Why is the top of the Republican presidential ticket obsessed with domestic pets?
Vice Presidential hopeful JD Vance has a problem with female cat owners – whilst his boss and former President Donald Trump has convinced himself – if nobody else – that the poor people of Springfield USA are having their dogs and cats kidnapped and eaten by immigrants.
In a performance that, even by Trump’s standards, was erratic, the GOP nominee also claimed that Democrats in America have ambitions to “execute” babies.
A 90-minute TV debate, the first and possibly only head-to-head dual between Vice President Kamala Harris and ‘The Don’, saw the pair trade blows – but it would be fair to say that the TV reality star hardly laid a glove on his Democrat opponent, who hopes to become the first female Commander-in-Chief of the United States.
If Joe Biden’s confused ramblings back in the June debate with Trump were enough to see the 81-year-old President drop out of the race, then surely 78-year-old Trumps scowling, car crash utterances will result in a landslide victory for VP Harris when the Yanks go to the polls on 5th November?
Sadly, that is not the case. Such is the discourse of American politics nowadays, support for Trump is so entrenched with his supporters that – as he said himself – he could go out into the street and shoot somebody, and still win their votes.
Indeed, in a post-debate Sky News Vox pop, a man described Trump as “deranged” – before pledging his vote to the Republican!
In the end Harris may have won the TV debate hands down – but it is unlikely to have shifted the dial much in arguably the most polarised contest in Presidential – race history.
More influential than the debate – and probably better news for Kamala Harris – was the endorsement of the Democrat’s Harris/Walz ticket immediately after the TV showdown by Taylor Swift. But even the Princess of Pop couldn’t resist the pet references, signing off her supportive social media post ‘Childless Cat Woman’.
I’m sure that had the Democrats purring with delight, whilst Trump’s team will be barking mad, not just at Swifties intervention, but by their man’s off-message, off-his-head television performance.
