Now that she's the official nominee, is anyone else excited about Kamala Harris's chances?

I don’t understand what people think they are accomplishing by this supposed pure meritocracy shtick and moaning “race and gender” shouldn’t matter.

Representation matters! Empathy matters! Shared goals and values matter! Experience matters!

Trump is running a revanchist white male grievance campaign. Those are his issues and lots of his voters want that.

I live in the US. I’ve seen the news reports about her being given the job and her interviews about having the job,

@Molly70 there was a good Border Control Bill supported by Republicans and Democrats in Congress as well as Biden and Harris, all set to pass. The only person who disliked it was Trump, because it would take away one of the big things he loved to blame on the Democrats (the immigration issue). He told the Republicans in Congress to turn against it, and they did.

This is a matter of public record

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Honestly - I don't know. It doesn't seem like we have any great candidates. I feel like the people who may actually do good for the country never make it far up enough the totem pole.

I am in the nhs sector and I assure you its not about that , its about thugs and racists, so dont even try and justify farages comments .

@LookAtThatCritter Who would you have preferred?

Please read or even Google who was in charge if border control, read the facts before speculation and assumptions are made , and its ridiculous and stupid calling of names, tongue and thumb cheek yes but deliberate humiliation is crass.

I live in the US and they are both horrendous candidates

Whilst trying to put the shitters on social media sites. MN has fallen right into line.

No he quite rightly called out rioters as right wing thugs. What else would you call them?

The government isn’t addressing the elephant in the room - which is their own failings of policies.

This government has only been in power for a month. If your theory is correct it’s mighty odd that there were no riots since 2011. I wonder why? 🤔

I’m saying that what the so called experts may spout is not people’s reality.

It is always easier to tear down, rather than build up. In the US, it has been a gargantuan effort for Biden et al. to try and repair the extensive and dramatic damage that Trump inflicted on us, and they have only been able to get so far. I understand that 14 years of Tory leadership has done so much damage. 14 years!

Of course everyone can form their own opinion. But reality is objective. There isn’t one for you and a different one for me.

Changing definitions midstream to make the other guy look bad, as Trump is trying to do with Biden and ‘energy independence’ is an attempt to prevent voters from forming opinions based on reality.

Yet the first thing our new prime minister did was dismiss everyone with concerns about immigration as " right wing thugs". That doesn't fill me with hope!

I agree with @BustingBaoBun

This government is just over a month old. They don’t have failed policies yet. It is the failed Tory policies that must be dealt with

The government isn’t addressing the elephant in the room - which is their own failings of policies

I agree. The Tories had 14 years and didn't.

It's a new start after ditching them, a few weeks in... let's see.

Rioting in the UK has not been solely caused by Farages comments. It is so much more complex than that. The government isn’t addressing the elephant in the room - which is their own failings of policies. Poverty is very gritty and grim. A lot of people are beginning to realise that despite working away day in day out like gerbils on a wheel- they are getting nowhere. You can’t buy a house, rents are unaffordable, the cost of living crisis, the years long NHS waiting lists. Writing to your MP goes nowhere. Violence is always wrong and never the answer but I think large sections of people are suffering with austerity and desperation. I don’t doubt that there is right wing racism at play which is definitely wrong - but the government urgently needs to address the wider contributing issues.

Biden made her border Czar. She has given interviews about this. You can’t rewrite history because she did a crappy job

Omg really, Trump only has threats,lies and spouts absolute bullshit, lets face it he had had his time well past it, just wants to build his own empire, and Harris was not in charge of the borders, others were so another misleading lie abd fake news, but if a person or persons keep telling people lies they are believed , take a look at Hitler he convinced so many, look at current day Farage he is an absalute twat, and sturs up racial hatred, which has caused rioting in the u.k.

I don’t know anything about her to be honest. Has she given any interviews about the current geopolitical situation or the economy?

what were her areas of responsibility as a vice president and how did she do in those (solid evidence)?

I would love to know more about her from the more knowledgeable posters. I would be excited about a female WOC as a president - but only if she is capable.

Harris will presumably be laying out her core ideas over the next couple of weeks, particularly at the Democratic Convention. Why not wait to see what she says?

Agreed. I would like Trump to lay out some core ideas too, but all he does is insult and demean so many people, talk about whether he'd prefer to be eloctrocuted or eaten by a shark, or bang on about what a wonderful guy Hannibal Lecter was.

Everyone can form their own opinion on their own reality

My post above is for @Molly70