There is something rather like irony for both parties in this omnishambles US election: whichever one loses, it will be all their own fault. Michael Pascoe.

If the Republicans had chosen Nikki Haley instead of Trump, the election would be as good as over. She would have creamed it, tapping into voter dissatisfaction without stirring voter fear. 

Trump has been the best thing going for Harris. In a tight race coming down to a relative handful of votes in an actual handful of states, it has been the dislike/fear/revulsion sparked by Trump that will make the difference for a Harris win. 

    by Michael Pascoe

On the other hand, if the Democrats hadn’t bowed to the wishes of Biden and his coterie to start with, they would have had a primaries process to select and popularise their strongest candidate. That might or might not have been Harris. If she emerged from the primaries with the nomination, she would have had more air and time to establish herself as the candidate rather than being Biden’s sidekick and last-minute alternative, likely to be ahead in the polls instead of 50/50.

In landing those extra few votes to win, Biden/Harris has been the best thing going for Trump, too. 

The adage that “oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them” has a twist here – whoever wins, it will mainly because the other mob lost, missing their main opportunities to win. 

Meanwhile, far away on an island continent blessed way beyond any deserving, the Guardian has published a humbling poll that alleges 33 per cent of Australians, if they were eligible, would vote for Trump compared with 41 per cent for Harris – a mere eight-point difference. 

Given the saturation coverage here of the election and, especially, Trump’s multitudinous legal, character and policy failings, not to mention his level of dingbat craziness that only Greg Sheridan could like, that is a bit of a worry about the direction of our own nation’s psyche. 

This is not to suggest Harris is a great candidate, just that Trump is so palpably bad that America is considered something of a worrying joke everywhere outside of Russia and amongst a third of Australians. 

Who knew the drive of the Murdochs’ Fox News business model could  reach so far? 

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