Mitch McConnell hits the panic button over Kamala Harris
Just a day after Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’ running mate for the 2024 Democratic ticket, Mitch McConnell sounded the alarm – suggesting to a crowd of lawmakers in Louisville, Kentucky that a Harris-Walz victory in November, along with House and Senate wins, would spell certain doom for the GOP.
It’s a bit of ridiculous hyperbole, but consider a few things about it. We can plausibly win the Senate even if it would require a tie-breaking vote, while easily flipping the House and winning back the White House on Nov 5, provided we put in the work for everyone up and down the ballot. Second, consider who’s saying this and what he’s said before: It’s the same guy who said his party’s goal was to make President Obama a one-term president and refused to let him fill a SCOTUS seat that he had every right to do as president – it’s quite a change of tune for him. Third, this whole thing is basically loser-speak: it’s whiny and defeatist, as McConnell went on to talking about Democrats making both Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico into states and Democratic senators having a permanent majority.
As much as you may wish for that last part, it’s a bit of a heavy lift with the makeup of the Senate between now and 2025, but this is one of those rare moments when you see how desperate and pathetic the GOP sounds when they’re the ones crying about how they’re going to lose.
There is some truth to Mitch’s whining, however, as Vice President Harris is fully aware of how McConnell treated President Obama when McConnell was Senate Majority Leader, and she’s running a campaign considerably more aggressive than anything Republicans have faced in recent history, not to mention that if she is elected in November, it will be the first time in over 60 years that a Democrat succeeds a Democrat as president, paving the way for a great deal of more progressive legislation that benefits more people, so Republicans will have a hard time taking credit for the economy or really advocating any policies of their own that will find popular support. That’s why we need to run up the score and put in the work to make Kamala Harris our Madam President-elect on Nov 5.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making