There are very good reasons to be wary of Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee. She has been uninvolved, or only minimally involved, in the various international crises that Joe Biden has had to manage during his term.
We see little impact from the work done on the immigration file that her president entrusted to her in 2021. She has chosen to limit her interviews with journalists to almost nothing, which has not prepared her for the barrage of questions and scrutiny that accompanies a presidential campaign.
She is quick to attack when challenged on a evasive comment she makes, and she makes them often. Finally, his campaign for the Democratic nomination in 2019 was disastrous, and his rise to the vice presidency was marked, at least for the first two years, by constant tensions within his entourage.
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Kamala Harris, however, remains a bright ray of sunshine in this presidential race. Instead of marching to the slaughterhouse, submissive and frustrated, Democratic voters were able to breathe a sigh of relief when Joe Biden finally made way, and polls show that Democratic enthusiasm has not waned since.
While analysts agree that victory will come not from voters who switched sides but from those who, in one camp or another, were persuaded to go to the polls, Kamala Harris, without even impressing Democratic voters, gave him another reason to shake himself. And now, Republican enthusiasm is running out of steam.
Trump gets angry and doesn't help at all
Donald Trump's team has yet to find a way to break the momentum that has held Kamala Harris since she secured the support of enough Democratic delegates to represent the party in the battle for the White House.
The Republican nominee, clearly upset at seeing the vice president steal the spotlight from her during the press conference, has decided to increase the number of public appearances, which is also a way of reminding us that she has not held press conferences since her coronation.
In one week, he spoke for more than an hour at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, answering questions; spoke live with Elon Musk, the head of social networking site X, for more than two hours; gave an hour-and-a-quarter speech in Asheville, North Carolina, on Wednesday; and finally, he attended what was billed as a second press conference on Thursday, this time at his golf club in East Bedminster, New Jersey.
Basically, rotation.
The bottom line: Donald Trump has nothing new to say. He remains unable to commit to a clear, coherent message. His remarks in New Jersey on Thursday focused on what he sees as the sorry state of the American economy. He also lost his way in his distaste for wind turbines (“bird killers”), the weight of electric cars, and the front-page designer of a magazine. time.
His endless, meandering speeches are marked by his obsession with the size of his crowds, his grief over Joe Biden’s loss as a challenger, his claims that he was denied the 2020 presidential election, add to all this the insults directed at his rival—“I don’t respect her intelligence very much”—and you find little excitement and a lot of resentment in what he says.
No attention-grabbing stunts, no big speeches, no inspirational ideas: Kamala Harris doesn’t have to stand out. She just has to let Trump be Trump.
