A Kamala Harris victory in November would bring the United States one step closer to collapse, says one of the country’s most ardent secessionists.
Daniel Miller, who leads the Texas Nationalist Movement, says a Harris victory would “fuel” his group’s goal: Texas’ withdrawal from the United States, or “Texit.”
According to Miller, the Democrat’s record on immigration and climate change would make millions more Texans want to opt out.
Secessionist sentiments are already strong in Texas – nearly a third of residents want to leave the United States, polls show – even though the US Constitution does not allow it.
“If Harris wins, we can expect support for Texit to increase,” Miller told DailyMail.com.
Texas secessionist Daniel Miller says a Kamala Harris victory in November will boost support for his “Texit.”
It would deepen “polarization,” expand the federal government’s reach in Texas and “fuel the desire for independence,” he said.
“People here see this political farce for what it is,” Miller added.
‘Her popularity ranges from leprosy to a colonoscopy, and yet the media hails her as the second coming of JFK.’
Vice President Harris appears poised to become the Democratic presidential nominee to challenge Republican Donald Trump in November.
President Joe Biden, under pressure for his poor debate performance, confirmed Wednesday that he will not seek re-election and said he will “pass the torch to a new generation.”
That has focused attention on the record of Harris, a former senator and attorney general of California who, if elected, would become the first woman and person of Black and South Asian descent to become commander in chief.
She has fought hard to reduce U.S. emissions of planet-warming gases, sponsored the hardline Green New Deal resolution and was instrumental in passing Biden’s landmark climate bill.
These are popular in Harris’s hometown of California and Washington, D.C., but less so in Texas, which produces 42 percent of America’s crude oil and 27 percent of its natural gas, Miller says.
The same goes for the Democrat’s record on immigration, he adds.
Dubbed the Biden administration’s “border czar,” she has for years failed to stem the growing flow of asylum seekers into Texas and other border states.
Vice president’s popularity ‘ranges between leprosy and a colonoscopy,’ says Miller
Daniel Miller, the center-right chairman of the Texas Nationalist Movement, says he is coordinating with pro-independence groups in five other U.S. states.
“Harris bears a great responsibility for the border crisis and immigration, which combined are the top concern for Texans,” Miller said.
The Lone Star State’s growing population of 30 million wants “self-government” and distance from Washington, he says.
“Any federal policy that undermines our values will push more Texans toward Texit,” he added.
His comments come in a divisive election year and amid the runaway success of Civil War, a dark thriller about the spiraling conflict between the capital and breakaway states in the United States.
Texas was an independent country 200 years ago, and a growing number of its residents want to regain that status.
The separation, dubbed Texit, takes its name from Britain’s “Brexit” from the European Union.
Miller says his movement, created in 2005, has never been closer to achieving its goal.
He wants the state legislature to pass a law allowing a referendum on separation.
However, the US Constitution has no clause allowing states to do this; in fact, the secession of the Southern states, including Texas, in 1861 led to the Civil War, the bloodiest war in American history.
It is becoming more popular thanks to the influx of asylum seekers at the Mexican border, he says.
Texans feel they would do a better job managing the border without the federal government tying their hands, he says.
“A Harris presidency not only continues but extends Biden’s legacy,” Miller says.
“If you thought Biden was bad for Texas, his administration will be much worse.”
Across the United States, about 23 percent of people want their state to secede from the union.
Those sentiments are felt most strongly in Alaska, Texas, California, New York and Oklahoma, a recent YouGov poll showed.
The poll showed 31 percent of Texans want out, though Miller says that’s an undercount.
Daniel Miller says he is cooperating with secessionists in five other US states
Kirsten Dunst, right, plays a news photographer trying to reach the capital before it falls to rebels in the 2024 film Civil War.
Alaska is the most pro-independence state: 36 percent of its residents want the Last Frontier to leave the union.
Next on the list are Democratic-governed California and New York, with 29 and 28 percent of residents in favor of secession, respectively.
Residents of Oklahoma (28 percent), Nebraska (25 percent), Georgia (25 percent), Florida (24 percent) and Washington (24 percent) are also looking at the door.
At the other end of the spectrum is Connecticut, with only 9 percent of its relatively satisfied residents looking for a way out.
Interest in secession was demonstrated by the success of the film Civil War, which grossed $69 million in the United States, according to Box Office Mojo.
This tense thriller shows us a nation immersed in a full-blown armed conflict.
The military powers of Texas and California have joined forces as Western forces descend on Washington, DC.
They seek to overthrow an authoritarian American president, played by Nick Offerman.
Meanwhile, fictional Reuters photographer Lee (Kirsten Dunst) and journalist Joel (Wagner Moura) hit the road with the goal of reaching the capital before it falls into rebel hands.
Miller says the film is a “100 percent plausible” account of an America tearing itself apart.