Victor Davis Hanson Predicts Harris’ ‘Hemorrhaging’ Will Push Dems To Drop More October Surprises

Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson predicted Friday on his podcast that Vice President Kamala Harris’s “hemorrhaging” in polling will compel the Democratic Party to unveil more October surprises.

Polls for the 2024 presidential race have indicated a tight contest between Harris and former President Donald Trump since Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee in July. On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” Hanson criticized Harris and President Joe Biden’s handling of the prolonged conflict between Israel and Hamas, suggesting that missteps in Harris’s campaign could cost her “half a point each week.”

“If it hadn’t blown up on October 7, I was surprised it took that long for something dastardly to happen. They’re completely culpable. And that along with the strike, which they’re on the wrong side on that one, and the hurricane, which they were tardy about, and the Walz performance. They’re going to keep hemorrhaging, not a lot, just a little bit, half a point each week. Then they’re going to try to do what they always do, the October surprise,” Hanson said.

“Jack Smith, ‘Guess what? I got swatted down like a fly, and I never give up, even though I’m kind of incompetent and I’m unprofessional. And last time I had this job, the Supreme Court reversed everything that I tried to do against Governor McDonnell in Virginia. So I’m going to try it again.’ I thought the DOJ had no major indictments 90 days before an election,” Hanson continued. “So this is their October surprise, and I suppose their earlier October surprise was suddenly the economy is going to go into ruin immediately, unless we lower the interest rates by half a point right before the election.”

Hanson continued to state how Democrats will continue to release October surprises, adding how voters don’t approve of their “agenda” on issues like crime and the border.

“So they’re going to keep doing this, doing this, doing this and boy, they have an agenda that no one likes. No one likes the crime, no one likes the border. No one likes the foreign policy, no one likes the wokeness. They don’t like anything about it. “So their strategies avoid the press, don’t get press conferences for 90 days, act like a conservative, moderate, consensus, bipartisan uniter. Outsource all of your hit pieces to your flax in the media. Out raise them two to one with Hollywood and corporate Silicon Valley money, and you can win. Especially with early voting and mail-in ballots. That’s the whole strategy,” Hanson added.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan unveiled a redacted version of Smith’s 165-page legal brief on Wednesday, in which he addressed the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity within his election interference case against Trump. While Trump’s attorney argued the unsealing would “amount to an improper motion for summary judgment in the court of public opinion,” Chutkan wrote there was “no support” for the claims.

During the first and only scheduled vice presidential debate between Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, Walz faced backlash for appearing nervous and mistakenly referring to school shooters as his “friends” while addressing his inconsistent stance on an assault weapons ban.

A recent Real Clear Polling average shows Harris leading Trump nationally by 2.2 points, with Harris at 49.1% and Trump at 46.9%.