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Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?”
An even more telling exchange came when Harris asked Kavanuagh I would like to know the person you’re thinking of.”
The nominee fumbled for a moment before saying I’m happy to answer a more specific question.” ... I’m not thinking of any right now, senator.”
Kavanaugh replied ... When pressed, he conceded So there’s a clear difference between the candidates in this race.”
Harris reacted to the move with baffled amusement, tightly pressing her lips together, in an apparent attempt to hold back laughter, before she said with a chuckle You know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bussed to school every day. And that little girl was me,
Sir, I have just a few minutes …
As Sessions tried to further elaborate on one of his answers, Harris told him So what would you do day one?”
The vague answer prompted Bash to follow up by reiterating Be sure about your answer, sir,
You’ve seen this show before. She’s the one that’s going to get the most attention,
said the former New Jersey governor in an appearance on ABC News’ “This Week.” And she did what’s hard for candidates to do. She paused for two or three seconds, shook her head, and she said, ‘Same old playbook, next question,
That’s what will get under his skin. If she refuses to engage him in that back and forth, which Hillary [Clinton] failed at miserably because she wasn’t good at it and she engaged, don’t engage with him on that. That increases his stature. You want to decrease his stature by being dismissive of him.”
There’s no question that if you look at the media narrative, that’s how she’s been framed. But with voters it could be a very different picture. As we get a little bit more data, we’ll be able to get a firmer sense of whether this framing is one that’s taken hold or if it’s just an inside-the-Beltway creation. Hard to say at this point.”
Lanhee Chen, who was the policy director for the 2012 Mitt Romney presidential campaign, said There’s only one Trump. This Trump isn’t working the way it used to and they don’t have a plan B, and the Trump campaign’s in trouble. He’s singing the same songs and they’re not connecting the way they used to. It’s a real problem for him.”
We went from a generic where we had two candidates who were pushing 80, so anytime that you add in a new element and someone who is generationally younger, that’s a change without even having to say a word. The fact that we are going from two old white men to a woman of colour – that screams change. It creates the tangible illustration of past versus future.”
Kurt Bardella, a Democratic strategist, said He feels diminished to me. He feels smaller, less relevant, he’s not breaking through. In part it’s because she’s rising above and talking about where she wants to take the country; she’s not engaging him. He’s using this old formula of creating chaos and fighting with his opponents and she’s not playing, and it’s hurting him.”
Simon Rosenberg, a Democratic strategist, said The American people are looking for not just new faces but a new message,
said Donna Brazile, a former acting chair of the Democratic National Committee She’s been trying to run as the change candidate, which is very strange because the change motif is for the challenger, not the incumbent party.”
Usually, we would say these debates don’t have much of an impact because the people who tune in tend to be those who have already made up their mind,
Trump’s campaign will hope to emphasise inflation and immigration, where they think Harris is most vulnerable,
After a remarkable period with a lot of unprecedented events, we’ve ended up in a place that feels pretty familiar, with the Democratic nominee holding a slight advantage in a tight race that will come down to tens of thousands of voters in a handful of swing states,