You can hate it, but you can't argue with it.
To win not just the College, but also the popular vote, gives the result a legitimacy that is rock solid.
As I said yesterday, it's hard to know what the bigger deal is - a Trump victory or a Harris defeat?
The Democrats will ask themselves how is it possible, with all their money, all their incumbency and all their endorsements, they could lose to that?
The answer, of course, is obvious. That's not the point. The point is whether they will ever be able to bring themselves to see it.
The lack of planning post-Biden was astonishing. You wonder whether Obama, who wanted a contested race as opposed to a coronation, was right, or would it have made no difference? Biden had done them irreparable damage.
"Demography does not lead to democracy", was a Kellyanne Conway line I liked yesterday. In other words, treating black people, or women, or Latinos as a singular group and expecting them to act like sheep is a path to nowhere.
Why don't they get that?
There is a lesson there for this country and our debate around Māori.
As a message, it's almost like America didn't realise what they had in Trump last time. Or maybe Covid and the economy was all they really cared about and the carnage they are living through is so great they just want better times.
If there was a consistent line I heard over and over it was: "I was richer under Trump".
That's uniquely American. You would never hear people in New Zealand say "I was richer under Key" or "I was richer under Luxon".
How do you explain young people? Harris underperformed everywhere.
Look at New York for God's sake. They hate him, they indict him, then they vote for him in increased numbers.
Speaking of indictments, what happens to his legal woes? And how mad does that all get?
How about that Iowa poll from the Seltzer Group that we fell over? Yes, it was an outlier and a blow to their reputation and pollsters everywhere.
The polls though, were within their margins. They roughly seemed right. Although the remaining states will probably go the way we think, they are close, as predicted.
As I also said yesterday, you have to admire the force of nature he is. He is a lesson in being unrelenting.
For all the madness, dishonesty and illegality, he overcame it all, not once, but twice. They will study it for years to try and make sense of it.
Or maybe they already have made sense of it and it's uniquely American and it's us that thinks it's odd.
Either way, it's clean, clear, unambiguous, show-stopping, possibly gobsmacking, and now we have the prospect of four years of who knows what.
You'd like to think, given the campaign was slicker this time, the presidency will be slicker this time as well.
A bit of legacy is in the back of their minds, so let's see.
Buckle up.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
The Democrats will ask themselves how is it possible, with all their money, all their incumbency and all their endorsements, they could lose to that?
The answer, of course, is obvious. That's not the point. The point is whether they will ever be able to bring themselves to see it.
The lack of planning post-Biden was astonishing. You wonder whether Obama, who wanted a contested race as opposed to a coronation, was right, or would it have made no difference? Biden had done them irreparable damage.
"Demography does not lead to democracy", was a Kellyanne Conway line I liked yesterday. In other words, treating black people, or women, or Latinos as a singular group and expecting them to act like sheep is a path to nowhere.
Why don't they get that?
There is a lesson there for this country and our debate around Māori.
As a message, it's almost like America didn't realise what they had in Trump last time. Or maybe Covid and the economy was all they really cared about and the carnage they are living through is so great they just want better times.
If there was a consistent line I heard over and over it was: "I was richer under Trump".
That's uniquely American. You would never hear people in New Zealand say "I was richer under Key" or "I was richer under Luxon".
How do you explain young people? Harris underperformed everywhere.
Look at New York for God's sake. They hate him, they indict him, then they vote for him in increased numbers.
Speaking of indictments, what happens to his legal woes? And how mad does that all get?
How about that Iowa poll from the Seltzer Group that we fell over? Yes, it was an outlier and a blow to their reputation and pollsters everywhere.
The polls though, were within their margins. They roughly seemed right. Although the remaining states will probably go the way we think, they are close, as predicted.
As I also said yesterday, you have to admire the force of nature he is. He is a lesson in being unrelenting.
For all the madness, dishonesty and illegality, he overcame it all, not once, but twice. They will study it for years to try and make sense of it.
Or maybe they already have made sense of it and it's uniquely American and it's us that thinks it's odd.
Either way, it's clean, clear, unambiguous, show-stopping, possibly gobsmacking, and now we have the prospect of four years of who knows what.
You'd like to think, given the campaign was slicker this time, the presidency will be slicker this time as well.
A bit of legacy is in the back of their minds, so let's see.
Buckle up.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
4 comments:
"To win not just the College, but also the popular vote, gives the result a legitimacy that is rock solid." Exactly. Just like Biden last time.
I pick on the line [quote] - "Look at New York for God's sake. They hate him, they indict him, then they vote for him in increased numbers"- just shows how the NZ MSM, now including Mr Hosking's are to use a popular term - "Tone Deaf" - the reason that New Yorkers voted for Trump, they "saw thru the politically motivated trial, where the DA plus others, attempted to bring charges against Trump that had no validation
with no conclusive evidence presented, witness testimony that was dubious ( especially the re-visiting of the Stormy Daniels class action against Trump) the Judge blocking Defense Counsel in seeking answers via questions of witness's, then ensuring maximum publicity for his 'Trial', to date no conviction has been handed down - Oh and all the above, brought to the attention of all Americans, via several US Media outlets, with the citizens of New York presenting themselves outside the courthouse showing solidarity for Trump, who was also endorsed by several Labour Unions (this being taped by US Media) - but. hold on, surely this would have been published by the NZ MSM - no.
We have "Trump derangement syndrome" here in NZ - firstly with our media, then our academics, then Joe Public - just read the post comments, under any article posted on this Domain, that relate to Trump.
As I have stated elsewhere, Ms Harris showed "her true colours" from the moment of being "selected", and thru the many speeches she made across her campaign and the limited number of interviews she did - the best, that showed how "deficient" she was, was with Bret Baier/ Fox News New York, who in a later interview with colleagues, gave the impression, "he wished he had not bothered".
There have also been previous interviews, whilst Vice President, a good example of "deficiency", was when asked about the immigration issues at the US Southern border and it showed how disconnected she was from actual reality.
So, in the words of many conservative US Media, both the Democrats and left leaning population, they are no coping with the result of this election - and it would appear our NZ Media are in the same boat.
Can I suggest, to other readers, if you can locate this book -
Profiles In Corruption, by Peter Schweizer (2020) -
the first two chapters cover the backgrounds of both Harris & Biden - makes interesting reading.
Despite ALL the news media predicting the "closest election result in history", the voting public of America have used common sense and voted for the experienced candidate.
Their choice was between a leader with a proven track record running the nation, whose message was that he had the experience to make "America Great Again" and the other option was an untried contender whose main appeal was being female and "of colour"
No choice really. A safe pair of hands won the election in a landslide.
“Speaking of indictments, what happens to his legal woes? And how mad does all that get?”
Only the deluded MSM fell for Biden’s weaponisation of the legal system designed to take out a political opponent. Fortunately, the grown ups saw it for what it was. What the corrupt media failed to see was that the American people are a just people and voted accordingly.
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