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

We only avoided Trump stealing the last election because Pence was unwilling to be complicit.

Trump came within a whisker of overthrowing democracy last time, I don't know why people have a hard time believing he won't try again, or that it's impossible he will succeed.

I must say I think the “you can’t vote for Trump! He’ll declare himself LIFELONG DICTATOR!” is the wrong tack for the Dems to take. It’s hyperbolic and silly and it looks like they’re crying wolf. What they need desperately is a candidate who is appealing.

is Harris that candidate? I have serious doubts.

I find it batshit that people think Harris is thick.

There are plenty of Attorney Generals who I don't much care for, but nobody who ascends to that office (particularly in the most populous state in the US) ascends to that office.

The "word salads" too...almost every politician has those moments. If you listen to Harris speak, more than 99% of what she says is perfectly articulate. Dredging old videos for pretty trivial slips and pretending they are representative of her in general is a massive stretch (particularly when a single Trump speech will contain more word salads than Harris has amassed in her whole career).

I'm happy to accept she is likely not the strongest candidate the Dems could put forward but she is magnitudes better than Trump in every single way.

Were it not for the US's unfit and politicized court system, Trump would be rotting in prison by now.

I think we should take any election manifesto with a huge pinch of salt. So many promises are made then defaulted on by the person in charge. I’m sure we could all cite a ton of manifesto promises that never came to fruition over the years. I especially like the claim from John Edwards! 😯

The scary thing is that DT is not stupid, but he acts stupid and mad as a brush to match himself to his electorate. Sad but true.

And Obama said you could keep your doctor if you liked your doctor. He wasn’t able to do that, either. You’re confusing what politicians say with what they’re actually able to do. (My favorite “stupid politician claim” was from John Edwards, VP candidate in 2004. “When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.” Gee, if only we’d elected Kerry! 🙄)

Not a fan of Trump, but if he were able to install himself as some kind of dictator-for-life, he would have done it already. It’s not within his power.

Dichotomy, indeed. Having said that, I wouldn’t be completely amazed were he to try something like b.

America has never been a democracy, they have a constitution. It still amazes me how few people seem to understand that.

But people who are against Trump contradict themselves don’t they? On the one hand they say “everything Trump says is a lie” and on the other hand they say “oh my god! He said he’s going to be a dictator for life!”

You can’t believe a) and still be scared of the prospect of b).

He will be impeached if he does that (by the House and Senate)

Anyhoo stepping away now.

See you at the Crazy Cat Lady celebration party in November. It's going to be epic 😎

What he says there is terrifying. He’ll have ‘fixed it so good they won’t need to vote’? Is he going to change the law to ensure he stays on à la Venezuela, regardless of votes/outcome? 😱

Doesn’t Kamala owe her early success to the er…”sponsorship” of much older political bigwig Willie Brown?

(Im aware this is a sexist trope. Doesn’t mean it’s not true in her case).

I think she might get the Obama-style grass roots support.

Today’s job figures and unemployment rate (always released on the first Friday of the month)

This is ridiculous. Look at her record of achievement, then consider for a moment that a successful woman has to be twice as good as a man. The same goes for a person of colour. She’s amazing.

Please explain.

Yea JD Vance’s comments on “childless crazy cat lady’s” having no stake in the future was so offensive. He will become a problem for Trump. Not nice

Isn’t the problem a real lack of impressive candidates? Neither Trump nor Harris are terribly awe-inspiring are they? A Cheeto-coloured madman who can’t stop boasting about himself and a clearly out of her depth weird cackling woman.

Wouldn’t be amazed, plus he’ll ask for re-counts again, although hopefully he learned his lesson last time!

I’m genuinely scared in case Trump wins again, I think he’s horrifying, not bright, really clueless (c’mon, the man drew a line of a fake weather front with a sharpie! 🤣) Kamala at least is for women’s rights and I think she will gain a lot of votes from people who don’t believe several old men should decide if a woman can have autonomy over her own body.

Those were literally his words

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tells-christians-they-wont-have-vote-after-this-election-2024-07-27/

Are you saying Donald wasn't speaking the truth.....shocker.

If he loses this election he’s toast anyway - he’ll be older than Biden is now in 2028.

Only 3 things motivate Trump to run for the Presidency - money, attention and fear of going to jail. If someone came along tomorrow, offered him a pile of money and a promise he’ll never go to jail then he’d drop out in a heartbeat.

Well then you're not remembering correctly

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/09/donald-trump-is-dropping-bombs-at-unprecedented-levels/

Highly recommended listening to TRIP US, they’re upfront and talk to both Democrats and Republicans and give honest assessments on how things are going for both candidates.

Josh Shapiro seems to be the favoured VP candidate at the moment. Mark Kelly was highly thought of but doesn’t quite seem to have the X factor. Pete Buttigieg won’t happen - as Katy says, the US, sadly, is not ready for a woman AND a gay man on the same ticket.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rest-is-politics-us/id1743030473?i=1000664094286

Don't lay that madness at my door! I didn't say that😂

Think that came from Faye