We are not set for the first black female President of the United States. But perhaps the first Black female Conservative leader can harness some of the same energy as Donald Trump.
Trump and Republicans have felt for a while to be a little bit ‘off’ but in recent weeks, it is the Democrats – and their press outriders – that are coming across as ‘weird’, when ‘normal’ would do.
We might just be seeing the formation of a similar phenomenon in America: an ethnic minority vote that looks like it should vote Republican, but currently does not.
The unchanged themes of an angry campaign have made the weeks feel like one amorphous blob, like blended watercolours on a Rorschach test of a nation gone wrong.
She did not answer questions, and she left Americans as in the dark about the content of her plans as when she entered. But she hit all her lines, she twisted Trump in knots, and she led the subject away from her weakest areas.
The fact that jumps out most: they are the only age group that experienced a drop in median wealth between 2007 and 2022. While millennials were booming, middle-aged America was waning.
Is competence dead? It is still there but is now a second-tier attribute to ‘straight-talking’ and ‘strength’.
We laugh at Americans for being unable to address the causes of their tragedies. But this week has shown Britain can be worse. We are being torn apart by a meek liberal consensus and a cowardly nascent racism.
In my focus groups across America, I am constantly struck by the underlying urge for unity amongst voters. Much like in Britain the median voter recoils at the harshest rhetoric.
It was a semi-taboo subject for some time. Even now the occasional Democrat mouthpiece tries to argue he just has a stammer. But the public knows what they see.
The indictments put those waverers firmly in Trump’s camp and have made him more competitive with Independents: they recoiled at the idea of another Trump presidency this time last year, but now are more concerned by what they see as lawfare.
One in six American workers are employed by the public sector. That is the same proportion as in the UK – without the NHS or equivalent public healthcare system.
Few Americans support Hamas. Few college students support Hamas. But for the small group that do, who are ready to cause disruption and violence in Chicago this summer, you can count on one thing.
Rather than stay in the Freedom Caucus’ cage, Mike Johnson has used it to govern. Instead of simply accepting the lot of a frozen House, he has assembled those majorities by reaching across the aisle to Democrats.