Posted on 09/07/2024 11:21:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Kamala Harris’s razor-sharp debate skills have powered her political ascent. Her success next week will turn on how well she adapts to an unpredictable rival.
Few of the people gathered in the San Francisco church knew quite what to expect from Kamala Harris.
It was 2003, and the two men she faced in her first political campaign were well-known brawlers locked in a rematch to become the city’s district attorney — one of whom was her former boss.
Ms. Harris was a little-known government lawyer who had landed in the local gossip pages for dating Willie Brown, one of the state’s most powerful politicians. The attack on her was obvious: political patronage, packaged with a whiff of sexual intrigue.
After an audience member asked about her ties to Mr. Brown, she rose from her seat at the front of the sanctuary as her two opponents, Bill Fazio and Terence Hallinan, looked on.
Ms. Harris walked behind Mr. Fazio, asking if the audience remembered how Mr. Hallinan had attacked him for being caught in a massage parlor in a 1998 raid. She walked behind Mr. Hallinan, asking if the audience remembered how Mr. Fazio had attacked him for being a “deadbeat dad” who failed to pay child support.
As faint gasps echoed across the room, Ms. Harris wrapped her punch in a gauzy pledge. Unlike her opponents, she promised that she would run a campaign based on the issues, not on negative attacks.
The crowd jumped to its feet in a standing ovation, recounted Jim Stearns, a political consultant who had helped Ms. Harris in the race.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Joe Biden admitted that the Harris-Biden administration lied to you when they called it the Inflation Reduction Act in order to pass the Green New Deal. Kamala was the tie-breaking vote to get that bill passed, and then inflation shot through the roof.A flustered and defensive Harris will revert to word salad answers. She might even start interrupting Trump and he can tell her that he's speaking!Now she's running a campaign of forgetting about the past because she's responsible for it and what they did to you. She lied about passing the Green New Deal, she lied about Biden's health, she lied about her flip-flopping positions, and she's going to lie to you tonight just to get elected. And her running-mate Tim Walz lied about his entire adult life!
Don't fall for it. Hold her accountable for her past words and actions.
-PJ
SURE-—& I Am QUALIFIED TO BE THE CAPTAIN OF A CRUISE SHIP-—HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE N NEVADA HIGH DESERT OF SAND & SAGE.
“The attack on her was obvious: political patronage, packaged with a whiff of sexual intrigue.”
Anyway, how did she do in her ‘Presidential debate’ in 2020? Did she display razor-sharp debate skills in that one?
SHE DOES KNOW HOW To “SPREAD”.
WILLIE BROWN HAS NEVER HAD SO MUCH PUBLICITY.
I WONDER HOW MRS. WILLIE BROWN FEELS ABOUT ALL OF THIS???
I'm surprised Lisa Lerer was able to put that all together herself. I had to double-check the byline to make sure she didn't have 3 other reporters helping her.
I guess the Times did not get the DNC memo for their allied media. The media game plan memo is to lower expectations for the debate, not raise them.
Unburdened by what is true the NY Times continues to publish stories about Kamala.
She couldn’t take Tulsi Gabbard’s attack on her record, and she didn’t even dig deep enough to get into how she did nothing for the victims of clerical abuse of young parishioners.
“Razor sharp”? More like child safety-scissor dull.
Where’s the barf alert lol
She’s great at the ghetto, gotcha style with a mic drop.
But when forced to address the issues at a podium, without notes when only she can speak...she’s a disaster of a wreck.
Trump will go hard on the issues and expose this commie internationalist for who she really is.
Just means she was always spoiled and now thinks she can make any attack she feels like at any time. “What a strong woman. What a leader.”
But the media has warned Trump (and JD) not to say anything
harsh against the shrinking violet woman Kamala who needs protection because she is just a woman and he’s a mean toxic sexist bully.
Can’t have it both ways. But since 1972 or so the feminist movement has tried it.
“This behavior is not normal. OR she’s just drunk again😂
https://x.com/DogRightGirl/status/1832186914562056307
“Kamala Harris’s razor-sharp debate skills…”
I laughed so hard that I may lose a kidney.
Feminists are some of the most vile people on earth. They are calloused and confused at the same time, from repressing their natural behavior and biology along with knowing that they have missed out on something fundamental.
He can afford to ignore her because there is so much material he can pummel the hapless Harris with. She’s flip-flopped on so many issues that all Trump needs to do is sit back and watch Harris be reduced to a mumbling pile of word salad with each question posed to her.
AMEN!
I thought the first was a joke but it wasn’t. Thanks for the video.
I saw glimmers of Winston Churchill and Ralph Waldo Emerson in her off the cuff brilliance. Hope that shows through in the debate. But will be all memorized campaign lines, if she can remember them. Like “price gauging.”
Would Trump pull it off to ask her for a clarification of the lid comments?
I know, I know.
But remember... “Americans” made Kimmie K and her fat butt a billionaire.
Whem Kameltoe says “Mr. President, I’m Speaking”
Trump should say “bitch, please.... don’t make me come over there”
And Kamel says “oh no you dinnnuhhh!”
Then it could just be a fight.
“Americans” would understand that and choose a candidate easily.
It was nothing but Willie’s “ascent” that powered her “political ascent.”
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