Official LRC Kamala Harris for President Thread

fisky wrote:

It will be very interesting to see what tell-all books are written by her staff or other insiders about Harris once she is out of power.

Her lack of preparation for running for President is puzzling. Over the last 45 years, only 2 VPs never ran for President... Quayle and Cheney. Harris even ran herself in 2020 so we know she had aspirations to the job. And the VP always has a leg up on all other contenders as successor to a President who is not running again.

So why didn't she do a better job of preparing for the limelight? Why didn't she do a better job of building her resume as VP? Why wasn't she better prepared for questions that she should have absolutely known might come up? I honestly don't know.

We all have guesses, but I'm curious to read what insiders will say.

cowboy Corky wrote:

DanM wrote:

What happened to the thread about Harris being up 3 points in Iowa ?

538 (not even sure what that is) said Selzer was the best pollster in the world. She had Harris up by 3 points. Trump ended up winning by 14 points so off by 17 points overall. This is why I don't pay attention to polls. She should never again be considered a pollster or allowed to publish her polls.

Jamb innnnnnnnn wrote:

@Mods - this thread should be yeeted from the annals of LRC.

Final score:
Trump - 312 Kamala - 226

Nnonequalsweek1 wrote:

DanM wrote:

As of Nov 16, 6:30 PM ET, the AP has:

Trump 50.06%
Harris 48.29%
Stein 0.50%
Kennedy 0.48%
Oliver 0.42%
All Others 0.25%

I bring this up because if Trump finishes below 50%, it will give his opponents a talking point. They will say it is not a mandate.

“Mandate” already meant EXTREMELY little before our country decided that there was no truth, and that a man like Trump should be president again. Now it means exactly zero. A normal human (to include the average highly flawed politician) MIGHT show some restraint if they didn’t win overwhelmingly. Trump? Please.

cowboy Corky wrote:

Jamb innnnnnnnn wrote:

@Mods - this thread should be yeeted from the annals of LRC.

Final score:
Trump - 312 Kamala - 226

But Flagpole promised far fewer electoral votes for Trump. Was Flagpole wrong????

Nnonequals wrote:

But yes, one huge (it might have turned out) difference might be the border thing. She didn't anticipate running so soon and/or how important the border would be in the election, and so was fine (in true politician fashion) in not even trying to shine on something that wouldn't help her?

Nnonequals wrote:

Imagine a supposedly "great" country where "a" apparently outweighs "b":

a) Awkward pause and arguably weak answer on The (freakin') View about how different she is from her moderate Presidential boss who had a reasonably successful term.

b) Trump's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and longest serving CoS (BOTH 4-stars with no blemishes that we know of) say with 100% conviction that he is a fascist.

But.....cereal prices! He's funny! I hate liberals !!

do nothing job wrote:

So, now that Kamala is only the VP again, what is she doing?

Will she push Biden to implement all the policies she was going to implement once she became president?

Now is the time.

ClubRunnah wrote:

She was a terrible candidate. She was terrible when she ran in the primaries. She was exposed for what she is back then, but Obama forced her on Biden as the VP. She was pulled off the trash heap and into the second most powerful position in the world.

The good thing now is that her political career is over and the Dems can move on to Newsom, Jefferies, Shapiro, Whitmer.

Hooma wrote:

ClubRunnah wrote:

She was a terrible candidate. She was terrible when she ran in the primaries. She was exposed for what she is back then, but Obama forced her on Biden as the VP. She was pulled off the trash heap and into the second most powerful position in the world.

The good thing now is that her political career is over and the Dems can move on to Newsom, Jefferies, Shapiro, Whitmer.

Vice President of the United States is not the second most powerful position in the world.

You are a moron.

Jamb innnnnnnn wrote:

cowboy Corky wrote:

But Flagpole promised far fewer electoral votes for Trump. Was Flagpole wrong????

Who?

do nothing job wrote:

Nnonequals wrote:

Imagine a supposedly "great" country where "a" apparently outweighs "b":

a) Awkward pause and arguably weak answer on The (freakin') View about how different she is from her moderate Presidential boss who had a reasonably successful term.

b) Trump's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and longest serving CoS (BOTH 4-stars with no blemishes that we know of) say with 100% conviction that he is a fascist.

But.....cereal prices! He's funny! I hate liberals !!

Y'all have overplayed the "fascist" line. It gets ignored. No one cares about it except butthurt liberals who have no clue why Trump was elected.

Hooma wrote:

ClubRunnah wrote:

She was a terrible candidate. She was terrible when she ran in the primaries. She was exposed for what she is back then, but Obama forced her on Biden as the VP. She was pulled off the trash heap and into the second most powerful position in the world.

The good thing now is that her political career is over and the Dems can move on to Newsom, Jefferies, Shapiro, Whitmer.

Vice President of the United States is not the second most powerful position in the world.

You are a moron.