The Right Resistance: At Election time, nothing, including age, can slow down the Trump train now

Seeing this is the Monday before the first Tuesday in November, it means today marks the day before the “traditional” Election Day in the United States. If this were a “normal” year in America, the entire country would be gearing up to go to their appointed voting precincts, likely wait in lengthy lines, and cast their ballots on the morrow.

However, in our post-COVID 19 twenty-first century world, roughly half of the people who will likely vote this time around have already done so. Reports tell us that the people who’ve voted early are basically high-propensity voters – or those who voted in 2020 and would’ve gone to cast a ballot on Election Day – so the “experts” are working overtime to try and determine who waited until tomorrow to decide the outcome.

Needless to say, both campaigns have been trying to squeeze every vote from the leftover pool of registered citizens. Republican Donald J. Trump and Democrat cackling Kamala Harris technically already presented their “closing arguments” to the electorate last week. Trump held a huge rally at Madison Square Garden and Kamala elected to speak on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.

Thus, all the effort expended by both parties over the past couple years basically boils down to a matter of hours now, with countdown clocks already in motion. It feels a little like New Year’s Eve, doesn’t it? The world will change tomorrow, or in the days after. Mountains of polling data suggest some late breaking trends. Both candidates claim confidence, but as 2020 demonstrated, there can only be one winner.

If Trump succeeds in becoming only the second man to win non-consecutive presidential terms, he’d be in rare company. And history will be made in other ways, too. In an article titled, “Trump would make history if inaugurated at age 78, but busy schedule diffuses Harris’ age attacks”, Tom Howell Jr. reported at The Washington Times recently:

“Former President Donald Trump would make history as the oldest person ever to be inaugurated to the presidency if he wins [this] week, a fact Democrats are trying to exploit as they describe him as unfit for office. Mr. Trump turned 78 in June while President Biden reached age 78 a couple of weeks after Election Day in 2020.

“Mr. Biden was chased from the race due to concerns about his age and cognitive abilities. Now, Democrats are trying to flip the script by highlighting Mr. Trump’s senior status and meandering speeches. ‘Elect a new generation of leadership, not a nearly 80-year-old man screaming at clouds every day,’ Ms. Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, told a Wisconsin crowd...

“Should he win and serve a full term, Mr. Trump would be poised to eclipse Mr. Biden’s record as the oldest sitting president in U.S. history — something he is playing down at times. ‘I’m not that close to 80,’ Mr. Trump said at an event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.”

Therein lies the problem for Kamala’s crew. When sitting around the conference table one day, they probably came up with the “he’s old” line of attack because they couldn’t get anything beyond January 6, 2021 and a bunch of lies about the Trump economy to stick to the man. While it’s true Trump is noticeably weathered since he first came down the escalator at Trump Tower in June, 2015 (on or near his 69th birthday, I believe), Trump still gives better than he gets in terms of tossing out invective and pinning brands on his opponent.

There’s a rationale for why Trump’s 2024 intra-party rivals, save for Nikki Haley, disdained talking about Trump’s age in detail earlier this year. They realized it was a loser of an argument then, just as it is for cackling Kamala now.

There are reasons why the Kamala campaign has only made a half-hearted effort to bring attention to Trump’s numeric age prior to recently. First, if Americans are reminded that Trump is as old as he is, they’re implicitly told, again, that Democrat primary voters chose senile Joe Biden as their nominee (despite his purported age issues) and that cackling Kamala Harris hasn’t yet earned any votes for president – ever.

I’m not counting the millions of general election votes cast early thus far. Technically speaking, she hasn’t earned anything yet. Kamala’s been going around spouting her typical “I’ve never asked anyone if they’re a Democrat or a Republican in either of my two runs for president”, and the reason for this is because none of her campaigns even got off the runway. Except when she was handed the title last summer, because Biden himself was deemed too darned ancient to do it again.

Second, Trump may have attained the age senile Joe was when he was inaugurated, but there isn’t an objective commenter in the country who would equate the New Yorker with the broken-down, mentally faltering Delawarean, the same one who last week remarked that the only “garbage” he knows are Trump supporters. What a crock.

Trump is renowned for keeping strenuous schedules and this campaign has been no different. The Republican nominee is embarking on another last-minute rally marathon that will take him to several hotly contested states today, so if you’ve got a hankering to catch just one more Trump event on TV, there should be something, somewhere, to accommodate your urge.

Third, dredging up the age issues brings more unwanted scrutiny on Harris herself. Though the woman just turned 60, she’s not regarded as an especially vigorous “spring chicken”, either. Kamala’s campaign schedule contained several days-long breaks from the trail where she allegedly “practiced” up for media appearances, wasted time for a candidate who supposedly understands what she believes.

News flash: Kamala doesn’t know what to say because somebody made it up for her along the way. Judging by the number of contradictory soundbites that exist from her last presidential run in 2019 (she never made it to 2020, remember?), Harris felt unburdened to champion any number of leftist fringe causes back then, positions that she now disavows.

Despite outward appearances and common experience, Democrats have maintained since the beginning that Trump is “losing it”, that he has dementia, exhibits signs of decline and could become a prime candidate for invoking the 25th Amendment if he wins the election. Only it’s not clear how enthusiastic Trump-haters will be about removing him from this point forward when they realize that 40-year-old uninhibited firebrand J.D. Vance would become the new commander-in-chief.

The same labels Democrats love pinning to Trump don’t work – at all – with Vance. Democrats may argue Trump is too old to be elected to the top job, but here’s thinking they’ll change their tune if the 45th president becomes the 47th president in a couple months’ time. The alternative for them is to anoint a younger, just as aggressive replacement.

Fourth, reviving the age issue, again, shines the unwanted spotlight on Kamala’s “new generation of leaders” argument, scrutiny she’s probably not going to want when people realize just how awful the “new generation” is compared with the old guard.

Senile Joe Biden may not be the sharpest stick in the stack and certainly will never be known as a competent truth-teller whose ethics are squeaky clean, but in his day, Biden was seen as a reputable politician who related well with “ordinary” people and who fit in with the working folks. Kamala’s new generation, on the other hand, is a collection of snobby, entitled leftists who pretend to know everything and believe they deserve to rule because of who they are.

Resumes don’t matter a darn to this type.

Lastly, Kamala’s age-related assaults on Trump haven’t worked – and won’t work -- to spook voters – because she herself can’t even get her story straight about why Biden had to be replaced as the party nominee. A couple weeks ago when Fox News’s Brett Baier asked her, “When did you first realize that President Biden was faltering and it would be in the country’s best interest for him to step down from the presidential race?” – Kamala sidestepped the query without answering it.

Why? Because Harris can’t answer it and still retain the goodwill of the man who could singlehandedly crash her campaign if he so chose.

Rumors have it that Biden and Harris aren’t on the best of terms as the campaign concludes, and no doubt Kamala’s “new way forward” and “a new generation of leaders” themes have something to do with it.

Senile Joe Biden is convinced his was the best one-term presidency of all-time, and he not only would’ve won this year’s election if given the chance to campaign for it, he would’ve had the mandate he feels he’d need to “finish the job.” Senile Joe’s ego wouldn’t allow him to admit he ever did anything wrong, and his “garbage” view of Trump supporters discounted any chance Trump would’ve had to beat him.

Thanks to Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris, senile Joe Biden will never have the opportunity to know if he would’ve won tomorrow or not. Democrats have pulled out all the stops against Trump, including more recently attempting to brand him as a fascist Nazi and “unstable” madman, familiar refrains from previous campaigns that didn’t work.

It could be said the only person who could stop Donald Trump is Donald Trump.

The 2024 nominee has mostly stayed away from the pitfalls that would’ve felled his campaign. Aided by Harris herself, who is a truly hideous politician, unlikable person and complete empty-pantsuit, Trump seemingly had a much easier time of it in 2024. Polls have showed him consistently within the margin of error this cycle, and if he wasn’t felled by two (minimum) assassination attempts, a legion of antagonistic establishment media haters and the other intangibles of political campaigning… what would do the trick?

Age wasn’t going to slow Trump down, neither literally nor figuratively.

With tomorrow being Election Day, it’s basically all over but the shoutin’. Trump has done hundreds of interviews, traveled the country, done battle with a gaggle of hater-Democrats and wrestled with the variables that go along with ten years’ worth of non-stop politicking. Trump has proved over and over that he deserves a second term to Make America Great Again.

Will he get one?

• Joe Biden economy

• inflation

• Biden cognitive decline

• gas prices,

• Nancy Pelosi

• Biden senile

• Kamala Harris candidacy

• Donald Trump campaign

• Harris Trump debates

• J.D. Vance

• Kamala vice president

• Speaker Mike Johnson

• Donald Trump assassination

• Donald Trump

• 2024 presidential election

• Tim Walz