Democrats got absolutely walloped in 2024. A humbling defeat like that should trigger some soul-searching – maybe a fresh roster, a retooled message, some acknowledgment that voters weren’t buying what they were selling. A functioning political party would adapt. But adaptation requires self-awareness, and that particular commodity remains in short supply on the left.
So here we are, midterms approaching, and the Democratic brain trust has settled on its master plan for competitive Senate races: dust off the same figures voters already rejected and send them barnstorming through swing states. Bold strategy. I’m sure it’ll work out differently this time. The candidate they’ve chosen to bolster? A progressive running in purple Michigan. Inspired stuff, really.
From Just the News:
Former Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign next week with Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
Harris endorsed the progressive Democrat after his close primary win last month. She will join him for a campaign roundtable about the disparities Black mothers face during and after pregnancy as part of a broader midterm effort to help Democrats win competitive seats in Congress, The Washington Sun reported.
I’d call it the blind leading the blind, but honestly, that’s unfair; blind people tend to develop sharper instincts over time. Harris couldn’t seal the deal against Donald Trump in 2024. Her campaign became a masterclass in political malpractice. And now she’s the reinforcements? The Democrat cavalry riding into Michigan to rescue a progressive who barely survived his own primary? Somebody deserves a raise at the RNC, because the opposition is doing volunteer work at this point.
A surrogate only Democrats could love
Let’s be honest about what Kamala Harris brings to this equation. She ran a presidential campaign that bled support from day one, never landed on a coherent message, and ultimately gifted Trump a commanding victory. That’s her résumé. That’s the closer Democrats are sending to the mound in a tied ballgame.
Michigan is a swing state. Voters there care about grocery prices, mortgage rates, and whether their kids can find decent jobs after college. They’re not pining for another progressive ideologue propped up by a Washington retread. Yet here comes El-Sayed, arm-in-arm with the former VP, staging a niche roundtable on maternal health disparities as though that’s what’s keeping Michiganders up at night.
El-Sayed faces Republican nominee Mike Rogers for the open seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Gary Peters. Rogers is a serious contender with actual depth. Democrats apparently believe the countermove is borrowed star power – from a star that already flickered out.
The agenda behind the agenda
Here’s where it gets genuinely funny. Harris spokesperson Eduardo Negrón released a statement that accidentally strips away every layer of pretense: “It is critical we flip the Senate so we can bring down prices and stand up to Donald Trump’s corruption.”
Bring down prices. Pause on that for a moment. The Biden-Harris administration presided over the nastiest inflationary spiral in forty years. Groceries, gasoline, rent – everything surged on their watch. And now Harris wants to rebrand as a fiscal hawk? That takes a special kind of audacity. (Or memory loss. Possibly both.)
Then there’s the “corruption” jab aimed at the sitting, duly elected President of the United States. American voters examined both options in 2024 and made their preference unmistakable. Dismissing that democratic outcome as “corruption” reveals exactly how Democrats view the electorate – as obstacles, not constituents.
Michigan deserves better
Democrats need a net gain of four Senate seats to reclaim the majority. That’s a brutal math problem under any circumstances. Staking those hopes on a progressive candidate in a competitive state, chaperoned by a nationally rejected surrogate, isn’t strategy. It’s delusion with a communications budget.
Michigan voters are perceptive. They watched the progressive experiment unfold in cities across the country. They remember what inflation felt like under Biden-Harris. They don’t need a staged roundtable to understand who’s looking out for their interests and who’s looking out for Senate gavels.
The Democrat Party keeps recycling its most prominent failures to bail out its most vulnerable candidates, then acts mystified when election night goes sideways. Frankly, Republicans should encourage more of this. Every Harris campaign stop is a gift-wrapped reminder of everything voters already walked away from. Keep campaigning, Madam Vice President. You’re doing phenomenal work – just not for your own side.
Key Takeaways
- Harris, who lost decisively in 2024, is now Democrats’ top midterm surrogate in Michigan.
- Progressive nominee El-Sayed faces long odds in a purple swing state.
- Democrats’ real objective isn’t maternal health – it’s raw Senate power.
- The Biden-Harris inflation record obliterates any credibility on “bringing down prices.”
Sources: Just The News
