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What Harris Must Do to Win Over Skeptics (Like Me) – The New York Times
Di Redazione il 19 Settembre, 2024
“What does Kamala Harris think the United States should do about the
Houthis, whose assaults on commercial shipping threaten global trade,
and whose attacks on Israel risk a much wider Mideast war? If an
interviewer were to ask the vice president about them, would she be able
to give a coherent and compelling answer?”

Fonte: The New York Times

Autore: Bret Stephens

Link: What Harris Must Do to Win Over Skeptics (Like Me)

or from https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-trump-columnist-says-harris-160017257.html

Anti-Trump columnist says Harris hasn't earned his support yet:
'Widespread perception of unseriousness'
Jeffrey Clark
Wed, September 18, 2024 at 9:00 AM PDT·3 min read
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New York Times columnist Bret Stephens is staunchly anti-Trump but said
he isn't sold on voting for Vice President Kamala Harris yet, saying she
can no longer afford to dodge giving specific answers to media questions.

"If, as president, she had intelligence that Iran was on the cusp of
assembling a nuclear weapon, would she use force to stop it? Are there
limits to American support for Ukraine, and what are they?" Stephens
asked in an opinion piece from Tuesday, also listing difficult questions
about the creation of a "Palestinian state," the housing crisis, and the possible role of "nuclear power in her energy and climate plans."

Stephens criticized Harris for her "lighter than air" answers to
questions in interviews with CNN reporter Dana Bash and 6ABC's Brian
Taff, in his piece headlined, "What Harris must do to win over skeptics
(like me)."

HARRIS TELLS NABJ SHE EXPECTS TO 'EARN' THE BLACK VOTE THIS NOVEMBER

Kamala Harris and NY Times' Bret Stephens
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens argued in a recent op-ed that
Vice President Kamala Harris can no longer afford to dodge serious
answers from the press about the war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war,
nuclear energy and other important issues.
"It may be that Harris has thoughtful answers to these sorts of
questions," Stephens wrote. "If so, she isn’t letting on."

Harris has gone 59 days as the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president without holding an official press conference.
She's started to step up her interviews, sitting with the National
Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday in Philadelphia.

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"All this helps explain my unease with the thought of voting for Harris
— an unease I never felt, despite policy differences, when Hillary
Clinton and Joe Biden were on the ballot against Trump," Stephens wrote.
"If Harris can answer the sorts of questions I posed above, she should
be quick to do so, if only to dispel a widespread perception of
unseriousness. If she can’t, then what was she doing over nearly eight
years as a senator and vice president?"

"Illiberal populism has taken root in response to well-founded
perceptions of elite incompetence, highhandedness and self-dealing,"
Stephens continued. "Does Harris have anything to offer disaffected
voters, or does she merely embody the elitist perspective that they
despise?"

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DECISION

Trump Harris side by side split
Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris
The columnist said that Harris cannot hide behind the "all-purpose
response" that former President Trump is an "existential threat" to
democratic institutions that her campaign has often relied on.

"But: Trump," he wrote. "That’s the all-purpose response for many voters
to any doubts about Harris’s qualifications."

"It should not be hard for Harris to demonstrate that she can give
detailed answers to urgent policy questions," Stephens wrote. "Or to
express a sense, beyond a few canned phrases, of how she sees the
American interest in a darkening world. Or to articulate a politics of
genuine inclusion that reaches out to tens of millions of distrustful
voters. Or to prove that she’s more than another factory-settings
liberal Democrat whose greatest virtue, like her greatest fault, is that
she won’t step too far from the conventional wisdom."

The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment
from Fox News Digital.

Fox News' Brian Flood and David Rutz contributed to this report.



Original article source: Anti-Trump columnist says Harris hasn't earned
his support yet: 'Widespread perception of unseriousness'

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