Donald: Do the Debate
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Friday, August 9, 2024 5:11 PM
Article that appeared in a local newspaper yesterday before news broke that Trump will do a series of debates with harris.
Some excellent advice on what Trump should do but will he and his team come close to doing any of it?
https://www.morningjournal.com/2024/08/0…
Some excellent advice on what Trump should do but will he and his team come close to doing any of it?
https://www.morningjournal.com/2024/08/0…
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In the last 3 weeks, she's given the press exactly 77 seconds of time to question her. Asked when she'll be giving a real interview, she said she "hopes" her team will get something set up by the end of August.
Try that or copy and paste the article title in Bing and do a search that way. That's another way I sometimes get around a pay wall.
It's only bad strategy for someone who's got plenty to hide and/or intentionally wants to remain vague about which side of important issues they're on.
Correct!
"On DAY ONE my top priority will be to attack inflation and brink down prices!"
Really? Well what the fuck have you been doing for the last 3-1/2 years? And now you're gonna wait ANOTHER SIX MONTHS before you do anything?
And then we shall see.
No, he wasn't essentially in a 50/50 race. He had lapped the field and all the "you don't have the guts!" taunting didn't bait him.
Harris isn't even ahead in the EV count. She's ahead by a cunt hair in betting odds. She's also taking flack for avoiding the press, and her VP choice is facing fire. Oh, and she's got a convention ahead that is going to be heavily protested. She's going to have to show she can bridge the gap between center-left and far-lefy.
They're both in a place where it's extremely important for both to perform well in the debates. But they both make bizarre comments which don't help them.
Kamala is a prosecutor and has been in politics for a while, so it would seem that she could do well. However, she could act goofy, cackle (as previously noted here), or come across as the "wrong" kind of woman, a trap that is easier for her gender to fall into than Trump's. Dumb as it is, female debaters have to really watch themselves not to come across bitchy, shrill, angry, etc. etc.
I think it's her debate to lose at this point. She's got the age, experience, and talking points to win. She could seriously fuck it up though. I think she *has* to do it or risk looking less credible and slowing down her current roll.
A veep debate would also be interesting. Kind of a "who can out corn pone" the other guy contest.
President Trump has some great coaches behind him as well. The problem is nobody can really tell Trump what to do.
Opinion
Cal Thomas: Donald: Do the debate
There is no downside for Donald Trump debating Vice President Kamala Harris next month on ABC News. Trump made the right decision to show up at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago last week (Harris didn’t appear, due to a scheduling conflict), though he squandered an opportunity to win over not just those in the audience but a wider spectrum of especially young Blacks when he questioned Harris’ race.
Harris says she will appear on ABC on Sept. 10, but Trump says his previous agreement was with President Biden and because Biden has withdrawn from the race that deal is void. If Trump doesn’t show, he gives Harris 90 minutes of free air time. Given her inability to speak clearly without a teleprompter that might be his strategy. Americans deserve better.
This should be less about their personalities and more about the country and our future. It’s not about race or gender, or felonies, or the moral failings of candidates or those of their spouses. It’s about America and who is best positioned to lead the country back to economic prosperity, military strength and global respectability, especially amongst our enemies.
As an experienced debater, let me offer Trump some advice (if he is up to taking advice, which he usually isn’t).
Be positive. Use humor where indicated. Make Harris defend her and Biden’s dismal record. Note how she has changed her position on every important issue, save abortion and “climate change.” How can Americans trust someone who has no firm convictions? OK, Trump is vulnerable on this, too, but at least he has offered explanations for why he flipped, especially on abortion. What’s hers on fracking and guns, for example?
As you did in your debate with Biden, let Harris talk. Without a teleprompter she is as lost as someone in a strange city without GPS. The more her verbal and intellectual lapses are exposed, the better for Trump.
Challenge her for lying about Biden’s mental state. Demand to know if she knew about it all along and covered it up, along with other Democrats.
Demand that ABC and the rest of the media expose the real Harris instead of collaborating in her phony transformation. Recall last month her polling numbers were terrible and stories appeared of staff leaving because of her alleged ill-treatment of them.
Wall Street Journal columnist Gerard Baker has asked the right question: “Can the Democrats and a collaborative media pull off their recasting of Vice President Kamala Harris from the verbally maladroit, politically inept, ruinous-policy-espousing electoral dud we have all seen over the past five years into the holy trinity of Joan of Arc, Harriet Tubman and Margaret Thatcher we have been presented with in the past two weeks?”
Stick with the failed policies of the Biden-Harris administration and note how they have not lived up to their promises. Remind viewers (though they don’t really need reminding) of the cost of bread, eggs, milk, mortgage rates, and gasoline four years ago and what they are now. Promise to bring them down again by reducing federal debt and eliminating unnecessary government.
Quote Barack Obama that this isn’t a Black or White America, but the United States of America. Note that Bill Clinton balanced the federal budget. but his party has been taken over by an extremist (Harris) who is judged to be to the left of Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
Trump can’t win the debate if he doesn’t show up. Be gracious. Shake her hand. Tell Americans what you will do for America and remind voters what she (and Biden) have done to America.
You can thank me later.
Yeah, I'm a conservative but I'm still not buying Harris' reinvention or guaranteed debate win. After facing certain doom with Biden, they're overjoyed to have a ray of hope (and pat themselves on the back for nominating a black woman). She still says word salads off script, she still has a left-of-left track record including being for reparations, banning guns, abolishing private health insurance, decriminalizing border crossing, defunding the police, and has to both assure moderates that she's moved on from those (amazing how that always happens in election years) and the left that she hasn't moved on too far from those. Even progressive friends (yes, I have them) admit they are willing to stay home and sulk.
Harris' "reinvention" is such a contrived act that I can smell the consultants' and donors' hair gel all over it. No one develops the 'riz overnight. From trying to meme the word "weird" (yeah, your VP is promoting slicing off boys' dicks and shooting up girls with T) to the more recent "joy" (have you talked to any progressives lately?) which comes off the lips of every talking head in unison, it drips "marketing campaign."
They're trying to convince themselves she's Barack Obama with tits, but Obama was rare political talent from the start. She's going to have to face hostile audiences and the end of her honeymoon. It doesn't get easier from here.
Yeah, a lot could happen. It always can, an economic or foreign crisis, another debate stumble (Harris comes off tone deaf and Trump himself is past his mental prime), a major piece of oppo research landing a body blow (more likely against Harris, Trump's dirty laundry is out there).
But I find myself telling partisans on both sides to calm their fucking tits.
Harris' Crew's political tactics are working...for now. She needs to do real live interviews on a variety of media outlets.
The Biden Basement tactic worked in 2020 along with ad hoc changing the voting rules like "Rollerball 1975" using COVID-19 as leverage. Debating or live interviews before the DNC Soiree or right after would blow-up any bump she'd have. I'd bet this will not be as well received as the RNC's, of the MS will just genuflect on their knees and have wet dreams no matter how good or bad.
IMO, Trump just need to stay on policies he did, including the SC Decision to send Roe to the States, and detail how he'll do his next 4 years, and what she did (or didn't)/supported. Forget the personal stuff. Vance needs to do same to Walz; Walz is locked-in as the Ohio Ballot had to be set a few days ago.
"Bottom line is, any simpleton that considers this shithead DONALD to be presidential material is gonna vote for HIM, regardless of whether HE debates or not, or if HE does and falls flat on HIS face. At this point, if you don't realize that HE'S a rotten piece of garbage, there's no hope for you."
Nikki Haley > Kristy Noem > Tulsi Gabbard
See how we're closer than we think we are? Quick little changes, and we're feeling the same way!
Your wife was up next, but she's all bent outta' shape, target too big.