Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

Wanting/demanding Harris to do interviews is only because people want to nitpick on and leverage just about anything resembling a stumble from her. She could say 99 things right but will make one mistake and the morons will latch on and cling to it.

Desperate because Trump is filling the vacuum with his insane ramblings. What is the saying? Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake. Obviously Harris will do interviews but the glee they must feel in seeing Trump self combust must make them want to wait just a little bit longer.

You mean you hope she will crumble.

All she has to do is ask him about his policies…that will be fun.

I don't get where someone argues she "didn't show up" as though Kamala had agreed to an interview and backed out of one. No such thing occurred.

This just seems like frustration from Trump and his campaign and from other Harris detractors that Harris' campaign is staying on message and isn't getting derailed by corporate media who, based on her press gaggles, are only keenly interested in asking her questions framed around Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump, and dragging her off message (Hardly a secret that $WBD who owns CNN, $FOX, etc. at the executive level would heavily favor Trump's handouts to billionaires and corporations, while Harris has economic positions favoring to reign in in corporate greed, price gouging, and close corporate and millionaire tax and benefits loopholes).

She seems to know what she's doing, staying on message and reaching out to ordinary voters, not for-profit media who revenue in the billions of dollars. She's been picking up voters in demographics needed to win while Trump seems to be doing things that are shrinking his base. White Dudes for Harris, Women for Harris, Republicans for Harris, Evangelicals for Harris, etc. etc.

She's hitting the road, not the studio. She's hitting the road while Trump is **** the bed, she's going out to meet Americans where Americans are at. I don't have a problem with that.

https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2024-08-14/harris-walz-bus-tour-pittsburgh-weekend

And as I noted before, Congress is in Recess for August, it will be back in session in September, then break for October. It is far more likely she continues maximizing her time where she doesn't have to be near DC to cast the senate tie breaking vote, to be on the road campaigning and reaching out to as many voters in person as possible, as reflected by her whirlwind schedule of back to back to back to back rallies being filled to the rafters with enthused voters. It seems much more probable that sit down interviews with news outlets are going to be happening in September, rather than August or October, when she is not as free to move around with the current split in the Senate. The most we know is she indicated she wants at least one sit-down interview scheduled before the end of August.

It's funny during 2020 people complained Joe was "in the basement" campaigning via Zoom etc., when Kamala is out campaigning in all the swing states, people still complain she is "invisible" "hiding" etc.

I think people who don't like her and the campaign that is losing ground against her, just want something to complain about. That's all.

Joe and Co. rallied this afternoon in Maryland to an electric crowd, and touting a major WH win today in lowering the cost of major prescription drugs:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/08/15/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-lower-prices-for-first-ten-drugs-selected-for-medicare-price-negotiation-to-lower-costs-for-millions-of-americans/

(And gosh, he sounds like he has more vitality today then during last month's debate, I think the being sick thing was true after all)

Should ask him about membership and green fees at his clubs, Mar a Lago joining fee gone from $700k to $1m or 42% and Turnberry green fees now the highest in the world at £1000

Press conferences have become a talking point because Trump supporters need something and Trump is no longer able to do rallies after someone shot at him.

PTSD is a sad fact but it is one that is likely to cost him a chance at the election at this stage if he is no longer mentally capable of campaigning. Hopefully he gets the help he needs going forward but this will take more than a few months to see significant progress.

Never mind his mental state that he thinks more than every job has gone to immigrants. This from a man who opposed any border bill to reduce immigration.

He wasn't particularly in line with reality 8 years ago but this is just beyond sad. It will be interesting to see how the Republican party eventually decides on having policies again once Trump is gone. They have just gone with "whatever Trump said most recently" for a while now since it was never consistent. Can they pivot back to a serious party?

It's extraordinary how quick the tide has turned. Trump really must feel the proverbial rug was pulled from under his feet.

Walz pointing out how weird they really are has broken the MAGA spell by a lot. At this stage (80+ days is still a long time to go) but at this stage I would not be surprised if most serious republicans (especially the non-MAGA morons) know that this election is dead in the water.

Trump has been objectively terrible since Biden quit. He really can't refocus on Harris, he's slurring his words, he's playing the same old tunes, with added retribution but he's not out there energising his base, he's in hiding.

He's going to have various court appearances coming up, which he'll no doubt say took him off the campaign trail, so this is where he should be making hay, instead it'll be more lies.

"I'm stuck in court, when I should be out campaigning" but what about August, Donnie? Where were you then? I wonder if anyone is keeping track of both parties public engagements?

There's also a small chance, he developed PTSD. Perhaps a well meaning member of his team hired a mental health professional to talk through it and help him deal with the PTSD. But the thing with any sort of therapy though, as soon as you start to peel the onion on one problem, it can be often found that more comes to the surface. Maybe Donnie is having an existential crisis and the mental health professional is sending out a lot of overtime bills.

That or maybe they called Jordan Peterson.

Steps down? Zero.

Frocibly removed? Not in the timeframe needed for them to register a new candicate (Aug 31, I think, so two weeks).

Him surviving the assassination attempt might have been a blessing in disguise for the Democrats.

He's got an obsession with things being bigger than they seem. Everything from crowds to percentages of jobs to how many people love him.

Same bad financial advice, but in fairness to trump he actually got elected unlike hobbs

Well that is what any rational person would do but given trump basically just repeated what he said months ago, they won't however.

I'm a Creep,

I'm a Weirdo,

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here……