Kamala Harris Gives Weak Answer When Asked If She Can Beat Trump in 2024

Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris got wobbly and gave a weak answer when asked by a reporter if she could beat President Donald Trump in 2024.

Harris is just hoping to be on the ticket, however.

There is a huge movement in Democrat circles to get Democrat President Joe Biden to dump Harris, and her lack of confidence showed.

WATCH:

 

TRANSCRIPT:

Q Madam Vice President, would you support the new House Speaker — U.S. House Speaker visiting Taiwan?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Oh, I’m not going to speak to that. I think that — first of all, I don’t think that we have actually made a decision yet about who is the House Speaker? Or did that happen while I’ve been here?

Q It did not yet happen.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Okay.

Q Madam Vice President, a little…. The former President Trump, while we were about to come here, announced that he would be running again for the presidency. I wonder if you have a response to that announcement and whether or not you and President Biden on the ticket will beat him.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, as the President said, he intends to run. And if he does, I will be running with him. And I have no doubt about the strength of the work that we have done over these past two years.

We have delivered unprecedented relief for the American people through the height of the pandemic.

We have passed an infrastructure law that many have talked about, but we actually did it.

We just recently, with the Inflation Reduction Act, did a number of things, including bringing down the cost of healthcare — not to mention $370 billion in the climate crisis, which is one of the reasons that I’m here in the Philippines, because the climate crisis is an issue that requires leadership around the globe and, in particular, I would say, America’s leadership.

Q But do you think a President Trump — former President Trump candidacy is good for the country, good for America?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: I am thinking about, right now, what we need to do in the Indo-Pacific. Thank you for the question.

Slate magazine just called Harris a dud who should be replaced on the ticket:

Harris’s presidential campaign will be remembered as one of the worst of that election cycle.

Internally, it was a disastrously mismanaged mess.

Externally, it offered a series of mixed messages, short-lived slogans, and attempts to backpedal along the ideological spectrum.

Her dazzling presence in planned speeches and gotcha moments flickered out when she was forced to think—and relay a coherent policy position—on her feet.

It was a spectacular letdown that contained a lesson about electoral politics: candidates who look promising on paper can easily flounder under pressure.

As Joe Biden weighs a run for re-election even as he becomes the first octogenarian U.S. president in history, he should think back on what it was like to watch the Harris campaign flame out.

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A second Biden term would mean even higher stakes for a vice-presidential pick—not only because Biden is older than he was the first time around, but because the VP serving when he leaves could be the de facto frontrunner in the 2024 Democratic primary.

Harris, a proven dud of a presidential candidate who has done little to distinguish herself since, is not a good choice for the Democrats’ top billing.

For his second term, should he seek one (he shouldn’t!), Biden should tap someone else.

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By David Hawkins

David Hawkins is a writer who specializes in political commentary and world affairs. He's been writing professionally since 2014.

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