And the Winner Was…
You could see where this was headed from the start when debate co-host David Muir asked Vice President Kamala Harris the question Ronald Reagan asked Americans to ponder when he debated Jimmy Carter in October 1980: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
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A confident Harris would have answered “yes,” but knowing the polls show a large majority of Americans would answer “no,” Harris pivoted to a personal story and pivoted again to how much more she would “invest” (code word for spend) while again trashing “billionaires” as Democrats like to do in their promotion of envy, greed and entitlement.
What viewers saw was a version of the “new Nixon.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont “Democratic-Socialist”, was right when he suggested Harris has moved more to the center to win votes, but if elected will return to her “progressive” ways.
Overnight conversions may have some credibility when it comes to religion, depending on one’s consistency, but in politics it appears to be pandering to voters. How many times have we seen politicians run one way and govern another
Let’s start with the optics. It was good they shook hands at the start, but Harris was far more
