Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

Think everyone seemed to miss it, and it says exactly what he is as a person and his relationship to taxes and income, after the waitress came up and said Sir, yada yada, and Trump says but if it is in cash, how would they see it? What he is talking about there so openly on a stage, is the past President talking about Tax Fraud, on a stage and on TV, and nobody picking it up at all. The timeline is odd.

Al Franken said on his podcast released this morning that Tim Walz will be Kamala’s VP nominee. Both men are from Minnesota.

I'm thinking it's more likely to be Shapiro atm. Kelly seems to be a senate seat that they don't want to replace.

Shapiro could lose a lot of Muslim voters and young voters over his defence of Israel.

I think picking Walz would undo the clear daylight about the age of the candidates.

My pick would be mark Kelly.

Although Tim Walz looks like Bernie Sanders' slightly younger brother, he is, in fact, two months younger than Kelly. In my opinion, both would be equally strong picks.

I wouldn't have said 'exceptionally hawkish on Israel', but that he was fairly pro-Israel - at least enough so to condemn the protests and so on.

Whether anyone likes it or not, Shapiro's Jewishness will also be a factor that Harris's team has to consider. Mainly in the sense of how much identity is too much identity for a ticket, and whether the fact that America has never had a Jewish president or VP is down to coincidence or a prejudice that exists in the dark corners of middle American voters' minds, and difficult to quantify if it's barely even spoken aloud.

I can't believe that any more than a tiny proprtion of centre ground voters would genuinely be swayed by Shapiro's Jewishness though. If Team Harris are convinced he can make the difference in Pennsylvania, I think that's got to outweight those concerns…

Shapiro V Vance would be hilarious.

Vance isn't fit to lace Shapiro's boots when it comes to experience and policy leadership.

Yeah, Shapiro's main focus would be Pennsylvania and winning that.

I really feel sorry for Kelly. He's probably too good as a senator, and they could lose his senate seat (and potentially the senate) if he becomes VP nominee.

The more I've looked into him, the more I can see him doing his own run for President. Time is not on his side though. He's 60 now, assuming Kamala wins, she'll be the nominee in '28 (presumably with her sitting VP) so he'd be 68 in '32 before the path clears for his own run...

Repubs are desperate to weasel out of the debate on ABC

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/cnn-guest-defends-trump-on-narrative-he-agreed-to-abc-debate-with-harris-joe-biden-should-come-and-debate/

Can't imagine why:

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/we-have-to-work-hard-to-define-her-trump-appears-to-admit-harris-attacks-arent-landing/

I think you're being very optimistic. A major section of the US public have fallen for the sthick. If a small percentage moves enough to get Kamala over the line, I'll be content. I do accept that the whole Trump stuff is a house of cards and without him holding it together, it becomes a busted flush.

I'm not optimistic by nature but the whole MAGA thing seems a busted flush. Harris has really energised a whole new cohort of the US electorate and all he's got is his egoism, narrowmindedness, complete lack of sophistication and a bunch of really quite pathetic and weird looking followers many of whom are retired or close to retirement and repulsive to younger people. Barring unforced errors I think she'll win comfortably in November.

Alarm bells must be going off in the Republican camp but with a lot of states firmly red or blue I wouldn't rule out Trump just yet much as I want to .Hopefully the more Trump spouts rubbish and bile the voters in those states that will decide the outcome see him for what he is and vote Harris.