AUGUST 3, 2024 By: Frank Holmes
“On the Holmes Front” with Frank Holmes
Democrats abruptly changed their presidential candidate last month from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris in a desperate effort to jolt Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump into making a costly campaign error. But the real surprise is how Democratic Party officials feel about their new candidate.
They’re scared, angry, and more than a little concerned the whole thing is about to blow up in their faces.
Some reports of the DNC’s disarray come from strategic, anonymous leaks to the press—but some have been caught off-guard by undercover reporters and filmed in their own words.
However the truth comes out about Kamala, it’s never pretty.
Take a new investigative video shot by an associate of James O’Keefe, which shows a Democratic official admitting Harris is “weirdly” unlikable and has no chance of winning in November.
“I like Kamala Harris, but I don’t think she’d win this year,” says the individual in the video, Joyce DeCerce (who appears to be a man and uses “he/him” pronouns). DeCerce oversees compliance for the DNC and, at that time, the Biden presidential campaign (now the Harris campaign).
“She’s weirdly unpopular,” DeCerce told a reporter, who goes by the title American Swiper. “A lot of that is racism, misogyny!” DeCerce insisted.
But he added American voters don’t like Kamala Harris, because “she doesn’t have any accomplishments to speak of, and she’s vice president.”
DeCerce went on to say he has become an expert fundraiser by glad-handing big-dollar donors, telling them what they want to hear, and then ignoring his word.
“What else is the DNC doing to trick their donors or voters?” asked O’Keefe.
The undercover reporter also played a clip from his own secret video interview with Charlie Kraiger, a cybersecurity policy adviser with the executive office of president. Kraiger told him that Kamala Harris “is not popular, but you can’t remove the first black lack to be vice president from the g** d**n presidential ticket.”
Since these are candid videos, you can rest assured they reflect the actual views of the people in question.
I know—DeCerce and Kraiger aren’t exactly household names…but they aren’t exactly alone in their feelings, either. They have big company at the highest levels of the Democratic Party, people whose names you’ve heard.
Barack Obama, for example.
Sources familiar with the decision say Barack Obama never want Kamala Harris to take the nomination and held off on endorsing her until it was clear no one else would throw their hats into the ring.
Obama reportedly pressured Biden to get out of the race—but he envisioned the aftermath must differently.
The source said Barack Obama already had Joe Biden’s replacement picked out: He wanted to see Arizona Senator Mark Kelly “at the top of the ticket.”
When Biden held out until he had millions of dollars in campaign donations, then endorsed Kamala Harris as his successor, it made Obama blow his top.
“Obama’s very upset because he knows she can’t win,” a source close to the Biden family told the New York Post. “Obama knows she’s just incompetent — the border czar who never visited the border, saying that all migrants should have health insurance. She cannot navigate the landmines that are ahead of her.”
“When you are running for president, there are things you can and can’t say,” the source said.
Since the beginning of her political career in San Francisco, Kamala has always been known for her mouth.
The cackling, question-dodging, and incoherent repetition will wear thin on the American electorate, the source believed. “She’s going to say something really stupid.”
“Obama knew this was going to happen, Joe knew this was going to happen. Now she is going to have to answer real questions,” the source said.
So far, his assessment has proven false. As of this writing, Harris has yet to hold a press conference, much less answer questions on-the-fly.
Some have compared her performance with Joe Biden’s basement campaign four years ago.
Kamala Harris regularly had lower approval ratings than Joe Biden, whom pollsters gave almost no chance of winning the 2024 presidential election.
A Real Clear Politics average of the polls shows Harris narrowly trailing Donald Trump. Headlines scream she’s gotten no “bounce,” despite the media honeymoon with her candidacy.
Things are so bad, even Democratic congressional candidates are running away from Kamala Harris.
The head of the Democratic campaign to take back the House of Representatives, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), has repeatedly refused to even say Harris’ name. It’s as though Harris is a ghost in her own campaign.
“What is the Harris effect? Is it a good one?” asked a Bloomberg reporter.
Chairwoman Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., responded without saying “Kamala,” “Harris,” “the president,” or even the pronouns “she” or “her.” (That’s a big deal, because we know liberals believe pronouns are important.)
Reporters say DelBenze did this six times in just a few questions.
It wasn’t even the first time she’d run scared away from the face of her party.
On Inside Politics, CNN’s Chief Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju asked about the impact Harris would have on congressional races.
“Our races have all been local,” DelBene veered off.
The polls are bad. Voters don’t like Kamala Harris. Joe Biden and Barack Obama don’t like Kamala Harris. Even her fellow Democratic candidates, who should be campaigning by her side, don’t like Kamala Harris.
Shouldn’t the American people listen to their overwhelming testimony and vote against Kamala Harris, too?
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Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”
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