Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

Kamala's laugh really bothers Trump. The magician, Penn Gillette from Penn and Teller, who appeared on a season of Celebrity Apprentice, noted that he never saw Trump laugh sincerely.

It's another one of those things which hurts him a bit because while Kamala might laugh a bit too much, it keeps a lighter image in contrast to Trump who comes across as kind of deadpan and serious in addition to old and weird.

It seems all Harris has to do is sue Fox for something (per trumps reasoning…).

Trump wanting to move the debate to Fox News would indicate to me that he or his campaign feel that the advantage is slipping at an uncomfortable rate, and want a very partisan environment for a showdown.

However, the last time Trump did a debate at Fox, it didn't go so well as the moderator, Chris Wallace, called it down the middle, leaving Trump furious.

I think that they should go head to head at least once, but with Fox News and their current roster of anchors, I'm struggling to find one who could still be considered neutral and would ask tough questions of both candidates.

This piece, written shortly after Wallace's departure, ranks Geraldo Rivera as the most neutral (or 'least despicable', rather) host on the network at the time of the article's writing. Though some of that seems to stem from his penchant for contrary argument with other Fox News hosts as opposed to being an even-handed newsman of the old Walter Cronkite mould.

If Trump agrees to terms on mic mutes and so on, he won't be able to rant for five minutes. Trump didn't seem unhappy with the mic mute rule on CNN, so there is no credible reason why he should reject it now.

Besides, the last thing Trump's team want is him ranting off-script, especially in the scenario where Kamala winds him up. Far too much chance of blurting something out that costs him another percentage point in crucial swing states.

Another thing from that NABJ interview that went kind of unnoticed - Trump says 'Kamala' correctly. I like how there was the awareness to do that, but not the awareness not to lay into her about her mixed race background. The former was probably campaign team advice, knowing he'd be pulled up on saying, 'Ka-*mah*-la' like usual, but the latter was just a Trump original that left staffers watching through barely separated fingers.

All thats been said is rules will be similar, no mention of mutes on mics.

Feels like the cultural ground has shifted a bit since Trump first came to political prominence in 2016. As Harris has herself said, 'the same old story' with Trump, who has no new angle or new rhetoric to push. He'd be the most beatable of any Republican candidate if the Democrats hadn't been so set in getting in their own way by first getting behind the never-very-popular Hillary Clinton, who acted as if the presidency was her birthright and now to Joe Biden, who was clearly too frail for the campaign trail.

Even with Harris, they're probably doing about the bare minimum they can get away with in order to possibly beat Trump. If they had candidates in the wings who really got the youth vote excited, it would barely even be a contest.

Well it looks as though Trump didn't challenge Harris, he just agreed with Fox, she really doesn't have to respond at all.

The NYT is a rag.

I watched Donald Trump, as sitting president of the USA, stand in front of a crowd of his angry supporters and once again perpetrate a baseless conspiracy theory about the 2020 election which he lost, before dispatching them to the Capitol, and doing the bare minimum to distance himself from the violence which ensued.

A distance he has since doubled back on by referring to all of those who participated in Jan 6 as 'hostages'.

There isn't actually any amount of snippets you can take of Kamala Harris which adds up to that. Simple as.

So Twitter user A, there, can f- off with her big sneery head, as can Twitter user B.

The enablers of Trump have done a decent job of equivocating and normalising over these last three years, but no amount of edgey commentary on their part will change the facts.

No comparison.

Trump can show up at the agreed scheduled debate and prove you right.

I can see her leading it better than Trump can, certainly.

If you want to see a supercut of all the mad, ignorant or plain stupid things that Trump has said in the last ten years or so, I'm sure someone here could furnish you with one. The problem with the man is that you're almost paralysed by choice when putting one together.

So Trump would certainly overwhelming lose on the 'stupid things said' metric you're posing, in addition to cheerleading January 6th and the perpetration of various other insane conspiracy theories.

But, yes, a woman who doesn't know about cloud computing is somehow worse or even equivalent to a man who openly professed a baseless conspiracy theory about the election he fairly lost, and cheerleaded a riot/attack on the US Capitol.

It's just tiresome, really.