Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

I think it's a good move by Harris to not let the Fox debate be the first one, in case Trump decides to pull out of the others after claiming they're unnecessary or whatever. Make sure their first one is more on neutral ground and use it to set the bar.

I have one worry about Harris debating with Trump. To have a debate you have to have some sort of back-and-forth discussion about policy and other issues. Can you have a half reasonable debate with an unhinged lunatic? Can you handle the way he will oversimlify issues so that you are forced to be "boring" and try to explain things?

No criticism of Harris, just a worry about getting into any sort of "debate" with Trump.

But it might be nice to see Walz use his down to earth style in a debate with Trump.

Trumps last debate performance was also abysmal. It was just completely overshadowed by how bad Bidens performance was.

For instance Trump was twice asked about his policies for better childcare. And twice he just talked about the border and himself. He didn't actually answer the question. It was a golden opportunity to turn to the camera and say to the people of America: "Look at this guy, he cares 100 times more about his f**cking golf score than he does about your children".

Any lucid cogent debater could have made Trump look like an absolute clown at that debate. Sure he's a pigeon playing chess. But that's the angle Harris lean into. You really wanna vote for the pigeon? Or do you want a serious policymaker?

I'd be pretty confident that Harris will mop the floor with him. And he knows it. Just listen to him STILL pining and moaning like a child that he's not running against Biden. Still making excuses and plays not to debate Harris fair and square. That should tell you everything.

3 Months really isn't a "shockingly truncated time" to run a campaign - It's still significantly longer than any other official election campaign anywhere else in the world.

wishful thinking on my part, but wouldn’t it be lovely if Harris wins this race and we see this political reset in the United States where presidential elections are not protracted three years out but truncated as it were several months out again like it normally was not that long ago, her having them proven that you don’t need to run a huge expensive years long campaign to win an election, that might even be enough to convince the election industry to reign it in a little however the election industry is worth billions and billions of dollars now, so maybe it will be hard for those interested capitalists to let go a little. Regardless a recalibration would be incredibly welcome.

Harris does not need to accede to anything in terms of debates from Trump. This man has already given in on his stated line that he wouldn't debate. He is now looking to some how make things a bit easier on himself, and we all know he won't debate on ABC if he already has the Fox debate done.

Harris merely needs to stick to the already agreed schedule. If that schedule doesn't suit Trump then it's on him for making such an agreement.

That press conference showed, if indeed there was any doubt, that Trump is panicking. He has nothing on which he can fight back with. His whole plan was to attack Old Man Biden. That was it. The entire foundation of his campaign. He is now the old man. He was never going to discuss policy, only call out Biden as too old, too slow, past it.

This is what infuriated me with Biden etc. You have to lower yourself to Trumps level a bit. Going technical on policy won't work.

Instead just flat out ask him -

'What's your plan for healthcare?'

'Why were there a half a million Americans dead as result of COVID than there should have been on his watch?'

'What does Putin have on you that makes you his lapdog?'

'Do you think a convicted felon should be allowed to hold the office of President?'

'Do you think someone who sexually assaulted someone should?'

'Do you agree with many people who say you're only rich because of your Daddy and if it weren't for him you'd be either in jail or on the street?'

Watch him squirm and get angrier and angrier. Hammer him on policy on your addresses to the audience at the end. He has no plan for anything etc etc etc.

Getting baited by Walz here,

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/bill-oreilly-accuses-tim-walz-of-defamation-for-jd-vance-couch-dig-lost-of-a-respect-for-the-governor/

Walz said nothing defamatory whatsoever, all he wondered is if JD Vance can get off the couch and debate him.

Come on, he never could. Not if it wasn't an insult or a dimunition of another person.

He wouldn't know snappy if it crawled out of the Everglades and bit him on his bloated arse.

I saw a recent clip of Bill O'Reilly. Another man looking frail and confused and old.

Thats the worst I've ever heard Trump speak. So bad.

Up until now he had the luxury of running against two terrible candidates - a 70 year old woman who is as unlikeable as it gets and a 77 year old career politician with advanced dementia.

Lets not forget how bad Trump will go down in the history books. Lost his reelection campaign, lost the popular vote twice and lost the House and the Senate. First Republican to "achieve" that in 125 years.

Really think if Kamala can just keep the energy levels up she could walk this election.

I have decided that my wildest dream is that this is the year Texas turns blue*.

Oh man, could you imagine how much that would get under Musk's skin?

After making such a fuss about moving his bases there.

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*Wildest dream AKA, never gonna happen. I know this.

Austin is as blue as it gets??

Austin is incredibly not-red.