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“The View” Cost Harris the Election
Despite the show’s raging Trump Derangement Syndrome and strident support of both Biden and Harris, the signature moment of the Harris campaign occurred on The View. During a sugar-coated interview, Harris was unable to muster a response to a simple question: “Would you have done something differently than President Biden?”
Let’s go to the videotape (go forward to about 1:10). In response to the request for something she’d have done differently she stumbled, hesitated, and declared, “There is not a thing that comes to mind.”
The inability of Harris to separate herself from the clearly unpopular Biden has been cited by many Dem operatives as the proximate cause of her defeat.
But the momentum advisers insisted she’d built failed to materialize. She never sufficiently buried Biden’s ghost, severely hamstringing her ability to sell voters on the idea that hers was the turn-the-page candidacy.
It happened, simply, because Harris refused to make a clean break from the last four years when voters indicated that’s what they wanted. Worse, she hesitated to draw any daylight between herself and her boss on Biden’s biggest vulnerability — his stewardship over the economy — nor identify any specific way her presidency would be different from his tenure beyond naming a Republican to her Cabinet.
The video from The View helped cement that impression in the minds of voters. And it played over and over and over as the centerpiece of se real Trump commercials. So if the above analysis is correct, the ladies of The View played a pivotal role in the undoing of their favorite candidate. There is something of the Greek tragedy about it.
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Bacon then. Post, Sporty, Topsy, Flopsy, and Bacon Spice.
Pumpkin.
It’s that time of year…
Perfect. Kammie was Bacon and Tim was Pumpkin.
Wait’ll Q gets hold of this.
Srsly, can you imagine what a TV comic could do with that joke we just sketched out?
I think a second generation was released. Special Ed Spice hung out with Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl.
There are TV comics? You can’t be woke and be funny. Kimmel, Colbert, Fallon, and Meyers prove that every weeknight, and SNL on Saturdays.
Bret Baier
Norm MacDonald: In other news, members of the Harris team are asking why the campaign never took advantage of Harris’ brief stint in the once-popular band The Spice Girls.
[Still photo of the Spice Girls with Kamala photoshopped over Scary]
NM: According to a recently-released excerpt from the candidate’s diary, she played with the band at a number of their early performances. Unfortunately, playing on stage as Bacon Spice wasn’t quite in line with her political calling, so she had to give it up.
[Video clip, headshot Posh Spice: It’s too bad. We miss our Bacon at band practice! We’re searching for a replacement, but it’s hard.]
NM: Evidently the band had to go thru a number of interviews before settling on Harris’ replacement.
[Video clip, Tim Walz prancing on stage bumping into Spice Girls trying to perform]
NM: Pumpkin Spice, seen here in this rare clip, was one who did not make the cut.
Barfly: I had to get that out of my system.
“Challenge accepted!” Or something.