Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

I still don't know what the fúck they were thinking running an 81 year old Biden again. Long way to go yes, but it took Harris all of 3 weeks to edge ahead with the bookies. She supposedly had no chance of beating Trump.

Haley called it. I think she would have been a formidable candidate for the presidency.

the Sgt Major is not the General and the Coach is not the Quarterback.

He'll have his chance in 8 years, he'll be 68 then

you’re out of luck until you’ve gone duck

Ehh. I voted for her in the primary! Voting for Biden would've been kind of a waste. My state lets you vote for any of the candidates, this time around the local equivalent of 'Count Binface' wasn't running.

I dont understand why Trump keeps mouthing off against his opponents at his rallies. No-one who goes to his rallies, is going to vote for them anyway.

I have intentionally stayed away from the trump thread and I will try to be as impartial as possible here. But my question is: I haven't seen much of Harris in debates. Is she any good? Trump will waffle on at various tangents during the debates. The moderators will not stop him from doing this. And the debates will not sway his voters one iota.

But, if Harris stays on point with the debates, answers the points raised coherently and efficiently then this will surely contrast sharply with trump's unfocused, long-winded non-answers.

Again, it will not matter to his voters but surely the difference will be apparent to undecideds… Again, this is assuming that she CAN debate which is my question. Can she? Can she debate and also be engaging while debating. One of the biggest criticisms of Obama was that he was extremely articulate and devastating in a debate but (Especially post elections) often came across as quite unengaging and cold/distant when giving public statements.

According to Trump Tim Walz is big in the Trans world. Big in what way, I wonder. 🧐

yes she can debate, there’s plenty of reel online of her at the primaries and in her time in the senate, she was a state attorney general, she’s smart and she’s sharp. Trump isn’t eager to go up against a career prosecutor, this drama of him trying to weasel out of the ABC debate was proof enough of that. Hell even AG Barr was cautious as hell with her and he utterly squirmed, he **** knew Harris, an attorney general herself, wouldn’t ask a question she didn’t know the answer to and it utterly wet his pants here:

Of course we now know there was a lot of political interference of the Trump WH with the Trump DOJ. Barr chose both not to perjure himself or to concede the fact at the time of this hearing

She also was pretty stern with Biden on his record in the primaries even

She was also not at all hesitant to shut down the sitting Vice President when he tried to talk over her (a moment which went over extremely well with my wife and others)

I’ve picked shorter clips and snippets here for the sake of brevity in this thread but the fuller exchanges are easy to find online

Yup as she should. Harris really hasn't put a foot wrong yet. I know 3 months is a shockingly truncated time to have to run a presidential campaign bid. But in a way part of me wishes the election was now.

3 months of events like the last few weeks is an eternity. So many things could go wrong and Trump is currently so busy shooting himself in the foot. The optimism I have right now feels so fragile.