Conservative think tank senior fellow: GOP may 'deserve to lose this year’s election'

If a group of eight undecided Allentown, Pennsylvania voters interviewed by CNN is any indication, Vice President Kamala Harris' acceptance speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention was a plus for her presidential campaign.

Six of them said they had decided to vote for her, while one said he would be voting for GOP nominee Donald Trump; another said they still weren't sold on either candidate. Pennsylvania is one of the key battleground states that will decide the election, and it is full of the type of swing voters and independents Harris needs to win over.

It remains to be seen how much of a polling bounce, if any, Harris will get from the convention, but many national and battleground state polls released in the days leading up the 2024 DNC showed her with small single-digit leads over Trump.

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In a biting op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal, conservative Thomas Sowell — a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution — expresses his frustration with Trump's campaign. Sowell is no fan of the Biden Administration or Harris' presidential campaign, but he clearly believes that Trump and the Republican National Committee are dropping the ball this election year.

Sowell argues, "If the Republicans lose this year’s election — against an administration whose policies have been rejected by the public in poll after poll — they will deserve to lose."

Although the Hoover Institution senior fellow is vehemently critical of the Biden Administration's policies, he believes that Republicans are failing to make their case against Harris. "Ridiculing" the Democratic nominee's arguments, Sowell writes, is not a substitute for actually "refuting" them.

"Many Republicans seem confident that they will win this year’s election," Sowell observes. "But just a couple of years ago, they were equally confident that they would win control of both houses of Congress in a 'red wave.' The public's positive reactions to Vice President Kamala Harris' first statements after becoming the Democrats' nominee seem to be played down by Republicans — as if it were a sort of honeymoon response that will automatically evaporate as the truth comes out."

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Thomas Sowell's full op-ed for the Wall Street Journal is available at this link (subscription required).