Vice President Kamala Harris will formally accept her party's 2024 presidential nomination next week at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Kamala is an utter radical—a true, dyed-in-the-wool leftist. As I put it in my most recent syndicated column: "Harris, intellectually challenged and an empty vessel for Democrats to project their basest desires, is the unique politician to find herself at the tripartite Venn diagram of all three Democratic Street Thuggery movements. The overlap of 'believe all women'-style destructive feminism, Antifa-BLM 'racial reckoning' anarchy, and Hamas/Hezbollah flag-flying civilizational jihad is embodied in one person: Kamala Harris."

But that radical record—and the nearly-equal radical record of Harris's Communist China-honeymooning, BLM riot-abetting running mate, the prairie socialist Tim Walz of Minnesota—has largely escaped public scrutiny thus far. On the one hand, that is simply shocking—Kamala Harris is literally running for president of the United States, following her bloodless coup of her putative octogenarian boss, and We the People have no idea what she purports to believe with respect to virtually any of the leading issues affecting our lives! On the other hand, it is amazing what a Democratic candidate can get away with when he/she has a deeply biased corporate media doing everything it can to shield that candidate from having to answer to the public. Thus, we have the present spectacle of Kamala Harris not answering a single meaningful question from the press for three and a half weeks (and counting). After pretending to be real journalists for a few weeks, the Washington press corps immediately returned to form after Kamala successfully coup'ed Joe.

Ultimately, as the ancient Chinese military theorist Sun Tzu taught thousands of years ago: Before a battle even begins, it is won by choosing the terrain on which it will be fought. And so it will be with the 2024 presidential election as well. If Republicans can ensure the election is contested on the terrain of the leading substantive issues facing the American people—on the economy (as I recently discussed on my show with Charles Gasparino), immigration, and crime, above all—then they should prevail. But if the election becomes a subjective "vibes" competition or a mere high school-like popularity contest, the GOP could very well lose.

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