Kamala Harris is a more formidable opponent for Trump

The Spectator ^ | 07/21/2024 | Jacob Heilbrunn

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On Sunday Joe Biden bowed to the inevitable in withdrawing from the presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. Only now has the presidential race become interesting as the fifty-nine-year-old Harris, more than likely to receive the Democratic nomination, prepares to face off against Donald Trump. Suddenly the Republican candidate has become the old codger in the race while the Democratic one represents generational change. Trump, you could even say, has become yesterday’s news. 

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1815087772216303933

"My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this."

- Joe Biden @JoeBiden 2:13 PM · Jul 21, 2024

This is why Republicans would be wise not to underestimate Harris, a former federal prosecutor and California senator whose early years…

On Sunday Joe Biden bowed to the inevitable in withdrawing from the presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. Only now has the presidential race become interesting as the fifty-nine-year-old Harris, more than likely to receive the Democratic nomination, prepares to face off against Donald Trump. Suddenly the Republican candidate has become the old codger in the race while the Democratic one represents generational change. Trump, you could even say, has become yesterday’s news. 

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best… pic.twitter.com/x8DnvuImJV

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 21, 2024

This is why Republicans would be wise not to underestimate Harris, a former federal prosecutor and California senator whose early years as vice president were marked, among other things, by public scrutiny of her staff shake-ups. But that scrutiny appears to have toughened her up. Her public speaking skills, if her recent appearances are anything to go by, seem to have markedly improved. She will slash away at Trump on abortion — her pinned tweet states “More than 1 in 3 women of reproductive age live in a state with a Trump Abortion Ban — many with no exceptions for rape or incest” — and regularly invokes the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 as a direct menace to American democracy. The coming contest will demonstrate whether Harris truly grasps the adage that the best defense is a good offense.  

On Saturday, at a Provincetown, Massachusetts, fundraiser, Harris brought in double what was anticipated  — $2 million — and riled up the crowd with her declaration, “Those who oppose progress will always try to suggest that a movement for freedom is somehow subversive and it undermines who we are as a nation.” Trump will attack her record as Biden’s “border czar” but she can point to record lows in crossing the past few months. Her poll numbers, however, are nothing to brag about. FiveThirtyEight has Harris at a net approval rating of 38.6 percent. Then again Trump comes in not much better at 41.7 percent. In the battleground swing states, she doesn’t appear to poll that much better than Biden. 

Indeed, there was a funereal feel to the entire Biden campaign over the past week, especially after he announced that he had been stricken with Covid and would need to go into isolation. Immured in his Delaware vacation home, where he has been recuperating from a bout with Covid, Biden was unable to deliver the news of his withdrawal from the presidential race in person. Instead, he issued a written statement. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president,” he wrote. “And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party, and my country for me to stand down and to focus solely on my duties as president for the rest of my term.”  

Just how will he focus solely on his duties? J.D. Vance, Trump’s running mate, has already declared on X that it’s hypocritical for Biden not to run and remain the commander-in-chief. William Ruger, who was nominated to become Trump’s ambassador to Afghanistan, observes that Biden is now the lamest of lame ducks. “He’s cast in the role of Franklin Pierce. Abandoned by his party, he’s not considered competent enough for the campaign let alone the job of president. Let’s hope that nothing significant happens internationally or economically on the rest of his watch.” 

The immediate author of Biden’s exit was former House speaker Nancy Pelosi who maneuvered from behind the scenes to shiv him by rallying legislators on Capitol Hill to call for his withdrawal. But the pebble that led to the avalanche was first thrown by Trump. It was Trump who, in a sense, overperformed during the presidential debate with Biden. No line was more telling than Trump’s observation, “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.”  

With the Democrats boldly disposing of Biden, they will now enjoy the glare of the spotlight. The media will be fixated with a new cast of characters. How will Harris capture the nomination? Whom does she pick for her vice president? Who will serve as her campaign manager? Can Harris make the case that Biden policies are responsible for low interest rates and record low unemployment, while exciting the minority and female voters that Trump was hoping to woo?  

Poor Trump. He will pout and fume and rage and expostulate. But his salad days are over. With Biden gone, he’s going to have to fight for the presidency rather than glide to victory.

[Missouri gal]

cackle-cackle

[DoughtyOne]

Yes if you’re a six month old jackass.

[MoochPooch]

Kamala, no less Biden, represents our current cultural miasma, which is comprised of feminists, Alphabet people, and DEI types (not all minorities, many of whom are conservative).

[toddausauras]

“With Biden gone, he’s going to have to fight for the presidency rather than glide to victory.”

Yeah, cause getting shot and almost killed, then holding a successful convention days later and continuing on with rallies in your late 70’s is just a breeze!

[Jamestown1630]

That’s all the substance I expect to hear, if it ever gets to a debate between them.

[kiryandil]

Spit on that thang, Kamala!

[frank ballenger]

One point I saw mentioned is Americans like to look at a shiny new toy and will be fascinated by the new candidate Harris. For a while.

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They always wanted someone who wasn’t Trump or Biden.

Our side has a lot of intense work to do. The media will glorify Harris night and day as I’ve been saying since last year.

Soon: How can you question Harris like that? Are you a white racist sexist?

[Scrambler Bob]

Kamala Harris is a more formidable opponent for Trump
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She is going to claim Trump raped her.

She dosn’t know when or where, it was so tramatic.

With Trump’s past women charges, this is just more of his same vile activity.

More formidable because Joe could not make such claims (but he would if the teleprompter said so).

[rightwingcrazy]

“But his salad days are over”

No worries. I think a whole salad bar of word salad awaits. All you can eat, and more.

[rightwingcrazy]

“But his salad days are over”

No worries. I think a whole salad bar of word salad awaits. All you can eat, and more.

[j.havenfarm]

“Those who oppose progress will always try to suggest that a movement for freedom is somehow subversive and it undermines who we are as a nation.”

Yeah, she’s sharpened up her public speaking, alright

[MNJohnnie]

Whistling past the grave yard. Dems need to cut their losses and start over with someone not tied at the hip to Biden’s political corpse.

Harris is Biden 2.0. On 538 she has the same negative likeability rating as Biden

The no doubt that polls are being manufactured at Fox and CNN and the Washington post right now to push the “horse race” narrative but it is all wishful thinking.

Here are 3 negatives she is all ready showing in previous polling.

Here is, as was all ready showing in the polling, 3 negatives

1. She is tied at the hip with the total failure of the Biden Administration. She the flip side of the same corrupt incompetent coin

2. She is easily the most unlikeable candidate. Her speech patterns, mannerisms, behaviors are very grating on non partisan audiences

2. As someone who has watched Biden for the last 40 years, he has always had this weird connectivity with blue collar Dem voters. Harris has none of that connectivity.

[bunkerhill7]

Vacuum-Head fills Vacuum

[cowboyusa]

We got Trump now number 1 Million

[scouter]

This assumes that Harris gets the nomination. It will be interesting to see how the party elite convince the party faithful that even though they stole the nomination from Biden and from them, that they’re not going to steal it from the delegates. One way they could do it (but they’re too stupid and/or power hungry to do it) would be to take the vote away from the 700+ super delegates that are comprised of the party elite.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It is looking like so many people demand the right to abortion that they are going to vote for whoever allows that and take all of the evil with it. It is all so sad. Sex/pleasure without responsibility. God is going to step in at some point, but few believe it.

[Aria]

So they’re pinning their hope on irresponsible women wanting to kill their babies.

the devil at work.

[Desron13]

"Kamala Harris is a more formidable opponent for Trump..."

And then they woke up.

[cowboyusa]

It’s already on T- Shirts and Tik Tok.