, but that’s the Trump campaign’s challenge in the coming days: peel back Harris’ facade.

The big takeaway is that much will happen in the coming days to shape the outcome of this election. The debate is just one battle. Trump has to do what he hasn’t done strongly enough so far: make the focus on Biden-Harris – on hurting working and middle income Americans with higher prices on everything. On choking off domestic energy production, which is the economy’s lifeblood. On deliberately collapsing the border. On crime. On using the law to not only persecute Trump, but many others.

And finally… finally… this election is about ballots. Trump must beat the margin of theft this November. If you don’t expect Democrats to “creatively” ballot in jurisdictions they control in swing states, you didn’t live through the 2020 presidential race. In my estimation, beating the cheat means defeating Harris in battleground states (or the right combination of swing states) by more than 3%. 5% might be what Trump needs to win. Getting pro-Trump voters casting ballots is imperative.

However unevenly Trump did in the debate, it’s only a round in this fight. Cliché as this is, the presidential contest will serve as an historic pivot. Either we move to recapture our liberties or we continue to march toward some form of tyranny. Transforming America comes down to tyrannizing America.

Trump’s election is terribly critical in ending the march of would-be tyrants and rebuilding a free republic. Let’s keep our eyes on the ball.

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