2024 Election: HARRIS &WALZ road show

Kamala at oval office, by Flux1-dev AI

"It’s time for us to do what we have been been doing.  And that time is every day." 

Kamala  Harris (1964-)

When Kamala Harris, a so-so VP got bumped up to pres. candidate she chose Tim Walz, gov. of Minn. for VP.  The most progressive, probably the least known of the candidates.  Rousing rally crowds seem to go for their message. Her poll numbers are up.  And in a recent Financial Times poll she jumped ahead of Trump managing the economy.

It’s no secret that big-wig Dems were pissed when Biden crowned Harris. Terrific candidates were in the wings ready to jump in. Josh Shapiro, gov. Pa., Gretchen Whitener, gov. Mich., Andy Beshear, gov. KY.  But when Harris was a fait accompli, they quickly organised the Harris/ Walz road show: a happy-go-lucky tour of battleground states with Beyonce music.

Poor Trump. The last couple of weeks has left him limp: the maladroit choice of J.D. Vance for VP, shot at a rally, Biden dumped. A lot for an old guy, past his sell-by date. If the stakes weren’t so high, US Election 2024 would be the most ’must watch’ soap opera of the year.

Sources: New York Times, Economist, Financial Times

Next week: TIK TOK TRENDS shoot the MOON

“There’s no company and no country in the world – no country in the world has ever ripped off the United States like the incredible job that they did on this country and the people that ran it.”

"Covfefe"

Donald Trump (1946-)

 

Note: I think Harris has done a fine job as VP of Biden, on the perhaps most effective Democrat presidency in modern history. Yes, despite considerable differences of opinion in some issues, and his age, I do think Biden has been a good president. Appearances are irrelevant, policies matter.

I also do think Harris will make a good president, and Walz will do fine as VP. When it comes to coherence and substance, she is on a completely different planet from her opponent. She may have made a gaffe or two, that's only human. Trump (and Vance) make more of them in the first minute of any given speech than she has done in her whole career. We've just grown numb for it.

As far as the VP nominations go, I'm happy she chose a somewhat progressive candidate instead of a lukewarm centrist. Despite "progressive" being often used as an insult, the actual progressive policy ideas are widely liked, even among ground-level republicans (as long as you do not call them progressive).

CU
--
Eki

PS: Choosing that Kamala quote doesn't do much else than show how easy it is to become an useful idiot, an echo chamber for hollow right-wing talking points. Oh well ;-)