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From an unbiased source, not Fox News. Some excerpts from the article:
What new voters are being won with denunciations of Donald Trump’s character?
The discussion here was backward-looking and Trump-focused. It was, in short, all about yesterday and him rather than tomorrow and her. (despite her campaign theme of A New Way Forward)
Harris said nothing specific about how she’d govern, mentioned no looming issue on which she’d work with Republicans and offered no reassurances about leading the country from the political center.
there was no critique of her own party or even an expression of sympathy or understanding about why voting for a liberal could be difficult for a longtime conservative. There wasn’t even a reference to her previous commitments to include a Republican in the Cabinet or create a bipartisan council of advisers.
Merely condemning the former president and celebrating what unites Americans isn’t enough. Yet Harris just can’t seem to go beyond that, to sketch out what her version of Washington in 2025 would look like.
That reluctance is confounding Democrats, who hear the echoes of Hillary Clinton’s campaign in Harris’ focus on Trump’s character. “You picking up 2016 vibes?” one Democratic lawmaker texted, without prompting on Tuesday.
And, remarkably at this late date, she remains reluctant to tell fence-sitters what they want to hear: not that Trump is a bad man, but that she’s not going to steer America to the left.
What new voters are being won with denunciations of Donald Trump’s character?
The discussion here was backward-looking and Trump-focused. It was, in short, all about yesterday and him rather than tomorrow and her. (despite her campaign theme of A New Way Forward)
Harris said nothing specific about how she’d govern, mentioned no looming issue on which she’d work with Republicans and offered no reassurances about leading the country from the political center.
there was no critique of her own party or even an expression of sympathy or understanding about why voting for a liberal could be difficult for a longtime conservative. There wasn’t even a reference to her previous commitments to include a Republican in the Cabinet or create a bipartisan council of advisers.
Merely condemning the former president and celebrating what unites Americans isn’t enough. Yet Harris just can’t seem to go beyond that, to sketch out what her version of Washington in 2025 would look like.
That reluctance is confounding Democrats, who hear the echoes of Hillary Clinton’s campaign in Harris’ focus on Trump’s character. “You picking up 2016 vibes?” one Democratic lawmaker texted, without prompting on Tuesday.
And, remarkably at this late date, she remains reluctant to tell fence-sitters what they want to hear: not that Trump is a bad man, but that she’s not going to steer America to the left.
