If Kamala Harris campaigned for president the way in which she is storming the nation promoting her e-book, she might need turn out to be president.
Had she been extra open with the media the way in which she is now — as an alternative of hiding out from the press all through the marketing campaign — she might need prevailed.
The vp had some $1.5 billion in marketing campaign funds to burn by means of. And burn by means of these funds, she did,
So, issues perhaps might have been completely different,
Probably not. She was going to lose anyway.
However it’s one thing to consider.
It’s onerous to think about a President Harris coping with dictators like Communist China’s Xi Jinping, warfare legal Vladimir Putin of Russia or defiant Chuck Schumer of New York.
It’s uncertain that she would have despatched the B-2 bombers to wipe out the nuclear services in Iran or completed a lot to free the Israelis held hostage by the Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
With Harris within the White Home, John Kerry would have been again as local weather czar, Maura Healey could be U.S. lawyer basic, and Elizabeth Warren could be Secretary of State.
The border could be open with Gavin Newsom in cost, individuals being deported could be Republicans, and Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro could be bombing U.S vessels and never the opposite method round.
Underneath President Donald Trump, nonetheless, Maduro, if he’s fortunate, will quickly be again driving a bus or die in jail, like fellow drug kingpin Manuel Noriega of Panama after the U.S. invaded and arrested him.
And the East Wing of the White Home that Trump is popping right into a ballroom?
Overlook about it. President Harris would have turned it right into a Washington meals pantry.
When you suppose not, think about her quote in regards to the ballroom final week. She stated, “Are you f—–g kidding me? The man desires to create a ballroom for his wealthy pals whereas turning a blind eye to the truth that infants are going to starve when the SNAP advantages finish hours from now. Come on.”
No one goes to starve within the U.S., and everyone is aware of it.
And may you think about President Harris ending wars across the globe the way in which Trump has completed?
Trump has settled so many wars between nations that he has misplaced rely. He has even introduced peace to nations that didn’t even know they have been at warfare.
So, with the defeat of Harris, the nation dodged a bullet.
Nonetheless, Harris is hanging in there hoping that lightning will strike twice and that she’s going to as soon as once more be the Democrat Get together nominee for president in 2028. Fats probability.
The distinction now could be that this time she should battle for the Democrat nomination as an alternative of being topped by the occasion as she was in 2024 after Joe Biden melted down.
Harris, nonetheless, will now face a wave of recent, formidable, younger radical leftists like Andrea Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) or Zohran Mamdani (ZM) as an example, who’ve taken over the management of the Democrat Get together
In the meantime, Harris nonetheless has previous Joe Biden hanging round her neck like an ex-husband who received’t depart the home.
Nonetheless, Harris is making an attempt, and says she is just not completed with politics, which is interpreted as that she’s going to run once more, or at the very least attempt.
And she or he has remained within the highlight not by campaigning for any candidate the way in which Barack Obama did, however by peddling her e-book.
Whereas stiffing the media in 2024 — and paying the worth for it — Harris has now completed interviews with extra reporters selling her e-book “107 Days” than she did throughout the whole 107 days of her presidential marketing campaign.
And she or he’s solely been on her book-selling tour for 40 days.
She apparently thought that the $1.5 billion she spent on her marketing campaign would do the trick. It didn’t
Harris spent the whole 107 days of her 2024 presidential marketing campaign with out holding a single official press convention, which have to be one thing of a report.
Now she loves the media, and reporters must beat her off with a stick.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas may be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
