Abortion, abortion, abortion: Harris has a surefire path to knock Trump off his game

Abortion, abortion, abortion: Harris has a surefire path to knock Trump off his game
But can we stop calling these candidate get-togethers “debates?”

By Lucian K. Truscott IV
Columnist
Published September 10, 2024 9:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) All that the thing on ABC tonight will have in common with a debate is two lecterns and two people...er, ah…one person and a mental health crisis in a jacket that doesn’t have the sleeves tied behind it. Other than that, to call these quadrennial Q&A sessions debates debases the moral and mental acuity of the viewing audience and the English language itself.

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Donald Trump is treated every single day by the various media that cover the presidential campaign as if he is a serious man. This is a grievous error, and Vice President Harris should not repeat it during the so-called debate. She does not have to fact-check Trump in real time. Every time he opens his mouth and another lie spills forth, all she has to do is look into the eye of the camera and utter those famous words of Ronald Reagan, “There he goes again,” followed by a reference to how dangerous it would be to have a man who spreads such lies as President of the United States.

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If Vice President Harris is going to practice anything in her preparations for tomorrow night, she should practice saying the word “abortion” and expel “women’s health” from her vocabulary. Everyone in this country knows that Donald Trump’s appointments to the Supreme Court resulted in the end of a national right to an abortion. Women are especially aware of this. Trump’s court didn’t return “women’s health” to the states. His court ended the right to abortion and enabled nearly half the states to either ban abortion outright or impose so many restrictions that abortions are not available to more than a third of the women in this country.

Harris should make the point that what Trump did to abortion rights, he will do to other rights – voting, housing, the right of children to have a meal at school, gay rights – and she should use the word “gay” rather than LGBTQ, which the right has dirtied as they have DEI. Forget the acronyms and dodges like “reproductive health” and say what you mean. Trump is against women and gays and Blacks and anyone who doesn’t bear a close resemblance to the people he plays golf with. ..................(more)

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