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

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Just to get it out of the way - I am completely against Trump being elected President. I'm pretty excited to see Kamala being officially nominated, and looking forward to her fighting a strong campaign - albeit slightly nervously. Anyone else?

It won't boil down to the Christians or the Liberals. The so far undecided who were dithering over an ill incumbent and a mad wannabe now have a decent alternative to Trump.

So at least there's that, and I wish her all the luck in the world. The US needs sanity to prevail. All the better if it's a woman. We shall see what booby traps and mysoginistic racist rants emanate from ye old Orange man. That's how he riles up the troops. But they would have voted for him anyway.

She is literally leading a large majority of swing state polls right now. By +11 points in Michigan I believe. That's only in 2 weeks!

She has many paths to win this election by a clear majority.

Do you watch the news??

I'm not excited about her per se (I still need convincing), but I'm enjoying the fun she's having /will have The Donald up to election and anyone is betterthanhim.

I'm also enjoying The Donald making an ass of himself as usual. The NABJ interview was a spectacle.

On a more serious note, things are moving in the right direction with the amount of support galvanising around her candidacy, so I'm hopeful. I'm hoping they get the same result as they did for Biden.

America went nuts after getting a black male president, however, so let's see what they'd do with a black / brown woman.

Me too. She's so bad, she makes grown men cry.

My Threads feed is throwing up a LOT of US election stuff although I'm in the UK, and Kamala has gained a huge amount of support in a very, very short time - it seems like a lot of different communities are turning out to support her who wouldn't normally vote, or who would be floating voters are being galvanised into supporting her. There have been huge zoom calls with tens of thousands of people on at a time, which are raising millions of $ in donations.

I've yet to see anyone on Mumsnet explain why she's a monster or why she's so terrible.

@DiamondGoldandSilver , today’s job figures and forecasts are worse than was expected. As such there is a massive sell off on the markets. Dow Jones and S$P are down considerably resulting in a global sell off as well,

Kamala is abysmal, she makes Biden look competent.

To you, is she more horrendous than Trump? Given that it's a binary choice

You mean she makes grown old orange men cry 🤣😂

I was lukewarm on her before Biden dropped out but she has spoken tremendously since then. She has already pulled ahead in the polls (including swing states) and some betting markets- there are lots of reasons to be optimistic.

Most of the criticism of her coming from the Republican side seems pretty desperate too. A lot of race-related stuff (she's a DEI hire, she said she's Indian) or false (she was/is the Border Czar).

Provided there are no Maga vote-rigging hijinks, I do think she is the likely next President.

Yeah, I think you need to do a bit more reading..

https://thehill.com/business/4426965-trump-added-8-4-trillion-to-the-national-debt-analysis/

I want her to win, so badly, desperately.

I don't think she will win, petrifyingly.

I hope they learn from Clinton’s failures and don’t go heavy on the identity politics. Is there a worse slogan than “I’m with her”. I’ll be excited if she wins (or more likely just relieved) but I’m nervous about her chances.

Not excited, it'll be close. Even if the Democrats win, there are 70 election officials in states that are likely to be close, who believe the election in 2020 was stolen from Trump. There's a very real possibility that they will simply refuse to certify results.

Agreed, but she does seem to have learned from it.

In her speech yesterday, she brushed off Trump's racist lies about her yesterday as the "same old show" and promptly moved on to other topics.

Yes, that's the biggest worry - that the MAGA cultists intalled as election officials will falsely claim irregularities and Mike Johnson will use it to overturn the election and install Trump. The Trumpian Project 2025 freakshow have been winking that everything is in motion, and that they're prepared to use violence if need be.

A big Kamala win would, you would hope, make it harder to steal, but there is a chance the the US dies as a democracy later this year.

The polls give me hope but, as you say, a Kamala win doesn't mean Trump won't be president again.

Genuinely would like to know why she's so bad?

It is a sad state of affairs when you have to worry about what singers or actors are backing the would be president of the US of A

She needs to drastically improve her public speaking, at the moment her "word salad" repetitive statements are easy pickings.

freebeacon.com/democrats/harris-campaign-takes-page-out-of-biden-playbook-edits-kamalas-bizarre-word-salad-about-diplomacy/

She'd be the most Left Wing president in American history. So depends if you'd like that. Her tendency is to use the state to crack down on issues that could be resolved through nonpunitive measues. She's all about finding more and more ways for the government to be involved in people's lives. For example, she was responsible for putting the parents of truant children into prison.

There have also been ongoing complaints about her poor treatment of staff.

In the 2020 campaign, it was impossible to understand what she stood for as she constantly flip flopped on issues to suit different audiences, and wouldn't commit to any policy decisions. This makes her appear something of a phony who's in it for herself. All ambition and no principles.

It's still many magnitudes better than Trump's incoherent ramblings about windmills, Hannibal Lecter and whatnot.

Transcripts of his speeches read like someone spilled a tin of Alphabetti Spaghetti on the page.

The same codes he already had as president for 4 years. Maybe you’re too young to remember.

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It's not dislike, but she's not very bright, has failed spectacularly as VP in the 2 remits she was given and is in no way suited to being President

The knives will be out for her, everything and anything derogatory or "discovered" or over analysed, body language, policies, speech, colour you name it will be used against her. The desperation is very telling.