Some Day Before the Debate Tips
Or, How Harris Can Start Putting the Pressure Back on Trump
Here we are. A little less than 24 hours to “the big night.”
Time is short, so let me cut to the chase. My brother has already posted some great pre-debate advice for the Harris team. To what he said, let me add this:
VP Harris should take the opportunity to thank both Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney for their endorsements of her in this race. Put simply, if even Dick Cheney has joined the Democratic conga line, then something is seriously wrong with the Republican Party today.
VP Harris should take the opportunity to comment on Trump’s extensive ties to Project 2025. Will he deny that he wants to Project 2025 the country? Sure.
But then, if you’re Harris, you say this:
You support putting the Justice Department under your direct control. Project 2025 also supports putting the Justice Department under your direct control.”
You support letting the Justice Department go after election officials who dare to make decisions you disagree with. Project 2025 also supports letting the Justice Department go after election officials who dare to make decisions you disagree with.
You support going after career prosecutors and law enforcement who don’t share your political views. Project 2025 also supports going after career prosecutors and law enforcement who don’t share your views.
By the way, Donald, you also did a TIME Magazine interview where you said you would let states make the decision of prosecuting pregnant women who defied an abortion ban. Guess who else supports that? You guessed it, Project 2025.
Is all this a coincidence, Donald? Because it sounds like a conspiracy to me. And if opposing that dangerous agenda makes me a “radical,” then I guess the “radicals” across this country are going to give you a whooping at the ballot box.
It’s simple, and it reminds voters of Trump’s Project 2025 connections and his attacks on democracy and on American stability. Win-win. Plus it might give Trump an opportunity to upset his evangelical fan base once again.
Is VP Harris a flip-flopper?
There’s a very easy way to answer this. Courtesy again of The Political Pulse of America:
No, no, no. Like I have said many times, my values have not changed. I have always been for taking on big banks, fighting for workers’ rights, for marriage rights, for reproductive rights, and for gun safety legislation.
Here, she should add an important caveat:
What has changed me are the lessons I have learned from my experience as Vice-President for 3 years. Unlike Donald Trump, I know that you need to be open to listen to others, and reconsider your views. And when you look at the world as the second-in-command, it forces you to change your perspective on things. Unless, again, you’re Donald Trump.
Time to put that flip-flopping nonsense to rest. As I have said before—and will say now—this is not 2016.
What about immigration? Yes, yes, we’ve all heard about the border bill Trump killed to protect his political future. We’ve also heard a lot about Biden’s executive orders. But what about another signature Harris-Biden accomplishment? That is, capturing the notorious Mexican drug trafficker Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. Harris should tell the American people what happened, and assure them that more of this will happen under a future Harris Administration.
Now, onto some less substantive points. First, when possible, I hope VP Harris will refer to Donald Trump as just “Donald.” Especially if he interrupts anything like he did in 2020. If he tries to heckle with the mic muted, Harris should just keep saying his name until he stops. Voters have the right to know about Trump’s childish antics while they are going on. It lost him the election in 2020, and it can do so again in 2024.
Also, Donald, it’s COMMA-la, not Ka-MAL-la.
Finally, as VP Harris herself should say, Donald Trump’s act has gotten stale. For 4 years now, he has kept to the same script. The 2020 election was stolen, Mike Pence should have been hung, the J6 insurrectionists will be pardoned, and whatever garbled nonsense he said about the child tax credit. But what does that have to do with your grocery bills? Or your housing costs? Or your childcare costs? Or your children’s futures?
And what have Republicans in general done to help working people, except kill the Biden-Harris child tax credit which lifted 40% of kids out of child poverty?
Donald Trump is the candidate of the past. Harris is the candidate of the future.