Any pro-Harris post or is it only anti-Trump?
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Here:
Spoiler alert: no, he won’t.
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No offense but that’s just another anti-Trump post. Any productive news about Harris?
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At this juncture, any “productive” news about Harris is going to inherently be just an anti-Trump segment, because he’s still in the picture.
Once he’s out and Harris is president and sworn in, then we’ll start getting marginally more Harris-centric news. I say “marginally” because for at least her first two years, every goddamned thing she does is gonna be compared to Biden, Trump and Obama did, and possibly what Hilary would have done had she won.
But for now, since the election is still, ultimately, a case of choosing Trump or not Trump more than selecting actual preferred candidates (although still more so than it was when Biden ran in 2020 at least, since people seem to actually like her for other reasons too), anything in favor of Harris isn’t really in favor of Harris, it’s just against Trump.
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I can appreciate the honesty of that. I don’t share it but I understand.
Her recent appearances at the NABJ (National Association of Black Journalists) and with Oprah may be worth checking out.
I did actually and she…did not fare well IMO. She comes across awkward and timid to me.
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now, I haven’t followed her much outside of having watched a few speech clips and the debate. why do you think she’s awkward and timid?
I recommend you check out her interviews to get a better understanding but to try and make it brief, it’s like she’s a first time actress struggling to read from a script. Doesn’t make her look authentic.
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any particular interview you have in mind or should I go with the Oprah one?
All of them actually. Oprah, CNN, NASJ, Drew Barrymore’s show. I’d also check out her debate against Tulsi Gabbard.
She’s running against Trump this election and the media isn’t shy about giving him airtime. Of course he’ll regularly appear in the news alongside her, as she with him.
Here’s a couple more articles and a video.
Can you stop infantilising the first black female presidential candidate? She’s 59.
Frankly, she’s a hell of a lot easier on the ears than Biden currently is. Maybe it’s because I have ADHD but her occasional awkwardness feels endearing and relatable.
That was 5 years ago. Gabbard did a 180 on all of her 2020 values and endorsed Trump this year. Harris beat him quite soundly in the debate which she apparently prepped him for, so I say they’re down to 1-1.
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Try not to take this personally but it’s my honest opinion of her. Anyone running for President should be strong enough to stand againest some criticism, which leads to something else I noticed - I’ve yet to see her take questions or interviews from people who disagrees with her. Everyone just seems welcoming. A good way to measure a person’s character is to see how they perform under pressure and I haven’t seen that with her, and as someone running for president, that matters a lot.
The video you posted is chopped and scripted. The real question is how does she perform in unscriped environments.
Again, don’t take this personally but I haven’t seen much improvment since then. Her one on one againest Trump looked more like a three againest one. In fact, one of the moderators is a sorority sister of hers. That’s not a good look at all.
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I feel like you’re holding Harris to a higher standard than Trump and Biden. Were you concerned about how they performed under pressure during their administrations or debates? Did you dismiss the 2020 presidential debates as irrelevant as pressure tests due to the moderators favouring Biden?
I think you’re misinformed, Naz. Davis is 12 years younger than Harris. They were both in Alpha Kappa Alpha, but were in different chapters in different universities at different times. They never met before this and aren’t friends.
Crying “rigged” is so 2020. Muir and Davis didn’t force Trump to rant about Haitians eating pets or brag about his concepts of a healthcare plan. He lost fair and square.
Please don’t tell me you are considering voting for the demented insurrectionist serial rapist.
While we’re on that matter, what do you think of Vance and Walz?
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I’ll put it this way: Trump is the most criticized president in US history for over eight years straight and yet he still going. At the very least that shows he’s battle tested. Harris has kind of been in the background the past three years. After Biden was outsted, it took roughly 50 days before she finally did a solo interview. That’s a lot of lost time. If she was serious, then she should’ve been hitting the ground running. So to me yes, Harris has a lot to prove and not much time to do it in.
For god knows what reason, I can’t post any links right now but you and I tend to read different sources. But you might be right. However, the three againest one is not exactly a show of strength of Harris to undecided voters.
Gotta work in the morning so I’ll have to answer the rest of this tommrow.
You’re confusing Harris with Trump in this regard. People are being friendly with Harris because she is a friendly person and people are tired of the confrontational politics that have defined the Trump era. Yes, she goes on with people who are willing to be fair with her, and that’s primarily because if she did an interview on, say, Fox or Newsmax or any other place that would be hostile to her, it would be painfully obvious what they were doing as they throw loaded questions at her or ignore policy issues over culture war nonsense.
Harris is popular now with more people than anyone expected, and everyone who even tries to seem like a legit news organization or interviewer is wanting to seem fair and not appear to be grilling her too harshly as a non-white woman candidate. In addition, being a prosecutor, she’s got a better skill at being able to make a point and present it to people than either Trump or Biden, so the idea the she seems timid or otherwise doesn’t know what she’s doing is a disingenuous one.
Also, Trump is not “battle tested.” All he does is insult his opponents, and whine about how mean everyone is being to him. He is the most criticized because he is such an objectively horrible human being, who has always been so based on accounts of everyone who has interacted with him and isn’t relying on his money or influence to further their own objectives. This includes members of his own family and members of his administration. He’s still going in this because he’s a stubborn narrators who can’t let any slight go, and because he has no choice as the only way to avoid accountability for his actions that have manifested as credible criminal indictments (and convictions) is to become president again, his life as he knows it ends if he doesn’t get back into that White House, and that’s why he’s doing it. You can tell in his speeches now that he’s old, tired, doesn’t really want to be there, and just wants to get back at everyone who ever slighted him as he sees it.
Trump is a disgrace and a living farce, and the reason Biden was even made president was to get rid of him. By comparison, Harris is someone people actually want, not just because she’s not Trump, but because she’s specifically the opposite; younger, vibrant, friendly, hopeful, and informed about the actual world.
She also did not need to have an interview with anyone. The Trump people kept making it seem like she was avoiding them for some reason, but the thing is, she owed no one any interview. That is not a requirement, nor is it a sign of anything. The reason Trump has been doing more interviews lately is to try to show contrast to that by having him go on and spew his gibberish that way as if to show that he’s friendly with the media, but he only goes on with people who throw softballs at him. In his latest interview, he said the audience went wild over him during the debate; there was no audience. His cognitively crashing brain told either a flat lie or a delusion that was easier to debunk than perhaps any other he’s ever told, and nobody pushed back on it. Trump is the one who is being treated specially, because the media makes money off of his controversy.
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And see that’s the problem: if she can’t handle being challanged in the US, then how does that look to other world leaders when she sits at the negotiation table where the steaks are even higher? They could walk all over her.
Gonna have to agree to disagree on both and that’s fine. I’ll talk more later.
That’s the thing: she can handle that. Not going on a hostile network isn’t an act of fear on her part, it would be a waste of time because their sole purpose would be to make her look like she wasn’t up to it, despite the fact that she is objectively qualified.
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But based on what though? What has she showed to prove this?
That’s not what it looks like, especially since her opponent and his VP have done it multiple times over.
Isn’t this how people campaign? Though rallies, interviews and debates? If she’s objectively qualified, she should be eager to prove it to voters.
Not sure about the eating pets part myself. But it has drawn attention to complaints coming from Springfleid about a serious overpopulation issue due to the 20,000 Haitians.
Trump was not my first choice however, I don’t share your haterd of him and unfortunately, Harris hasn’t showed me to be a better choice and I’m not sure she will. My biggest concern is the economy so puting personal feeling aside, I judge off background and merit on who can better fix the issue because I firmly believe that choosing wrong will result in the next Great Depression and looking for a new place to live.
She’s a lawyer with a background in law, he’s a successful business man with a background in finance. He knows how to build wealth but her I’m not so sure about. Not trying to hurt your feelings but yes, I’m leaning towards Trump.
I don’t know a lot about the two but going off first impressions, Vance seems to show promise. Not sure why Walz was picked. I thought Josh Shapiro would’ve been a more strategic choice. That would’ve improved her chances of winning Pennsylvania. We’ll see what they’re both made of in thier October debate.