The High-Water Mark of the Harris Campaign

On July 3, 1863, Maj. Gen. George Pickett led his troops on a suicide mission ordered by Gen. Robert E. Lee (against the strong objections of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet) across an open field in Gettysburg, PA. The ill-fated attack on Day 3 of the conflict, forever remembered as “Pickett’s Charge”, saw 12,500 Confederate soldiers march 1,000 yards across the field and up Cemetery Ridge, facing a heavy bombardment from Union artillery the entire way.

At one point in the battle, one of Pickett's brigade commanders, Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead, managed to break through the Union defenses at a place called “the Angle”. However, the Union soldiers quickly repealed the advance, capturing or killing most of the Confederate soldiers that had breached the line, including Armistead himself.

Following the “High-Water Mark of the Confederacy”, Gen. Lee’s defeated troops retreated back into Maryland and Virginia, never to foray into the north again… although the Civil War continued for two more bloody years.

Which brings us to Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign.

On August 22, 2024, after four days of carefully choreographed political theater, the Democrats “broke camp” with lots of momentum and a full head of steam. If the post-convention poll numbers are to believed, the political winds were firmly at Kamala’s back. All she had to do was hang on for 75 days and she would be America’s first woman president.

Oprah Winfrey urged voters to "choose joy."

Former President Bill Clinton called Harris the "president of joy."

And her vice-presidential running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, said Harris has consistently served "with energy, with passion and with joy."

Back to Oprah for a minute, the has-been talk show host with the oversized ego framed the campaign as "the sweet promise of tomorrow over the bitter return to yesterday." Of course, that was before we found out (despite Oprah’s initial denials) that the Harris campaign had paid her production company $2.5 million to host a town hall meeting designed to portray Kamala in a positive light.

That kind of money would fill me with joy too, I guess.

Other questionable expenditures by Harris and her handlers included $2.6 million on private jets over a single two-week period; $900,000 for a week’s ad space on the Las Vegas Sphere; $15,000 on DoorDash and UberEATS; and nearly $9,000 in ice cream from high-end shops like Sweet Lucy's Ice Cream and Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams.

Altogether, the Harris campaign managed to burn threw $1.5 billion in just 15 weeks. That’s $100 million per week, folks!

Meanwhile, Harris donors say they are still being bombarded with financial requests, and the Democratic Party is reportedly $20 million in debt from the failed campaign.

I don’t know about you, but I’m sure glad we didn’t put Kamala in charge of the world’s largest economy.

In hindsight, she had about as much chance of winning as Gen. Pickett.