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Could Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump in November's presidential race?
By Nandita Bose, Jeff Mason and Bianca Flowers WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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bass4funk
Yes, hopefully after this election, they had their chance, the Dems can then re-think and regroup and figure out what they did wrong and fix their wicked ways and maybe run elections and focus what the people want and not to push a certain political warped agenda.
Busby
Fail #5....the corner is completely closed.
*The Supreme court ruled President's have immunity for OFFICIAL ACTS - so for the SIXTH time, *how is fraud committed in the private Trump Org to hide paying off a porn star an "official Presidential act"?
Trump has no immunity for his private business fraud...34 felony convictions means he's Rikers Island bound. Keep closing your eyes to reality if it helps you sleep better at night.
Toblerone
Why do MAGA and Trump's supporters worry about Biden/Harris if they are so convinced that Trump will win regardless of who his opponent is?
Who’s worried? I find the Biden/Harris Dem catastrophe quite entertaining, though I am saddened somewhat that the USA has come to this.
bass4funk
I would just let the Stormy and the Carroll thing alone, not going to happen.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-lawyers-lay-out-case-reversing-hush-money-conviction-2024-07-11/
bass4funk
Like I said, bring it on! The Dems have 4 months to try and make this happen. Time is running out for them. They are about to lose it all, so go for it.
Busby
ROFL...the failures just keep getting more obvious and the corner smaller.
The Supreme court ruled President's have immunity for OFFICIAL ACTS - so for the FOURTH time, how is fraud committed in the private Trump Org to hide paying off a porn star an "official Presidential act"?
bass4funk
Again, with the problems the Dems are having and they are having major serious problems, Trump should be their last thing on their mind. They’re about to lose the Presidency, the Senate and not get the House. Now I’m with you believe it or not, I want the Dems to focus on Trump as they have been doing. Please!! lol
Put every resource in and screw with what your own party thinks or what Clooney thinks. Not enough time in this year, but just try and see what sticks at this point.
Busby
Fail #3. The Supreme court ruled President's have immunity for OFFICIAL ACTS - so for the third time, how is fraud committed in the private Trump Org to hide paying off a porn star an "official Presidential act"?
bass4funk
Ok, to summarize everything you pray for the impossible to happen and think the States can override the Supreme Court, gotcha. Lol. No wonder the left continues to lose. Wish you guys all the best. Tick, tick, tick…
We don’t, really
Pretty much.
wallace
Why do MAGA and Trump's supporters worry about Biden/Harris if they are so convinced that Trump will win regardless of who his opponent is?
Busby
Big need.
Another obvious fail - how is fraud in your private company a Presidential official act?
Better calm down and study harder - he isn't immune for acts done as a private businessman.
bass4funk
No need
Ok, focus, so how will the libs override the highest court in the nation. I don’t need to hear your opinion, I just want to know how they will legally do this.
So a local state judge will override the Supreme Court? How? Not much time left. Better get a move on it.
Busby
Dream on.
Wrong. Immune only for Presidential acts - how is cooking the Trump Org books to hide Stormy's payoff "official"?
The usual way - by a judge. Better prepare yourself.
bass4funk
Never
Supreme Court presidential immunity powers.
So how, liberals will overpower the Supreme Court and override them. Seriously, relax. I want to see that. Lol
Busby
Jail.
Really? How?
Of course he is.
bass4funk
How?
That’s all null and voided now.
He’s not going to a cell.
Toblerone
George Clooney, now Michael Douglas. And more to come. Biden is dead in the water.
bass4funk
How?
Where were you two weeks ago? Didn’t hear the Supreme Court’s ruling, eh.
Not one single poll shows that, not one
quercetum
Little do you know. It's about the mass of people downstream. Biden is already out.
Busby
Trump is toast - he's on his way to a cell joining his buds Navarro and Bannon.
Biden, Harris, Newsom, Whitmer - even that "wonderful man" Hannibal Lector could beat Trump.
quercetum
Biden refers to Harris and says he "wouldn't have picked Vice-President Trump." Introduces Zelenskyy as President Putin....good laughs.
quercetum
Biden is under the bus now.
bass4funk
If that were true, Biden despite his cognitive decline would be ahead of Trump.
Like a nail-screw through the knee
ClippetyClop
Lol, I'll raise a glass of bleach to that.
He was an utter failure and completely out of his depth.
It was an entertaining 4 years though.
itsonlyrocknroll
"He who hesitates is lost"
To late, Joe Biden cannot simply be ejected from the nomination, such action would be unprecedented.
Joe Biden alleged age and cognitive health concerns were speculative however on record long before the "debate"
No party running to secure the US Presidency can attempt a game of musical chairs, the music stopped long ago.
itsonlyrocknroll
If the Democrat ticket is not to descend into complete chaos, only Joe Biden voluntary step down will suffice.
bass4funk
A lot of scholars are now singing a different tune.
Half of the country did and that won’t change.
Seem fine, as a matter of fact he offered Biden to take a cognitive test together but Biden refused? Why?
Well, Biden is about 30 times more mentally compromised. Going to bed at 4pm???
And the Dems are stuck with him
Toblerone
What kind of voter support did Kamala have when she dropped out of the 2020 presidential race?
I believe it was 3%. It was a surprise,to say the least, when ol Joe chose her as his running mate. I think the concensus was that he chose her to tick some boxes and because she was sure no threat to him in the brains department.
zibala
What kind of voter support did Kamala have when she dropped out of the 2020 presidential race?
Jimizo
Not according to the electorate. He was demolished in the election after one term ( no stolen election stuff please - most of us didn’t join the Tide Pod Challenge ).
Also, I was talking about Trump’s metal faculties now, not in the past.
He collapses into total gibberish, mixes up names and sometimes slurs completely incomprehensible sentences.
He’s a mess.
bass4funk
The longer Biden stays in this race, the Dems donor spigot is shut off. Celebs are bailing, when you loose George Clooney, you have serious problems, Dems on the down ballot as well as governors will loose their seats particularly the ones in vulnerable districts, this is a nightmare worst scenario for Democrats and you have to ask yourself, to loose everything and to panic, was it worth going after Trump?
Toblerone
Kamala has been cheating the US public for the last 4 years, brazenly lying about Biden’s dementia, enabling a travesty. A liar and a cheat.
Toblerone
Yes, she’s a bad candidate, but look who she’s running against.
Trump’s brain in mush. It wasn’t the best to start with. He’d be firing off social media salvos at Nikki Pelosi and insulting her face.
Get serious. Trump was a great president. The world - and the US - didn’t go to hell under his leadership, unlike the Biden/Harris debacle.
bass4funk
A better one
Half of the country disagrees.
Well, both of them are kinda bad….
dagon
Trump has abandoned his lie of economic populism and gone full blown corporatist.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-pandering-corporate-america/678976/
Jimizo
Yes, she’s a bad candidate, but look who she’s running against.
Trump’s brain in mush. It wasn’t the best to start with. He’d be firing off social media salvos at Nikki Pelosi and insulting her face.
bass4funk
He did, that’s why small businesses prospered under him and most people’s 401K
For the border and to build up our military and to get rid of woke leaders, he sure did.
Not really and not if you are a middle class worker
Jimizo
Sensible spending/fiscal conservatism is hardly what Trump offered either.
He said he’d get rid of the debt and went berserk with the credit card instead.
The walls would close in quickly on Trump trying to pretend he’s a fiscal conservative.
Toblerone
It is truly sad that someone as obviously out of her depth and incompetent as Kamala is being touted by the believers as a possible US president. She’s utterly hopeless.
bass4funk
We are indeed, which is why that conversation needs to be had, liberals running and not wanting to deal with it won’t change the facts or peoples minds.
The Dems will try, but now they’re eating their own, that’s more of a serious concern they should address, amusing though as it really is.
UK??
I seriously doubt she plays any sports.
V Campbell
The only person that could be worse than Harris would be Newsom, who destroyed San Francisco and who is in the process of destroying California. He quickly turned a multi-billion dollar surplus into a multi-billion dollar deficit. He could be worse than Harris. Both are from California. Hmm.
Jimizo
Maybe.
Then again, Biden was no Bill Clinton or Obama but he got enough out to vote to defeat Trump ( stolen election types - don’t bother. We are having a serious and adult conversation ).
Maybe more of a get Trump out rather than a ringing endorsement of Biden?
’Anything but…’ can be a powerful motivator. We saw that in the UK the other week.
Moonraker
Imagine the wailing from Trump if she were to beat him though. The insufferable big baby act would be in overdrive. It would be worth seeing.
bass4funk
Yup
When both Harris and Biden can get record crowd numbers I’ll pay attention. 100 people isn’t impressing anyone
”If” is right, IF….
Not Trump, the guy barely sleeps, Biden’s work schedule is usually from 11am to 4pm what’s that? And if that call comes in the middle of the night, we are screwed.
bass4funk
No, it has absolutely nothing to do with her race or gender, it has everything and only to do with her as a person and her stance on policies which she never fully clarified. She hasn’t shown or proven to anyone that she is an effective leader, don’t believe me, go on YouTube and X and you’ll see her past statements that were so off the wall whacked!
They’ve been doing for the last 4 years, these are after all, the party of big government.
Jimizo
Harris is obviously a poor candidate but she is facing another poor candidate.
This would hardly be clash of the Titans.
Trump is far short of being a Titan. He is the first three letters of it.
One thing she’d have in her favour is that she could complete 4 years if she won.
Trump and Biden are in clear decline.
bass4funk
Which is part of his Presidential powers, Trump can bring it up or Harris and then what?
That would be like my odds of winning the Presidency.
Not after the way he ran California into the ground.
BlackFlagCitizen
Harris has very little chance of beating Trump. She has not shown an iota of competence in her job. Just about every time she opens her mouth, Harris comes off as unserious with her cackling and bumbling word salad, no matter what the topic.
V Campbell
Not a Trump fan by any means, but that woman is in office ONLY because of her race and sex. She has no discernible leadership skills, and nobody can truthfully say they have confidence in her. She was given one responsibility as VP and failed miserably. Her giggling and vacuous speeches are painful to watch. Four years from now, America would be MUCH better off with a Trump presidency than a Harris presidency, no matter how unpleasant and graceless he is as a person. I think Ds will stay home and not vote in the election.
wallace
Kamala Harris does not cheat at golf.
zibala
I'll check that later.
Remember how right Trump was about Germany? What US president ever had the guts to tell one of its allies something so straight up and true?
Trump complained Germany is “making Russia richer.” When the NATO secretary general told Trump trade was a separate matter, Trump fired back. “How can you be together when a country is getting its energy from the person you want protection against or from the group that you want protection against?” he asked. “I think it is a very bad thing for NATO and I don’t think it should have happened and I think we have to talk to Germany about it.”
Jimizo
Harris 5/1 to be the next president. Maybe a non-existent bookie is offering 50/1 somewhere.
Newsom further back in the odds.
dagon
Weak tu quoque. Sounds like someone with a career in boilerplate lawyering like Harris would say.
Compare that to the master of non sequitur.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/trump-100-days-gibberish-weaponised-white-house-language-presidency
zibala
Americans who aren't limited to reading CNN headline news get to hear her say things like:
we are announcing today also that we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica*itsonlyrocknroll
Time is not on Kamala Harris side.
Democrats will rally around Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ nomination for President and Vice President of the United States.
https://demconvention.com/
ClippetyClop
I suppose the 4 men that Trump pardoned for slaughtering 14 Iraqis sits quite well with you?
Pardoning criminals probably isn't something that Trump would bring up.
dagon
As I said it is a corporatist duopoly and one reason big money may not like Harris is because they may have to pay a higher percentage of taxes under her, though Biden has not even been successful with his mild proposals to address the fact most billionaires pay a lower percentage of tax than workers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/you-may-be-paying-a-higher-tax-rate-than-a-billionaire
The other reasons could be related to race and gender and you can see that in some comments.
Even some of the biggest of big tech money looks to use their leverage to get trump in office so the looting can properly begin.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-donates-group-working-elect-trump-report
bass4funk
She’s worse actually. Christopher Boswell is charged with sexual assault/kidnapping.
George Howard was charged with murder.
Danika Floyd killed a friend when sex was refusd.
These people were freed by the Kamala-backed Minnesota Freedom Fund bail– the same Kamala hoping and that wants to disarm law-abiding Americans.
If I were Trump, I would put her on the spot to elaborate more on this concerning issue, if I were Kamala, I would have a lot of explaining to do. Why on earth support and back an organization that puts violent criminals back on the streets. This will come up. Trump is going to have a field day with this.
Toblerone
Harris is a ninconpoop. It has really come to something that someone as obviously incompetent for the position should be even considered.
Now, having said that, I hope she gets the nomination!
Jim
As much as I hate to say this, the Democrats will lose come November. I don’t feel Biden has been doing as bad as the media portrayed him in his recent gaffes by mixing names once because Trump has repeatedly mixed up people names on his speeches! Biden had a poor debate and things just spiraled out of control from there and come November I don’t think he will be in a good state due to his age. Now coming to the prospect of Kamala Harris and the fact is that there is no way she can beat Trump… the reason is simple because Red states will vote Trump, Blue states will vote Democrats and the swing states are not going to vote for a woman of color ( anyone thinking otherwise is just kidding themselves )! It’s the swing states that decide the winner. Now if the Democrats put in someone charismatic like Gov Newsom ( or a man similar to him ) he will win the swing states with relative ease and it’s the only the Democrats beat Trump. But they are failing to take this path forward even though they all know it’s the only path forward. They’ll pay the price when Trump returns to power in November.
Jimizo
She is a bit of a windbag but she doesn’t gibber about sharks, batteries, Hannibal Lector, Jimmy Connors as a poor president and WW2 breaking out.
Waffling isn’t a disqualification to run for president.
itsonlyrocknroll
I will tell you, any attempt to "force" Joe Biden out, could be construed as politically attempting to suffocate "Grandpa" in his sleep with a pillow.
itsonlyrocknroll
Firstly, could Joe Biden/Jill Biden be persuaded to voluntarily withdraw his candidacy?
Kamala Harris has quite a politically diverse CV.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/vice-president-harris/
However perceptions can be misleading, as a public speaker, orator, eloquence is not Harris strength, a worrying tendency to waffle to the point of irritation.
owzer
No.
lol
bass4funk
He is not going to jail that debacle is now off the table.
FizzBit
As predicted months and months ago, Biden is done and the dems need to parachute someone down to fill his spot. No thinking person believes Harris is capable.
dagon
Yang has his 'Forward Party' but like most 3rd parties has not gained any traction. He is suffering from what Bernie suffered: Having outsider candidacies that had great popularity and ideas and got off to strong starts and had big early leads.
Which spooked the DNC and donors and made them close ranks and shut them out and put all their resources into safer establishment rivals.
Wall Street as usual playing both sides in the neo-lib duopoly.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/05/24/why-corporate-america-loves-donald-trump
bass4funk
Because we were hit with Covid. Before that the economy was fine. Inflation for 41 months was 5.4% during Trump’s Presidency. According to Forbes and the Economist: Trump’s most impressive labor market feats were unemployment declining from 4.7% to as low as 3.5% in late 2019 and early 2020, which tied its lowest level since 1969 and wages growing by an inflation-beating 15% over his four-year term.
Hmmm
Where is Yang by the way?
And that’s where the problem rests. They are soooo deeply obsessed with Trump, they can’t think of anything else or any policy.
Peter Neil
from one incomprehensible candidate to another incomprehensible candidate is all i see.
the us needs a wholesale change in politicians. vote the entire house of representatives out and replace them monkeys throwing feces. no one could tell the difference.
write in brittny spears and snoop dog. except snoop is smarter than either candidate now, spears because people like nutty people apparently.
bass4funk
Of course, because it hurts Democrats on the down ballot that are in vulnerable seats.
Very true, start from there first and foremost. The Democrat enthusiasm gap is not high with Joe or Kamala at all, that is a huge factor, not to mention, Biden ticked off a lot of Black men, that is not good for a party that needs Blacks and Latinos to keep it afloat.
Yeah, that will come back to bite her in a very big way on multiple levels. I would be very careful to run on that one, especially for a young Black man.
https://x.com/artofdialogue_/status/1811246199820710386?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ
Dumbest idea ever!
Looking at the latest polls it’s not working.
I would say disadvantage at this point.
Good!
wallace
Biden at his Michigan rally said he is going to run. Won't step down.
dagon
Demonstrably false and the economy was one of the big reasons the incumbent lost in 2020.
I have always said Biden should recruit Andrew Yang into his team.
Yang was prescient and right about UBI, which became a reality under the Trump coronavirus stimulus checks and the threat of AI automation which is transforming the job market.
If Biden could or Harris could put forward an innovative economic plan that is future forward that could obviate a lot of concerns about the economy and old-thinking.
dagon
According to a recent article in the Atlantic Trump's campaign coordinators are very happy with the outcome of their strategy to contrast Trump's 'strength' versus Biden's debility and are doing a victory lap already. The thing they fear most is a swap out of Biden. They desperately want him to stay in now.
Kamala is not popular with the Dem base but neither was Biden. She has her prosecutorial record and lack of achievements as VP. But Biden had bankruptcy reform and 3 strike laws. He made his state into the number one tax haven.
But now he is a social justice champion and wants to tax the rich.
There is a certain level of cynicism to it but if Biden can remake himself so can Harris.
They have the biggest advantage in that they are contrasting themselves to Trump, like in 2020.
deanzaZZR
Harris would have a better chance than Biden that's for sure. Harris would somehow have find a personality she can sell to the USA voters. A little voice training could make her easier on the ears at least for me.
zibala
"Simply swapping out the candidate does not address the central concern"
...that the Democratic Party has driven the US into economic turmoil, for starters.
Aly Rustom
Could Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump in November's presidential race?
Let's put it this way: in my personal opinion, she has a better chance than Biden.
GBR48
After the last week of Biden's gaffes, she may have to become President sooner than that. That's what VPs are for. They step in when they are needed.
bass4funk
What else is she going to campaign on? The border?? Once Trump hits her record as a border czar it’s over. Illegals nope, the economy, not one time did she ever convey any and I mean any financial jobs or tax plan, she spoke out against the police, she’ll lose on that. So let her run on that one issue, Trump will run on the other 5 biggest ones. Please, let her run, her cackling alone will disqualify her.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Thankfully women are smart enough to show up to avoid your handmaid's tale proposals from becoming reality.
bass4funk
If the issue is about abortion only, mostly likely, other than that, she would lose on every other issue.
Again, to the abortionist crowds maybe, but economy, crime, inflation, the border ( especially that topic ) she would have no chance.
Bingo.
Banthu
Please run Kamala... please!
I'd like to hear more of her speeches about how time is the passage of time and big countries are bigger than small countries.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Most likely. All she has to do his highlight Trump's rape adjudication as much as possible and the threat to women's liberties to sail to victory.
falseflagsteve
Doubt it not because of sexism or her colour but because she’s pretty useless and bland and seems rather clueless
Americans are still so divided by race issues, don’t they know that they are all being cheated?