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Nice line from her speech: “To be clear, my whole career, I’ve only had one client: the people,” Harris said. But “just imagine [how] Donald Trump … would use the immense powers of the presidency of the United States. Not to improve your life. Not to strengthen our national security. But to serve the only client he’s ever had: himself.”
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And this: “I will not cozy up to tyrants and dictators like Kim Jong Un, who are rooting for Trump,” Harris said. “Because they know he is easy to manipulate with flattery and favors. They know Trump won’t hold autocrats accountable — because he wants to be an autocrat.”
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Here’s some more of you idiots
View: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1827172947280249138?s=46&t=PfGBft52CF1a98VsjZzilw
View: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1827172947280249138?s=46&t=PfGBft52CF1a98VsjZzilw
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Hard to believe MAGA/Trumpites would actually hear this statement and regard it as something to see as a positive. Put Kennedy in as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and this is viewed as rational?? Well, then we’ll need a Flat Earther appointed as head of the National Science Foundation as well. We’ll need to fill all positions with mentally sick individuals like RFK Jr. Can’t believe this tweet would be posted as a good thing! This is how breathtakingly stupid the MAGA movement is…..thanks for advertising MAGA stupidity, though I realize it’s a given whether posted here or not….
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Strategy….
-The month since Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign has been a largely unprecedented spell in American politics: never has a modern general election campaign gone from a standstill to a full sprint so quickly.
-“This election, I do strongly believe, is about two very different visions for the future,” Ms Harris said at a rally in North Carolina last week.
“Ours focused on the future, and the other focused on the past.”
-For the most part, Ms Harris has shied away from describing in detail what her presidency would look like.
There’s talk of unity and a way beyond America’s divisive partisanship; a focus on strengthening the economy and reducing consumer prices; and a heavy emphasis on reproductive rights and abortion – an area of particular strength for Democrats.
But it is vague. And this vagueness may suit the Harris campaign just fine.
By largely being an empty policy vessel, Ms Harris has allowed various constituencies within the Democratic Party to project their hopes and priorities onto her.
If she can keep all those pieces together for the next few months, she might just win.
-In other words, the vice-president’s policy vagueness has allowed her to cast as broad an appeal as possible in what is shaping up to be an election where every undecided voter counts.
It has been labelled by some as a "vibe" campaign - based at least in part on feeling and general impressions.
-“We need to hear some actual policy things,” said Lewanna Tucker, chair of the Democratic Party in Fulton County, Georgia. “She needs to be letting us a little bit more behind the curtain and talk about structural things that are going to be done.”
Perhaps more concrete policy details aren't necessary. At a time when American politics is viewed by much of the American public as divisive and toxic, there may be benefit to building a political campaign not around policy specifics, but rather one that appeals to emotion.
In 2008, Barack Obama successfully campaigned on hope and change – which is not exactly the makings of a four-point plan.
“It's a return to a level of hope that I don't think that we have collectively experienced since 2008,” said Yasmin Radjy, who runs the liberal grassroots organising group Swing Left.
-The wattage of star power this week – with appearances by Pink, Stevie Wonder and Lil Jon, among others – and the campaign’s heavy reliance on pop culture connections, like Charlie XCX, suggest it is trying to position itself as a cultural movement rather than a political one.
It remains to be seen whether this will be an effective strategy.
But at least for now, it has pulled the Democratic Party out of the doldrums and despair of early July and into a dead heat with Trump and the Republicans heading into the crucial final months of this campaign.
www.bbc.com
-The month since Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign has been a largely unprecedented spell in American politics: never has a modern general election campaign gone from a standstill to a full sprint so quickly.
-“This election, I do strongly believe, is about two very different visions for the future,” Ms Harris said at a rally in North Carolina last week.
“Ours focused on the future, and the other focused on the past.”
-For the most part, Ms Harris has shied away from describing in detail what her presidency would look like.
There’s talk of unity and a way beyond America’s divisive partisanship; a focus on strengthening the economy and reducing consumer prices; and a heavy emphasis on reproductive rights and abortion – an area of particular strength for Democrats.
But it is vague. And this vagueness may suit the Harris campaign just fine.
By largely being an empty policy vessel, Ms Harris has allowed various constituencies within the Democratic Party to project their hopes and priorities onto her.
If she can keep all those pieces together for the next few months, she might just win.
-In other words, the vice-president’s policy vagueness has allowed her to cast as broad an appeal as possible in what is shaping up to be an election where every undecided voter counts.
It has been labelled by some as a "vibe" campaign - based at least in part on feeling and general impressions.
-“We need to hear some actual policy things,” said Lewanna Tucker, chair of the Democratic Party in Fulton County, Georgia. “She needs to be letting us a little bit more behind the curtain and talk about structural things that are going to be done.”
Perhaps more concrete policy details aren't necessary. At a time when American politics is viewed by much of the American public as divisive and toxic, there may be benefit to building a political campaign not around policy specifics, but rather one that appeals to emotion.
In 2008, Barack Obama successfully campaigned on hope and change – which is not exactly the makings of a four-point plan.
“It's a return to a level of hope that I don't think that we have collectively experienced since 2008,” said Yasmin Radjy, who runs the liberal grassroots organising group Swing Left.
-The wattage of star power this week – with appearances by Pink, Stevie Wonder and Lil Jon, among others – and the campaign’s heavy reliance on pop culture connections, like Charlie XCX, suggest it is trying to position itself as a cultural movement rather than a political one.
It remains to be seen whether this will be an effective strategy.
But at least for now, it has pulled the Democratic Party out of the doldrums and despair of early July and into a dead heat with Trump and the Republicans heading into the crucial final months of this campaign.
Kamala Harris banks on hunger for change, with few policy details
The campaign is light on policy, writes Anthony Zurcher - so can energy alone beat Donald Trump?
www.bbc.com
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Bring back childhood diseases! Vote Trump! Did you put in, oh, I don’t know, 5 seconds of thought, before deciding to post this tweet? lol..??…
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RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer
Kennedy’s endorsement of Donald Trump raises an awkward question.
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I’m curious, how many former Republican presidents were at the GOP convention? The Democrats had two, right?