Closing Arguments If you've made it this far and you’re still undecided, Sam Harris and Ben Shapiro make the case for their candidates.
It’s choosing time.
Tuesday morning, when the first polls
open in Vermont at 5 a.m. ET, Americans will vote for the 47th president. For
those of you who are still undecided—or perhaps thinking of sitting this one
out—we wanted to offer you the strongest closing arguments we’ve encountered.
Not from Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, but from Ben Shapiro and Sam Harris.
We had Ben and Sam on Honestly last week
for a wide-ranging debate and the response was overwhelming—more than a
million people have watched it on YouTube so far. If you missed it, watch here:
Given that we aren’t endorsing anyone in this
election, for reasons I explain here, we thought we’d give them the
opportunity to present their closing arguments. These pieces originally
appeared on Sam
Harris’s Substack and on The Daily Wire, and we’re reprinting them in full. Our
thanks to Sam and Ben. —BW
Here’s Sam Harris:
There is a positive case to be made for the
candidacy of Kamala Harris, but it is not as compelling as the negative one
that has been building these last nine years against her opponent, Donald
Trump. When I think of Harris winning the presidency this week, it’s like
watching a film of a car crash run in reverse: the windshield unshatters; stray
objects and bits of metal converge; and defenseless human bodies are hurled
into states of perfect repose. Normalcy descends out of chaos. In the same way,
many of the reasons to hope for a future Harris administration bear the signs
of a peculiar, counterfactual origin: the appalling prospect of Trump winning a
second term as president of the United States.
For anyone who spent the last nine years mostly
ignoring Trump, while watching in horror as the Democratic Party slid ever
leftward toward the precipice and the Great Wokeness beyond, the positive case
for Harris must be made carefully, and with some casuistry. But it is simple
enough to do. The truth of the matter is that the good woman was for every
reasonable thing before she was against it—and she’s for these things again
now, you can be sure. In fact, much the same can be said about the Democratic Party.
I am willing to bet that there is not a single person within the Harris
campaign, wielding authority sufficient to produce a cup of coffee, who has any
doubt about whether we have a problem along our southern border. Nor will you
find anyone willing to defund the police or to fund gender-reassignment
surgeries for undocumented immigrants in detention. And there is probably no
one on Earth who still believes that advancing a lab-leak hypothesis for the
origins of Covid is “racist.” The spell cast in 2019 by blue-haired lunatics
who identify as blue-haired lunatics has finally broken.
KEEP
READING SAM’S CASE FOR KAMALA.
And here’s Ben Shapiro:
So, it’s down to the wire. According to the
latest RealClearPolitics polling average, Donald Trump is up in
national polling—by 0.1 percent. In Georgia, he’s leading by 2.3 percent; in North Carolina, by 1.5 percent; in Pennsylvania, by 0.3 percent; in Arizona, by 2.6 percent; in Nevada, by 1 percent. Meanwhile, according to that same
average, Harris is leading in Michigan by 0.6 percent and in Wisconsin by 0.3 percent. Suffice it to say, every
single one of these battleground states is well within the margin of
error—meaning that a significant polling error in Trump’s favor turns the
election into a blowout for him, and a significant polling error in Harris’s
direction turns it into a blowout for her.
In short, the early votes tell
us. . . pretty much nothing. They show that the Republicans have
done a far better job than in 2020 of getting out the early vote, but those may
be high-propensity voters who were going to vote for Trump anyway. Meanwhile,
female voters are, indeed, showing up in droves—but the same story applies.
Here’s the bottom line: Stop reading chicken
entrails and GO VOTE NOW. On Friday, I voted early. And I voted, of course, for
Donald Trump.
KEEP
READING BEN’S CASE FOR TRUMP.
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