Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

A totally normal guy, brain full of worms and memories of dead bears. A great addition to any ticket.

I'm the same. I'm more anti-Trump / anti-MAGA than pro-Democrat. At a more general level, Trump is a horrible narcissistic bully and I'd hate to see someone like that win. More specifically, I have friends in Eastern Europe and I would be concerned for the security of that region in the long term if Trump gets power again.

If Harris wins, I suspect my interest in US politics won't be as intense as it is now. Quite frankly, if politics is this engaging, something is going badly wrong.

Agree 100% ….. Trump and especially those he fronts for equal horrible ….. disgusting uncouth vulgar individuals full of hatred and scams …. yet they fool millions ….

Trump and his fanatics stand for one thing only …. war with Iran obo Netanyahu …. they have this one policy and that's it and it is the worst policy ….

It is very difficult to get agreement on domestic policy reforms in the US - you need to have stars aligned with a majority in both the House and the Senate - and even then in can be difficult to get major reforms though (for example the Biden Administration was unable to get global tax reforms it spearheaded through a Congress the Dems controlled). This is not helped by the polarisation of politics there and very few in the middle willing to cross the aisle. However, a US President has a strong foreign policy role - a bad President can do enormous damage and create international instability.

For this reason alone, Harris should be a welcome choice for many - the transatlantic partnership, commitment to multilateralism including the Paris agreement, commitment to NATO, commitment to a two state solution, appointment of a strong Secretary of State and some continuity from the Biden administration can go a long way. The ability of Trump to driver international instability is why more and more business money is flowing into the Harris campaign even if on paper they would lean towards GOP policies.

On domestic policies, some of her economic proposals including increasing the corporate tax rate to 28% and the introduction of a wealth tax will never be agreed but are needed to keep some of the left leaning Dems interested. The big economic elephant in the room is that some provisions of TCJA are due to lapse with increased tax rates in 2026 - this was Trump’s only significant domestic achievement.

Yes. Why not? She will likely have a strong G7 with her which Trump would not have. And if there is some continuity with the likes of Sullivan and Blinken (as well as the career civil servants below them) then she will be well guided.

If he does it will leave Harris with the perfect opportunity that nobody really has had before to fact check everything he said at fox and explain why her ideas are sensible and based in reality.

why?

I'd be inclined to keep Blinken.

A lot of swing voters will be interested in that debate. If Trump backs out, it will be a PR nightmare for him and the Harris campaign will crucify him for being too afraid to debate.

No doubt the Harris team will line up, trigger points for the debate, since he can't help himself.

Maybe he’ll use the old bone spurs excuse for ducking a debate with a female of low intelligence.

Keeping up the tradition of killing the Kennedy name in politics