Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly struggling to prepare for Tuesday's debate with former President Donald Trump because of the sheer volume of policy details.
Harris, who became the Democratic nominee without winning a single vote in the primary, is preparing for the debate in an effort to avoid a repeat of then-Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's defeat in the 2020 election. held Harris must be held accountable for her far-left record.
Ms. Gabbard's attack on Ms. Harris during the debate was so deadly that she was the first candidate to drop out of the race. “We weren't preparing her to take that punch,” said one person who worked with Ms. Harris in 2019. said NOTUS. “The effectiveness of Tulsi in 2019 was due to lack of preparation on our part.”
To avoid a second disaster, Harris' campaign is trying to stamp out the vice president's “rust as a debater and her tendency to over-prepare and get obsessed with details,” more than a dozen people involved in or familiar with the preparations told NOTUS.
Harris, known for awkwardly speaking about simple ideas, has found it difficult to articulate policy details.
“The vice president's focus on minutiae caused the debate to skid and essentially go off the rails,” two people familiar with the debate preparations told NOTUS. As a result, Harris' mock debate did not feature any policy discussions to avoid focusing too much on facts, another source familiar with the preparations explained.
“The way you try to solve these issues in the past is by changing the process, right?” one source told NOTUS. “Instead of sitting down and discussing each policy issue, [but] We give her reading assignments in advance, we make sure her books are prepared and organized, and then at every session, it's, 'Come on in… let's do a mock debate.'”
According to reports, Harris will avoid attacking Trump's policies and will instead seek to attack his character during the debate, to contradict her so-called “fun” campaign.
The strategy may be an attempt to avoid Trump’s broad support on immigrant crime, immigration, soaring costs and a deadly Afghanistan withdrawal – all issues that have emerged under the Biden-Harris administration.
Harris faces tough questions on these issues, especially the biggest one: rising costs, which have risen about 20 percent across the board since she took office in 2021.
Harris cannot campaign on cutting rising costs without undermining the Biden-Harris administration's policies, but she needs to tout the administration's policies to make the case for her record and the legitimacy of her candidacy.
CNN's Dana Bash exposed Harris' conundrum in her first pre-taped interview.
Harris has taken responsibility for the Biden-Harris administration's economic performance while simultaneously blaming Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump for it, a stark contradiction that has forced her to promote the administration's policies to justify her candidacy while disparaging her own record and candidacy.
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