Election Decision 2024
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Who did what?
The latest chatter in the digital verse is the question as to did Obama sabotage the Harris presidential campaign? Surely such a hot button political questions will draw stark opinions on both sides of the aisle. But as to Legalhotwater, the opinion is in the negative. It is highly unlikely that former President Obama acted with malicious intent in the background to keep former Vice President Harris out of the top slot in the White House.
What really happened?
Well perhaps the players in that game only know what really happened; but, here is what very likely contributed to VP Harris’ defeat by President Trump. Two key points. The first: Brand. And the second: Timing.
Brand is much about image as it is the person, in the political world. A look at Harris’s recent background shows a fighter quality, leadership, public appeal, very strong financial backing, and a background in the political world which certainly helped navigate during her term as VP. So the idea of hindering elements like gender, leadership, or softness are all off the table and played no part in the 2024 presidential race for Harris. To the contrary – Brand – however likely played a very critical role in Harris’ appeal to public. In this respect, brand has a lot to do with what Harris stood for as a candidate. In other words the public perception of who really is/was Kamala Harris. And if there are two situations that likely stuck with an influential segment of the public, during the presidential race. The first being Harris’ tenure in California as a San Francisco district attorney and then attorney general for California. And is wasn’t the ‘pot jokes and comments’ it was the use, misuse, or failure to use extraordinary power to allow injustice to prevail. This was extremely critical because the role of an attorney general or at a lower level being a district attorney is first and foremost having an utmost concern and interest for ensuring that justice is always preserved.
As attorney general of California from a public’s perspective it is not about conviction records, its about how justice was dispensed or not. To wit: what stuck with some and, also, came out during the presidential race was the death row case of a black man in California which apparently under Harris’ watch – her team knew they may have been in possession of exculpatory evidence; but, not only did not come forth with the same but, instead, actually tried to hide such exculpatory evidence. This was extremely damaging. The message the public received is that here is a politician that will do anything to [arrive and] stay and power and keep a government paycheck rolling in – not the message a person running for top office wants to have circulating in the digital verse.
Now while Harris apparently did not work on the specific death row case she was the big boss and everyone who did work on that case reported to her directly or indirectly. The public expects the top boss to know what her people are doing; to have integrity based people on her team, and the ability to take a firm stance against injustice if/when it rears its head. So when Harris became aware of the problem what she did not do is say: “Hey we may not like this guy, he is a scumbag, a loser, a pathological liar, and life long criminal but we do not prosecute innocent people for murder if we have evidence to prove his innocence or if we know we cannot prove his guilt per the requisite standard.” Harris did not take such a stance, although, speaking out against the exculpatory evidence issue: only after the press dropped the story, Harris came across as a bit defensive of herself and her department and in doing so failing to connect with the public’s expectations given the extraordinary level of power associate with attorney general. In other words, you don’t play political football with people’s lives for the sake or appearance of advancing your political career. Surely, Harris has changed a lot since those days, which would be expected (if not required) to be in the White House as VP, but not standing up and making it abundantly clear, at all times during her past tenure, ante, that: “I am all about justice and I never abuse power for political opportunity,” – that stuck with people – enough to make them doubt what Harris could or would have done with the extraordinary power of the top seat in the White House.
As to the second key issue with Harris’s campaign, that is much about timing. Again, Harris is a smart, well liked politician who raised more money than has ever been seen in a political campaign, in fact several times more than the current President Trump; but, the timing was not right for Harris to be on the center stage running for the top seat. Take for example Harris’ opponent across the aisle – Trump. From a public’s perspective, a lot of people claim to hate Trump for one reason or another but what virtually no one can question is Trump’s brand or at least his public brand image is that he is 100% all in for America. That was just too much for Harris to overcome for her first stint on the stage for the top job with a past record of doubt in the public’s eye as to whether or not Harris was/is all in for America as opposed to her own career.
For Harris’ part, if she truly is the person she presented during the presidential race, all is not lost. In that case, Harris would really need to double down on who she really is when the camera is not rolling and continue to make a genuine pitch to the public of who she is and why she is right for America at a later date. As the saying goes, “Good news travels slow, bad news travels [very] fast.” So in the case of Harris it will take time and a host of deeds consistent with who she is today to overcome yesterday. The public is generally forgiving at some point; but, it is not a science, it is an art -- very fickle and capricious. That is how politics works. It absolutely has no bearing on gender or race. So did Obama sabotage the Harris presidential campaign? The answer is No. And if Obama tried to do so, what ever efforts he may have put into play had very little affect on the key points mentioned herein.
And for President Obama’s part, he has a great deal of influence in the democrat part and in many ways is much like former Present Bill Clinton with respect to President Obama’s intelligence, oratory skills, public appeal, leadership style, and generally how he comes across to the public. In short, President Obama comes across to the public as a very respectable likable person. Now granted, Legalhotwater has been quite vocal in its dissent with President Obama’s politics; but, surely no one can question his personal attributes, ante. And based upon those personal attributes, it is highly unlikely that President Obama sought to sabotage VP Harris’ chances in the White House – it very likely came down to Harris’ brand and the not so optimal timing in 2024 to have sought the seat of top boss in the White House.
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MAGA Claims Victory in 2024 Election
MAGA claims victory in the 2024 election with at least 296 electoral votes cast for Donald Trump. Some have said all along that the MAGA agenda was more like Make America White Again. Well the jury is still out on that one; but certainly there is no doubt that White America ushered in the victory for Donald Trump. In any event, MAGA has claimed victory at the polls. That was the easy part, per se. The hard part or the reality is dealing with the “Now what?”
America is rife with an abundance of extremely serious economic, national, and social issues which the President Elect stated he was the only one capable of solving America’s issues, and that he would make a quick dent in some of the more critical issues i.e. wars abroad albeit cowardice at home, illegal immigration, the economy, and the American crime epidemic, to name a few.
Perhaps a few inquires to the incoming White House of 2025 are ripe for the picking:
- Donald Trump and J.D. Vance made the campaign all about Make America Great Again (MAGA), yet America under widespread GOP support has gone out of its way to make foreigners rich many times over via en mass H1B visas dating back to 2001, the beneficiaries of which have largely been countries such as India, China, the Philippines, and Vietnam. So the question is now that the GOP has made a certain percentage of the population of these countries rich while displacing Americans, which trend has continued under the Biden Administration, what will the Trump-Vance White House do to address this issue? Assuming the incoming White House sees it as an issue.
- According to the Time.com India, which is the #1 most populous country in the world, has already seen its economic GDP at 70% of the USA GDP. America has contributed in large part to this trend. So the two fold question is how many more millionaires and billionaires will America continue to make of foreign nationals from India in particular, driven by GOP policies while at the same time chanting MAGA MAGA MAGA? And is the treatment Americans receive by India (and most every other foreign nation) on their soil considered even remotely equitable to that which they receive in the USA in terms of immigration status, citizenship, wealth creation, business opportunities, equality, and business investments?
- At this point it is well known or should be well know that the Biden Administration aligned with a sub-culture of the Black community in a nefarious manner, which has lead to subverting several economic sectors, illustrative of a host of symptomatic issues seen over the past four years, under the King, ranging from crimes contributory to the crime epidemic (including in large part their own Black communities) to allegations of treason. So the question is, how does the White House intend to deal with this Black culture issue?
- It is well known that the USA debt-to-income ratio is more than 125% weighing in around $32 trillion and counting. By every economic measure on earth, such an economic status is considered wildly unhealthy, potentially destabilizing, and certainly untenable. Couple this with the widespread corruption in the United States Courts rigging cases which has advanced one or the other political party in terms of image. So the question becomes, when is America going to start paying its bills; the same standard by which it measures everyone else via its empirical reign?
That out to be enough to get started especially since the Right has it all figured out and has the framework ready to hit the ground running on Day One.