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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDavid Lurie: Kamala Harris is cutting off Trump's political oxygen
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kamala-harris-strategy-for-dealing-with-trumpKamala Harris is succeeding in accomplishing something none of Donald Trumps adversaries have since 2016: Turning off his political oxygen supply by refusing to engage with his manufactured spectacles of insults and taunts, or with the often wholly substance-free issues that preoccupy the press.
As last Thursdays CNN interview of Harris and her running mate Tim Walz made clear, shes resolutely unwilling to let the press or Trump himself set the agenda for her presidential campaign. In the process, shes managed to blunt the tools Trump has repeatedly used to undermine his opponents: drawing them into responding to his schoolyard slights, and turning the medias pursuit of purportedly legitimate questions about his opponents many of them formulated by GOP partisans into political weapons.
Harriss refusal to engage with Trump on his terms represents a break from how Democrats traditionally have dealt with him. In related news, her favorables continue to rise while an obviously flustered Trump flails at ghosts and searches in vain for a smear campaign that will allow him to regain the initiative.
For years now, Trump has made an art of luring his opponents to wrestle with him in the mud of his racist and misogynist insults and attacks. As a result, Trump has been able to neutralize the impact of (and sometimes even benefit from) his own vile activities and attributes.
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Ocelot II
(119,079 posts)and the incompetence/malfeasance of the press I've read yet.
The result? Bashs line of questioning lost its punch for much the same reason that her effort to bait Harris to engage with Trumps racist taunts failed: because Harris has refused to play by the tired old rules.
Its hardly a coincidence that over the past several weeks, the power of the press to impact the tenor and focus of the presidential campaign and the power of Trump to do the same has been suddenly thrown into question. By refusing to engage with Trumps taunts or play by journalists rules, Harris has upended presumptions about politics that have dominated during most of the past decade. And thats a good thing.
Pluvious
(4,638 posts)... saying things like "you disappoint me Ms Bash, I had expected better from you as a professional..." and escalate the pattern of responses from there.
Until these feckless "journalists" gain some integrity.
Ocelot II
(119,079 posts)"You can ask Mr. Trump about his policies and positions. I'm not interesting in discussing them and I'm not going to respond to any questions about Mr. Trump. I'd like you to ask me about my policies and positions."
2naSalit
(90,587 posts)She's jumped into the cab and is kicking the crooks out of the driver's seat and already has control over the steering wheel. When her butt is in the driver's seat, we're going to hit the highway to a more perfect union.
And I'm happy to help push them out the door.
Dana Bash should be ashamed of herself but then, she's only one of many who are inhabiting the same space in the sewer pipe.
liberalla
(9,712 posts)Will be great to hit the highway, as you say!
2naSalit
(90,587 posts)canetoad
(17,768 posts)And if Kamala is cutting off his political oxygen, it's about time someone did the same to his physical oxygen.
sheshe2
(85,917 posts)Keep Walkin'!
erronis
(16,372 posts)And I've known some back to Tip O'Neill.
sheshe2
(85,917 posts)I threw out all my high heels decades ago. I don't know how they can walk in them, let alone power walk like Kamala does.
republianmushroom
(16,318 posts)Not letting the 'press/media' more than the convicted felon dictate her campaign is what has frustrated both of them. Especially the press, no interviews, where they can take something out of context really bothers them. Believe they also fear that when elected there will be less presidential interviews for them. She has shown them (press/media) she doesn't need them. IMO
SWBTATTReg
(23,467 posts)that the press is overwhelming pro-tRUMP and wouldn't give her / Kamala the time of day. Don't give the animals any ammo until they start playing fair. And like she said (or shown them), she doesn't need them.
And lord and behold, she's absolutely right. For example, I can't remember the last time I read a newspaper or watched a old-time newscast (I do of course, read DU heavily) but that's it. And rarely, if I get down to our place in the Ozarks, I grab one of the local 4-page newspapers, there's something about these small-town newspapers that I just get a kick out of reading.
MarineCombatEngineer
(13,601 posts)childish antics and tantrums, which clearly has him and his campaign flustered because the tried and true antics and tantrums are not working this time around and they're being humiliated at every turn.
Dem4life1970
(230 posts)...Biden took him straight on and whooped his a$$! So there is more than one way to beat this fool.
He is not the steamroller, election winner, that he and the MSM want to intimidate us into thinking he is.
The only election he has won since 2016, was 2016, and he lost that election to Hillary by 3 MILLION VOTES (and squeaked out an electoral college "victory" aided by the Russian government-never let this loser forget that.)
dalton99a
(83,171 posts)groundloop
(11,923 posts)Thanks to our fucked up Electoral system the Presidential election has an automatic, built in 2 - 3 percent tilt to the right.
lindysalsagal
(21,700 posts)evolves
(5,516 posts)Well worth clicking the link for the entire read.
Prairie Gates
(2,142 posts)SarcasticSatyr
(1,232 posts). . .
Ray Bruns
(4,382 posts)durablend
(7,635 posts)usonian
(12,128 posts)nothing but a pile of shit
One doesn't engage with that without smelling just as bad.
And the press dives right in.
They chose poorly.
Hekate
(93,431 posts)take it on home!
Auggie
(31,588 posts)azureblue
(2,255 posts)of the Congress person Harris. The one who used her prosecutorial skill to trap people who were trying to evade her questions.
So he's going to try to put on a clown show, act like a 4th grader, overtalk, pose, insult, and hope he will win. Trump can't even stay on topic for 3 sentences, much less an hour. Everyone is tired of the act of his act. Time to put the senile old man in a rest home.
PedroXimenez
(254 posts)it might have been just the Access Hollywood thing, or things before that. It wasn't that they responded to it, it was that they were making the campaign about it. Maybe someone remembers, did they run ads with the Access Hollywood tape?
I remember not liking it, thinking aren't ads supposed to be strategic? How can it be strategic if it's about things that just came up?
oldmanlynn
(214 posts)Pluvious
(4,638 posts)I too love acronyms, and usually use "nt" to signify No Text for this use case: "No Further Message"
but nfm is good too, just new to me
( and my experience dates back to bulletin boards, Usenet, ICQ, etc. LOL)
Note its top meaning (first of 27 known ones)
https://www.acronymfinder.com/Slang/NFM.html
(grin)
Cheers friend
spanone
(137,140 posts)onetexan
(13,477 posts)1- She's go no baggage. Sure they'll pick apart her record durng her DA days, but she's addressed them all and she operated within the constraints of the law as it allowed her to
2- She's darn brilliant with answers, and communicates so effectively
3- Her credentials are impeccable, and her background a reflection of what America's middleclass looks like. Like Obama, she's an example of what can be achieved if you work hard
4- She has been FIRST in many positions - long list here so i won't mention, and so adept at achieving what she sets out to do
5- She's not afraid to counterpunch hard and go for the jugular, unlike Biden & Hillary. She's not afraid of this small man, why shouldn't she give him what he deserves when he's trying to bully her to cover his insecurities?
The other side's candidate? A convicted felon, a conman, a corrupt, failed businessman who cheated the ppl he worked with, a legal rapist, and a morally bankrupt, greedy narcissist. There's really no comparison here.
mdbl
(5,160 posts)Nothing good will come of it.
Jack Valentino
(286 posts)rather than his.
"Convicted felon says what??"
"whether I was black, white or way too orange, I would not be expressing admiration
for a fictional cannibalistic mass murderer"
However, it is good that she is telling the American people who she is,
and what she supports... this is her time to do that.