It’s been a rough November for Kamala Harris. Heading into this month, Harris was sure that she’d end it as the first female President-elect in American history.
Instead, Harris was trounced by Donald Trump not only in the Electoral College, but also in the popular vote. Weeks after this devastating loss, Harris has posted a video that has some social media users speculating that she’s been drinking her sorrows away..
Immediately after her loss, Harris fled to Hawaii for a vacation. She then arrived in San Francisco on Monday to spend Thanksgiving with her family.
The next day, Harris posted a Thanksgiving video in which she sent a message to Democrats. Indeed, this video was nothing short of bizarre.
From Daily Mail: She was dressed in work-wear for the video in what appeared to be a living room and looked bleary-eyed as she delivered the 28-second message.
‘And you have the same purpose that you did. And you have the same ability to engage and inspire,’ she continued. ‘So don’t ever let anybody or any circumstance take your power from you.’
It’s unclear what prompted the VP to deliver the pep talk, though online commenters suggested she wasn’t sober.
“Have you been drinking?” asked the former Hercules star Kevin Sorbo.
“Ooof she looks rough. Couple too many drinks?” another social media user questioned. A third commented, “When you’re by yourself minding your own business at Thanksgiving and your drunk Aunt finds you…
The conservative media personality Chad Prather bluntly asked, “Is Kamala Harris drunk?”
“The Democrats just released this video of Kamala Harris sending an urgent reminder to her followers to keep fighting,” he continued. “It’s kinda funny, she’s trying to sound inspiring but ends up saying absolutely nothing.”
Body language analyst Judi James spoke out to say that Harris’ mannerisms in the above video are indicative of someone who struggles to express honest human emotion.
“This is a very verbose speech that combines Harris’ talent for the word salad with her signature body language rituals that try to persuade you that you are listening to some extremely profound, motivational thoughts and messages,” James said.
James went on to explain that in her opinion, Harris was grasping to show some real emotion and empathy for her supporters in this footage.
“Her gestures are largely flaccid, including the waggling finger, implying a weaker impression than her words,” James concluded.
Many of us have known for years that Harris struggles to show genuine emotion. This is likely largely why the Harris campaign hid her away from the media as much as possible throughout the race.
While running for president, Harris avoided having to speak off-the-cuff like the plague as she instead typically opted for highly-scripted appearances that were firmly in her control.
The bottom line is that the moreHarris speaks to the public, the more unlikable she is. This likely played a huge role in her not winning over the voters that she desperately needed in order to defeat Trump.
Whether Harris was drunk or not, the above video certainly does not paint her in a positive light. In the end, it’s nothing short of baffling that Harris and her team thought that releasing this video was a good idea.
Thank goodness Harris won’t be our next president!
DEMOCRATIC OVERSPENDING DISQUALIFIES HARRIS FOREVER – MEGA DONOR was a good article and described Harris spending and you have to add BIDENOMICS who did the same thing.
Both of these people should not ever be able to run for anything because they have no sense of responsibility of other people’s money.
It is hard to understand people like this. How could you back a party like the Democrats after they put our country in such grave danger. We are in debt – up to our eyeballs – and they are still calling for MORE.
A candidate like Kamala Harris who over spent her election cycle and they still want more?
Go figure that and this one. The Democratic Party is just a name in history who has been kidnapped by the socialists and people still want more? There is no former Democratic Party – it GONE. All that is left is the NAME.
Pat Levin, 95 years young, is wrestling daily with something new and depressing.
“It’s left me very afraid,” she said of the 2024 election. “Afraid of the future. Afraid of everything.”
That Donald Trump will be president in her twilight is by far the biggest slice of Levin’s post-election funk. But there’s more: Democratic Sen. Bob Casey was defeated, as was her Democratic congresswoman, Rep. Susan Wild.
Her first memories of politics are of Franklin Roosevelt, and Levin has lived through Vietnam, Watergate, the September 11 attacks and more. And yet this feels more significant, more threatening.
“I want to fight,” Levin said in an interview last week. “I don’t want to fight. I think I have to. Because I think there’s no such thing as staying neutral. I think once you stay neutral, it’s the oppressor who wins and the oppressed who suffer.”
Levin is a lifelong Democrat who wasn’t happy when Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush won the presidency. But never did if feel like this. Her Republican neighbors tell her to relax, that it will all be fine. Levin trusts her instincts.
“I see a man who is not — or a regime now — who is not paying much attention to our history and our norms,” Levin said. “Say what you’d like, but I’m scared. … I’m afraid. Not so afraid for me — I’m not going to be around probably to experience it. But I’m afraid for those I love, for those I don’t love, those I know, those I don’t know. It’s all those people coming after me who might have to live under this.”
We met, for a third time over the past year, at the Bethlehem studio where Levin regularly does Pilates. She is sharp and witty and energetic. But she worries she may have been on the losing side in her last presidential election.
“I’m pretty sure,” Levin said matter of factly about Trump being the last president she sees. “I mean at my age. Chances are good that he will be.”
Levin is among the voters who participated in our All Over the Map project, an effort to track the 2024 campaign through the eyes and experiences of Americans who live in key battlegrounds or are part of critical voting groups, or both.
Voters over the age of 65 are among the most reliable to cast ballots. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris evenly split these voters nationally, with 49% each, according to exit polls. In Pennsylvania, Trump had an edge with voters 65 and over – 52% to 48% for Harris.
Pennsylvania voter Pat Levin talks politics during a Pilates class with CNN’s John King. – CNN
Levin lives in Northampton County, a place with a history of picking presidents. The winner in Northampton has carried Pennsylvania and won the White House in five consecutive elections, and all but three dating back 100 years.
Levin sees women’s rights in retreat; lies and distortions that go largely unchallenged; meanness toward immigrants; and disdain for civility and democratic norms.
“It’s a scary thing when you think about — is Elon Musk the shadow president?” Levin said. “Isn’t that scary to have to ask that question? Have we ever had to ask that before?”
We visited Levin and others in our Northampton County voter group just days after a post-election trip to Iowa, where Republicans who supported Trump were ebullient at his sweep of the swings states and win in the popular vote. Those Republicans support mass deportations and trade tariffs and see him as a strong leader on the world stage, while dismissing talk he is a threat to democracy.
Conversations with Democrats so soon after felt like entering a parallel universe.
“There are no guardrails any longer,” Levin said. “I mean, he has control. Control of the Supreme Court. What’s left in terms of stopping him? I don’t know what that is unless it’s a people. And it takes people with a lot of courage to buck that trend.”
Finding local ways to channel their disappointment
Marvin Boyer, too, is beyond disappointed in the election outcome and sees many troubling things on Trump’s priorities list. But he prefers to wait and see if things will be as bad as Levin predicts.
“I always think positive and hope that our better angels will, you know, resurrect,” said Boyer, a lifelong resident of Easton, Pennsylvania. “But, again, it was a message of divisiveness, of separation, of fear, and that seemed to resonate with a good deal of the population unfortunately.”
Boyer, 75, has been a civil rights and community activist as long as he can remember. We met at a community center where the main meeting space is dedicated to Boyer’s mother. On this day, it was being used to pack and organize Thanksgiving meal bags, and the community garden behind the building was another example of how local heroes like Boyer do what they can to help those who need a hand.
He urges disappointed Democrats to, like him, find a cause or causes close to home.
“This will not be my first disappointment rodeo,” Boyer said. “You have to give him a chance, despite some misgivings I have. … I often run into people who complain a lot, you know, and I’m a doer, and I say, be the change that you want to see in the community. Get involved in a local organization. Be more of an activist.”
Kamala Harris supporter Marvin Boyer gives CNN’s John King a tour of Easton Area Neighborhood Center’s food pantry. – CNN
Still, it is clear Boyer’s innate optimism faces challenges processing what he hears from Trump and what he sees from some voters, including fellow Black men in his own beloved community.
“It looks like it’s a revenge thing that he’s going for,” is how Boyer characterized the president-elect’s Cabinet and other personnel choices. “A big frankly, F-You to the other side.”
Boyer sees Trump as constantly stoking fears about America becoming more diverse, which makes the president-elect’s inroads among Black men especially troubling to him.
“I will hear what they have to say, and that’s what I do. I listen,” Boyer said.
Then his turn: “Why do you feel that way? Why would you vote for this guy? Why would you vote for an individual who I think is a racist who is a misogynist. … Who is with the January 6 situation? Why would you vote for a guy like that?”
The response usually follows these lines, Boyer said: “Because he tells it like it is, and that resonates with me.”
‘The quiet resistance’
Boyer’s suggestion to channel disappointment into activism is already part of Darrell Ann Murphy’s post-election plan — one she adopted with friends after a few days of crying.
“Friends of mine have started groups, we’re calling it the quiet resistance,” Murphy said in an interview at her home in suburban Palmer Township, a short drive from Easton. “We still have a voice. This is, you know, November of 2024, we still have a voice, not sure about 2025, but this is still America.”
Murphy, 84, teaches the Chinese tile game Mahjong, and says she was blindsided by the election results – in Northampton County and nationally – because most of the fellow seniors taking classes were Harris supporters. Three weeks later, she’s still trying to understand and is most worried about reproductive rights and a Trump tone Murphy sees as toxic.
“I don’t know how long I’m going to be around,” Murphy said. “I need to feel for my kids and grandchildren and the next generation, I need to feel some hope, some hope. Means more, means more to seniors. You know it really does.”
Pennsylvania voters Darrell Ann Murphy, Pamela Aita and Catherine Long reflect on the outcome of the election over a game of Mahjong in Easton, Pennsylvania. – CNN
Our recent visit was the third time we sat in on a Mahjong game at Murphy’s home – the third time she and Catherine Long sparred feistily with Pamela Aita, a Republican and Trump supporter.
“I don’t have to have dinner with Donald Trump,” Aita, 72, said when character questions came up. “I don’t care what he does. Just keep me safe, keep my grandkids safe, and have money in our pockets. That’s all. That’s what, that’s my concern. I think the man can do that job. “
Long, 68, took issue.
“I have a problem having a man keep me safe who is a convicted felon and doesn’t believe in the laws of the land,” she said. “I’m scared to death of what he’s going to do.”
(Doesn’t this person realize that all of the trials were Democrat fake trials?)
Aita reminds her friends Trump was president before. “Did anything horrible happen to the country?” she asked.
Long and Murphy said Trump was incompetent handling the Covid-19 pandemic.
That they can spar, and smile, is sadly rare in today’s polarized politics. Aita at first blames Trump’s critics, but then agrees he, too, often stokes the fighting.
“I’m saying both parties, both parties,” she said. “Knock it off. … Just let’s all come together for this country. It’s just, I don’t know, I don’t like the division and everything.”
Murphy can agree on that point.
“It’s awful,” she said. “It is affecting every family, every friendship.”
But the disagreement stirs again as Aita tries to wrap that point.
“We have to just knock it off,” she said. “He’s president for four years. We’ll have another election.”
Long interjects.
“We hope,” she said. “I have fears that he won’t leave.”
Aita: “Come on. That’s ridiculous.”
Long: “I’m not kidding. I have fears that he won’t leave.”
The CNN visitor suggests it can be a topic of polite Mahjong debate for the next four years.
“If we’re still here on this earth,” Murphy said.
“Yes,” Aita echoed. “We might not be here, John. You ever think of that?”
Back to the game. Won on this day, perhaps fittingly, by Aita, the Trump supporter.
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I will leave you with this from the truth teller – Bill O/Reilly – she was a bad candidate.
Thanksgiving is a time to renew our thank you that we still have a country and people who will be in charge that love the people and who will work to clean up the debt/border and the education system for starters.
The Democrats/Plouffe spinned the top and used a fake narrative that Harris was ahead of President Trump during the whole campaign to keep pulling in cash. Even worse they used Liz Cheney as a victim and that was even worse.
They got what they deserved. Nothing but a bunch of liars and mislead their own party.
Kayleigh McEnany: The Kamala Harris campaign is playing the ‘victim card’
Prominent election analyst Nate Silver appeared unconvinced after Harris staffers tried to explain away their candidate’s lack of interviews along the 2024 campaign trail.
During a Wednesday appearance on “Pod Save America,” campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon claimed that President-elect Trump got “no sh—” for his small number of traditional media interviews—while Vice President Kamala Harris received significant criticism.
O’Malley Dillon would go on to call the critique a “double standard.”
A transcript of the staffer’s comments quickly drew the attention of Silver—who attempted to throw cold water on the narrative pushed by the Harris campaign.
“Harris didn’t do a solo network interview until late September. Which who cares, fine, the networks don’t matter so much,” he said. “Then she did a bu toward the end of the race. But she was legit not doing a lot of traditional media. That was the campaign’s choice, not some conspiracy.”
“The Harris campaign folks are the most non-agentic people I’ve encountered in a position of comparable decision-making authority. They don’t even see themselves as victims so much as non-player characters with no will of their own,” he added.
A non-playable character is a video game term that references characters not controllable by the player. Instead, they are directed by software programming.
The Harris campaign aides have faced widespread backlash from both sides of the aisles—with some suggesting they took no accountability in the post-election podcast interview.
“Pod Save America” host Dan Pfeiffer spoke with O’Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter in the Harris campaign’s first major interview since the vice president’s loss to President-elect Trump. Online progressives sharply criticized the questioning and the defensive posture by the guests.
The Harris aides complained about media coverage and repeatedly cited their time crunch of just over 100 days to put together a campaign, which was due to President Biden going effectively unchallenged in the Democratic primary and not dropping out until three weeks after a disastrous June debate with Trump.
CNN’s Bakari Sellers, a Harris supporter, said during an interview on the network on Wednesday that the podcast interview was “disappointing at best,” panning “their lack of self-awareness, their lack of self-reflection.”
“It was reminiscent of a Kamala Harris interview: nothing is actually said. No one answers the question. No interview push back,” Tricia McLaughlin, a Republican strategist, wrote of the Harris campaign aides’ interview.
Fox News’ Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
Michelle Obama just hit Trump supporters with a jaw-dropping accusation.
Michelle Obama made her return to the campaign trail.
The former First Lady reacted to the state of the race with rage.
I regret to inform you some early voters have spoken.
Kamala Harris’s campaign is stumbling right as she reaches the finish line. Voters are taking a hard look at her record, and many don’t like what they see. From her controversial time as a prosecutor to her lackluster tenure as vice president, Harris’s political journey is riddled with question marks—and swing voters in battleground states seem to be noticing.
In her role as VP, Harris has faced criticism over her speaking ability, her vague policy positions, and her shaky handling of top national issues. When she talks, it often feels like she’s skirting around the point, leaving voters unclear on her stance. For voters, especially undecided ones, Harris’s lack of clarity and lackluster delivery are starting to raise serious concerns.
From Fox News: Undecided voters in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania gave sharp criticisms of Vice President Kamala Harris in a focus group this week, calling her “unqualified” to be president and “insincere” in her policy positions…
When asked by Halperin to give “one or two words” they “most associate with Vice President Harris,” the voters said these words: “unqualified, “unexceptional,” “graceful and positive,” “loyal,” “insincere,” “totally unqualified,” “unqualified,” and “unprincipled.”
Thank you for your recommendation – Former First Lady.
We all know – when new Republican management enters the government – the first thing they have to do is clean the slime out of the ice machines – which have been out of order since Biden has been in office. When President Trump left office during his first term – the U.S. was spinning like a top. . Since then the Biden Administration has taken it to the lowest level in history. They called the U.S. a third world country.
There is a lot of work to be done – especially, reducing the number of employees which is out of control.
Once they CLEAN HOUSE with his two helpers – then they can check to be sure it is humming like America should be. If not, they will need to fine tune it to their mode of operation. We all know the Biden government was running on automatic during his time in office with inflation/spending money like “it was no body’s business.”
If we can clear out the weeds who have been “mucking” up the government’s business – we should be back in business making our country CLEAN again. Our government environment has been so dirty with filth/corruption while being blamed on the citizens. No wonder – our environment numbers can’t be reduced.
Yes, it is time to get to work to MAGA. It can be done – you just have to have the right people who are willing to do the hard work.
Bill O’Reilly’s known Trump for more than three decades.
There may be no one in the media who has a better idea of how Trump will approach another four years in the White House.
And Bill O’Reilly delivered a startling reality check about what Trump’s second term will look like.
Bill O’Reilly says Trump cabinet picks aren’t there to make policy
Donald Trump told podcast host Joe Rogan the biggest mistake he made in his first term were hiring mistakes.
“The biggest mistake I made was I picked some people. I picked some great people, you know, but you don’t think about that. I picked some people that I shouldn’t have picked,” Trump stated. “I picked a few people that I shouldn’t have picked.”
Trump admitted that when he won in 2016 he didn’t know anyone involved in politics and made his cabinet and other personnel selections based on the recommendations of others.
But that meant Trump took the advice of establishment-aligned figures who tried to shape Trump’s administration by installing their own allies in key positions.
Trump said this was especially true in foreign policy.
“Neocons?” Rogan wondered.
“Yeah, neocons or bad people or disloyal people,” Trump replied.
Trump repeatedly tried to end America’s involvement in Barack Obama’s war in Syria.
When Trump announced a troop withdrawal, Secretary of Defense James Mattis resigned in protest.
Diplomat Jim Jeffrey served as Trump’s special envoy to Syria.
In November 2020, Jeffrey told reporters that Deep State bureaucrats such as himself would lie to Donald Trump to make it seem like Trump’s order to bring American troops home got carried out when in reality the military defied Trump’s directive.
“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey declared.
How a second Trump administration will be different
Donald Trump said now that he’s run three Presidential campaigns he feels much more comfortable making his own personnel choices as he knows all the key players.
That’s how Trump announced rapid-fire cabinet selections after crushing Kamala Harris on November 5.
Members of the media as well as establishment RINOs questioned why Trump picked Tulsi Gabbard to serve as Director of National Intelligence or Pete Hegseth to run the Defense Department.
Bill O’Reilly told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo that these nominations mean Trump isn’t messing around and won’t tolerate any “maybes” when it comes to if he can trust this person to implement his agenda.
“The people that do department heads are going to say ‘yes, sir’ or they’re not going to be OK,” O’Reilly said in an appearance on Cuomo’s show.
(It is not a, “Yes, Sir.” They all know what the President is planning and that is why they got on board.)
Trump wants to fire woke generals from the Pentagon and rid the intelligence agencies of the Deep State conspirators who ran the Russia collusion and Ukraine impeachment hoaxes in his first term.
In Hegseth and Gabbard, Trump has two reliable allies to carry out those goals.
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