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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMadam Vice-President, are you in favor of 'wind all over the place?'
...Trump gave another incoherent speech in Michigan yesterday, at the same time Kamala Harris was succinctly laying out policies most Americans support in her CNN interview.
However, most of the press this morning has been focused on some changes the VP has made over time in some of her views, without bothering with the correctness of them or agreement with her policy positions by most Americans.
They couldn't fault her for substance or even style, so they've taken to making an issue over her willingness to move legislation and initiatives forward in the face of a political system that may not agree with her on every issue, or how to move those concerns forward in the national legislature.
What VP Harris communicated in her CNN interview is her principled ability to reason through seemingly intractable political posturing to enact solutions to the nation's challenges.
That political normalcy from Kamala Harris was starkly contrasted against the backdrop of the former republican president showing up to his own rally an hour and 27 minutes late for what his campaign billed as a 'speech on the economy and manufacturing.'
Trump in Michigan:
I've got thousands of people outside trying to get in. They never say Trump's a great speaker. I don't even want that, but I must be a great speaker...If I were a Democrat, they'd say, He's the greatest that ever lived. He made Abraham Lincoln look like nothing.
"Some people don't eat bacon anymore. This was caused by their horrible energy. Wind. They want wind all over the place. When it doesn't blow, we have a problem."
...attacking his former rival:
Biden was supposed to go to the White House, but he never got there. He went to Delaware, and hes laying on a beach sleeping all day long, Trump said. No, seriously, who the hell wants to sleep? And who wants to sleep in public? Hes sleeping.
Here's the most cogent report available:
Trump criticized Harris for favoring renewable energy over fossil fuels.
Over the past four years Kamala and crooked Joe Biden have presided over an economic reign of terror committing one financial atrocity after another, Trump said.
https://www.mlive.com/politics/2024/08/trump-labels-2024-election-a-choice-between-communism-and-freedom-in-michigan-speech.html
...there hasn't been a thing reported about the 'economy' or 'manufacturing' that Trump said yesterday at any point that makes a lick of sense, but we're going to drill down on what the press wanted Kamala Harris to say about the nonsense Dana Bash asked her about; not the substance and competence she demonstrated in that interview almost all of the media has insisted she needs to do for them.
What the press does with the political product coming out of these two campaigns is a dangerously practiced double standard where things said by Trump which would disqualify most other presidential candidates are presented to our Democratic nominee as serious inquiries which deserve a response; like Bash asking about Trump's racist rhetoric about the VP's blackness.
What's coming from the next interviewer in line? Questions about Abraham Lincoln's wind problems with bacon? Seriously.
They take these absolutely nutty remarks Trump makes before crowds, not making any sense as he rambles between subjects, unable to keep track of one thought to the next, and fills in the blanks for him to confront our candidate with that contrived propping of Trump's insane babbling to try and make it a campaign issue against her.
The convicted felon who was found guilty by a jury of defrauding an election is allowed attacks by the media about his Democratic rival's "economic reign of terror committing one financial atrocity after another," in a projection that claims he was merely criticizing his rival for 'favoring renewable energy over fossil fuels.'
No mention that drilling and oil production in the U.S. is at record rates, or that the U.S. is mostly energy independent under the leadership of the Biden/Harris administration.
No mention at all that this was yet another rambling, incoherent speech to a crowd by Trump which did not, at all, address ANY of the economic or manufacturing concerns the campaign (and media) said was supposed to be the focus of his speech and appearance.
Is the VP going to get a question about this?
"Madam Vice-President, how do you respond to Trump's charges that, the reason 'people don't eat bacon anymore is caused by their horrible wind energy?"
"Are you in favor of 'wind all over the place?"
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(89,808 posts)...made in a string of incoherent ranting and ramblings in an address that was billed as about the economy and manufacturing.
Jonathan Karl just reported this morning on Trump statement calling VP Harris a 'flip-flopper,' though, after saying she had to answer for her 'changing positions' without one mention of Trump's inability just yesterday to string one coherent sentence together.