John Smyth
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Permalink'Not if her CNN town hall is anything to go by'
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'It’s official. Donald Trump is “like Hitler” and Kamala Harris — even
though she does “pray everyday, sometimes twice a day,” can’t seem to
answer questions.
Her “joyful” campaign took a confusing turn in her CNN town hall in
Pennsylvania Wednesday night. She opened with an attack on Donald Trump,
in answer to Anderson Cooper’s question about John Kelly’s claims.
Kamala says Donald Trump is “increasingly unstable,” “unfit,” “fascist
to the core” and that “he himself has said he would terminate the
constitution of the United States.” It wasn’t until much later that
“joy” and “optimism” were mentioned.
The audience at the Delaware County town hall consisted of undecided
voters. As Cooper noted, the questions were not “edited in any way by
CNN.”
Kamala largely avoided important pointed questions about the economy,
Israel, Gaza, policy goals, how her presidency would differ from
Biden’s, immigration, the border wall, her mistakes and weaknesses,
taxes, the Supreme Court — and wore an uncomfortable look on her face
when Cooper pinned her down on certain issues, as if he were poring over
the recent Daily Mail stories about her beloved Dougie.
Cooper followed up on one undecided voter question and asked Kamala
about her shifting opinions on building a border wall. According to
Cooper, Kamala has criticized Trump’s wall more than fifty times, but
supports the compromise bill which allots $650 million to securing the
border. After Kamala criticized Trump and cackled, Cooper finally
cornered her. “I am not afraid of good ideas where they occur,” Kamala
answered. “So you don’t think it’s stupid anymore?” Cooper asked,
referring to the wall. “I think what he [Trump] did and how he did it
did not make much sense because actually he didn’t do much of anything.
I just talked about that wall, right.”
At one point Cooper asked Kamala if she believed she would be more
pro-Israel than Trump. “I believe that Donald Trump is dangerous,”
Kamala responded.
“I will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year,”
Kamala assured an undecided voter, asking about taxing the rich. Cooper
remarked: “But if you’re earning 500, 600, $700,000 a year, under your
plan, there’s a good chance your taxes will go up.”
“We can’t have this conversation without knowing — it’s a very
complicated situation,” Kamala said, and then went into how exceedingly
complicated it would be because of whether or not that person owned a
small business. Because she will cut taxes for small business owners.
Good bridge, Harris.
In response to a question about groceries, Kamala pledged to put a
national ban on price gouging. Cooper read from her exact plan, saying
that she only intended to ban price gouging “on essential goods during
emergencies or times of crisis,” and asked how that policy would help
people like Eric, the questioner concerned about groceries. After
affirming that it’s a “real issue” and referencing how she took on this
issue as attorney general of California, she said, “Donald Trump should
be here tonight to talk with you and answer your questions. He’s not, he
refused to come.” According to Kamala, Trump’s plan is to put in place a
national sales tax of at least 20 percent.
Cooper boxed Kamala in on the Roe v. Wade issue, asking what she could
actually do as president. “We need to take a look at the filibuster, to
be honest with you,” Kamala said, proceeding to talk about “how we got
here.” Cue Donald Trump.
After one undecided voter asked Kamala what she would do differently
than Biden, Kamala relied heavily on her experience and vaguely
addressed taking care of the elderly, the “sandwich generation,” “what
we talked about in terms of housing” and investing in small businesses.
Cooper followed up with a “why didn’t you do this the last four years?”
“Well there was a lot that was done but there’s a lot more to do,”
Kamala responded.
Another undecided voter asked Kamala about her weaknesses, similar to a
later question about her mistakes. Both times she gave a Michael Scott
answer: “I work too hard. I care too much. And sometimes I can be too
invested in my job.”
In response to a question about whether or not she would support adding
four more Supreme Court judges, Kamala responded: “in thirteen days you
will decide who is the next president of the United States… he’s going
to sit there, unstable, unhinged, plotting his retribution,” Kamala
continued, “creating an enemies list. I’m going to tell you, my list
will be a list of how I address and continue to address the issues that
you all are raising this evening.” Emphasis on continue to.
Instead of spending the evening addressing the issues raised, Kamala
spent the evening explaining who should be on the American people’s
enemy list: Donald “Hitler Stalin Mussolini” Trump'