A Former Democratic Political Consultant Offers Urgent Free Advice
By Dr. Naomi Wolf
Outspoken
All Hell is breaking loose.
The Dow Jones tanked 1000 points, by 2.15 %, and the Japanese stock market is down by 12%. Markets globally are shuddering. The Southern border is open – this is after Vice President Harris went to the nations South of the border to get at the “root causes” of illegal immigration – and 18-30 million people of fighting and reproductive ages, who have had no vetting at all, including hundreds of whom have proven ties to terrorist groups or nations, have poured into the US. American men and women, struggling to pay out-of-control grocery and gas prices, are beginning to understand that these “newcomers” receive free luxury housing, free transportation, free food, and in some cases, room service.
Crime is rampant in cities. Concerns about crime have grown by double digits under the Biden administration, according to the Pew Center for Research: “A growing share of Americans say reducing crime should be a top priority for the president and Congress to address this year. Around six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) hold that view today, up from 47% at the beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021.”
Homelessness haunts our nation’s alleys and parks.
We were humiliated by the Biden Administration in withdrawing from Afghanistan, in a way that traumatized many veterans, and now we are humiliated with the politically-motivated reaching of a plea deal with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Mohammed.
In the past three and a half weeks, President Biden has been exposed as being severely demented. (My interview with Dr Kelly Victory revealed that he is likely to have had Parkinson’s since early 2020, which means that Vice President Harris has been committing treason for years by covering up his condition). The Secret Service was revealed as being either hapless or wicked to the point that a President was almost assassinated; no one at the top of our nation’s leadership showed up to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu; and VP Harris did not seem to know what to say when she was confronted by press, while the Principal wandered off to board an empty plane.
This all, played normally — even the former President’s surviving a would-be deadly attack — would all be greatly beneficial to the Trump campaign and to the RFK Jr campaign.
Every single one of these issues and moments is a gift, indeed, to the two opposition campaigns.
When President Biden stepped aside from campaigning, the RNC should have seen a straight shot to victory. Just a little discipline and a little focus, and President Trump would be re-elected in a landslide too big to allow for the margin of certain cheating. RFK Jr would do well enough to join forces with him in a major cabinet role, and then be well-positioned to be President in 2028.
And yet — and yet. In just the two weeks since this huge opportunity to defeat a lethal globalist regime opened up, President Trump and the RNC seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
I am supposed to be nonpartisan, because my company DailyClout, which empowers citizens with access to legislation, is nonpartisan.
However it is so clear that enemies of our country have seized control of Biden/Harris administration, that I feel I need to speak up to help any candidate, President Trump and/or RFK Jr, who can unseat these traitors.
To that end, here are some Clif notes from a former Democratic political consultant to two Presidential campaigns, one of which succeeded and one of which won the popular vote, about How Not to Run Against Vice President Harris.
1/ Know the electoral math. Every single Presidential campaign in modern history has to factor the same math equation in order to attain victory. This math also has some profound philosophical implications. The math — for Left or Right, it does not matter – is:
NO ONE CAN WIN BY APPEALING TO JUST THE BASE.
I cannot say this enough. No matter how effective left or right are at turning out their shock troops — the grassroots true believers on either political extreme — no one can win by appealing just to the base. There are simply not enough of these true-believer voters in the key swing states that ultimately matter. (A swing state is a state that can go either way).
You can have millions of passionate MAGA voters activated and turning out to vote in Alabama and South Dakota and ultimately it won’t matter in attaining victory for President Trump. The same is true of activating the base in just New York or California for VP Harris.
The way our electoral map is set up, any candidate needs the swing voters in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia, the current swing states. So the US Presidential election always comes down to pathetically few swing votes — like, thousands or, sometimes, even hundreds —- in those swing states. In five to seven states, the margin of victory is agonizingly narrow and Trump’s (and Harris’) only route to victory is to swing undecided voters in those states, his or her way. Swing voters tend to be moderate.
What does this mean?
To me, this fact creates a beautiful requirement. This math requires a successful Presidential candidate to speak not just to people who agree with him or her, but also to use compassion and insight and imagination to speak to all of America, about the issues that unite most Americans and that are of concern to most Americans.
Now, given human nature, it is very difficult to achieve this — that is, to give up feeling the ego-gratification of speaking into an approving echo chamber, and rather to choose to use language and identify policies that really unite, really reach out and appeal, to those who do not agree with one about everything.
When I advised Democrats, I was always warning them — as they have the same human temptation to speak to a cheering echo chamber — about how important it was to respect the fact that, for example, not everyone whose vote Democrats needed, supported abortion rights as they themselves did. I would warn Democratic candidates about the tunnel vision that led them to assume that everyone saw identity politics or welfare or the environment or feminism and gender roles, or religion or guns or the military, the way that they did.
When President Clinton spoke to liberals in liberals-only tones, he lost support. But when he had conservative-leaning advisors, such as Dick Morris, he was able to speak in a more universal voice about issues that united people across the political spectrum. He focussed on the economy, and dramatically slashed welfare entitlements; he signed a “welfare-to-work” bill. That gesture sent an effective message: this was not a lockstep liberal pandering only to the base.
Both President Ronald Reagan before him, and President George Bush Jr after, also perfected this dance step. And this quality in their platforms and rhetoric was crucial to the victories of both men.
President Reagan had brilliant speechwriter Peggy Noonan. In her soaring words in President Reagan’s speeches, you will never find an “us versus them” dichotomy, or see evidence of a narrow conservative tunnel vision, or of any pandering to the base. Noonan had the gift of speaking to all of America as if it was one community – which indeed we are at our best — and of appealing to the most inclusive, aspirational instincts in our common American nature.
Because of this unifying, aspirational language in President Reagan’s speeches, you also won’t find gay-baiting, intrusive attacks on opponents’ private lives, personal slurs, nasty jokes, or racial pandering.
