Poll: Trump is in the best shape ever

Most polls show a “close race” between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, but “a closer look at the numbers indicates that the former president is better positioned now than at any time since Harris entered the race “. Douglas Schoen and Carly Cooperman explain on The Hill. “RealClearPolitics aggregate has Trump ahead in all seven battlegrounds.” Additionally, “GOP voter enthusiasm” in early voting states has increased; Democrats’ five-point advantage in early voting “is significantly smaller than their 14-point advantage just four years ago.” And while a CNBC poll shows Trump leading Harris by two points overall on immigration, he leads by 35 points and 13 points on inflation. “With just days to go, it’s clear that Trump is in a much stronger position than he was a few weeks ago.”

Culture Office: Wake Jew-Hate Alive & Well

The ‘authoritarian impulse of the modern left’ is ‘alive and well’ argues Lionel Shriver at the Free Press — giving a thumbs up to the “400 writers, including Sally Rooney and Arundhati Roy” who “signed a letter calling for a mass boycott of the Israeli publishing industry.” “The urge to form a crowd is certainly antithetical to the urge to record your thoughts in text in private.” “The boycott seeks to go far beyond signatories and intimidate all authors.” “It is not in the wider interests of any writer for publishers, agents and festivals to be the preserve of a narrow ideological position on any issue.” “Writing is a positive expression of faith in language to compel and persuade. I don’t want the silence of other authors to speak for me.”

Libertarian: Chill Out, America

Reason’s JD Tuccille complains “the widespread poison of political hatred”. According to a Yahoo poll, 24 percent of Republicans” and 26 percent of Democrats “say they’ve ended a friendship or family relationship because of a disagreement over politics.” And 20% of employees “said they were mistreated at work by their peers or colleagues because of their political views.” Worse, “political disputes poison male-female relationships,” which explains why dating apps have added “political criteria to their services.” Argh! “Creating ideological and partisan tests for family, friends, lovers and co-workers is a guarantee of harmful social fractures.” Sorry: “Americans need to chill.”

Conservative: Bibi defeats enemies of the West

“After the massacres of October 7” recalls Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness“conventional wisdom has speculated not if, but only when (Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) will be forced out of office.” Still, “a tormented Netanyahu, shunned by the Biden administration, demonized by the European Union, and defamed and slandered by the UN. . . understood that the utter depravity of October 7 gave Israel, at least for a brief window, the moral authority to wage all-out war against its enemies.” So: “Israel has systematically sterilized Hamas,” eliminated “much of Iran’s missile inventory and launch sites,” and “decimated Hezbollah.” “The surreal aspect of Netanyahu’s revenge tour is that he has done more to neutralize European and American enemies” than “NATO, the CIA, the FBI and Interpol combined, and yet he has received more rebuke than credit.”

From right: Harris Goes Fringe on SCOTUS

“Would Kamala Harris support packing the Supreme Court by adding, say, three justices?” ask the editors of The Wall Street Journal. She gave a vague but welcoming answer to a question about just that last week. And she “has already supported President Biden’s plan to impose ‘ethics’ rules on judges that would invite political harassment and compromise judicial independence.” If Harris wins and the Dems keep the Senate, “they promised progressive voters they would take a wrecking ball to the current Supreme Court. It used to be a fringe position to propose fundamental ‘reform’ of the Court, but Mr. Biden accepted it, Ms. Harris supported it, and the Senate Judiciary Committee passed it.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board