“ Harris’ preparations for Trump
Harris has considered what it would be like to run against Trump before. In late 2018, over two days of sessions with top aides to decide about running for the Democratic nomination in 2020, among the questions aides pressed her with was what she would do in a town hall-style debate with Trump, similar to the one in 2016 where the Republican infamously stalked around behind Hillary Clinton at times.
Harris’ answer: She’d turn around and say to him, “Why are you being so weird?”
As vice president, Harris has tended to be known more for her word salads than sharp elbows like that. But for months, she had already been on an upswing in voters’ minds, which culminated in how she handled Biden’s debate performance in the immediate moment and afterward.
After looking over talking points suggested by Biden campaign aides to focus on some of Trump’s most radical statements and that Biden had a cold, according to several people familiar with what happened that evening, Harris came up with her line to CNN’s Anderson Cooper in the moment, arguing that a bad 90 minutes shouldn’t overshadow Biden’s three and a half years as the president.
That line, with both its defense and its honesty about what happened onstage, surprised even several close to her with its sharp delivery. It has cut through so much that in the week since, Jill Biden, multiple campaign aides and the president himself have repeated the same words almost verbatim.
Even before the last week of tail spinning, Harris had kept her focus on Trump, with a plan to take on his running mate by keeping the argument about the top of the ticket, making out anyone who would run with him as an interchangeable rubber stamp on his extremist agenda.
“The president is and will remain our party’s nominee, and Vice President Harris is proud to be his running mate and looks forward to serving at his side for four more years,” Brian Fallon, Harris’ campaign communications director, told CNN.
Beshear also knows how to win tough races. He’s won the top office twice in a much more Republican-heavy state and did it while talking up Democratic values like reproductive rights and looking after trans kids. He’s extremely popular in his state, and has caught national attention for being young — he’s 46 — and a smooth communicator who has already this year racked up invites to come speak to Democratic events in Virginia, Montana and Iowa.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/05/politics/kamala-harris-democrats-biden/index.html
If Biden decides to drop out, Harris/Cooper, Harris/Beshear(my choice), Harris/Shapiro(my other choice), win hands down in November. She gets all the women and black and darker skin votes, and Beshear gets a whole lot of republican votes, a whole lot. Landslide.
Beshear could be President after her.
Biden needs to show himself now, much more, because the prospect of Dump becoming president is the scariest thing after nuclear war.
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