Theses and contradictions of Trump and Harris
The TV debate between Harris and Trump. Election slogans. And the scenarios. Guiglia's notebook
She had started badly, but recovered well and in the end Kamala Harris appeared, overall, more convincing than Donald Trump.
But this is a judgment that may have been drawn by those who, from the armchair at home and with political detachment, followed live – late at night in Italy – the most awaited television duel between the Democratic vice president and the former Republican president running for the House White.
The outcome that the face-to-face meeting between the two great protagonists, divided on everything except the unexpected handshake on Kamala's initiative before the "fight" began, may have produced in their respective voters is very different. Who will hardly change their opinion, because in reality their favorites have not made mistakes that would facilitate the victory of others. Indeed, everyone confirms their own opposing position on the economy and immigration, abortion and foreign policy, the America that risks decline (Trump) or that is still a land of opportunities (Harris).
Although more aggressive, as was to be expected, and with messy concepts and circumstances sometimes invented by his pyrotechnic imagination, the former president avoided slipping into the territory of insulting the opponent he detests.
In turn, the vice president has toned down her left-wing radicalism which, especially in the United States, inspires demonstrations and makes progressive intellectuals go wild, but does not bring great consensus, because it alienates both the undecided and the moderates.
Instead, this is precisely the pool of consensus that the contenders will have to find quickly by November 5th – two months -, especially in the states still in the balance, to take Joe Biden's place.
Yes, Biden, the current president whom Donald has agitated several times like a ghost and from whom Kamala skilfully distanced herself, as if he were not co-responsible for the government policy of recent years which Trump has forcefully attacked.
Furthermore, the vice president presented herself as the symbol of a new generational, almost Kennedy-like, course, transforming the seventy-eight-year-old Trump into the elderly Biden of the situation. Furthermore, urging Americans to bury the past of conflicts and pessimism attributed to the Republican antagonist to give life to the optimism, this time Obama-style, of an America that builds and unites.
Trump asked her, in the final appeal, why she didn't do these and other things, instead of saying them, given that she is Biden's deputy.
And so we returned to opposite starting points, with the Republican calling for pragmatism and national interest (assuring that he would be able to put an end to Putin's war), and the Democrat in defense of the pro-Ukraine choice abroad and of legality at home . With Donald's sulky face and Kamala's often pedantic smile, just to please their fans, even with body language.
(Published in L'Arena di Verona, Il Giornale di Vicenza, Bresciaoggi and Gazzetta di Mantova)
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tesi-e-contraddizioni-di-trump-e-harris/ on Sun, 15 Sep 2024 03:00:27 +0000.