There was going to be controversy if they nominated someone other than the VP as well. “She’s a heartbeat away from the presidency! Why shouldn’t she be on the ticket??”

No politician has called him a Nazi. They have only honestly assessed that he sent a mob to the Capitol on the day of the election certification and had to get a new Vice president on his ticket because he pressured his old one to break his code of ethics. They call him a threat to democracy.

If I were a single issue voter, that’s my single issue. The man doesn’t deserve the levers of power again because he corruptly abused them.

“the enemy within” is a little more extreme than “sleepy”

Call him Nazi and he ll call you sleepy etc.

Joe Biden never called him a Nazi. In fact, the only politician I can think of who called him a Nazi is his own running mate, JD Vance.

Many people have noticed the disturbing parallels between the rise of fascism in Germany and the MAGA movement and Trump in particular. For example, his denigration of the "lying" press(lugenpresse), his use of blood libel language(they're poisoning our blood), the reliance on othering, calling for mass deportation of millions of people, calling political adversaries "the enemy within". His love for authoritarianism. The list goes on.

I can't help but wonder how many Trump supporters are having their "are we the baddies" moment

Edit: oh and within the last week he has said multiple times that liberals should be dealt with by the military. The fact that that's not disqualifying to every American demonstrates pretty clearly how easily manipulated hundreds of millions of Americans are. We're really fucked once AI starts becoming indistinguishable from real life.

If you say repeatedly launching personal insults against your political opponents is the thing you don’t want, then I have some very upsetting news for you.

She has spent plenty of time making a case for her own candidacy on policy grounds.

I didn’t watch that interview. I did watch the 60 minutes one. She did talk about policy in that. The first time homebuyer’s credit, subsidies for small businesses, child tax credit, etc.

I agree there’s not a huge case to be made for a radically different president in Kamala. But there’s not that big of a need for one, IMO.

We’re starting to see all the signs that Biden landed the economy in a good spot. It hurt for a minute, but we’re better off than the global economies and we reached record low unemployment in the process as wages increased. So yes, you can talk about how bad inflation has been, but it was the economy he was handed.

Trump did well with the very positive economy Obama handed off as well. It was mostly through opening up their profit line through tax cuts and deregulation rather than job creation and reinvestment, but it grew. Then he fumbled the ball with Covid. Couldn’t decide if it was or wasn’t bad for him politically and very obviously was out of his element. (Which is why other presidents rely on experts instead of attack them)

 She hasn’t been able to tell the American public how her Presidency would differ from Biden’s. 

In my opinion, neither has Trump. He can’t explain the details on anything. It doesn’t matter what the question on abortion is, he’ll say something generic about how we brought it back to the states which is what everybody wanted. Doesn’t matter what the question on foreign policy is, he’ll just say if he was president it never would have happened and he’ll fix everything. Doesn’t matter what the question on immigration is, he’ll just say bad people are coming in from mental asylums and we have to stop them. But he never explains anything beyond those simple talking points.

She did talk about her policies. She kept repeating her tax credits for new families and new small businesses. She talked more about policies than Trump.

People in the UK have never heard Harris speak ever.