KISS. The age-old, sage advice to Keep It Simple, Stupid.

With voting already underway, the Trump-Vance campaign has at its disposal a historically simple case to drop the KISS of death on Kamala Harris’ candidacy.

Six numbers utterly disqualify the most inadequate, incompetent, ineffectual, insubstantial candidate ever put forward by a major party for the office of president of the United States of America.

These numbers must be repeated, daily, by the two members of the Republican ticket and every imaginable surrogate between now and the final closing of the final polling place November 5.

Here we go:

$17,080

Kacklin’ Kamala laments “so many Americans trying to make it all work every day … sitting around their own kitchen tables and facing their own financial pressures.”

You bet. And she knows exactly why. According to the House Budget Committee, that $17,080 was, as of this summer, the annual Harris-Biden “inflation tax” on the average American household. A number that has only grown since, despite a supposed “cooling” that did not preclude continued leaps in food, shelter, medical, and apparel costs in the latest Consumer Price Index report.

662,566

Her Veepness concedes, “The border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed.” And even that admission includes two multi-megaton whoppers. 

The system was broken “over the last four years before we came in”? Yes, the Harris-Biden “all-ee all-ee in-free” disaster has subsided somewhat since Slumpin’ Joe decided he wanted to get re-elected. 

But none other than radical left CBS News’ Bill Whitaker blew a hole in the first claim, pointing out that border crossings had quadrupled under Harris’ “czarship” after her boss reinstated catch-and-release, reversed “stay in Mexico,” and attempted to put a moratorium on deportations.

And “the border is secure”? Yeah. Like a house of cards on a teeter-totter.  

It’s not just the mere numbers. It’s who is coming in. In addition to 2 million recorded “gotaways,” whose identity and character are by definition unknown, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has copped to having more than 600,000 illegals with criminal backgrounds on its national docket – “hundreds of thousands” of whom, per the Center for Immigration Studies, have been released to roam the country in violation of the law. And even that number is likely a vast understatement given the large number of cases administratively closed or outright dismissed without resolution.

Granted: some of these criminals came in before the current administration. But that only increases Harris’ culpability in allowing the already unmanageable docket of pending immigration cases to be further swollen – and failing to comply with the law requiring that criminal aliens be detained.

323,000 

Quoth Kamala in 2018, “Let’s call (Trump’s alleged) policy of indiscriminately separating children from their parents at the border exactly what it is: a human rights abuse being committed by the United States government.”

Yeah? How about 32,000 unaccompanied children who, according to the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security, did not appear for court dates between fiscal years 2019 and 2023 – and 291,000 who never even received Notices to Appear during that period? For whom ICE admits it has “no assurance” that they “safe from trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor?”

Again: children released in FYs 2019, 2020 and 2021 were on Trump’s watch. But the flow of unaccompanied minors slowed to a trickle during Trump’s last full fiscal year in office – meaning that of 448,820 unaccompanied minors released by ICE to HHS during the period in question, 81.5% arrived in fiscal years primarily occurring during Harris’ reign as border czar. And the well-being of all of them became her responsibility once she took the oath.

If she is so concerned about the “human rights abuse” of separating children into protective custody, why did she not take action to protect the rights and safety of children released into unknown situations?

Because the truth is Kamala doesn’t care. She wants the number of potential Democratic voters from abroad to explode, no matter the consequences. Her cynical, callous reach for power knows no bounds and no decency.

0

As in “net zero.” Spake the Veep just last year:

“You know, when President Biden and I took office, we set an ambitious goal.  Yes, people said, ‘That can’t be done.’ We said, ‘Well, you know what?  We believe in dreaming with ambition and then seeing it through.’



“And so, we set an ambitious goal … to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.”

But hold on! Harris has recently insisted, “I will not ban fracking. I did not as vice president…. And my perspective on this is grounded in a number of things, including that we don’t have to ban fracking to do the work that we can do to also invest in a clean energy economy.” 

Except the International Energy Agency asserts that in the pathway to net zero, “Beyond projects already committed as of 2021, there are no new oil and gas fields approved for development… The unwavering policy focus on climate change in the net zero pathway results in a sharp decline in fossil fuel demand….”

Since the American Petroleum Institute indicates that fracking now accounts for 95% of natural gas and oil well development, Kamala’s commitment to net zero – from which she has not backed off, and cannot without a revolt in her radical progressive base – amounts to the fracking ban she claims is not in the cards.

$6.75 trillion and 5,044

A nod to Democratic pollster Mark Penn for this thought.

The former represents federal outlays for fiscal 2024. 

The latter is the number of nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal. 

No sane individual would make this woman-child (and watch the last 20 seconds in particular), the chief executive in control of an enterprise of this size with this level of firepower.

Your correspondent rests his case.

Bob Maistros, a regular contributor to Issues & Insights, is a messaging and communications strategist, crisis specialist, and former political speechwriter. He can be reached at bob@rpmexecutive.com.

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