Election 2024

Kamala Harris And Tim Walz Vs. Fat Elvis And The Women-Hating Weirdo

My thoughts on Democrats’ surging poll numbers, enthusiasm, and 2024 electoral prospects.

Dash MacIntyre
The Left Is Right
Published in
4 min readAug 6, 2024

--

Credit: Gage Skidmore | gageskidmore.com | via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
  • Former-Republican Charlie Sykes had a recent viral moment calling Trump “Fat Elvis,” and let’s definitely keep that going the rest of the election. It’s the perfect nickname because of both how accurate it is and how much it’s going to drive Trump so crazy he might have a stroke. Trump is a washed up has-been who never “had it,” he just won a fluke election likely because enough voters stayed home or voted Trump as a protest vote against the political establishment thinking Hillary’s victory was inevitable. Then Trump went on to lose both chambers of Congress and the presidency, tying Herbert Hoover as the biggest electoral loser in US history, a record Trump is poised to surpass if he loses a second reelection bid. Trump will be, say it with me, everyone, the biggest electoral loser in American history!
  • Tim Walz is the VP pick, but the field of potential picks was quite impressively full of competent possibilities. It’s a testament to Joe Biden’s skill as president that he left the party better — more electorally and gubernatorially dominant across the nation, more ambitious on policy, and more moderate—than…

--

--

Dash MacIntyre
The Left Is Right

Comedian, political satirist, and poet. Created The Halfway Post. Check out my comedy book Satire In The Trump Years, and my poetry book Cabaret No Stare.