Michael Moore believes Donald Trump “is going down in flames” on this yr’s presidential election, however can also be warning Vice President Kamala Harris to not fumble her possibilities along with her social gathering’s left wing.
The progressive director was among the many earliest big-name Democrats to name for President Joe Biden to drop out of the race over considerations about his cognitive decline, and continued Friday to champion Harris on his Substack as the proper substitute to defeat Trump in November.
“if you know to really read the polls, or if you have access to the various private and internal polling being conducted by and shared only amongst the elites, Wall Street, and Members of Congress,” he wrote, “then you already know that this election was over weeks ago.”
Moore argued that “Trump’s momentum has come to a screeching halt” in current months and that even Republicans have uninterested in his “nonstop drone of oral diarrhea” about Harris’ race, lies about Haitian migrants consuming pets and rants about Hannibal Lecter.
However the filmmaker and antiwar activist has additionally been staunchly important of ongoing U.S. navy assist for Israel amid the continued bombardment of Gaza. He slammed the Democratic Nationwide Conference earlier this summer season for not inviting a single Palestinian speaker, mentioned final month that Biden is being “played like a sucker” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and has in his publication beforehand decried the U.S.′ “funding and arming the slaughter of children.”
Moore warned Friday that “traipsing around Wisconsin” with Liz Cheney isn’t doing Harris any favors with progressives — who might price her the election.
“Another mistake that could be made in these final 4-5 weeks is if Harris is advised by her wealthy donors to shun the left and drop her more progressive positions in favor of a ‘move to the center,’” he wrote.
He went on to put out a number of electoral situations through which Harris might win, as long as she will be able to persuade ordinary “nonvoters” to go to the polls.
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“All we need is just a few thousand of them to show up — just this once — to make a difference: To cut taxes for all working people, to make the rich pay theirs, to keep the government off women’s bodies,” he wrote.
Regardless of his criticism of the Biden administration, Moore urged readers to again Harris and to assist elect Democrats to the Home and Senate in case Harris loses.
He concluded his submit with a sobering reminder.
“If there ever was an election where the totally unexpected and crazy could happen, this is already that election,” he wrote. “Assume nothing. Take zero for granted. Work to prevent the worst results and prepare to make a possible Trump presidency a complete failure.”
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