* Kamala Harris said yesterday that “the government should not be telling women what to do with their bodies.”
* Glad to see the veep supports legalizing prostitution.
* National polls are meaningless, especially this early. In fact, so many polls have proved to be so wrong so often that it seems only the media really cares about them.
* Current polls show Trump has a wide lead over DeSantis nationally. But the first primary is still over six months away – and we haven’t even had the first debate yet.
* What truly matters – and all the presidential campaigns know it – is what happens in the first four early states, including Nevada, before going into Super Tuesday. Results in those four early states can dramatically change the race dynamics.
* Remember, Biden was getting his clocked cleaned until his upset victory in South Carolina in 2020.
* “The result was so lopsided,” Politico reported at the time, “that South Carolina was called the minute polls closed. For the first time in weeks, the presidential primary once again looked
like a race.”
* And Biden went on to win the nomination.
* Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo held a press conference yesterday to drum up support for his proposal to use unspent COVID money to restore funding the Democrats in the Legislature cut
from the state’s Opportunity Scholarship program in the 2023 session.
* During the media “gaggle” afterwards, one “fatal attraction” reporter asked Lombardo if he was supporting Trump in the GOP presidential primary.
* What that had to do with low-income, mostly minority children possibly losing their ability to attend the school of their choice is anybody’s guess. But some in the media are totally obsessed with Trump.
* Not everything is about Trump. Give it a rest already.
* But speaking of Trump, columnist Rich Lowry has some interesting observations…
* Biden’s ineptitude is the best asset Trump has going for him. Whatever else you say about Trump, the economy was better, prices were lower, illegal immigration was in a decline, international tensions reduced, etc.
* As long as Biden keeps screwing up, Republicans will “pine for the days when Trump was president.”
* The Democrats relentless indictments of Trump – especially in stark contrast to how Hunter Biden’s scandals are being handled – reinforces the notion that there’s a two-tiered
justice system in America today, and that benefits Trump.
* Democrats have overplayed their hand. Many Americans don’t see Trump as a scoundrel, but a victim of political persecution. They may not like him, but they dislike how he’s being unfairly treated even more.
* The biggest knock against Trump is the idea that he can’t win in the general election. But Biden’s “dismal political standing vitiates this case.” Trump continues to poll close to Biden, making it “harder to portray him as a sure loser.”
* Yes, Trump lost in 2020. But just barely in a handful of important Electoral College states. No one knows what the political landscape will look like a year from now in states such as Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin…and Nevada.
* Another knock on Trump is that he’s done nothing to expand his appeal to independent “swing” voters.
* However, as Lowry notes, Biden has succeeded in losing voters as “an 80-year-old man whose foremost political achievement is beating an unpopular incumbent in the midst of a
pandemic with a basement campaign.”
* In conclusion, Lowry points out that if Biden is the Democrats’ nominee – as is likely the case – Trump would “presumably have a beatable incumbent standing between him and a second
term.”
* As I’ve written previously, anybody who claims they *know* what’s going to happen next year doesn’t know squat.
* Our good friend and longtime conservative leader Richard Viguerie notes that the winds have shifted politically on the school choice issue…
“Democrats for Education Reform released a poll on July 28 showing that in four important swing states – Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina – voters now trust Republicans over Democrats by three
percentage points on the issue of education. Just one year ago, Democrats held a twelve-point lead in these key battleground states on the education issue.”
* Republican candidates in Nevada would be wise to include this issue in their campaigns next year. It transcends partisan boundaries and especially appeals to independent voters.
* Word out of Nye County is that a resolution has been proposed to censure Nevada Republican National Committeewoman Sigal Chattah for suing Gov. Lombardo over an election worker protection bill he signed and that every GOP legislator voted for during the 2023 session.
* But party leaders are scrambling like mad to quash the resolution without allowing it to be voted on by Central Committee members. So much for being the party of free speech.
Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, publisher of Nevada News & Views,
and founder of CampaignDoctor.com. You can sign up for his conservative, Nevada-focused e-newsletter at MuthsTruths.com. His views are his own.