A surfer in Australia had to be airlifted to the hospital after he was attacked by a shark and his severed leg later washed ashore, leaving doctors to try to reattach it.

The 23-year-old male surfer, Kai McKenzie, was attacked by a shark near Port Macquarie in New South Wales, and remained in critical but stable condition on Tuesday, ABC News reported. Video of McKenzie’s surfboard with a chunk removed shows just how terrifying the attack was.

“The man saw the shark approach him, he was able to fight it off, he was pretty courageous and able to turn around and catch a wave to shore,” New South Wales Ambulance Service acting duty operations officer in Hastings South, Kirran Mowbray, told the outlet.

“He was very lucky at the time we had a [off duty] police officer that was walking his dog, she added.

23-year-old Kai McKenzie was attacked while surfing in New South Wales, Australia. https://t.co/UjcMObwR0T

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Mowbray said the off-duty officer “used a lead off the dog as a tourniquet to wrap around the young man’s leg and essentially saved the man’s life until the paramedics got there.”

After McKenzie was taken to a nearby hospital, his severed leg washed up on shore. Locals put it on ice before taking it to the hospital, the New York Post noted.

Both the surfer and his leg were then flown to John Hunter Hospital — a major trauma center — where he underwent emergency surgery, ABC noted. Doctors then had to try and figure out whether the leg could be reattached, the outlet noted.

The report doesn’t indicate if the surgery to reconnect the leg happened or was successful.

The surfer is a member of the RAGE team who released a statement after he was hospitalized that read, “Sending love to @kai_mckenzie the youngest RAGE boy on the team and the toughest person that we know,” Surfer.com noted.

“Yesterday he was attacked by a shark and has lost his leg while surfing in Port Macquarie,” it added. “He has been through a lot breaking his back last year, he never once complained always just got on with doing what he loved as soon as possible. He is an inspiring person. The whole rage gang loves you man and we will see you soon.”

McKenzie had only recently recovered and returned to the water after he had suffered a fractured neck last year, the outlet noted.

“So happy to be back surfing after having a fractured neck been some real fun times lately,” McKenzie wrote on social media.

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The media is now covering Kamala Harris 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and they are covering her with all the syrup they can find.

Democrats are shoving the entire Biden presidency into the closet while pretending that Harris sprang from the earth fully formed — and pretending that she was the popular pick.

The media is generating fake enthusiasm for Harris in outsized amounts. Chuck Schumer tried to generate enthusiasm for her on Tuesday. It was pathetic. He was in front of the press and said, “So now that the process has played out, from the grass roots, bottom up, we are here today to throw our support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.” Then he waited for applause. 

None came. “I’m clapping. You don’t have to,” Schumer managed.

He was asked, “What’s your case to the American people and to the Democratic voters who voted for Joe Biden that this isn’t a coronation?” 

“The bottom line [is] it was a bottom-up process,” Schumer maintained. “People just rallied right to her side. The enthusiasm in this big, diverse, representative party was amazing. It was palpable. You could cut it with a knife,” he insisted.

This was a lie. In what way was this grass roots? They had primaries. Primaries are the grassroots process. 

You may not like that Biden won the primaries. You may think the Democratic Party should unlock the primaries so more candidates could have run against Biden.  

But to pretend that this is grass roots is insane. Nancy Pelosi was in the back room jabbing a stiletto into Biden’s neck over and over. Barack Obama was standing behind Biden with a garret. This insane, bizarre notion that this was a grassroots operation to get rid of Biden is totally crazy.  

The grass roots may go along with it. The grass roots may be very happy about it. But to pretend that this was not the Democratic Party elites offing Biden is a total lie.

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Two things actually happened. One: There was wild Democratic base enthusiasm for getting rid of Biden. People did want Biden out. Two: There was no grassroots enthusiasm for Harris, who is incredibly charmless.

We are being gaslit about the process by which Biden was ousted. Harris was appointed by the Democratic Party elites to replace Biden because they wanted to keep his $100 million war chest intact. They went to the donors. Inside the first three days of the campaign, they got the donors to drop a money bomb on her so they could pretend they had $200 million of grassroots support or some such nonsense. 

This is all created. It is all fake. It is all ersatz. 

With that said, does the race change? 

Yes.

If Republicans get stuck in the mode of talking about Biden from here to the election, Democrats are going to win because the case is very simple. It always was because — Whoever this election is a referendum on is going to lose.

It was Joe Biden for nearly the entirety of the race. It was Biden because he’s the current president of the United States.

And Democrats then pulled a fast one. They got rid of him in favor of Harris. 

Now, I know a lot of Republicans are sitting around thinking, “Yes, but she’s wildly unpopular. People hate her. No one knows who she is. If you ask the everyday American the name of the vice president, many do not know anything about her.” 

Almost nobody knows her record because vice presidents generally get picked from quasi obscurity. Vice presidents are mostly only famous for being a vice president, not for what they did before they were the vice president. 

That’s certainly true for Kamala Harris, who was in the United States Senate for all of 27 seconds, and then ran a terribly unsuccessful presidential campaign.

All of this means Republicans are going to have to introduce this fresh character to the American people. That is their job. This is a fresh race: There can be no errors by the Republican team. None. 

It means whatever get-out-the-vote effort they have needs to be top-notch. This is not the time for testing new theories about getting out the vote. This is the time for winning.

This is not the time for testing new theories about how to go after Harris. This is the time to go after Harris on her record. 

The Trump campaign is basically acknowledging that at this point. Tony Fabrizio, who’s a member of Team Trump, put out a memo pointing out that there will almost certainly be a Harris polling bump from here all the way through the Democratic National Convention.

He wrote:

Many of you have heard me refer to the upcoming “Harris Honeymoon” that I expect to see in the public polling over the next couple of weeks. As I’ve explained, the honeymoon will be a manifestation of the wall-to-wall coverage Harris receives from the MSM. The coverage will be largely positive and will certainly energize Democrats and some other parts of their coalition at least in the short term. …

 As importantly, voters will also learn about Harris’ dangerously liberal record before becoming Biden’s partner in creating historic inflation (she cast the deciding vote on the IRA), flood of illegal immigrants at our southern border (she is Biden’s Border Czar), and migrant crime that is threatening our families and communities (she set illegals free who went on to commit violent crime as DA).  

So, while the public polls may change in the short run and she may consolidate a bit more of the Democrat base, Harris can’t change who she is or what she’[s] done.  

But there’s the key. When Fabrizio wrote, “The coverage will be largely positive and will certainly energize Democrats in some other parts of their coalition at least in the short term,” is it in the short term or not? 

I have a feeling that it is in the short term because once people take a look at Harris, they will realize she’s an extraordinarily charmless and annoying candidate. She’s cloying, she’s terrible, and it turns out that people who look fairly good on paper very often implode on the national stage. 

That was certainly for Harris the first time around when she ran for president in 2019-2020. Is the enthusiasm likely to fall away? 

This goes to the Harris campaign. Can Kamala Harris stay out of the public eye? She actually needs to run the basement strategy. She needs to do rallies where she’ll be very comfortable and avoid anything remotely like a tough interview. The media will help her out, as they have swiveled into her camp. They will presumably ask her only questions about her favorite dance music and why she is such a nice woman. 

The problem is that this is a short-term election now. It is currently the end of July. We have August, September, October, and that’s it.

Either Donald Trump has to play a flawless game or you have to wait for Kamala Harris to make a mistake. Either of those things could happen. I think it’s pretty likely that Harris will make several big mistakes because it is very rare for a candidate to run a flawless campaign.

Democrats are waiting for Trump to make some sort of comment about her being female or black that they can turn into an issue of sexism or racism. Trump is going to have to stay away from the kind of storyline that he typically likes to talk about, such as the fact that she got her start in politics by having sex with Willie Brown, which is true.

Can Trump and the Republicans stay disciplined? 

If they do, they’ll win.