LARRY KUDLOW: Kamala Harris is probably the least policy-conscious presidential candidate in our history

The positives win, the negatives lose. That’s the subject of ‘The Riff’.

Positive vs negative. Positive points always win. Negatives always lose. Optimism beats pessimism.

Closing arguments by Kamala Harris are incredibly negative. You have to look hard to find anything positive at all.

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She mentioned Donald Trump 24 times in her speech at the Washington Ellipse on Tuesday night — and they weren’t too complimentary.

Instead of charting a new course, she backtracked and essentially gave one Hate speeches from Donald Trump. It’s nothing but nonsense. From 1,000 feet away, Joe Biden called about 80 million Trump supporters “trash.”

And here’s what Mr. Trump had to say about that today in North Carolina:

FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters, calling them “trash.” And they mean it… My answer to Joe and Kamala is very simple: You can’t run America if you don’t love Americans.”

So Kamala gives us the old “threat to democracy” riff.

But people have heard it before. They are sick and tired of it. It hasn’t worked for several years. It’s not going to work now. Calling Trump all the usual names and lying about an alleged Trump abortion ban or banning IVF, or the socialist saw it as a matter of making the rich pay their fair share, or the fuss about a 20% national sales tax.

None of that is going to work. That just won’t happen. That’s how she planted her feet in the Beltway with six days left in the election — and it won’t get her anywhere.

Typical middle-class families of all colors and ethnicities would like to know, “Kamala, what are you going to do for us?” And her lukewarm response is, as usual: price controls, rent controls, unconstitutional benefits to minority groups, and more entitlement spending without work requirements, further breaking the federal bank.

But none of that fits with the kitchen-table concerns that, along with the open-border catastrophe, are the most important issues in this election.

Apparently she did say she would deport criminals, which is something new and different for her. But why hasn’t she done that in the last four years? And so what credibility does that have?

One of the key issues for Kamala is simply this: Voters don’t want a second Biden-Harris term.

It’s too expensive to buy a car, too expensive to buy a house, real wages are falling, mortgage rates are skyrocketing, the affordability crisis continues. The crime wave resulting from illegal immigration is ubiquitous. The foreign wars seem endless. There has to be a change.

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But for years, Donald Trump has consistently advocated a different course – from lower taxes, a shrinking government, breaking the wet blanket of regulations, energy independence, ‘Remain in Mexico’, building the wall, starving the Iranians, negotiating an end to the crisis. The war between Ukraine and Russia, which will end unfair trade practices, defend America, and end the culturally woke war on healthy middle class values.

Those are all positive points. They would take the country in a completely different direction.

Kamala Harris is probably the least policy-conscious presidential candidate in our history. Mr. Trump is the most policy-conscious candidate in our history.

And he has built a new Republican coalition around his policy vision to revitalize America.

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Here is that coalition in his own words – spoken again today in North Carolina:

TRUMP: “We have brought together veterans and union members, soldiers and steelworkers, farmers and autoworkers and patriotic mothers and fathers of every race, religion, color and creed. Right? We welcome African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans and Arab Americans in historic numbers. And we unite Christians and Jews and Catholics and Evangelical Christians and Muslims and Mormons and everyone who wants one thing: to make America great again.

Like I said, positives win, negatives lose. And that is not waste.

That’s ‘The Rif’.

This article is adapted from Larry Kudlow’s opening commentary on the October 30, 2024 edition of “Kudlow.”