How Kamala Harris Is Already Changing the Face of Presidential Power

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 11, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET | Tressie McMillan Cottom

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I have not been the biggest fan of Kamala Harris, but to my surprise, the candidate who underwhelmed in 2020 is gone. I have watched all of candidate Harris’s public appearances since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for a sense of how she intends to run and possibly govern. The audiences have been vastly different, among them: the annual conclave of Zeta Phi Beta sorority, a National Federation of Teachers convention and the Philadelphia rally where the Harris-Walz ticket made its first official appearance.

What I took away: Kamala Harris is a different candidate than we saw four years ago. She is even a different rhetorician than we saw six months ago.

Nominee Harris lands her applause lines. The former prosecutor is comfortable going on the attack. Her most consistent message is that Donald Trump wants to send America back to the Dark Ages. Unlike her predecessor, she relishes calling Trump out by name. Even her wacky humor, which has been mocked on social media, suddenly works. She sounds authentic. That’s the holy grail of electoral politics. Every wide-jawed cackle she offers the audience, every twinkle in her eye as she pokes at Trump — it all comes off as someone who is in on the joke. That is hard for any candidate but it is an almost impossible tightrope for a Black female candidate to walk.

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: shill; tressiecottom

[cgbg]

New York Times = Propaganda organ of the Deep State

North Korean state media is much more credible.

[MtnClimber]

The power of knee pads.

[butlerweave]

Harris would do a lot less than Joe

[E. Pluribus Unum]

What about some variety?

You could take the time from your busy schedule to post articles you prefer.

Just a thought.

[Liz]

I see Kamala has decided to sideline her twice-wed lady killer
husband who broke up his first marriage by knocking up his kid’s nanny.

Kamala is successfully hiding her fears that Emhoff might hit
the sheets with another sex-crazed ditz while Kam is on the campaign trail.

She has a lot of help......must be dozens of journos out there
anxious to be the one to catch Kammie’s hubby with his pants down.

[ridesthemiles]

THIS “PERSON” NEEDS A NEW SET OF STANDARDS

[Liz]

You can almost get type-2 diabetes reading the sugary crap this one wrote.

Tressie must be angling for a high paying federal job......maybe even prez press secretary.

[rktman]

Hard to swallow.......

[joshua c]

a PTP(professional turd polisher) at the NYT

her arms must be getting tired

[jdt1138]

Isn’t it crazy how about half of us can be turned against the others? Sure does make it simple to win elections.

[wac3rd]

McMillan Cottom was born in Harlem and raised in Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina.[6][7] Her mother was a member of the Black Panther Party in Winston-Salem.[8] Before completing her undergraduate degree, McMillan Cottom worked as an enrollment officer at a technical college, a job that would inform her later research and her first book.[9] In 2009,[10] McMillan Cottom received a B.A. from North Carolina Central University, a public HBCU, in English and political science.[11]

[TalBlack]

You aren’t changing the face of presidential power if you’re hiding in your basement.

[Recovering_Democrat]

...her wacky humor, which has been mocked on social media, suddenly works. She sounds authentic.

False.

[Recovering_Democrat]

and there you have it.

[Luke21]

Thank you for giving us every article in the New York Times every day. We eagerly await them. I hope they pay you well.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I want to know what the enemy is up to so I can fight them.

You want to sick your head up your Obama and live in a tiny, insulated bubble.

See the difference?

[central_va]

At FR some of us fling plates of fecal matter against the wall and what sticks they call art.

[oldbill]

Yep, she is now godess like.
Sonn she will be curing the sick.

[central_va]

I want to know what the enemy is up to so I can fight them.

Like we don't already know....

[NWFree]

Changing the face of politics to ugly crooked leg spreaders

Way to go