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I have a feeling Kamala Harris will defeat Donald Trump.
She knows how to come across on video. She looks like she'd be amusing to have a drink with. She has a wonderful, exuberant laugh and is good looking. She is another generation from Mr Biden and Mr Trump.
I imagine young women will often love here.
She is not fresh but seems it.
She gives no signs of being intelligent. She must be more so than President Biden but she lacks his animal cunning.
She was a prosecutor, not a human rights lawyer, which is to her credit.
She comes of bad parents who, having had the good luck to be allowed to immigrate to the USA and be made American citizens, were nevertheless left-wing activists, protesting against the country which admitted them.
Her father was a Marxist academic, exactly the sot of immigrant who should not have been allowed into the country.
She has been a terrible failure as border czar, has horrible opinions on most things, but after presidents like George W Bush and old man Biden who can say she is not able to do the job?
She is in hock to big business and billionaires, but that is true of almost all US politicians, including J D Vance. (I wonder where the $80 million in donations to the Harris campaign came from - is some of it from foreign governments?)
On the other hand, I might be wrong. It seems Presidents Obama and Biden think she can't debate and can't win.
(Oh dear. After watching this I see she is indeed an idiot. And has a voice that is unbearable. Still, Reagan was an idiot savant.)
What a strange system the Americans have which throws up such odd presidents.
In some ways it's very corrupt and undemocratic. America is bought by billionaires and foreign governments. Its media are shameless propaganda. In some ways (good and bad) it's very much more democratic than anywhere in Europe. Someone like Mr Trump, who says what people think, could not have entered politics and within months won power in Europe.
“Among those who follow politics closely and are highly online for political content, views of Ms Harris hardened long ago. But to those of relaxed engagement, especially the young, she will be a new figure. They’ll be seeing her for the first time. They’ll be open to what they see.” Peggy Noonan, Reagan's speechwriter
ReplyDelete" Kamala Harris is on an upward trajectory now, but not necessarily for long. She appears to most observers to be something less than an ideal candidate. Indeed, that is one of the reasons why Biden held on for so long.
ReplyDelete"But politics is an odd business. This year in America, perhaps the oddest business ever. For Donald Trump these are nervous times — and once again a woman is the cause of his discomfort. And perhaps a stronger one than he is willing to admit even to himself. Stormy Daniels was, after all, only a witness; Kamala Harris is a prosecutor."
Justin Webb, Sunday Times today