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?

Hmmm. It is annoying to be inaccurately insulted.

Maybe she’s onto something. She should call him a shortarse next.

It wasn’t up to him, tho.

I hope she beats Trump, because Trump is a despicable human being. However, no one has ever been particularly enthusiastic about Kamala as a prospective presidential candidate until recently, so I'm a bit sceptical about whether this enthusiasm is real. I think, for the Dems, it's just relief at Biden having said he won't run again and Kamala being the only real candidate with a chance. That doesn't mean she's a great candidate though. I hope she picks Mark Kelly as her running mate. He's a good guy.

Surely he could have taken the executive decision in the interests of calming things down.

The level of debate and understanding about US politics on this thread is embarrassing. We are down to debating whether Taylor Swift will win the election for Kamala Harris.

I feel the Dems' chances are considerably improved but it's not a shoo-in. From what I'm seeing, Trump and GOP are running scared BUT in know I'm in a bit of a lefty echo chamber online. IRL there are plenty of people who will still vote for him for some ungodly reason.

Though cracks do seem to be genuinely showing and it sounds like Trump and Vance may be turning off the undecided to either vote Harris out not vote at all. The Red Hats will vote for him come what may but they are not the majority of the GOP vote.

Yes, look into why she climbed the ladder. Far more of who she knew and slept with rather than what she knew

Which would be illegal. What else should he just randomly decide to do?

Careful you’ll be accused of being misogynist. Even though this is widely known to be true.

This used to be the case. When Justices were appointed based on their profound understanding of Constitutional law and their ability and willingness to uphold that law. It also required an intellectual ability and honesty that some of the current Justices don’t have.

Not really. When polled about what matters to people during an election, the economy comes first followed by immigration. Trump polls better than Kamala on both of these issues.

i think it’s end of the go high approach. Trump is thin skinned. He doesn’t mind being notorious because that’s good politics. Implying he is odd, old or weird is not powerful. It’s demeaning, and he hates that.

He has predictably come back with a declaration that Harris is weird, but it’s all a bit lame. Watching with interest as he really dislikes woman politicians

Of course it’s misogynist and untrue. This place really is a cesspit sometimes.

So it would have been impossible for Starmer to get in touch with the police and say “we’ve got a far right riot brewing. I need you to reveal to the media that this bloke is neither a Muslim nor an immigrant.”

Why? They revealed his identity anyway after the riots.

Democrats would do well just to go through the playbook Trump had for Biden; I reckon most of those lines represent his real fears about himself.

It’s not his decision. Didn’t you know that

Jesus Christ. It is not the police who make the decision either. I think you’re on a wind up here.

Who cares? It's America, a foreign country. Do you think they care who wins our elections?

So it would have been impossible for the killer’s identity to be revealed before the riots? Is that what you’re telling me? Starmer couldn’t possibly have set something in motion to do this? No?

How much do you know about the UK? Not much it sounds like

Not quite "excited" but rather pleased she's now the Demo Candidate that stands/squares up against Trump.

I'm in the UK so no direct 'skin in the game' but whoever runs the USofA affects us and others. I'm not frightened by Trump but I'd rather Harris got elected.

We got plenty o'shit going on in the lil'ol' Ununited Kingdom, rioting and stuff, etc, etc to be too concerned what the US does.

Okay so a judge lifted the anonymity order and revealed the identity of the killer

What I want is an explanation of why it wasn’t possible for Starmer to prevail upon the judge to do this before the riot.

How would it have helped? They’d still have rioted because he’s “forrin”.

Presumably they wouldn’t have thrown bricks at a mosque.

Actually I’m stumped as to what they would have thrown bricks at. What’s Rwandan?

Why wouldn’t they? They don’t give a shit where he’s from, he’s not white that’s good enough for racist thugs.