President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will share the stage on Tuesday in Virginia as they campaign for abortion rights, a top issue for Democrats in an election expected to feature a rematch with Donald Trump, the former Republican president.
Biden and Harris will be joined by their spouses, first lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff. It’s the first time the four of them have appeared together since the campaign began, a reflection of the importance that Democrats are putting on abortion this year.
Harris was in Wisconsin in Monday to mark the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. The decision was overturned two years ago, and Trump helped pave the way by nominating three conservative justices to the court during his term. He recently said he was “proud” of his role.
It’s not just to focus on abortion, I think the campaign needs to be pushing Harris out there and making her visible. It looks likely that this election will be between two men on the thin side of the life expectancy curve. We should all be evaluating both candidates based on what will happen in the likely event that whoever wins is forced to leave their term early for medical reasons.
Trump is unlikely to name anyone as his VP who will not be 100% loyal to him. Which, let’s face it, leaves out thr most experienced candidates. He will end up picking a toady like Stefanik (or perhaps even Tucker Carlson if those rumors are true). Harris has a chance to start differentiating herself right now, and proving to people that she’s the insurance policy that can allow people to vote for someone who may not serve out his full term.
The problem is that Harris is kind of an awkward public speaker. It’s kind of a shame that this is a critical aspect of politics because it excludes a huge number of otherwise great leaders.
Sure you want her visible? She makes Sarah Palin’s word salads seem intelligent.
I don’t think Harris and Palin are at all similar. I would describe Harris as uninspiring, perhaps, but not unintelligent.
Have you listened to her talk?
Yeah. And she’s more intelligent than you seem to be.
Take your pick Liberals lost their fucking mind at covefe, but mindless word salads from a cop and incoherent ramblings from a senile old man is perfectly ok
Oh look another right winger pretending to be a leftist on Lemmy.
Oh look another Democrat that thinks They are on the left, they’re to the right of Reagan
Sorry, but I don’t consider Megyn Kelly’s Facebook page a reliable source.
Pick one of the hundreds of other examples in the link, unless you prefer ignorance
Sure:
Don’t you see that the top sources that describe Harris as “Word Salad” have their own biases?
Ooh, here’s a good one out of that list, but it doesn’t say what you think it says:
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-kamala-harris-video-altered-today-quote-234791603419
I hate that this is a reality, but I’ve got to agree with you. Against all odds Joe Biden has proven to be a remarkably effective president under extremely challenging circumstances, and I love the idea of getting four more years of him. Especially with a real majority in Congress, we could at least see the lowest hanging fruit of mainstream Democratic priorities in the next four years. [And progressives who don’t think that’s good enough may well lose the Republic for their impatience.]
But the truth is Trump and Biden are both more likely than not to die within the next four years. Biden is only three years older than Trump, but Trump is easily three years or more less healthy than Biden. That said, the actuarial tables paint grim pictures for both of them, and that means that voters need to be paying especially close attention to their VP nominees. To the extent Biden-Harris can make Kamala an extension of Joe Biden’s campaign priorities, it’s a necessity.
To be frank, I can’t help but think it’s a little unfortunate that Harris is so essential to the ticket, because she has always had a likability problem, and she has some undiscountable baggage. On the other side, conventional wisdom says Haley is the VP pick, but notwithstanding the general oh-for-fuck-sake unpredictability of Trump, a Haley-Harris matchup is moderately scary, but not nearly as threatening as alternatives. If I were advising Trump’s campaign, I can’t say I’d be a fan of either Stefanik or Carlson, the former because she adds nothing to the campaign and the latter because Trump doesn’t want to be upstaged. When I’ve asked local Republicans who are well-informed, Kristi Noem continues to be mentioned, and I have to admit that as a Democrat, the Noem-Harris matchup is scary. Biden-Harris absolutely needs the VP to be out front, and frankly, if they could manufacture a tie vote in the Senate somehow to get some new footage of her doing the one thing the Constitution actually requires of her (other than outliving the president), they should.
Trump is neither conventional, nor wise. Trump is looking for someone who, when his followers chant “Hang $NAME”, that person will build their own gallows and get the rope ready. Haley is too smart for that, but Stefanik is the right kind of dumb to be Trump’s VP.