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3 reasons why Kamala Harris still can't define her vision

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15.10.2024

Former Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway joins 'America's Newsroom' to discuss recent election polling and her latest op-ed, in which she argues key election issues favor former President Trump.

Who is Kamala Harris?

Despite an uptick in interviews, several weeks on the stump, three years as vice president, months spent campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019, four years as a senator and seven as California attorney general, many Americans still don’t think they know the "real" Kamala Harris.

How can that be? Remaining undefined after all this time as a public figure is astonishing. Equally shocking is Harris’ obvious terror of being in the spotlight. That’s the only plausible explanation for the "word salads" that are tossed to interviewers when a teleprompter goes missing. Or the ill-timed bursts of laughter meant to cover her anxiety.

As Maureen Dowd wrote recently in The New York Times, "Even when getting softballs from supportive TV hosts, Harris at times seemed unsure of how to answer."

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True, she did well during her debate against former President Donald Trump, but that performance required weeks of rehearsal and memorization, a giant assist from partisan moderators and – let’s be honest – an inexpert opponent.

Why is Harris so insecure? One possibility is that it is because she knows she is not qualified, and that she has landed on this lofty perch for all the wrong reasons. That she became V.P., because Joe Biden had promised to pick a woman of color, and not because of her........

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