Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Devi Harris has made a closing argument.

For the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Donald John Trump.

How, you ask, did Harris do this?

It’s simple: By answering a single question on The View, a daytime-television talk show that isn’t exactly a hostile forum for liberals such as Harris.

Here are the question and the answer:

Q: “Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the last four years?”

A: “There is not a thing that comes to mind, and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.”

So there you have–in one brief question and one brief answer–a closing argument for the Trump campaign.

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Let’s think about what this answer to this question means.

First, it means Harris lacked the presence of mind to say what any vice president should say–that is, something like this: As vice president, my role model is Vice President Bush, who became President Bush 41. I always publicly support the president. That doesn’t change now that I’m running for president. Does that mean I’ve always agreed with the president? No. It means I share any such thoughts–whether agreement, disagreement, or whatever–with the president, not publicly. Publicly, I support the president, period.

Rather than saying something like that, Harris confirmed that “(t)here is not a thing that comes to mind” that she would “have done … differently than President Biden during the last four years.”

What does that include?

On the home front, that includes:

�–� Restrictions on domestic-energy production. Such restrictions have led to inflation not only for energy but also for goods and services across the board. This has been inflation that the United States hasn’t seen since the inflation spurned by policies of the 1970s.

�–� An Open Sesame international-border policy that has led to millions upon millions of people illegally entering the United States. Those include criminals and terrorists. Because of the Biden administration’s border policy, some Americans are dead, others live in fear, and many communities are swamped with such people. The Biden administration’s motives for what it has done are irrelevant in this sense: Nothing justifies this.

�–� Appointing liberal judicial activists to the federal bench. You, faithful reader of this column, understand from the previous two columns–not to mention others–the danger of judicial activism of whatever stripe. You also understand why it’s wrong for Biden to have promised to make one such appointment based on race and sex, and

�–� Proposing Education Department regulations that (1) require educational institutions to let athletes with XY chromosomes compete against women and girls and (2) expressly allow such institutions to decide for themselves whether to let such athletes use women’s and girls’ locker rooms.

Consider just three consequences of (1) and (2).

As for (1), it’s simply not fair to women and girls to make them compete against athletes with XY chromosomes and muscle structure to match.

Moreover, think back to when you were in high school and imagine what the boys who were the biggest clowns in school might have done under such a regulation.

As for (2), the Biden administration–by instead stating that its regulations would require no such locker-room use–could have taken a significant step toward foreclosing such use. But no: The Biden administration left the locker-room doors open.

Meanwhile, on the international front, the Biden administration has:

�–� Pulled out of a country militarily in a way that left tens of billions of dollars in American-military assets and American-military equipment in the hands of those who don’t wish the United States well.

�–� Reinvigorated a country that is one of America’s chief nemeses in what may be the most dangerous neighborhood in the world, and

�–� Otherwise projected weakness around the world in ways endangering parts of eastern Asia, eastern Europe, and the Middle East.

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None of this, however, changes what you read here 10 weeks ago: The 2024 American presidential election is almost entirely Trump’s to win and Trump’s to lose. Barring something unforeseen, he’ll win if he follows his own “stay on message” advice.

And yes: Without relitigating 2020–let’s repeat that: without relitigating 2020–it will be good to win not just beyond the margin of error but also beyond the margin of theft.

Why? It takes no campaign genius to understand that the greater the margin of victory, the harder the victory is for others to undo.

Whatever you believe about the result of the 2020 election, you understand it would be foolish to believe cheating this year has crossed no one’s mind.

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For more on the 2024 presidential election, see the interview of Dr. Randy Elf at 0:15.10 to 0:17.10 of https://works.bepress.com/elf/310.

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