RawStory - Dems rave over Harris interview: 'Best she's done' since 'ripping' Trump apart at debate

Erik De La Garza
October 15, 2024
7:13PM ET

Kamala Harris’ wide-ranging interview Tuesday with radio host Charlamagne Tha God received instant praise from analysts and others on social media who called it “magnificent” and “very, very impressive.”

“Black men should take a victory lap right now,” Jamal Simmons, co-host of the TrailBlaze podcast, told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer.

Harris spent the hourlong interview with the popular Black radio host, dubbed an audio town hall, criticizing former President Donald Trump, answering questions from the host and listeners, and laying out her vision for the Black community.

“She did a terrific job in talking to that audience and answering the questions that she was asked,” CNN analyst Gloria Borger said. “Which, if you look at Donald Trump’s performance today at the Economic Club in Chicago, is just the opposite of what he did.”

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Colin Allred
On January 6, I got ready to defend my colleagues and texted my wife: “Whatever happens, I love you.”

Ted Cruz was hiding in a supply closet. If you summon a mob to overturn a free and fair election, you should lose your job. This election is his accountability.
#TXSenateDebate
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8:37 PM · Oct 15, 2024

Acyn
Allred: He just looked into a camera and lied to Texans.. you should look into camera and speak to Kate Cox and explain to her why you said it’s perfectly reasonable why she was forced to leave her two children behind and flee our state to receive care
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8:11 PM · Oct 15, 2024

Jennifer McClellan
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🚨ALERT: It’s not too late to register to vote, Virginia! Register online until 11:59 pm TODAY.

With so much on the line this election, you need to make your voice heard.

Visit http://iwillvote.com/va to register, check your registration, or make a plan to vote.

Jennifer McClellan
If you cannot register by midnight tonight, we have same-day voter registration, but you will have to vote by provisional ballot.

More information can be found here.
elections.virginia.gov
6:36 PM · Oct 15, 2024

Vanity Fair (archive) - We All Have a Lot to Lose If Trump Wins

Even if you’re in a blue state, and were fine the last time around, the stakes are too high for democracy.

By Molly Jong-Fast
October 15, 2024

People often say to me that I wouldn’t personally be affected by a second Donald Trump presidency. After all, I live in a blue city in a blue state, and I’m a married, heterosexual woman who isn’t looking to have any more children. I won’t need medication like mifepristone for a miscarriage (though I do have girls in my family who I assume will someday want to have children), and I don’t personally rely on the federal government for education, because my kids don’t go to public school.

So, again, how would any of this affect me? The most likely answer is that, as a public-facing person, I will continue to be subjected to threats, as many in the mainstream media already are. But attacks on the media could escalate if Trump returns to power, given that he doesn’t hesitate to demonize journalists and call them out before his millions of followers. And given what Trump says on television, he may target American citizens for unfavorable speech.

“I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within,” he told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News on Sunday. “Sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard, or, if really necessary, by the military.” The “lunatics” in question could be anyone from protesters to opinion columnists—or even mainstream reporters—he doesn’t agree with. Trump has referred to CBS as a “A FAKE NEWS SCAM” whose operations are “totally illegal,” and has similarly suggested that ABC should lose its broadcast license.

What would it mean to have a president who, in this fashion, targets what little is left of the free press? It’s hard to fathom, but there’s a world where Trump imitates his strongman friends like Vladimir Putin or Viktor Orbán or Kim Jong Un—all of whom participate in jailing or killing journalists in countries with state-regulated media. He’s already taking a page from Joe McCarthy this election cycle in targeting the “enemies within,” something my family is all too familiar with.

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Kamala HQ
@cthagod: Some people claim you like to stick to your talking points

Vice President Harris: That would be called discipline
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5:12 PM · Oct 15, 2024

Anthony Michael Kreis
This is gonna get memed so hard, I am not sure this is worth the visual. This could run right up there with classroom potato misspellings and enthusiastic tank rides.

Kristen Holmes
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Former President Donald Trump is expected to visit a McDonald’s Sunday in Pennsylvania and “work the fry cooker”, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. This comes up as Trump has repeatedly claimed Vice President Kamala Harris never actually worked at McDonald’s.

5:48 PM · Oct 15, 2024

George Conway
This has a Dukakis-in-an-oversized-combat-helmet kind of feel to it

Kristen Holmes
1h
Former President Donald Trump is expected to visit a McDonald’s Sunday in Pennsylvania and “work the fry cooker”, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. This comes up as Trump has repeatedly claimed Vice President Kamala Harris never actually worked at McDonald’s.

6:03 PM · Oct 15, 2024

TNR (archived) - The Democrats Are the Only True Defenders of the Constitution

Now that the right has abandoned the Founders, the Harris-Walz campaign has the chance to flaunt this winning rebrand. They should take it.

Simon Lazarus
October 15, 2024

For liberal leaders of all stripes, branding “polarization” as a dire threat to “democracy” is a constant meme. It was the central motif of President Joe Biden’s abbreviated reelection campaign, repeated most recently at his October 4 press conference. However, liberal leaders have been less prone to showcase a banner likely to broaden their non- and bipartisan appeal—namely, that the MAGA right’s antidemocratic shenanigans are threats to “the Constitution.”

It’s a missed opportunity. Ordinary, even apolitical Americans revere the Constitution, its text and its Framers’ design, as “secular scripture.” But contemporary Democratic and liberal politicians have studiously avoided speaking to that widespread faith; they have long declined to articulate a legally credible and politically marketable liberal vision of what the Constitution means, let alone deploy such a vision in support of their policy and political goals.

Within the last year or so, though, liberal political leaders, including President Joe Biden and nominee Kamala Harris and her campaign, have begun to shed their colleagues’ traditional timidity about calling out the Supreme Court, as its radical right supermajority nixes their policies and hobbles their constituencies. Still, they remained reluctant to offer substantive challenges to the right-wing justices’ blatant misinterpretations, circumventions, or flat-out disregard for constitutional or statutory provisions.

This year Representative Jamie Raskin has proven to be an exception. In May, Raskin rolled out punchy but weighty critiques of the right’s mangling of legal text and Framers’ design. Others, notably Senators Dick Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Ron Wyden, and Representatives Jerrold Nadler and Hank Johnson, have also called out the justices’ excesses and proposed remedial measures. But these instances of pushback remain anomalies.

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Geoff Bennett
VP Harris to Charlamagne: "This is a margin-of-error race. It's tight. I'm gonna win. I'm gonna win, but it's tight."
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NOTUS - Trump Claims Tariffs Are ‘Beautiful,’ Talking to Putin Is ‘Smart’ and Jan. 6 Was ‘Peaceful’

In an interview at the Economic Club of Chicago, Trump made a number of assertions about the economy, the Federal Reserve’s relationship with the president and his plans for a second administration.

Samuel Larreal
October 15, 2024 03:40 PM
Updated: October 15, 2024 03:40 PM

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Trump and Micklethwait also went back and forth over tariffs.

“It must be hard for you to, you know, spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you’re totally wrong,” Trump said to Micklethwait.

When Micklethwait mentioned that some allies could give up on the dollar as a reserve currency if tariffs increased dramatically, Trump promised to raise tariffs on countries that did that. “I’ll say that’s OK, and you’re going to pay a 100% tariff on everything you sell into the United States,” he said.

Trump suggested that tariffs, like those he imposed on China and South Korea during his previous administration, should be expanded to other countries. He said such policies would prompt manufacturers to produce their products domestically. “Companies are going to make their product in the USA. We’re going to protect those companies with strong tariffs,” Trump said.

“I’m a believer in tariffs,” Trump continued. “To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is ‘tariff,’ and it’s my favorite word — it needs a public relations firm.”

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Matt Fuller
Trump certainly seems intent on imposing massive new tariffs, deporting millions, and cutting taxes.

When he was challenged on the inflationary effects of those policies on Tuesday, he just attacked the interviewer.
From notus.org
3:50 PM · Oct 15, 2024