There Ain't No Kamalamania, Never Will Be.

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I know, I know, it's grammatically incorrect. But it's the statement I want to make, the way I want to make it. Direct, straight forward, no nonsense. All the Kamala rigmarole is made-up hype and propaganda coordinated by the MSM and the Dems. Nothing has changed in the race. Please look at the article below if you don't believe me. And there never will be Kamalamania, because the choice is simple, after four years we know exactly who Harris is, a nervous laughing, stupefyingly incompetent flip-flopping political hack that has bungled everything she has ever touched. She is relying on a fawning MSM to push her over the top the way they did with Sleepy Joe. She ran in NO primaries and is only running now because of the Obama palace coup (she could not win it on her own). Then there is Donald Trump, who turned this country around as President until he was thrown out in a rigged election. A man who fought back through six election interference lawsuits, two impeachments and took a bullet while campaigning. Americans have been looking at this, they have experienced the terror of the Dems, struggled to make ends meet, having their jobs, and social services go to Illegal Aliens. No, this is not 2020 and the basement strategy. This is the leader of the America first movement, a great President running against a windsock. And everyone knows it. PG 4 CGR

Hot Air, July 31, 2024. Say, whose honeymoon is this, anyway? Supposedly, Kamala Harris has "totally upended" the race with The Anointment and the media's rush to proclaim the advent of "Kamalot." Also, Donald Trump only has a ceiling in the mid-40s and can't possibly win an outright popular-vote majority, especially with such a Historic Candidate™ as an opponent.

Or so analysts thought. According to a new Harvard-Harris CAPS poll, Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris 52/48 with leaners, and 48/45 without. Harris has improved Joe Biden's numbers on the latter, but not the former:

Even the unsure voters are breaking toward Trump, at least somewhat. The more worrisome data for Democrats are in the charts below, however. Trump holds Republicans to the ticket better than Harris holds her own party in both formulations. In fact, her 87% without leaners should be a red flag for the DNC, suggesting strongly that the party is not as sold on The Anointing as the media claims, even with the full-court press on Kamalot! Take a look at the indie numbers, too. Trump leads by six points without leaners -- and six points with leaners. One has to wonder whether the sample tilts a bit toward the Dems based on those results plus the party loyalty numbers above. If so, Trump's still scoring an outright majority over Harris, who's attractiveness as a candidate is at its zenith before she's forced to open her mouth about policy.

In the next slide down, we see even more demographic red flags ahead for Harris and the Dems. Trump leads by 12 among men and only trails by four among women 44/48. Trump also wins an astounding 25% of the black vote and 44% of the Hispanic vote, which is slightly lower than in some other polling. 

Before we get to issues, one more worrisome result for Democrats: they only have a +3 in the generic congressional ballot without leaners, when anything less than a +5 usually means losses in the House and Senate. And when leaners get added to the mix, it becomes a +4 for the GOP.

What may be causing this Trump Bump? The issue set clearly favors Republicans now. The top three issues for respondents in this survey when asked in an open-ended manner are inflation (37%), immigration (33%), and the economy and jobs (27%). When asked to specify which single issue impacts respondents the most, 45% chose inflation and 14% chose immigration. Harris' pet issue, abortion, comes in tied for third with crime at 10%. Except possibly on jobs, where the data has been surprisingly cheery this year, Harris has to play defense on the issues mattering most to voters in this cycle -- and Harris is not talented at defense.

One other trend to watch is favorability. Both Harris and Trump managed to zero out their unfavorable ratings in this poll (47/47 and 48/48, respectively), so that's a wash on personal approval. However, the GOP edges the Democrats in party favorability (47/45), which is likely impacting both the presidential and congressional polling. Most importantly, voters have reconsidered Trump's presidency in light of what followed it:

With the right/wrong direction result at 30/61, one can easily understand why voters may be ready to give Trump's term in office a Strange New Respect.

At any rate, Harris may have upended something, but it's not this race. It's the assumptions of Trump as too flawed a candidate to beat a supposedly fresh and younger face -- and that won't improve as Harris gets more and more scrutiny as a candidate, either.