The contrast between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party has never been starker in terms of the consolidation of the parties and their unity going forward.

Here’s the reality: The Republican Party is unified behind President Trump in unique and extraordinary ways. And the Democratic Party might not have a candidate for the presidency come Sunday.

Let’s begin with the triumphant presentation of Donald Trump as his party’s nominee for the third consecutive time, which is an extraordinary feat. On a pure political level, the fact that Trump won in 2016 was astonishing. The fact that he was the nominee the next time around was natural. The fact that after losing in 2020, he’s back in 2024, the nominee, and the front-runner for the presidency itself, is an astonishing political feat.

The RNC has been about building out the Trump coalition. It’s been about providing permission structures for people, who historically have not voted Republican and who would not be spotted dead in a red hat, to actually vote Republican and wear the red hat. 

It is an amazing thing., and you can feel it. You can feel there’s a vibe shift in the United States. Tons of people who never in a million years would have said they would even think about voting for Trump are now saying they are voting for Donald Trump,

Take the tech bros in San Francisco for example. There are countless tech workers in San Francisco who, sotto voce, are very against the Democrats because they don’t like wokeness; they don’t like regulation. They think their economic interests are undermined by Democrats, which they are. And they believe the meritocracy, which they rely upon, is being destroyed from the inside by the Democratic Party.

But for years, they would never cite those factors and say they were going to vote for Trump. But now, a lot of them are saying precisely that. 

You’re starting to see this from people pretty much everywhere across the country. 

The dam has now broken. For years, tremendous intimidation existed about voting for Trump or publicly speaking in support of him; social opprobrium descended upon you if you said you would even consider voting for Trump.

That seems to be gone right now. That is a testament to both the Democrats’ incompetence in office and a testament to Donald Trump’s campaign thus far, which has been markedly more disciplined than ever. In the last four weeks, Trump has basically disappeared from the public scene. As a consequence, he has had the best four-week period of any presidential candidate I’ve ever seen.

He had his debate with Biden, and then he had the brains to stay out of the spotlight while Biden took all incoming fire because of his incredibly terrible performance. Trump has had a few rallies here and there, but he mainly let the media focus in on his opponent. And now his opponent is so much on the ropes that he may be gone by this weekend.

Then, of course, there was the assassination attempt against President Trump in which he displayed remarkable physical bravery getting up while the shooter was presumably still out there. He didn’t know the shooter was dead when he was already getting up and waving his fist, shouting, “Fight.”

The first 15 to 20 minutes of Trump’s speech was some of the best Trump you’ll ever see. He spoke for the first time publicly about nearly being murdered live on national television.

Trump was subdued. It was all the things you would want from Trump in this speech. 

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I suggested earlier in the week that the best thing Trump could do would be to come out and say, “Listen. Being shot in the head changes a man, and it makes you think about the important things in life. It makes you think about the fact that we’re all Americans. And as much as we may disagree on politics, at the end of the day, we’re brothers and sisters, and we all have to be together.” 

For the first 20 minutes, that’s what the speech was.

After that, it turned into a Donald Trump campaign presentation. If you’ve ever been to a Trump campaign event, he basically does a comedy routine; he rambles, and he moves around. That’s what it turned into for the last 73 minutes.

You could see in real time the reaction in the room. Everybody in the room loved him — but 93 minutes is a long time. Because it was so long, it started to lose momentum.

Maybe that doesn’t matter very much because the purpose of the speech is simply to unify the party. And if that’s the case, then the speech is irrelevant. It really doesn’t matter what he said. 

What I do believe is that it was a missed opportunity from the perspective of what it could have accomplished, which was to put the race basically out of reach for the Democrats. If the speech had been the first 20 minutes and a five-minute capper, I think this race would be over. It wasn’t, not because of anything nefarious or terrible, but because when President Trump gets in front of a crowd, he responds to the crowd; he really likes talking with his fans.

I feel that this is necessary to point out because it was a missed opportunity. I’m a huge baseball fan. If you’ve ever been to a baseball game where your team is up three runs in the sixth inning with the bases loaded and one out, and one hit breaks the game wide open but the other team brings in a reliever and gets out of the situation, and then you don’t get any runs and you miss the opportunity, you start to have the feeling in the pit of your stomach like this game is not over yet; there are still a lot of moves left on this particular chessboard.

On the Democratic side, we’re seeing something unprecedented: The candidate wins the nomination and then after winning the nomination considers giving it up. CNN’s Jake Tapper actually got it right, saying:

Meanwhile, events no less momentous are playing out in Delaware where President Biden is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid, we’re told. To hear top Democrats tell it, President Biden is like Bruce Willis’ character in the movie ‘The Sixth Sense.’ He is the only one who seems unaware of his grim fate.

Democrats are preparing for the coup, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial page, which wrote: 

One thing we’ve learned over the years is that Washington Democrats are ruthless when threatened by a loss of power. You almost have to admire their cold-blooded calculation. President Biden is now learning this harsh lesson as the Democratic-media complex organizes to, er, persuade him to withdraw from the presidential race.

That effort, which began after Mr. Biden’s failed debate on June 27, is now in full orchestrated gale. The President hasn’t taken the hint to drop out from the withdrawal calls by the media and Congress’s backbenchers, so now the big names are letting it be known they too want Joe to go.

It’s very difficult to tell right now whether all the pressure tactics on Biden and all the reporting that he’s going to leave is wish-casting by Democrats in the media or whether it’s true because the media desperately want him to drop out.

Democratic leadership believes the best possibility for defeating Trump is, in fact, getting rid of Biden and putting someone else in.

Barack Obama tried to stick the final knife into Biden over the last 24 hours. He leaked to the Washington Post that he told allies recently that President Biden’s path to victory has greatly diminished, and he thinks the president needs to seriously consider the viability of his candidacy.

According to reporter Mark Halperin, Biden will not resign the presidency and most importantly, Biden will not endorse Kamala Harris, which is the final knife in the back for her. He elevated her to the vice presidency over the advice of his wife, Jill, and then on his way out, he will stick the knife in.

There have been rumors about an open Democratic National Convention.

Here’s the problem with that: You can’t restrict it. Once it’s an open convention, anybody can get in. And I’m going to put out a dark horse name no one is talking about: Bernie Sanders. He has the hardest consolidated base inside the Democratic Party. Why wouldn’t he make a play for the top spot? Yes, he’s really old, but so what? He’s still significantly livelier than Biden is at this point.

What happens if Biden steps aside? The delegates are pledged to him. If he frees his delegates, they do not have to go to Harris, who is a terrible, terrible candidate, but is not going to step out of the way.

But with all of this said, despite the fact Trump has just had the best month of any presidential candidate in recent memory, in the Real Clear Politics polling average, he is at 47.7%. He’s not at 55%. He’s not at 54%. He’s at 47.7%. And even though he’s doing really, really well in the swing states, Republicans are going to have to fight this fight all the way down to the wire.

For Republicans: Do not get complacent.

You cannot afford to be complacent at this point in time.