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It’s unattainable to know simply how tonight’s debate will go, however polling suggests the strain is on Kamala Harris.
Nearly everybody on the planet is aware of what they consider Donald Trump, love him or detest him. However the vp, who has granted precisely one interview (talking for 16 minutes) and customarily avoids the press, hasn’t debated in 4 years.
In a New York Instances/Siena School survey, 28% stated they wanted to know extra about Kamala; solely 9% felt that means about Trump. (Who’re these 9%??)
Some warning indicators: Greater than 60% of possible voters need a main change from Joe Biden, however simply 25% stated Kamala represented that change, whereas 53% stated Trump did. Not an important sign up what is clearly a change election.
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The upcoming debate between Harris and Trump will function muted mics and no pre-written notes. (Getty Photos)
What’s extra, whereas roughly a 3rd of Trump voters say he’s too far to the proper, practically half say the VP is simply too far to the left.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to determine that Trump will attempt to dangle the Biden file round his opponent’s neck – a difficult scenario since any veep isn’t in cost. And Kamala will use her prosecutorial expertise not simply to debate her opponent however to quote low moments from his 4 years in workplace – I’d wager Jan. 6 will come up – in addition to pushing her prime subject, abortion, the place Trump has been softening his stance in a complicated method.
Total, the Instances discovered Trump main Harris 48 to 47% nationally, rapidly noting that’s throughout the 3-point margin of error. And the typical of battleground state polls additionally reveals 1- or 2-point leads for both candidate, which is a digital tie (so the pundits must cease saying Trump or Harris is “main” on this or that state, after they know higher).
It seems that Kamala had no second act. Or that she was driving so excessive that she received nearly no bump from the Democratic conference. In spite of everything, the VP had a stable month of probably the most gushing protection I’ve ever seen for her joy-filled and vibes-based marketing campaign. Properly, perhaps Obama in 2008, however even he drew some criticism.
Was it a sugar excessive? Possibly. However the scenario has her supporters fairly nervous. But all this shall be forgotten if she does nicely within the ABC debate, with Trump working the refs by calling it the “meanest” community.
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Right here is one sport that each side are taking part in. Since each have flip-flopped as they transfer towards the center, they’re taking previous or outdated positions and pretending they’re present stances.
This can be a specific drawback for Kamala, since she has walked away from her left-wing rhetoric of 2019, when she didn’t make it to Iowa. She stated she was in opposition to fracking, for decriminalizing the border and for abolishing personal medical insurance.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Detroit, Michigan, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
And for probably the most half, she has finished this with out rationalization, aside from having nameless aides say, oh, she doesn’t consider that anymore.
That has enabled Trump to say that regardless of her reversal, she is going to ban fracking, an enormous subject in Pennsylvania, in any case.
That is the place doing extra interviews may need helped her, and I hope she’ll do extra after the talk.
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On the opposite facet, with Trump opposing Florida’s six-week abortion ban, endorsing free IVF remedies and vowing to not signal a nationwide abortion ban, Harris insists he’ll signal such a ban – and noting that he bragged about his three justices overturning Roe. This, in flip, has sparked a backlash amongst some pro-life teams.
Corey Lewandowski informed me on “Media Buzz” that Harris is working on abortion as a result of it’s the one subject that favors Democrats, who he argued have the acute place by permitting the process by the ninth month.
Corey Lewandowski, former marketing campaign supervisor of former US President Donald Trump, through the Republican Nationwide Conference (RNC) on the Fiserv Discussion board in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
In comparable trend, Kamala insists that Trump will perform the Heritage plan Undertaking 2025, even if he has repeatedly disavowed it and referred to as elements of it abysmal.
For voters who don’t comply with the marketing campaign as incessantly as journalists and politicos, this will likely all appear reasonably complicated. However finally the talk, and the election, received’t activate coverage.
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Trump has a four-year time period within the White Home to reward or choose aside. Kamala has to make viewers on all of the networks that may simulcast the ABC debate comfy together with her each as a likable individual and a possible commander-in-chief.
My very own intestine feeling is that this would be the solely debate between the 2. If considered one of them begins agitating for extra debates afterward, that would be the candidate who looks like she or he wants a do-over.
Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX Information Channel’s MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET). Primarily based in Washington, D.C., he joined the community in July 2013 and often seems on Particular Report with Bret Baier and different packages.
