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October 25, 2024

Friday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Kamala Harris, David Axelrod, Laura Hollis, Ben Shapiro, and more.

The BIG Lies

“On the issue of law and order … I think there’s just a whole lot of misinformation, to be honest with you. … My first priority had and remains … the safety of the American people. ” —Kamala Harris

“One other thing that you’ll see next week … is Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939. … President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany. So I don’t think we can ignore it. … Please open your eyes to the danger that this man poses to our country, because I think it is clear and present for anybody paying attention.” —Hillary Clinton

“Donald Trump is out for unchecked power. He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him, not our Constitution. He is unhinged, unstable, and given a second term, there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses.” —Kamala Harris

Shot/Chaser

“[People] care about our democracy and not having a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.” —Kamala Harris

“One of the hallmarks of fascism is division by race. No one does that ‘better’ than the DEI-obsessed Democrats.” —Nate Jackson

Word Salads

“There was a lot that was done, but there’s more to do… And I’m pointing out things that need to be done that haven’t been done but need to be done.” —Kamala Harris

“In my role as vice president, I mean, I probably worked very hard at making sure that I am well-versed on issues and, um, I think that is very important. It’s a mistake not to be well-versed on an issue and feel compelled to answer a question.” —Kamala Harris when asked what mistakes she’s made and what she’s learned from them

Friendly Fire

“When she doesn’t want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to word-salad city.” —former Obama adviser David Axelrod

“For better or worse, no one is listening to [Joe Biden] anymore, and his words have little power and less reach. It’s a blip. Gone in any meaningful way by mid-day tomorrow if it makes it that long.” —a current Biden administration official, as told to Axios reporter Alex Thompson

Race Bait

“Trump hurls a string of insults at Harris including ‘lazy,’ a racist trope against Black people.” —Associated Press

Upright

“Everybody wants something for free. That’s what the Democrats think. ‘If we give you something, you’ll vote for us.’ I don’t need a handout. I need an opportunity.” —a black man in an Atlanta barber shop, as captured by Fox News’s Lawrence Jones

Political Futures

“The only issue Harris seems both emphatic and explicit about is abortion. … If Harris finds her way into the White House — and certainly if a President Harris has a Democrat-controlled Congress willing to do her bidding — abortion will not be a matter of freedom but a matter of force.” —Laura Hollis

“Harris’ disregard for the religious freedoms of medical care professionals will not be limited to abortion. Anything she claims is a ‘right’ will be justification for comparable government coercion, including the chemical castration and physically mutilating surgeries of so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’ assisted suicide and euthanasia.” —Laura Hollis

“Harris may have thought it was funny to tell two Christian boys that they were at ‘the wrong rally.’ But if you’re a Democrat who’s also a practicing Catholic or Christian, a member of any faith tradition that holds life to be sacrosanct, or simply an American who believes strongly in the individual freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, you’re not only at the wrong rally; you’re in the wrong party.” —Laura Hollis

“Harris can’t shake the fundamental reality that she has been, for decades, a highly stylized political product. Kamala 1.0 was a progressive prosecutor; Kamala 2.0 was a hard-charging prosecutor; Kamala 3.0 was the furthest left member of the United States senate; Kamala 4.0 was a moderate. And Kamala 5.0 is whatever she needs to be at any given moment.” —Ben Shapiro

For the Record

“The vice president and others on the Left describe their open-border, no-restrictions policies as compassionate and kind. Of course, much of the media eagerly echoes this chorus of self-adulation. But is true compassion found in the abandonment of justice and the rule of law? No — compassion is rooted in justice.” —Tony Perkins

And Last…

“Given how little time she has left to change the story of her campaign, [the CNN town hall] was Kamala Harris’s first authentic campaign disaster.” —Jeffrey Blehar

“Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now.” —Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

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