Let’s pick up where we left off last week.

Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris made a closing argument for the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump by answering a single question:

Q: “Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the last four years?”

A: “There is not a thing that comes to mind, and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.”

No sooner had last week’s column been submitted to newspapers than Harris provided additional material for the Trump campaign, this time by ducking questions.

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For example, the first two questions of Harris in an Oct. 16 live-to-tape television interview at https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363352689112 inquired after

¯ the number of illegal aliens that have entered the United States during the Biden administration and

¯ whether it was a mistake to end the Trump administration’s remain-in-Mexico policy.

Rather than answering these questions, Harris changed their focus from

¯ whether the United States should have let millions upon millions of illegal aliens into the country to

¯ how she wanted the United States to process their entry more efficiently.

Having changed the questions’ focus, Harris proceeded to answer the questions not as she had received them but as she had refocused them.

In other words, she–although beginning with “Let’s just get to the point”–changed the questions’ point: “Let’s just get to the point. The point is that we have a broken immigration that needs to be repaired. … At the beginning of our administration, within practically hours of taking the oath, the first bill that we offered Congress … was a bill to fix our immigration system. … We recognized from day one that … it is a priority … to address our asylum system and put more resources, getting more judges, what we needed to do to tighten up penalties and increase penalties for illegal crossings, what we needed to do to deal with points of entry between border entry points, … and we worked on supporting what was a … bill … to actually strengthen the border.”

Please notice that the Biden administration could have done everything in Harris’s “let’s just get to the point” answer without–without, mind you–letting into the United States millions upon millions of illegal aliens, including criminals and terrorists, many of whom brought illegal drugs with them.

As we recalled here last week: Because of what the Biden administration has done, some Americans are dead, others live in fear, and many communities are swamped with such people.

That’s “the point” of the border questions Harris received and did not–repeat: did not–answer.

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The border questions weren’t the only questions Harris ducked.

Asked, for example, about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, she should have candidly given the “I support the president” answer that you read here last week.

Having chosen another path, she should have been candid. But instead she ducked the question by saying Biden isn’t on the ballot. We know, however, that Biden isn’t on the ballot. That wasn’t the question. The question instead went to when she noticed that the cognitive abilities of Biden, whose cognitive fitness she had extolled, had in fact slipped.

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It appears that the Harris campaign’s internal polling suggests that the Harris campaign should avoid answering the questions she ducks and should instead demonize Trump, whose biggest challenge since coming down the famous escalator in 2015 has been no secret: Consistently–let’s emphasize that: consistently–staying on message.

Which brings us back to the point that you, faithful reader of this column, already know: This election is almost entirely Trump’s to win and Trump’s to lose. He needs to follow his own “stay on message” advice.

Which will help him win by a margin that is too big to rig.

Or to put it more precisely: The bigger Trump’s margin of victory, the harder it will be for anyone who doesn’t want him to win to rig the result.

Which is how Trump could lose even though he, by and large, has stayed on message.

Trump supporters who fear theft are justified in their wariness and are hardly alone.

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For more on the 2024 presidential election, see the interview of Dr. Randy Elf at 0:15.10 to 0:17.10 of https://works.bepress.com/elf/310.

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