(07-22-2024, 05:37 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(07-22-2024, 02:59 AM)Jag88 Wrote: Republicans really wanted to run against Biden, and now they seem angry that he’s out of the race. Maybe they should have let off on all the attacks on Biden’s age and mental deterioration. Perhaps they could have saved those for September and not peak so early?

What Republicans seem angry?

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(07-22-2024, 05:09 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Harris has a chance of winning.  The Democrats will package her up, and she will be presented as a smiling fresh face, much younger, who can walk and talk and present her case, unlike Biden.  The election will now be a referendum on Trump instead of where it was headed, which was a referendum on Biden. 

Trump is still the favorite, but she has a chance.

No doubt. This will be a close race with the possibility of Trump losing.

The smart thing for her to do is what Obama did.  Obama knew that, no matter what, he had the black vote and the liberal vote wrapped up.  So he stayed as vague as possible about his plans.  He didn't need to run to the left to maintain the loyalty of the left, because he was black.  Kamala Harris will have the loyalty of all the voters who want a black candidate, or a woman candidate.  She will have the loyalty of all those people, so she won't need to pander to them.  For that reason, she should intentionally avoid presenting herself as a leftist.  She should go after the votes in the center, because being a black woman, she can't possibly lose the votes of people on the left.

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