Victor Davis Hanson: October September Surprises!

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-26 12:52:07 | Updated at 2024-10-01 04:23:21 4 days ago

Victor Davis Hanson: October September Surprises!
American Thinker ^ | 26 Sep, 2024 | VictorDavis Hanson

Posted on 09/26/2024 5:36:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Former October surprises—both the embarrassing disclosures and the use of incumbency to warp the election—are now becoming earlier and more frequent preemptive “September” shocks.

An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover.

Think of the last-minute bombshell disclosure, five days before the 2000 election, that candidate George W. Bush had been cited for drunk driving over a quarter-century earlier. That surprise may have cost Bush the popular vote that year.

Sometimes, an incumbent can use his powers of office to warp the election. Joe Biden benefited before the 2022 midterm elections when leftist activists leaked the impending Supreme Court repeal of Roe v. Wade.

Closer to the actual voting, Biden sought to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt owed to the federal government. He also began draining the strategic petroleum reserve to lower gas prices (as he is doing again this election year as well). No wonder the predicted Republican midterm red wave ended up a tiny ripple.

More often, October surprises are more ad hominem and unleashed on a rival candidate’s supposedly previously undisclosed failings.

At the end of the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton’s team leaked news of her purchased bogus “Steele Dossier” as supposed proof of Trump-Russian “collusion.”

On the eve of the last 2020 presidential debate, Joe Biden delegated now Secretary of State Antony Blinken to work with former interim CIA Director Mike Morrell to round up “51 former intelligence authorities.” They were to lie that the incriminating Hunter Biden laptop was likely a product of a Russian intelligence “disinformation” operation.

The ruse worked—turning potential proof of Biden family corruption into

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: victordavishanson

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1 posted on 09/26/2024 5:36:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber

To: MtnClimber

Will people be stupid enough to fall for “Russian Collusion” again?

2 posted on 09/26/2024 5:37:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)

To: texas booster

3 posted on 09/26/2024 5:37:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)

To: MtnClimber

Fool me once, shame on you .......

4 posted on 09/26/2024 5:41:05 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)

To: MtnClimber

October surprise: Kamala will hold a press conference on Fox. Naw, ain’t gonna happen but that would be a surprise.

To: MtnClimber

6 posted on 09/26/2024 5:47:19 AM PDT by nopardons

To: MtnClimber

Expect the Intelligence Community to launder a big lie through the New York Times, that cannot be disproved until after the Election.

7 posted on 09/26/2024 5:48:18 AM PDT by MMusson ( )

To: MtnClimber

'Will people be stupid enough to fall for “Russian Collusion” again?'

Of course.

Leftists/wokies/Democrats/so-called "liberals" (there's nothing liberal about these people) have proven time and again that they are not only stupid but are also unable to learn from experience or to resist indoctrination.

8 posted on 09/26/2024 5:49:53 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Fight! Fight! Fight! God Bless America!--President Donald Trump, Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024)

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