‘Calm and confident’ Harris rallies Democrats, but can they keep up momentum? • FRANCE 24 English

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1. Vote for Harris vote for democrats

2. Let me clue everybody in. There is no polling shift. The lead was always there. Even for Biden. What is actually happening is that the closer we get to the election, the more that the pollsters are forced to tell the truth, otherwise they will lose credibility for the next election cycle. Pollsters reflect the bias of the people that pay for their services and working-class people don't pay for these services. Corporate legacy media does. These are people that answer to shareholders and are motivated to create news as a consumable product as opposed to reporting news as a civic duty. Further, the impending, inevitable use of the term "overperform" will be an insult to our collective intelligence because the performance will be relative to an inaccurate (made up) assumption to begin with. It is best to base our assumptions on special elections and ballot measures of the last couple of years. That is a more realistic assessment of where this nation is politically. Harris/Walz are likely 8-9 points ahead nationally, right now, and due to win by a larger electoral margin than Biden in 2020. When the results are finally tallied, just believe that the final results are reflective of August sentiment (right now), not gains made through November. There is no incremental gaining ground. The ground was seized the moment that Harris chose Walz as her running mate. Cripes, she has been raising 100 million dollars a week ever since.

   For those that are quick to warn me about recent history, Hillary/Kaine was a bad lineup. Sorry to break your hearts again but it is true. In other words, for 2024 there will be no Lucy (Charlie Brown's Lucy) to pull the football away because this Harris/Walz ticket represents true populism. Sorry if the 2016 pollsters got your hopes up. They aren't always honest or reliable. Don't believe me? Rewatch the 2016 Democratic convention again and compare it to the 2024 convention. The contrast slaps you across the face. In 2024, there is no palpable dissent being subtlety hidden from the convention television cameras. No people wearing duct tape over their mouths. Short of being a cheerleader for HAMAS in 2024, there is no call to leave the top of the ballot blank (like there was in 2016). A Harris/Walz victory is every bit as predictable as the Clinton/Kaine loss in 2016 was predictable. (And it WAS predictable). You just have to read the room and not get caught up in the cult of personality to see it. As a delegate to the 2016 Washington state convention, the open dissent to Clinton was glaring. I knew right then and there that she was going to lose. Comparing 2024 to 2016 is apples and oranges.

3. Sad that what Trump says gets any validity. As VP you do not have any power. 
   Americans complain constantly, the economy is doing quite well and prices are what they always have been governed by what people can pay, not supply and demand. I live in the US and I know! US, STOP COMPLAINING!

4. kamala is not a leader, you know she is not qualified.

5. Indeed, was wondering! How long will this momentum last if she doesn’t start giving interviews on her policies….none?

6. If you don't know what her policies are yeti you haven't been paying attention. She has been telling what and how. Do you mean she hasn't been answering the tough questions from a 'professional" journalist as Don Trump has? Rambling press conferences with unanswered questions and shaking Tic Tacs is hardly speaking about policies and how you're going to implement them.
   I learned more about her policies and how she hoped to implement them with the help of congress from her rallies and speeches than I learned from petty journalist complaints. And did I learn about Project 2025 from these so-called professionals?

7. The VP set absolutely no agenda. Trump and the GOP know this, but they also know that the average American as well as some journalists, it would appear, are ignorant of this

8. If she keeps running a Covid campaign and is not going to go off script – then no. Eventually people will want to hear actual policies to problems.

   Price fixing was a big fail.

9. People who didn't watch the convention shouldn't comment on the convention. Proof you didn't watch it: you said no one knows what she stands for and you still can't say her name right even thought children showed you how.
   Also, people who don't seem to understand our system of govt shouldn't comment. Everytime youbsay something as dumb as a VP should've fixed a problem, knowing she's not the president and therefore CAN'T fix anything, it shows you know absolutely nothing about our system of govt.
   60% of Americans don't believe the economy has improved? Improved from Trump's high unemployment and millions dying of COVID?
   Also if you had watched the convention, you would know that since 1989 51 million jobs have been created. 50 million by democrats and 1 million by Republicans. People "feel" the way they do because of misinformation like yours.

10. I don't think most people from around the world realize just how big the U.S. is. Not just in population, but geographically. It's almost like having 50 different countries within a country. Also, most people don't watch the conventions to listen to hours of policy details. It's more like an introduction, an invitation for others to join, and a large pep rally. Details will come. The media is most impatient and is always searching for the next story.

11. She and Walz show, as individual people, great promise. But inevitably, because they are put in place by the Democratic party, their room for manoeuvre is limited – witness the exact wording of Harris' otherwise great speech: "Israel has the right," etc. If only she and Walz could parachute out of the Democratic party and run as Independents… they might do great things. As it is, I pray that with her experience as a prosecutor, she may stand up to the DNC and hold them to account. Things could change for the better.