A new poll in New Hampshire shows Vice President Kamala Harris is six points ahead of former President Donald Trump in the battleground state.
The survey of more than 2,000 registered New Hampshire voters by Saint Anselm College took place on July 24-25, after Harris secured enough delegate support to become the likely Democratic presidential nominee.
Harris leads Trump 50% to 44% in the poll. A poll taken by Saint Anselm in June after President Biden struggled in the debate showed Trump edging out Biden in New Hampshire by two points.
I hope he gets so profoundly smacked around at the ballot box that the GOP finally fractures. Best case scenario, it’ll be into three separate parties that all blame each other for the loss and each hate the others more than they hate the Democrats. They’ll be so disarrayed and disunited they’ll never hold office in any meaningful numbers ever again.
And why not? The Whig party also crashed and burned. They too were an unlikely coalition of convenience that, after being a major player in American politics for two decades and getting Tyler & Fillmore into office in 1848, lost the 1852 election with only 42/296 electoral votes.
By 1854, the Whig party was a shadow of its former self, most of its members having left for the “American Party,” which also shook itself apart without ever putting a president into office or holding more than 20% of Congress.
Then in 1856 Millard Fillmore ran for re-election on a Whig ticket, after being out of the White House for several years, and only pulled 8/296 electoral votes, putting the last nail into the party’s coffin.
May history repeat itself.