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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: albaby1 ✶❂🐝 GOLD
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Subject: Re: trump getting bet again,
Date: 10/10/24 5:48 PM
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albaby, what can team Harris do to reverse the trump momentum? Obviously, she can't do any live interviews, and demonizing trump isn't working. Trump plus the senate could result in 7 conservative supreme court justices, it's getting very serious.

She should do more live interviews.

Some segments of conservative media have convinced themselves that she's bad unscripted, but she's perfectly adequate at it. She just hasn't done it enough. The more you answer these types of questions, the better you can answer them. Plus, one of the negatives about Kamala among voters is that they feel they don't know where she stands. Ask a voter what Trump's top priority is, and they'd probably say tightening immigration and the border (and maybe getting tough on crime). What's Harris' top priority? I follow politics a bit more than the average person, and I don't really know what it would be - I know what her policies are, but not the main things that she prioritizes in a Harris presidency.

The other thing she could do is....just what she's doing. Keep emphasizing that Trump is a chaos muppet and not qualified to do the job of President, promise a Generic Democratic Platform, and hope to win the coin flip. She did an amazing job managing the baton handoff, but this was always a low-percentage play for the Democrats to win the Presidency. The fact that they're at 50/50 (or even 55/45) chances to win the election is more than they could have hoped for. The main benefit of the change was to free vulnerable House members and Senate candidates like Gallego and Alsobrooks from having to defend Biden as a candidate after the debate debacle - and that seems to have worked. So even having this good a shot to hold the Presidency is a better position they could ever have hoped for, and she might just want to hold on and just hope for rain in rural Pennsylvania.
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