It’s going to take support from everyone to defeat the Democrats in November, Todd Starnes, a radio host and Newsmax contributor, said on American Family Radio Tuesday.
Some polls show Kamala Harris, who will become the official Democratic nominee during the party convention in Chicago later this week, ahead of Republican nominee Donald Trump.
A CBS poll over the weekend showed Harris ahead 51-48 but tied with Trump in battleground states.
The same poll showed Trump with sizeable leads on key issues like the economy (Trump 56-43), inflation (Trump 61-38) and control of the southern border (Trump 76-24).
Those numbers will likely look different in the days after the DNC Convention.
“Those are landslide numbers, so look, it’s going to be a rollercoaster,” Starnes told show host Jenna Ellis. “The Democrats are going to get a bump. The Republicans got a bump coming out of their convention. That’s a normal part of the process.”
What isn’t normal is lack of support for Trump from key GOP figures like former President George W. Bush and Mike Pence, Trump’s vice president during his first term.
Many Christians and conservatives may feel disappointed by a Trump-influenced rewrite of the Republican Party platform that waters down previous strong opposition to abortion.
The reality, Starnes argues, is defeating Harris will require some give and take.
“Republicans have to unify the party," he said. "And that's the problem when you've got George W. Bush refusing to even go to the convention or Mike Pence and others out there and saying, ‘Okay, we're not going to support Donald Trump.’ That's a problem."
Some may need to take a page from Trump’s book, The Art of the Deal.
“I'm a rock-solid conservative, but you know what? I voted for Mitt Romney, a moderate Republican. I voted for John McCain, a moderate Republican. I didn't want to, didn't like the guys, but I did it because they were much better than the alternative. That’s what people are going to have to do in some of these cases,” Starnes said.
Democrats are showing some of their own division this week.
Pro-Hamas protesters, voicing their displeasure, have torn down fencing outside the convention and faced off with police. That could be a hint of what could be coming in coming days in the streets of Chicago.
Inside, President Joe Biden, the party’s defiant flagbearer just weeks ago before being pushed aside by party elites, was pushed aside again. His speech did not start until way past prime time and finished after midnight on the East Coast.
Kamala the unhappy camper
The Bidens aren’t going quietly, Starnes said.
“Kamala Harris was not a happy camper last night. Very few times did she actually stand and applaud Joe Biden, and the concern there is the Harris campaign has been trying to distance themselves from Joe Biden’s policies. The whole argument is that she’s ready to be president. She was in the room for all of the decisions, the last person out, that’s the narrative that’s been painted here,” he said.
Starnes said Biden was “pretty masterful” in his speech in how he tied Harris to all of his failed policies.
“The Bidens are enraged. They’re seething over all of this, and you saw that last night. Joe Biden, he directed his anger at Donald Trump last night, but that anger was really directed at people like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris,” Starnes continued.
At the end of the day – literally – the Democrats “stuck it” to Biden, Starnes said.
“Last night was supposed to be all about Joe, the big farewell, and instead they trot out all of these abortion activists. They shoved him beyond prime time, and there’s a lot of angry people right now, especially Joe Biden supporters who feel like their guy was really treated unfairly last night. It was sort of humiliating for Joe Biden.”
Conflicted Democrats tried to celebrate Biden while Biden worked out anger issues late in the night.
'How depraved is that?'
Earlier in the day, Planned Parenthood offered free vasectomies and abortions outside.
“How depraved is that?” Rep. Greg Murphy (R-North Carolina) asked Washington Watch host Jody Hice on Monday. “They are praising murdering a child. That takes it to an extreme, you really couldn’t think about such nonsense. What type of demonic presence is this with Planned Parenthood celebrating this at the DNC?”
In a related X post, pro-life activist Lila Rose said Planned Parenthood staff reported they performed 10 abortions on the first day of the convention.
"Ten helpless babies have been sacrificed so far at the DNC death cult," she wrote.
Starnes defined the demonic presence as Moloch, the Canaanite deity whose worship often involved the sacrifice of children.
“Tonight’s Democratic National Convention is brought to you by Evangelicals for Harris and Moloch, the pagan god of child sacrifice,” Starnes wrote on X.
Murphy says the conventions outside shows are “karma.”
“Diversity, you’re getting what you asked for. You’ve invited Islamic militants into the country who are praising another demonic, ghoulish group who last Oct. 7 invaded, murdered and butchered citizens of Israel who were at a concert or pulled from their homes,” he said.
Jewish-Democrat connection is deep, strong
“To this day I don’t know how any Jewish person would identify with the Democrat Party,” he added.
But many will, polls suggest, keeping with a deep and decades-long connection between U.S. Jews and Democrats. Recent numbers showed Biden with a 67%-24% edge over Trump with Jewish voters.
“It’s just a weird convention of people,” Starnes said. “CNN, everybody, Politico, Axios, they were all panning last night about how it was put together. You sort of got a glimpse of that. This is just a very strange convention.
“Republicans have got to all work together, everybody, to beat these Democrats.”
