‘Happy Warriors’ have Trump on the run

Say what you will, but it’s pretty hard to deny that on the visuals alone the “Happy Warriors” of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are much more appealing than the angry, frustrated, and threatening team of Donald Trump/J.D. Vance.  And as the polling numbers and campaign contributions continue to roll in, it’s obvious most normal Americans are deciding they don’t want a future in which we hate everyone else. 

Big kudos go to Kamala Harris on her very savvy pick of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Unlike the guy with the worst combover in history, Walz comes off as an absolutely genuine and caring individual — and not just towards those who agree with him and send him money, but toward all in our nation’s vast diversity.

Make no mistake, given the choice between providing free breakfasts and lunches to school kids and “rounding up” immigrants to put in detention camps prior to mass deportation, most people will choose the kind and caring person trying to do what needs done, not the mean bully spewing endless lies to incite baseless anger and violence. 

Likewise, the accomplishments of Walz as governor go far beyond making sure school kids don’t go hungry. What parent wouldn’t feel good to know if they’re child wants to go to college — especially with the vastly inflated costs — they will be able to do so without a crippling burden of debt?  

Or, in this nation of immigrants, the choice is not hard between those who recognize their value and welcome them into society rather than falsely marking them for scorn and persecution.

And who can argue with the conviction that the government has no place in the private decisions of whether or not to bear children?  As Walz proclaimed in his first, overflowing, incredibly enthusiastic rally with Harris, the government should “mind its own damn business.”  That business, by the way, does not extend to the “forced birth” platform being pushed by Trump/Vance.  Nor should anyone ever be chastised and denigrated for their choice to not have kids, let alone being falsely accused of not caring about the future of society. 

The more the stark differences in the two campaigns are exposed, the more voters are going with the better, more hopeful vision for the future than revenge, retribution and trying to turn us against each other.  In a stunning example, Harris told her enthusiastic crowd in Wisconsin to cease their “lock him up” chant, saying “the courts will handle that.”  That’s the difference between supporting justice, not hate and personal degradation.

Which is why it’s not surprising to see the latest polls turning so dramatically in favor of Harris and Walz.  The just-released Marquette Law School poll finds Harris at 52% to Trump’s 48% — and if third-party candidates are included that balloons to Harris’ 47% to 41%.  

Polls are polls, but then there’s the fact that Harris out-raised Trump by more than twice in July with a stunning $310 million dollars and hundreds of thousands of new volunteers.  But what’s truly stunning is the speed with which it’s all occurring for the not yet one-week-old Harris-Walz campaign.

All of this is good news for the nation, but it’s driving Trump to distraction — and as pointed out by the Washington Post, his ever-ready fingers of blame are now turning toward his own campaign as he wonders “what happened.”   

The answer, of course, is that truth happened.  And Americans are far more supportive of happy, kind and caring candidates with solid track records of helping the people than bloviating, hate-filled rants — and it’s as simple as that.