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No one should be too surprised that newcomer to political campaigning Leora Levy gained the Republican Party primary vote to run against U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal. Levy won the contest by a comfortable margin – 50.5 % to Themis Klarides’ 40.1%.
The question of the moment, post-primary, is: What are
Levy’s chances of unhorsing Blumenthal?
Dick Morris, the campaign manager of Bill Clinton's
successful 1996 bid for re-election as President, endorsed Levy’s campaign on
select radio stations a few days before former President Donald Trump formally
endorsed her candidacy at a Republican Town Committee gathering in Montville on
August 5th, four days before Republicans were due to vote in primary
elections.
Both endorsements may have come too close to primary voting
to sway many people, but there is little doubt the endorsements solidified
support among Trump loyalists in the state. The heartiest of Trump loyalists
are not put off by his unorthodox campaign style – rough-house 24/7 -- or the less
than tender treatment the twice impeached Trump has receive at the hands of his
political adversaries, which include a majority of the nation’s left of center
media. The only punishment assigned for impeachment is removal from office,
which requires both an indictment in the U.S. House and a conviction after a
trial in the U.S. Senate of House charges. Both conviction attempts in the
Senate failed.
The day before Republican nutmeggers were to vote in their
primary, the news crackled with reports of a raid on Trump’s primary residence.
Thirty plainclothes FBI agents
were dispatched to Mar-a-Lago in Florida to recover documentation that should
have reposed in the national archives. Trump already had returned more than a
dozen boxes of documents, and the FBI carted off a few more boxes.
The warrant that allowed the intrusion and the affidavits
supporting the warrant were not publically released, but the always
entertaining New York Post reported that agents
had “scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe.” The paper did not report whether the
agents broke into the former First Lady’s more intimate drawers. None of the suspected
criminals in the house were injured, and the thirty agents emerged unscathed.
Republican Party state chairman Ben Pronto, never given to alarmism, told a reporter moments after primary
polls closed, that the raid, “solidified and energized Trump supporters. And I
also think it might have energized people who might not have been Trump
supporters who looked at that and said, ‘This is off the rails.’”
Right. The sense among the general public is that this time the
notoriously incompetent, politically partisan FBI had better find the dead body
under Trump’s bed. The nation does not need yet another four year inconclusive
romp through the soul of Trump. Comedic satirist Greg Gutfeld put it this way: Following
the heavily scripted raid on Mar-a-Lago, he joked, “The FBI just nominated
Trump as President.”
Morse, now peddling his book The Return, has said Blumenthal is vulnerable. Polls show deterioration
in Blumenthal’s approval rating in Connecticut, and the Senator’s lower than
usual rating likely is related to President Joe Biden’s abysmally low poll
ratings.
Biden’s approval rating, many polls have
disclosed, is hovering around 40 percent. Even some prominent Democrat
influencers are advising the President not to run for reelection. And the same
influencers are cautioning incumbent Democrats to put some distance between
themselves and the foundering Biden.
Trump has always been a useful distraction for Democrats, and one can understand the necessity for a, so far, seven year distraction. Biden did not cover himself in glory when he hastily withdrew from Afghanistan, leaving behind numberless Americans and Afghan associates who had for twenty years helped Americans forestall a Taliban takeover. Most recently, the Biden administration sent an “over the horizon” drone to dispatch Osama bin Laden’s second in command, Al Qaeda chieftain Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the plotters behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, then living sumptuously in Afghanistan sometime after Biden had insisted that one of the reasons he precipitously withdrew from Afghanistan was that Al Qaeda had no presence in the country.
When Texas Governor Greg Abbott shipped illegal aliens from
Texas to New York City, a sanctuary city, New York Mayor Eric Adams exploded in
wrath. Really, how dare Texas send tempest tossed illegal aliens to the Big
Apple, home to the Statue of Liberty, on the base of which is engraved Emma
Lazarus’s often quoted poem: Give me your
tired,/ your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/ The wretched
refuse of your teeming shore./ Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/ I
lift my lamp beside the golden door!
About 14 of the tempest tossed illegal aliens made it to the
New York City sanctuary on a first resettlement, causing a frenzy of
indignation from its new mayor, determined not to accept his “fair share” of
illegal aliens pouring through Biden’s fictitious border.
Every week or so in one of Connecticut’s major cities, shots
ring out, often fired by young African American boys entering their teens. The
sound of gunfire has not yet penetrated the stone walls of the State Capitol
building, and such events are routinely ignored by the Democrat majority in the
General Assembly. As time progresses, it is becoming increasingly difficult to convince the victims of urban violence that
gun laws championed by left-leaning politicians such as Blumenthal are
convincing urban shooters to lay down their illegally acquired arms.
And yes – inflation, which inequitably takes its worse toll
on the poor in urban welfare ghettoes, is caused by excessive taxation,
regulation and spending.
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